1 iron fur a Ro.1.23. b Job 8.8. 2 Ki.17.16. f c.29.3. Ex.7.3. ki.8.51. 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes un-cJob.31.26,27. to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to dEx.19.18,19. worship them, and serve them, which c.17.3. the LORD thy God hath divided unto all or, imparted. nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the nace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 21 Furthermore " the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for n He.12.25. an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over and possess that good land. 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 8 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and shalt have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God to provoke him to anger; 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall a scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. Je.11.4. i Ex.13.3. Ex.6.6. c.9.29. k c.34.12. 32.9. Ep.1.18. m Nu.20.12. o ver.15,16. p c.10.15. Je.31.3. Ex.13.3,9,14. r c.7.1. 9.1,2. & c.9.3. He.12.29. t Ex.20.5. Na.1.2. Zep.3.8. u Is.1.3. Hos.7.2. v Jos.2.11. 1 Ch.29.11. Le.29.31. x 2 Ki.17.17, &c. 1 Co.10.22. y c.30.18,19. Is.1.2. Mi.6.2. z c.5.16. Ep.6.3. a Le.26.33. c.28.62-64. Ne.1.8,9. b Nu.35.11. c.19.4. Je.16.13. d Jos.20.8. Le.26.39,40. 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and ƒ Joel 2.12. with all thy soul. 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things 2 are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice, 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God,) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them. Je.3.12-14. 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else besides him. 36 Out of heaven" he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his 4 mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. 41 Then Moses severed three cities this side Jordan toward the sun a Ex.23.12. repeated. Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at B. C. 1451. is within thy gates; that thy man-servant Heshbon, whom Moses and the children " and thy maid-servant may rest as well as of Israel smote, after they were come thou. forth out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising; Nu.21.24, &c. c.1.4. c c.15.15. 16.12. 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank c.2.36, of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon, ƒ 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs hof Pisgah. CHAP. V. AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and 1 keep, and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a m covenant with us in Horeb. e Le.19.3. f Ps.133.3. 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand, and by a stretchedout arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Mat.5.21,22. the LORD thy God giveth thee. h c.3.17. Pr.6.32,33. 17 Thou shalt not kill. Ro.13.9. Ep.4.28. 1 keep to do m Ex.19.5-8. n Hab.2.9. Ro.7.7. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are o c.29.10-15. all of us here alive this day. 4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, 19. Ex.19.9,18, q Ex.24.2,3. r Ex.31.18. 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount,) say-s Ex.20.18,19. ing, 6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of 2 bondage. Ex.20.2-17. Ps.81.10. 2 servants. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods be-u Mat.4.10. fore me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven v c.4.15-19. image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the 20 c.4.33. earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that k 18 Neither shalt thou commit j adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness 2 against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet" thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads your tribes, and your elders; of 24 And ye said, Behold the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 3 25 Now therefore why should we die?. for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say; and " speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they lle.4.4. have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. Ge..2. ƒ c.32.29. Ps.81.13. Eze.33.31,32. Mat.23.37. c.11.1. 158 d 29 Of that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! a B. C. 1451. 1 bondmen, or, servants. c.10.12,20. Is.65.16. a Ga.3.19. 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I d Je.25.6. give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath cominanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with and you, that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall Je.5.2. 12.16. e Ex.20.5. f c.17.20. 23.14. Jos.1.7. Pr.4.27. Am.3.2. c.7.4. 2 Ch.36.16. Ps.119.6. Mat.4.7. k Je.7.23. 1 Co.10.9. m Ps.119.4. c.12.28. OW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which n Ex.15.23. the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land. Eze.37.24. whither ye go to possess it: 2 2 pass over. 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD p Ec.12.13. thy God, to keep all his statutes and his q Nu.33.52,53. commandments, which I command thee; thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all 3 to-morrow. the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. r Ex.13.14. & Pr.3.1,2. Is.3.10. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, Ec.8.12. and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath prom- Ge.22.17. ised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 2 7 And thou shalt 5 teach them diligently unto thy children," and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Mar.12.29 32. