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mations forbidden.

Chap. viii.

Obedience recommended.

more in number than any people; for ye that are left, and hide themselves from were the feweft of all people:

8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had fworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

thee, be deftroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible,

22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayeft not confume them at once, left the beafts of the field increase upon thee.

9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which 23 But the LORD thy God fhall delikeepeth covenant and mercy with them ver them unto thee, and fhall destroy that love him and keep his command-them with a mighty destruction, until ments to a thousand generations; they be deftroyed.

In And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be flack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

II Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the ftatutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12 Wherefore it fhall come to pafs, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God fhall | keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he fware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love, thee, and blefs thee, and multiply thee: he will alfo bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy fheep, in the land which he fware unto thy fathers to give thee.

14 Thou shalt be bleffed above all people: there fhall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

15 And the LORD will take away from thee all fickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knoweft, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

16 And thou shalt confume all the people which the LORD thy God fhall deliver thee; thine eye fhall have no pity upon them: neither fhalt thou ferve their gods; for that will be a fnare unto thee.

17 If thou fhalt fay in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I difpoffefs them?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but fhalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

19 The great temptations which thine eyes faw, and the figns, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the ftretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: fo fhall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

20 Moreover the LORD thy God will fend the hornet among them, until they

24 And he fhall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there fhall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

25 The graven images of their gods fhall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not defire the filver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, left thou be fnared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

26 Neither fhalt thou bring an abomination into thine houfe, left thou be a curfed thing like it; but thou shalt utterly deteft it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

CHAP. VIII.

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2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee thefe forty years in the 'wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what quas in thine heart, whether thou wouldeft keep his commandments, or no.

3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot fwell, these forty years.

5 Thou shalt alfo confider in thine heart, that, as a man chafteneth his fon, fo the LORD thy God chafteneth 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,

An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY. The Ifraelites' rebellions rehearsed.

water, of fountains and depths that fpring out of valleys and hills;

8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

9 A land wherein thou fhalt eat bread without scarcenefs, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whofe ftones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayeft dig brass.

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou haft heard fay, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a confuming fire he fhall deftroy them, and he fhall_bring them down before thy face: fo fhalt thou drive them out, and deftroy them quickly, as the LORD hath faid unto thee.

To When thou haft eaten and art full, then thou shalt blefs the LORD thy God for 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after the good land which he hath given thee. that the LORD thy God hath caft them II Beware that thou forget not the out from before thee, faying, For my LORD thy God, in not keeping his com-righteoufnefs the LORD hath brought me mandments, and his judgments, and his in to poffefs this land: but for the wickftatutes, which I command thee this day: ednefs of thefe nations the LORD doth 14 Left when thou haft eaten and art drive them out from before thee. full, and haft built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy filver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou haft 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 houfe of bondage;

15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ferpents, and fcorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy| latter end;

17 And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth,

18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God for it is he that giveth thee powerto get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he fware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it fhall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and ferve them, and worship them, I teftify against you this day that ye fhall furely perish.

20 As the nations which the LORD deftroyeth before your face, fo fhall ye perifh; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX.

1 Mofes diffuadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rehearsing their feveral rebellions.

EAR, O Ifrael: Thou art to pafs

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5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, doft thou go to poffefs 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 fware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to poffefs it for thy righteoufnefs; for thou art a ftiffnecked people.

7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedft the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didft depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, fo 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 ftone, 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 fpake with you in the mount out of the midft of the fire in the day of the affembly.

II 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.

12 And the LORD faid unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themfelves

fefs nations greater and mightier than thy-way which I commanded them; they felf, cities great and fenced up to heaven, have made them a molten image.

Mofes prayer for the people.

Chap. x.

The two tables renewed. 13 Furthermore the LORD fpake unto bornnefs of this people, nor to their wickme, faying, I have feen this people, and, edness, nor to their fin: behold, it is a ftiffnecked people:

14 Let me alone, that I may deftroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation 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 quere in my two hands.

16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had finned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned afide quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two tables, and caft them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the firft, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your fins which ye finned, in doing wickedly in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot difpleasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time alfo.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have deftroyed him and I prayed for Aaron alfo the fame time.

21 And I took your fin, the calf which ye had made; and burnt it with fire, and Itamped it, and ground it very fmall, even until it was as fmall as duft: and I caft the dust thereof into the brook that defcended out of the mount.

28 Left the land whence thou broughteft us out fay, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to flay them in the wilderness.

29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy ftretched out arm.

СНАР. Х.

i God's mercy in restoring the two tables. 12 An exhortation to obedience.

T that time the LORD faid unto A me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the firft, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakedft, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

3 And I made an ark of hittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the firft, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

And he wrote on the tables, according to the firft writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD fpake unto you in the mount out of the midft of the fire in the day of the affembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

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 Ifrael took their

22 And at Taberah, and at Maffah, journey from Beeroth of the children of and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

23 Likewife when the LORD fent you from Kadesh-barnea, faying, Go up and poffefs the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his Voice.

