Israel's rebellions rehearsed. Before 1451. DEUTERONOMY. n The tables renewed of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land; but " Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. Before CHRIST for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy 23 Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Ka- CHRIST desh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against thef commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed P. 78, 12, him not, nor hearkened to his voice. God doth drive them out from before thee, and that Gen. 127. he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. & 13, 15. 6 Understand therefore that the LORD thy God m Gen. 12, giveth thee not this "good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. 7° Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst och. 33,6,9. the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, antil ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. n Num. 11, 30. 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD 91. from the day that P I knew you. † Heb. mouth. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because P. Num. 24, the LORD had said he would destroy you. 16. Gal. 3, 22 r verse 18. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O 20 LORD God, destroy not thy people, and thine "in8 Also in P Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, § heritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy so that the LORD was angry with you, to have de-greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of stroyed you. Egypt with a mighty hand. 9 When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of stone, 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: t 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 spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of fire, in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables Jer. 31, of stone, even the tables of the "covenant. Heb. 8, 8, 13. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence ; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted y Gen. 18, themselves: they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them Judg. 2, 17. Z a molten image. 17. verse 16. 1 Ex. 32, 8. verse 16. a ch. 32, 19. b Ex. 32, 9. !1, 12. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that a 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and Ex. 32,10, 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 were in my two hands. ↑ Heb. burning, Ex. 20, 18. d Ex. 32, 19. As men take and handle the shield. e Ex. 32,31. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. e 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the (Ex. 34,28. first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat PS 108, 23. 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: Ex. 32,34. Ps. 119, 120. b Ex. 32, 21. i Ex. 32, 20. Isa. 31, 7. a ch. 9, 25. b Ex. S1, 18. & 32, 16. Ex. 34, 2 d Ex. 25, 10. eJer S1 33. 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed EL 25, 19 two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the † ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: 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. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot dis-waters. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had k Ex. 32, 20. made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and 1 Cor. 10,4 ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: Num. 11, and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 1.2. m Ex. 17, 7. n n Ex. 28, 1. 8 At that time the LORD " separated the tribe of Num. 3,4, Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, Rom. 1, 1. to stand before the LORD, to minister unto him, and o Num. 4, P to bless in his name, unto this day. 15. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance P Lev. 9, 28. {with his brethren: the LORD is his inheritance, accord- Num. 18, {ing as the LORD thy God promised him. Heb. 3, 8. 22 And at Taberah, and at m Massah, and at? 10 And I stayed 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 destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy 20. 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens z Mat 6,26. is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that ■ 2 Cor. 12, therein is. 2. C 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to b Ps. 24,1. love them, and he chose their seed after them, even Ex. 33, 19. you above all people, as it is this day. d Gen. 17, 11. e Ps. 82, 1. 16 Circumcise therefore the "foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. e 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, fActs 10,54 which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving 1 Sam. 8, h 2 Sam. 18 19. i ch. 14, 29. k Lev. 19, 31. 1 Gen. 2, 24. m Jer. 17, 14. i 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 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 terrible things, which n Ps. 105, thine eyes have seen. 22. o Gen. 46, 13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken Ps. 34, 15. 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 fain 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 grass in thy fields for thy cattle, {that thou mayest eat and be full. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with three-your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign score and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets" bepch. 1, 10. hath P made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. tween your eyes. 2 And know you 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 greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched-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; 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. 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the Ps. 106, 17. sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that at their feet. twas in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: .ich. 5, 3. 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Josh. 1,6, LORD which he did. 7. II. 60,21. 35. a ch. 7, 22. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of &05, 9. which I command you this day, that ye may be the LORD your God, which I command you this ch. 5, 16 strong. and go in and 'possess the land whither ye § day; r ch. 30, 15. seb. 23, 1,2 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the command- teh. 28. 15. 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land,'ments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the B The place of God's worship. Before CHRIST 1451. DEUTERONOMY. Blood forbidden, &c way which I command you this day, to go after other in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burntgods, which ye have not known. offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I com29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thymand thee. God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt "put the blessing 1 ch. 27, 12, upou mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. u Ps. 133, 9 13. y Josh.8,33, Before CHRIST 1451. b1 Sam. 15 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh 21. in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, ac- Mat. 2, 20 cording to the blessing of the LORD thy God which Rom. 1, 21 he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour ch. 15, 23. upon the earth as water. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the Josh. 5,9. Way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over a-it Judg. 9,6,7, gainst Gilgal, beside the plains of Mereh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it and dwell therein.' Josh. 1, 11 12. c Ps. 44, 2, b c 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. CHAPTER XII. 2 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed....16, 23 Blood is forbidden. THE b c 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein chap. 7, 3 the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree : e2 Kings 10. 27. & 23, 13 d 1 Cor. 8, 43. 17. 