Of idolatrous cities.

Meats clean and unclean.

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o chỉ 17 7. Acta 7. 58.

+ Heb.

bondmen,

19. 20.

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 off bondage.

11 And Pall Israel shall hear, and peh. 17. 13.& fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 T If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

q Josh. 22. 11, &c.

Judg. 20.1,2.

Or, naughty men: Ses Judg. 19. 22. 1 Sam. 2. 12. & 25. 17, 25. 1 Kings 21. 10, 13.

2 Cor. 6. 15. r 1 John 2. 19. Juds 19.

13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; 2 Kin. 17.21. and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

t ver. 2, 6.

u Ex. 22. 20. Lev. 27. 28. Josh.6.17,21.

x Josh. 6. 24.

y Josh. 8. 28. Is. 17. 1. & 25. 2.

Jer. 19. 2. z ch. 7. 26. Josh. 6. 18.

Or, devoted.

a Josh. 6. 26. b Gen. 22 17. & 26. 4, 24, & 28. 14.

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, "destroying it utterly, and all that 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 a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may a turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, bas he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the e ch. 12.25,28, 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.

32,

a Rom. 8. 16.

CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning. 3 What may, and what may not be eaten, 4 of beasts, 9 of fishes, 11 of fowls. 21 That which dieth of itself may not be eaten. 22 Tithes of divine service. 23 Tithes and firstlings of rejoicing before the Lord. 28 The third year's tithe of alms and charity.

& 9.8, 26. E are the children of the LORD Gal, 3. 26. your God: bye shall not cut b Lev. 19. 28. & 21.5. yourselves, nor make any baldness Jer. 16. 6. & between your eyes for the dead. 41.5 & 47.5. 2 For thou art a 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. 3d Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, 10r, bison. and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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 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.

9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

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 h But these are they of whichh Lev. 11. 13. ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the nighthawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,

16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

19 And i every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: kthey shall not be eaten.

20 But of all clean fowls ye may cat. .21 Ye shall not eat of any thing 11v 17. 15. 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: m for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God.

"Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

m ver, 2

n Ex. 23. 19. & 34. 26.

o Lev. 27. 30. eb. 12. 6, 17. Neh. 10, 37.

p ch. 12. 4, 6, 7. 17, 18

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 ch.15.19,20, firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

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 rch, 12, 21. from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there,

The year of release.

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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 f desireth: "and thou shalt eat there before the LORD sch 12, 7, 18. thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

+ Heb, asketh of thee.

& 26. 11.

tch, 12, 12.18. 19.

aNum.18.20. ch. 18. 1, 2 Ich, 26. 12. Amos 4, 4.

y ch. 28. 12. z ver. 27. ch 12. 12.

a ch. 15. 10, Prov.3.9,10. See Mal.3.10.

a Ex, 21. 2. & 23, 10, 11, Lev. 25. 2, 4. ch. 31. 10, Jer 31 14. + Heb

master of the Lending of his hand.

b See ch. 23. 20.

Or, To the end that there be no poor among you. ech 28. 8. dch. 28. 1.

⚫ch 28.12,44. fch, 28. 13. Prov. 22, 7.

g1 John 317,

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 thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the 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.

years

thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother: because it is called the LORD's release.

3 b Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and fthou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, 8 thou shalt not harden thine heart,

Of a Hebrew servant.

nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

8 h But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

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h Lev. 25 35. Matt 5.42. Luke 6. 34, 35.

↑ Heb. word. + Heb Belial.

9 Beware that there be not a i thought in thy f wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor broth- ich 28.54,55, er, and thou givest him nought; and khe cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that "for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

11 For "the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

12 Tind if thy brother, a Ilebrew pEx. 21. 2. man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years: then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out

free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto

him.

4 Prov. 10.22.

rch, 6. 15. & 16. 12.

15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 16 And it shall be, "if he say unto Ex. 21. 5, 6. thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth ta double hired servant to thee, in tsee Ls.16.14. serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

& 21. 16.

34. 19. Lev. 27. 28. Num. 3. 13.

19 "All the firstling males that Ex. 13. 2. & come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the zoh. 12. 5, 6, 7. 17. & 14. LORD thy God year by year in the 23. & 15, 11, place which the LORD shall choose, 14. thou and thy household.

21 Y And if there be any blemish

y Lev. 22, 20, ch. 17. L.

The three solemn

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therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or CHRIST have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy ch. 12.15,22 gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

ach. 12.16.23.

fEx.12.15, 19, 39. & 13. 3, 6,7. & 34. 18.

Ex. 13. 7.

h Ex. 12, 10,& 34. 25.

Or, kill

i Ex. 12. 6.

k Ex. 12. 8, 9. 2 Chr. 55. 13. 12 Kin, 23.23. John 2. 13. 23. & 11. 55.

m Ex. 12. 16. & 13. 6. Lev. 23. 8. + Heb.

restraint, Lev. 23. 36. n Ex. 23. 16.& 34. 22.

3 f Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou cat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

46 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover i at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt kroast and eat it lin the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou shalt cat unleavened bread; and mon the seventh day shall be at solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

9T" Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou Num. 29. 26. beginnest to put the sickle to the

Lev. 23 15.

yearly feasts. Before

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11 And Pthou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy CHRIST son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that q ch. 15. 15. thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

13 TThou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy winst

Ex. 23. 16. Lev. 23. 34. Num. 29. 12. + Heb. floor, and the winepress. Neh. 8. 9,

&o.