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 firft; becaufe the LORD had faid he would deftroy you.

26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and faid, O Lord GOD, deftroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy greatnefs, which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Jaakan to Mofera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his fon 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 feparated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to ftand before the LORD to minifter unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor in heritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

10 And I ftayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not deftroy thee.

27 Remember thy fervants, Abraham, II And the LORD faid unto me, A. Ifaac, and Jacob; look not unto the ftub-rife, take thy journey before the people,

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An exhortation

DEUTERONOMY. that they may go in and poffefs the land, which I fware unto their fathers to give unto them.

to obedience.

5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6 And what he did unto Dathan and

12 ¶ And now, Ifrael, what doth the Abiram, the fons of Eliab, the son of LORD thy God require of thee, but to Reuben: how the earth opened her fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all mouth, and fwallowed them up, and his ways, and to love him, and to ferve their houfholds, and their tents, and all the LORD thy God with all thy heart the fubftance that was in their poffeffion, and with all thy foul, in the midft of all Ifrael:

13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his ftatutes, 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 alfo, with all that therein is.

15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chofe their feed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

16 Circumcife therefore the forefkin of your heart, and be no more ftiffnecked. 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 perfons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the ftranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the ftranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him fhalt thou ferve, and to him thalt thou cleave, and fware by his name.

21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee thefe great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threefcore and ten perfons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. CHAP. XI.

An exhortation to obedience. 26 A bleffing und a curfe is fet before them. HEREFORE thou fhalt love the

7 But your eyes have feen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.

8 Therefore fhall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be ftrong, and go in and poffefs the land, whither ye go to poffefs it;

9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their feed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

10 For the land, whither thou goeft in to poffefs it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou fowedft thy feed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

II But the land, whither ye go to poffefs 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.

13 And it fhall come to pass, if ye fhall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to ferve him with all your heart and with all your foul,

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feason, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayeft gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and

TLORD thy God, and keep his charge, fine oil.

and his ftatutes, and his judgments, and| his commandments, alway.

2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatnefs, his mighty hand, and his tretched out arm,

3 And his miracles, and his acts, which (he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields. for thy cattle, that thou mayeft eat and be full.

16 Take heed to yourfelves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other gods, and worship them;

17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he fhut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and left ye perifh quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

4 And what he did unto the army of 18 Therefore fhall ye lay up these my Egypt, unto their horfes, and to their words in your heart and in your foul, chariots; how he made the water of the and bind them for a lign upon your Red fea to overflow them as they pur-hand, that they may be as frontlets befued after you, and how the LORD hath tween your eyes. deftroyed them unto this day; 19 And ye fhall teach them your chil

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Chap. xii. God's place of worship to be kept.
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dren, fpeaking of them when thou fitteft I thine houfe, and when thou. walkeft by the way, when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up.

20 And thou fhalt write them upon the door posts 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 fware 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 cleaye unto him;

23 Then will the LORD drive out all thefe nations from before you, and ye fhall poffefs greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

ments, which ye fhall obferve to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to poffefs it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

2 Ye shall utterly deftroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye fhall poffefs ferved their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree :

3 And ye fhall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and deftroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye thall not do fo unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place which the LORD your God fhall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation fhall ye feek, and thither thou shalt come :

24 Every place whereon the foles of your feet fhall tread shall be your's: from 6 And thither ye fhall bring your burnt the wilderness and Lebanon, from the offerings, and your facrifices, and your river, the river Euphrates, even unto the tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, uttermoft fea fhall your coaft be. and your vows, and your freewill offer25 There shall no man be able to ftandings, and the firstlings of your herds and before you for the LORD your God of your flocks: fhall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye fhall tread upon, as he hath faid unto you.

26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a bleffing and a curfe;

27 A bleffing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:

28 And a curfe, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn afide out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

29 And it fhall come to pafs, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, that thou shalt put the bleffing upon mount Gerizim, and the curfe upon mount Ebal.

30 Are they not on the other fide Jordan, by the way where the fun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, belide the plains of Moreh?

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31 For ye fhall pafs over Jordan to go in to poffefs the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye fhall poffefs it, and dwell therein.

32 And ye fhall obferve to do all the ftatutes and judgments which I fet before you this day.

CHAP. XII. Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed. 5 The place of God's fervice to be kept. $6,23 Blood forbidden,

And there ye fhall eat before the LORD your God, and ye fhall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your houfholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

8 Ye fhall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

9 For ye are not as yet come to the reft 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, al suben he giveth you reft from all your enemies round about, fo that ye dwell in fafety;

II Then there fhall be a place which the LORD your God fhall choose to caufe his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

12 And ye fhall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your fons, and your daughters, and your menfervants, and your maidfervants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forafmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

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 fhall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou

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