known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them n; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them and I will be with thee. And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. For I

know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befal you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

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XXXII. GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then

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he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the
Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with
strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
They sacrificed .. to gods whom they knew not, to new
gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of
the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast for-
gotten God that formed thee. And when the Lord saw it, he
abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of
his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I
will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward
generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved
me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked
me to anger with their vanities.
I said, I would
scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of
them to cease from among men: Were it not that I feared the
wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave them-
selves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high,
and the Lord hath not done all this. For they are a nation
void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end! How should one chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their
Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? For
their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of
the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their
clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and
the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with
me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth
vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time:
for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that
shall come upon them make haste. For the Lord shall judge
his people, and repent himself for his servants, when be seeth
that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom
they trusted, Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and
drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and
help you, and be your protection. See now that I, even I, am
he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I
wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out
of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live
for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take
hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me.
Rejoice, O ye

nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

XXXIII. AND this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them: he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand : and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together. Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies. And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and

kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments,
and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and
whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his sub
stance, and accept the work of his hands.
And of
Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety
by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and
he shall dwell between his shoulders. And of Joseph he said,
Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven,
for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for
the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious
things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof,
and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the
blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the
head of him that was separated from his brethren.
And
of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the moun-
tain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they
shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures bid in
the sand. . . . And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied
with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess
thou the west and the south. And of Asher he said, Let Asher
be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren,
and let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. There is none
like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in
thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God
is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Israel then shall dwell in safety

the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency!

XXXIV. AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.