40.

14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a Lev. 23. 39, solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 T Three times in a year shall all Ex. 23. 14. thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they Ex. 23. 15. shall not appear before the LORD empty:

17 Every man shall give fas he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; bthou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the || words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest d live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 T Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

22 f Neither shalt thou, set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

CHAPTER XVII.

1 The things sacrificed must be sound. 2
Idolaters must be slain. 8 Hard con-
troversies are to be determined by the
priests and judges. 12 The contemner
of that determination must die. 14 The
election, 16 and duty of a king.
THOU" shalt not sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God any bullock, or

Chr.19.5,8.

a Ex. 23. 2, 0.

Lev. 19. 15.

b ch. 1. 17. Prov. 21. 23.

e Ex. 23. 8. Prov. 17 23. Ece. 7. 7.

Or, matters. Heb. Jus tice, justice. J Ez. 18, 5, 9 e Ex. 31. 13. 1 Kin. 14. 15. & 16. 33. 2 Kin. 17.16. & 21. 3. 2 Chr. 33. 3. fler. 28. 1. Or, statue, or, pillars

ach, 15. 21. Mal. 1. 8, 13, น

Idolaters to be slain.

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sheep, wherein is blemish, or any CHRIST evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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¡Or, goal. beh, 13. 6.

e Josh. 7. 11. 15. & 23. 16. Judg. 2. 20 2 Kin. 18. 12. Hoa 8. 1. d ch. 4. 19. Jub 3L. 26 ⚫ Jer. 7.22,23, 31. & 19. 5. & 32.35.

2 TbIf there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either d the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4 fAnd it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired dilifeh. 13. 12,14. gently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

g Lev. 24. 14, 16.

ch. 13. 10. Josh. 7. 25. Nuna 35.30. ch. 19. 15. Matt. 18. 16. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13. 1. 1 Tim. 5. 19. Heb. 10. 28, i ch. 13. 9. Acts 7. 58. k ver. 12. ch. 13. 5. & 19, 19.

12 Chr. 19.10.
Hag. 2. 11.
Mal, 2. 7.

u See Ex. 21.
13, 20, 22,28.

& 22. 2.
Num. 35, 11,
16, 19.

ch. 19. 4. 10.

11.

5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

6 h At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

7 i The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So k thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, "and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and Punto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

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the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and CHRIST shalt dwell therein, and shalt will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

eay,

z 1 Sam. 8. 6. 19, 20.

9. 15. & 10. 24. & 16 12. 1 Chr. 22. 10.

15 Thou shalt in any wise set htm king over thee, whom the LORD y Bee 1 Sam. thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set Jer. 30. 21. a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply "horses 1 Kim. 4. 20. to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ex. 13 17. d Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

19 And hit shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he i turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

1

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Lord is the priests' and Levites' inheritance. 3 The priest's due. 6 The Levite's portion. 9 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The presumptuous prophet is to die.

tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they bshall cat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inherit

2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

3 T And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 d The firstfruit also of thy corn, of Ex. 22. 29. thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, fto stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 T And if a Levite come from any

24.

Ex. 28. 1.

Num, 3. 10.

fch: 10. 8. & 17. 12.

Christ the true Prophet.

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CHAPTER XIX.

Before

1451. f ver. 20.

g Num, 35, 2, 3.

h ch. 12. 5.

12 Chr. 31, 2.

k2 Chr. 31.4. Neh. 12. 41, 47.

+ Hob, Ais sales by the fathers.

1 Lev. 18. 26, 27, 30

ch. 12, 29, 30, 31.

eat, besides that which cometh of

the sale of his patrimony.

9 T When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or m Lev. 18. 21. his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

eh, 12, 31.

n Lev. 19 28, 31. & 20. 27. Is. 8. 19.

o Lev. 20, 27.

pl Sam, 28, 7.

q Lev. 18. 24, 25. eh. 9. 4

Or upright,

or, sincere,
Gen. 17. 1.

[Or, inherit,

rver, 18. John L. 45. Acts 3, 22. & 7, 37,

ael, 9, 10. + Ex. 20, 19. Heb. 12. 19.

u ch. 5. 29.

x ver, 15.
John 1. 45.
Acts 3, 22, &
7 37.
Is. 61 16.
John 17. 8.
z John 4,25 &
8 28 & 12.
49, 50.

a Acts 3. 23.
bch. 13. 5.
Jer. 14, 14,
15.
Zech. 13. 5.
ech, 13. 1, 2,
Jer, 2, 8.

d Jer. 28. 9.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a P necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and 9 because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

1

The cities of refuge. 4 The privilege thereof for the manslayer. 14 The landmark is not to be removed. 15 Two witnesscs at the least. 16 The punishment of a false witness.

Went off the nations, whose land HEN the LORD thy God hatha ch. 12, 29. the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou † succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

2b Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

4 T And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not tin time past;

15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the LORD said unto me, "They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and Y will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But bthe prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

22 d When a prophet speaketh in eSeech. 13.2. the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not

8 And if the LORD thy God een-Gen. 15. 18. large thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; fthen shalt thou add three fJosk, 20.7,8, cities more for thee, beside these three:

10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.