b Renewing the two tables. they are quickly " turned aside out of the B. C. 1451, wickedness, nor to their sins; way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. unto 13 Furthermore, the LORD spake me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: a Ju.2.17. Ps.78.57. Hos.6.4. Pr.21.12. © Mi.7.18. e Nu.14.16. f Ex.32.10. g ver.6. Ac.7.51. h c.29.20. 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation ver.25. mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned, and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. Ne.1.10. Ps.100.3. Nu.14.12. Ex.32.15, Ex.19.18. &c. c.4.11.5 23. in Ex.34.1,&c. He.9.4. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and Ex.25.10. had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. o Ex.37.1. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as p Ex.32.10-14. at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger: pray 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20. And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and II ed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin," the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. a c 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. Ex.34.28. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according words. to the first writing, the ten 1 commandEx.20.1-17. ments, which the LORD spake unto you Lu.12.4,5. in the mount out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. Ex.33.17. Ps.106.23. น 1 Ki.8.9. Ex.32.20. Nu.33.31-38. 20 Is.31.7. z Ex.17.7. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, zy Nu.11.1-4. and at Kibroth-hattaavah, " ye provoked a Nu.11.34. the LORD to wrath. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed m therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GoD, destroy not thy people, and " thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their 2 Ch.29.11. Ro.12.7. 106.24,25. h Nu.6.23. c.21.5. 5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and " there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to beard the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless hin his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the LORD is Nu.18.20,24. his inheritance, according as the LORD thy Eze.44.28. God promised him. his ways, and to love him, and to b the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth falso, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. h 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which 'regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: k 8 i B. C. 1451. The charge continued. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, 30.16,20. that ye may be strong, and in and posgo a c.6.5.11.13. Ps.18.1. 145.20. Mat.22.37. b Job 36.11. Zep.3.9. Ro.1.9. Пle.12.28. c.6.24. d Ps.115.16. e Ps.148.4. Ge.14.19. Ps.24.1. 50.12. g Zec.14.18. Je.4.4. Jos.22.22. Ro.2.28,29. Da.2.47. j Re.17.14. 19.16. k Ne.9.32. 2 Ch.19.7. Job 34.19. Ep.6.9. m 1 Ki.9.3. n Ps.68.5. o Le.19.33. p ver.22. c.6.17. r Ac.11.23. s Is.45.23. 18 He" doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the seeketh. stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt c.10.12. thou cleave, " and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and ter-u Le.26.4. rible things, which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pha- Pr.3.3. raoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; sess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where 5 thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven; 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes" of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 1 13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul, 14 That " I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send 2. grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart" be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut e up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and f bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates; 21. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them; to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him. Ps.78.55. b Le.17.3,4. c c.14.22-26. 23 Then will the LORD drive a out all B. C. 1451. these nations from before you, and ye a c.9.5. shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of a Jos.1.3. your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the Ge.15.18. river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: Nu.34. f ver. 12,18. Le.23.40. c.16.11-15. 26.11. gc.7.24. Jos.2.9,24. i Ju.17.6. 21.25. j Ex.23.27. kc.30.1,15,19. / He.4.9. 27 A blessing, m if ye obey the com-m c.28.2-13 mandments of the LORD your God, which a Jos.3.17. I command you this day; 28 And a curse, • if ye will not obey the o c.28.15-68. commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside ? out of the way which Ip 1 Sa.12.21. command you this day, to go after other Jos.18.1. gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 1 Ki.8.29. c.27.12,13. the choice of Jos.8.33. your vows. s ver.7. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan, to got c.14.29. in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. THES CHAP. XII. u Le.17.2-5. c.12.32. ver.11. THESE are the statutes and judgments z c.6.1. which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers y c.14.26. giveth thee to possess it, all the days c.4.10. that ye live upon the earth. a ver.22, c.15.22. Ex.34.13. 2 pos- or, inherit. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall 2 sess served their gods, upon the high mountains, d and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall 3 overthrow their al-3 tars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Je.3.6. break down. Nu.33.52. Ju.2.2. 2 Ch.31.1. f 1 Ki.15.13. g ver.11,12. c.14.23. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD h ver.31. your God. 2 Ch.7.12. Ps.78.68. 5 But unto the place which the LORD ver.11. your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: j 1 Co.10.31 164 Blood forbidden. 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every whatsoever is right in his own eyes. man 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, " and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there w thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the "unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. c 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flocks, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto Blood forbidden. 1 DEUTERONOMY, XIII. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou for- B. C. 1451. sake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. c a c.14.27. 1 all thy days. c 1 Ch.4.10. Ge.28.14. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath d promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, (because thy soul longeth to eat flesh,) thou may-1 Co.11.19. est eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Ex.34.24. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too ƒ 2 Ch.34.31. far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath g Je.7.23. given thee, as I have commanded thee, and c.10.20. thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is; ver.15,16. eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean rerolt against and the clean shall eat of them alike. the Lords k 3 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. i Zec.13.3. strong. Cautions against idolatry. 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. h 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken 2 to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out Le.17.11,14. of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in: So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. c.17.7. 1 Co.5.13. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may gom c.4.40. well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is n Ex.15.26. right in the sight of the LORD. 1 Ki.11.38. c.8.54. Mi.7.5. r Le.22.18, &c. 26 Only thy holy 4 things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go un- p 1 Sa.20.17. to the place which the LORD shall choose: ? Nu.5.9,10. 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the bloods of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, P which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent " unto him, nor Jno.15.10,14. hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye Pr.1.10. pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.6 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou shalt hear "say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, Meals clean and unclean. DEUTERONOMY, XV. Concerning tithes 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabit- B. C. 1451. the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, ants of that city with the edge of the Jos.6.17-21. sword, destroying " it utterly, and all that a Ex.22.20. is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; Jos.8.28. it shall not be built again. Je.49.2. c Le.17.15. 22.8. Eze.4.14. 1 or devoted. Jos.6.18.7.1. e Jos.7.26. Ps.78.38. f Ex.20.6. La.3.32. Eze.37.26. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing d to thine hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his a c.7.26. anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. YE CHAP. XIV. ver. Ge.22.17. k Ex.23.19. 34.26. Ps.119.6. m Le.27.30. Nu.18.21. c.12.6,17. Ne.10.37. o Je.3.19. Ko.8.16. E are the children of the LORD your n c.12.5,&c. God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead: 2 For thou art an holy" people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 9.8,26. Ga.3.26. p Le.19.28. Je.16.6. 9 c.15.19,20. Le.20.26. t c.12.21. 3 Thou shalt not eat " any abominable u Eze.4.14. thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat, the ox, the sheep, and the goat, Ac.10.12,14. 1 Co.10.28. bison. v Le.11.3,4. Ps.34.14. 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the py-2 dishon, or, garg, 2 and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft in two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 3 asketh of thee. c.12.7,18. z. Ec.9.7. 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore y Nu.18.20 they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch" their dead carcass. a c.18.1,2. c.26.12. Am.4.4. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithem all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And" thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 9 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee; 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: 3 and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, * thou, and thine household, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within Le.11.26,27. thy gates: b Le.11.9. ver.27. 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in c.12.12. b the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: Lu.14.12-14. d 29 And the Levite, (because he hath 221-24. no part nor inheritance with thee,) and Job.31.16-22. the stranger, and the fatherless, and the He.13.2. widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. e c.15.10. Pr.3.9,10. 19.17. Mal.3.10. f Le.11.13. g Ex.23.10,11. Le.25.2-4. Je.34.14-17. 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the master of vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, the lending of his hand. 166 |