ness.

2 Thou shalt have no other gods 14 Thou shalt not raise a false rebefore me. Thou shalt not make port: put not thine hand with the unto thee any graven image, or any wicked to be an unrighteous witlikeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, to bow down thyself to it, or serve it.

3 Thou shalt not profane the name of the LORD thy God; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that profaneth his name.

4 Remember the seventh day, to hallow it; six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

5 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6 Thou shalt not kill.

15 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to assist the many to pervert justice.

16 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

17 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

18 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

19 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous. slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

20 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the right

7 Thou shalt not commit adultery.eous. 8 Thou shalt not steal.

21 And in all things that I have

9 Thou shalt not bear false witness said unto you be circumspect and against thy neighbor.

make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

SELECTION VI.

Relapse of the Israelites into idolatry.

AND when the people saw that

Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which

are in the ears of your wives, of and ground it to powder, and strawyour sons, and of your daughters, ed it upon the water, and made the and bring them unto me.

children of Israel drink of it. And
Moses said unto Aaron, What did
this people unto thee, that thou hast
brought so great a sin upon them?
6 And Aaron said, Let not the
anger of my lord wax hot thou

2 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron; and he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: knowest the people, that they are and they said, These be thy gods, O set on mischief. For they said unto Israel, which brought thee up out me, Make us gods, which shall go of the land of Egypt. And when before us; for as for this Moses, the Aaron saw it, he built an altar be- man that brought us up out of the fore it; and made proclamation, land of Egypt, we wot not what is and said, To morrow is a feast to become of him. And I said unto the LORD. And they rose up early them, Whosoever hath any gold, let on the morrow, and offered burnt them break it off. So they gave it offerings, and brought peace offerinto the fire, and ings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

3 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 4 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

me: then I cast it
there came out this calf.

7 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

8 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin,—and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses,

5 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: Whosoever hath sinned against me, and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall had made, and burnt it in the fire, go before thee: nevertheless in the

him will I blot out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken

day when I visit I will visit their sin yard; thou shalt leave them for the upon them. poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

9 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up 4 Ye shall not steal, neither deal this people: and thou has not let me falsely, neither lie one to another. know whom thou wilt send with me. And ye shall not swear by my name Yet thou hast said, I know thee by falsely, neither shalt thou profane name, and thou hast also found the name of thy God: I am the grace in my sight. Now therefore, LORD.

I pray thee, if I have found grace in 5 Thou shalt not defraud thy thy sight, shew me now thy way, neighbor, neither rob him: the that I may know thee, that I may wages of him that is hired shall find grace in thy sight: and consider not abide with thee all night until that this nation is thy people.

IO And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

SELECTION VII.

Additional commandments.

the morning. Thou shalt not curse. the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

6 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

7 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, blood of thy neighbor: I am the

saying, Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy for I the LORD your God am holy.

LORD.

8 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

2 Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and keep 9 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear my sabbaths: I am the LORD your any grudge against the children of God. Turn ye not unto idols, nor thy people, but thou shalt love thy make to yoursevles molten gods: I neighbor as thyself: I am the am the LORD your God.

LORD.

3 And when ye reap the harvest 10 Thou shalt rise up before the of your land, thou shalt not wholly hoary head, and honor the face of reap the corners of thy field, neither the old man, and fear thy God: I shalt thou gather the gleanings of am the LORD.

thy harvest. And thou shalt not II And if a stranger sojourn with glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thee in your land, thou shalt not vex thou gather every grape of thy vine- him: but the stranger that dwelleth

with you shall be unto you as one heart: and thou shalt teach them born among you, and thou shalt love diligently unto thy children, and him as thyself; for ye were strangers shalt talk of them when thou sittest in the land of Egypt: I am the in thine house, and when thou walkLORD your God. est by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

12 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

13 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

SELECTION VIII.
Remembrance of mercies.

NOW these are the command

Egypt; and the LORD brought us

out of Egypt with a mighty hand: and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us

ments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither the land which he sware unto our ye go to possess it: that thou might- fathers. And the LORD commanded est fear the LORD thy God, to keep us to do all these statutes, to fear the all his statutes and his command- LORD our God, for our good always, ments, which I command thee, thou, that he might preserve us alive, as it and thy son, and thy son's son, all is at this day. the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

6 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. Thou shalt also

2 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe; to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and consider in thine heart, that, as honey.

3 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

4 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine

a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that

spring out of valleys and hills; a ments which I command thee this

land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

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day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

2 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field; blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 3 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store; blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

8 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day lest when thou hast eaten and art 4 The LORD shall command the full, and hast built goodly houses, blessing upon thee in thy storeand dwelt therein; and when thy houses, and in all that thou settest herds and thy flocks multiply, and thine hand unto; and he shall bless thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, thee in the land which the LORD thy and all that thou hast is multiplied; God giveth thee. then thine heart be lifted up, and 5 The LORD shall establish thee thou forget the LORD thy God, an holy people unto himself, as he which brought thee forth out of the hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt land of Egypt, from the house of keep the commandments of the bondage; and thou say in thine LORD thy God, and walk in his heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

9 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day

SELECTION IX.

Blessings upon righteousness.

ways; and all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee.

6 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

7 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give

AND it shall come to pass, if thou the rain unto thy land in his season,

shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his command

and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.