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy h Ps.44.2,3. God shall have brought thee into the land i Ge.15.19-21. which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou build- Jos.24.13. edst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten, and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the Ps. 105.44. Nu.33.52. / Ezr.9.1,3. 159 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you,5) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.' 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers; 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What " mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 4 22 And the LORD shewed signs w and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. CHAP. VII. W thee into the land whither thou goest HEN the LORD thy God shall bring h to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou: 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly k destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages Conditions of God's mercy. DEUTERONOMY, VIII. with them; thy daughter thou shalt not B. C. 1451. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them, ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, 1 statues, or, and burn their graven images with fire: d Jos.3.10. 6 For thou art an holy people unto thee Ex.19.6. LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto f 1 Pe.2.9. himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. f 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people; 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house m of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful" God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. c.14.2. Ex.23.28. Idolatry to be avoided. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? b 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; c 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so d shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 22 And the LORD thy God will 2 put out those nations before thee by little and Ex.23.29,30. little: thou mayest not consume them at Ex.12.41,42. once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. m Ex.13.3.14. 20.2. Is.49.7. 1 Co.10.13. 2 Th.3.3. 1 Jno.1.9. o Ne.1.5. Da.9.4. 3 before thy face. pJos.10,24,42. 12.1. q c.25.19. Is.59.18. & c.11.25. t Ex.32.20. 1 Ch.14.12. v Ju.8.27. 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction until they be destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their ? kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire " t 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the com-u Jos.7.1,21. the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomi6.3,&c. nation into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, 4 if 20 Eze.14.7. ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: y Jos.6.17,18. a cursed thing. z Ps.119.6. 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, a c.5.32,33. thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all; them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: er shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare munto thee. b Ex.23.26, &c. d c.2.7. 29.5. Am.2.10. Ps.136.16. Job.33.17. f Ex.16.4. 2 Ch.32.31. Ex.9. Mat.4.4. 19.13,21. Ps.104.27-29. i Ex.16.15. k c.13.8. m Ex.23.33. c.12.30. Ju.8.27. Ps.106.36. 160 CHAP. VIII. Moses's charge continued. 4 Thy DEUTERONOMY, IX. upon a raiment waxed not, old thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as d a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 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; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land 1 of oil olive, and honey; B. C. 1451. a Ne.9.21. b Jos.4.19. c Nu.13.28-33. d Pr.3.12. He.12.5,6. Re.3.19. Israel's rebellions rehearsed. CHAP. IX. HJordan this day, to go in to possess EAR, O Israel; Thou art to pass over nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great, and fenced up to heaven; 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can e 1 Sa.12.24. stand before the children of Anak? 31.3.6. Jos.3.11. g c.7.24. 1 of olive tree of oil. h Ex.23.31. Ro.11.6,20. 1 Co.4.7. 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack c.8.17. any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest; dig brass. 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. c.33.25. 1C0.10.31 Z1 Ch.29.14. Ps.103.2. Pr.3.9. m Ge.15.16. Le.18.24,25. c.18.12. 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD Tit.3.5. thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art o Pr.30.9. full, and hast built goodly houses, and Ge.12.7. P dwelt therein; 17.8. g Ge.26.4. 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks Ge.28.13. multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 17 And thou say in thine heart, d My d c.9.4. power, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten me this wealth. e Ex.31.18. Hos.2.8. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth theef Pr.10.22. power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he sware unto thy gEx.19.18,19. fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day, that c.4.26. ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so i shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. 30.18. i He.8.6-10. j2 Ch.36.16, 17. Da.9,11,12. 161 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so g shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, r Isaac, and Jacob." 6 Understand therefore that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from " the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. I 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you, to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me. two tables of stone, written with the finger of God: and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. i 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves: |