10. Jer. S, 6. e h 3 And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and 2 Kings you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God Ex. 23,24. shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name Nam. 32, there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt "come; d 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 flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand: 1 Cor. 2, 14 c ch. 14, & d Lev. 7,24 ech. 14, 22 f Lev. 27,80 Ï Cor. 10, 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy gch, 12 God, in the place which the LORD thy God shall 31. choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy mau-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice befor the LORD thy Cod in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that tnou 'forsake not Eph. 5,15 the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, (because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, P. 127 1. thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, Fs. 74, 25. and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-of- 23 Only be sure that thou " eat not the blood: for Ps. 78, 67, ferings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life 32 will-offerings, and the P firstlings of your herds and of with the flesh. your flocks: 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and 'thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. CHAPTER XIII....XIV. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to b Prov. 50, 1 Enticers to idolatry are to be stoned to death....15 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared. Exek. 43, 8. a Rev. 13, 1. 62 Pet. 2,1 e ch. 18, 22. b What may and what may not be eaten 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his 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 b CHAPTER XIV. c F there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or aa wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof 3 What may and what may not be eaten, 4 of beasts, 9 of he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, fishes, 11 of fowls. E a d F.x. 7, 22. Which thou hast not known, and let us serve them are the children of the LORD your God: ye 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldprophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your έness between your eyes for the dead: God 'proveth you, to know whether you love the LORD 1 Cor. 11, 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 you shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, 1 Heb. po shall be put to death; because he hath † spoken to gainst the turn you away from the LORD your God, which 19. g cb. 18, 20. Before CHRIST 1451. f Josh. 6,17 £ ch. 7, 25, 26. Joshua 7, 1. 17, 18, 20. 11, 12. & 22, Isai. 30, 22. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy e Ezekiel 7, God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are dEx. 19, 5. upon the earth. 13. e Acts 10, Rom. 14, 14. 31 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat; the ox, Heb. 9, 10. the sheep, and the goat, f 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallowdeer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. i 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. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy Micah 7,5 Son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee "se-as cretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which atol. 2, 4 thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; m Prov. 18, 24. Jolin 5,18 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are Gal. 1, 8, 9. 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 hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye 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. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall P119.120. do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which 11 Cor. & the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; 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 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: 11 Of all clean birds ye shail cat. 1 Tim. 4, 4. 12 Sam. 22, 34. 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 vulture Raah of fly after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, ing. p1 Tim.. 20. 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 9 Levit. 11 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. r Lev. 11, 22. 15. 19 And every creeping thing that 'flicth is unclean (Exodus 12, unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 43, 44, 45. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of it-x Num. 1 self: 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 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. Neh, 33. 31. 12,7. 7 ch. 26, 12 1.23,13 the 15, 1, 2 ↑ Heb. 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 all days, thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. Chap 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the e Mat. 21, 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: and thou shalt eat there before the L10,LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household, eth of thee, ck. 14, 17. t. 18. 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 & 18, 1, 2 all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt (Exodus 23, lay it up within thy gates: 10, 11. ༢ 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 Prov. LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. 3, 9. a Ex. 21, 2. Jer. 34, 14. b Ex. 23,11. Luke 4, 18. CHAPTER XV. 1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor....19 All A a T the end of every seven years thou shalt make Before CHRIST 1451 Of Hebrew servants' freedom. thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to έ thy needy, in the land. 12 1 And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, bes.d unto thee, and serve thee six o Ex. 21.2 years, then in the seventh year thou shalt let him P go free from thee. Lev. 25, 30. p Isa. 61, 1, 2. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, Jex 54, 14. thou shalt not let him go away empty : Luke 4, 18. 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee a Gen. 4 thou shalt give unto him. 33 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast ar Mat. 1 bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy Eph. 5,1,2. God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, (because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee,) 17 Ther 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" maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 191 All the firstling males that 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 Lev. 8, 18 2 And this is the manner of the release: Everythy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep: 'creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God ter of ends release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of year by year, in the place which the LORD shall a ch. 12 5, his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. choose, thou and thy household. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but Cor. 10, that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand shall release; 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he proech 28, 12. mised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, 21; but thou shalt not borrow; and thou 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 17 Joban 3, the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden Luke e, thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother; 8 But thou shalt " open thine hand wide unto him, 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; e Luke 12, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, 15. that which he wanteth. even the bread of affliction; (for thou camest forth fx12, 34. 9 Beware that there be not † a thought in thy wick-out of the land of Egypt in haste ;) that thou mayest isa. 30, 20 t of Beli ed heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of re-remember the day when thou camest forth out of the lease, is at hand; and thine' eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry 4,25, 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: beProv. 19, cause that for this thing the LORD thy God shall 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with m 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: Mark 14,7 therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice Ps. 127, 2. g Ex. 12, 15 |