10 the mount forty days, and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; and the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God-upon them indeed were written all the words which the Lord had spoken to you at the 11 mount, on the day of the solemn assembly. And after the forty days, and the forty nights, when the Lord gave me the two tables of stone-the tables of the covenant, the Lord said to 12 me, Arise, go down quickly from this place: for thy people, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt, have transgressed. They have gone aside quickly out of the way, to which thou didst enjoin them, and have made for themselves a molten 13 image. Moreover the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have 14 spoken to thee once and again and said, I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiffnecked people; now therefore let me utterly destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a nation, great and powerful, and 15 much more numerous than this. Whereupon I turned, and came down from the mount. Now the mount was blazing with fire up to heaven, and I had in my two hands the two 16 tables of the testimonies. And when I saw that you had sinned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk; hav17 ing hold of the two tables, I threw them out of my hands 18 and broke them before your eyes. Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights-(I neither ate bread nor drank water)—for your sins which you had committed by doing evil 19 in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath. Even

now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy 20 you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also.

Even against Aaron, his wrath was kindled to destroy him; 21 But I prayed for Aaron also at that time. Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down 22 out of the mount. At Burning also, and at Temptation, and at 23 Monuments of longing desire, you provoked the Lord. And

when the Lord sent you from Kades-barne, saying, Go up, and take possession of the land which I give you, you disobeyed the command of the Lord your God, and did not con24 fide in him, nor hearken to his voice. You have been disobedient to the commands of the Lord, from the day he made himself known to you.

25 When I was making supplication before the Lord, forty 26 days, and forty nights, as I had done before (for the Lord spoke of destroying you utterly,) I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, thou king of all the gods, destroy not thy people, and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy 27 strong hand, and with thine outstretched arm. Remember

Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself. Look not upon the stubbornness of 28 this people, nor upon their wickedness, and their sins, lest they who dwell in the land, out of which thou hast brought them, should speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them; and because he hated them, he led them out into the wilderness to kill 29 them. Now these are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy strong hand, and with thine outstretched

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At that time the Lord said to me, Hew thee out two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mount; 2 and thou shalt make thee an ark of wood, and thou shalt write on these tables the words which were on the first tables, which 3 thou didst break, and shalt put them in the ark. So when I had made an ark of incorruptible wood, and hewed two tables of stone, like the first, and had gone up the mount with the 4 two tables in my hand; and he had written on these tables, according to the former writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you at the mount, out of the midst 5 of the fire; and the Lord had given them to me, and I had

turned, and come down from the mount, and had put these tables in the ark which I had made, and they were there as the 6 Lord commanded me, then the children of Israel removed out of Beroth, the country belonging to the children of Jakin, into

Misidai, the country where Aaron died, and where he was bu ried, and Eleazar executed the office of priest in his stead. 7 Thence they removed to Gadgad, and from Gadgad to Etaba8 tha, a land abounding with streams of water. Now the Lord, having at that time set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, and to 9 serve, and bless in his name, as they do at this day, for this cause the Levites have no portion or lot among their brethren. The Lord is their portion, as he said to them.

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When I had been on the mount forty days, and forty nights, the Lord hearkened to me at that time also, for the Lord was not willing to destroy you utterly; and the Lord 11 said to me, Go, march before this people, and let them go in,

and take possession of the land which I solemnly promised 12 their fathers to give them. Now therefore, O Israel, what doth

the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole 13 soul-to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and

his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee, that it 14 may be well with thee? Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, belong to the Lord thy God, the earth also, and all 15 that are therein. Nevertheless the Lord made choice of your fathers to love them; and he chose you, their seed, after them, 16 in preference to all the nations, as at this day. Circumcise therefore the stubbornness of your hearts, and be no more stiffnecked. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of 17 lords-the God, great, and mighty, and awful. He respect18 eth not persons, nor taketh a bribe. He administereth justice

to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the 19 stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore

the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave 21 to him, and swear by his name. He is thy boast; and he is

thy God, who hath done for thee those great, and those mar22 vellous things which thine eyes have seen. With seventy souls

thy fathers went down to Egypt, and now the Lord thy God XI. hath made thee like the stars of heaven for multitude. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charges,

and his rules of rectitude, and his commandments, and his 2 judgments, continually. You must now know, for I am not addressing your children, who have not known, nor seen, the chastisement of the Lord thy God, and his great acts, and his 3 outstretched arm, and his signs, and his wonders, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharao, king of Egypt, and to 4 all his land; and what he did to the army of the Egyptians— to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host-how the Lord caused the water of the Red sea to overwhelm them, when they were pursuing you, and destroyed them even to this 5 day and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you 6 came to this place; and what he did to Dathan and Abiron, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, whom the earth, opening its mouth, swallowed up, with their houses, and their tents, and all their substance with them, in the midst of all Israel. 7 Because your eyes have seen all these great acts of the Lord 8 which he hath done among you; therefore you shall keep all

his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, that you may live, and multiply, and go in, and possess that land to which you are going to cross the Jordan, there to take posses9 sion of it-that you may prolong your days in that land, which the Lord, with an oath to your fathers, promised to give to them, and to their seed after them-a land flowing with milk 10 and honey. For the land to which you are going, to take possession of it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where, when they have sown the seed, they can 11 water it with their feet, like a garden of herbs. But the land to `which you are going, to take possession of it, is a land of hills and dales, which drinketh up water from the rain of heaven12 a land over which the Lord thy God keepeth a continual watch. The eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it, from the 13 beginning of the year to the end thereof. And if you will

hearken diligently to all the commands which I this day command thee, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, he will give rain 14 for thy land in due season-the former and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 He will also give grass in thy fields for thy cattle.

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But when thou hast eaten, and art full, take heed to thyself

that thy heart be not elated; and that you do not transgress, 17 and serve other gods, and worship them, lest the Lord, being provoked to wrath against you, shut up heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the land yield not its products, and ye quickly perish from that good land, which the Lord hath given 18 you. Therefore lay up these things in your heart, and in your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be 19 immoveably before your eyes. And you shall teach them to your children, by speaking of them, when thou sittest at home,

and when thou walkest abroad, and when thou liest down to 20 sleep, and when thou risest up. And you shall write them on 21 the door posts of your houses, and of your gates; that you may prolong your lives, that the days of your children in the land which the Lord solemnly promised your fathers to give 22 them, may be as the days of heaven over the earth. For it shall come to pass, that if you hearken diligently to all these commands, which I this day enjoin you to do-to love the Lord 23 our God,and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him, the Lord will drive out all those nations from before you, and you shall possess nations much greater and stronger than you. 24 Every place on which you shall imprint the track of your feet shall be yours, from the wilderness to Antilibanus, and from 25 the river, the great river Euphrates, to the western sea. These

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shall be your boundaries. None shall be able to stand before you. For the Lord your God will impress the fear of you, and the dread of you, on the face of all the land on which you shall tread, as the Lord hath said to you.

Behold I am going to lay before you this day the blessing 27 and the curse-the blessing, if you will hearken to the com

mandments of the Lord your God, which I this day command 28 you-and the curse, if you will not hearken to the command

ments of the Lord our God, in all respects, as I this day command you; but turn aside out of the way to which I have enjoined you, and go to serve other gods, which you do not 29 know. And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee to the land, to which thou art going to cross over, there to take possession of it, thou shalt put the blessing on mount Garazin, 30 and the curse on mount Gaibal. Behold are not these on the

bank of the Jordan, behind the road to the setting of the sun,