Of justice and charity. Before CHRIST 1451. k 2 Chron. 26, 20. ¡ Luke 17, $2. 1 Cor. 10, G. DEUTERONOMY. 8 1 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto 101 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep m Ex. 22, with his pledge: 26. 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither 16 T The fathers shall not be put to death for the Jer. 22, 27. children, neither shall the children be put to death for the verse 13. fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 ¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the "fatherless; nor take a widow's Prov. 24, 9. • 2 Kings 14, 6. Chr. 25,4 raiment to pledge: Ex. 21, 22. 1 Lev. 19, 9. 23, 22. CHRIST 1451. Gen.38.9. Of unjust weights. er shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, Befre and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother Ruh 4, 17. which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. ch.6 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's Ruth 2, 20. wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the 'gate unto Ps. 109, 14 the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth 1 Ruth 4, 1 to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will 2 not perform the duty of my husband's brother: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; (Ex. 23, 1. 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond- 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, ch. 18, 19. man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thyr Aos 2, à Trov. 2222. thence therefore I command thee to do this thing.days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD $ Ex. 20, 12 19 ¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy thy God giveth thee. field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt y Job. 39,15. not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, Ruth 2,16. for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou † shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 16 For all that do such things, and all that dot unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. u Ez 17, 9 17 1" Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the Mat. 11, hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he & Prov. 16. B feared not God. z Rom. 2,4 CHAPTER XXVII. The curses pronounced upon mount Ebol. Before and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous; 1451. 6 And the Egyptians 'evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us & hard bondage. h g 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our Exfathers, the LORD heard our voice, and 'looked on E1. 2, 23 our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression : 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great' terribleness, and with signs, and with hap Wonders: Exod. 3, 7. Ex. 6,6. 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with " milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the "firstRom. & fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given kev. 14, 4. me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy verse 2, God, and worship before the LORD thy God. Rom. 12, 1. pch 12, 7. 16, 11. 11 And thou shalt P rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and 9 Met. 7, 11. unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the Luke. 11,13. stranger that is among you. 121 When thou hast made an end of tithing all Lev. 27, the tithes of thine' increase the third year, which is Num. 18,24. the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; a ch. 14, 23. 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments, which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy comch. 16, 11. mandments, neither have I forgotten them: t eb. 17, 2 Lev. 7, 20. Before CHRIST 1451. a Ezek. 24, 4. e Ezck. 36, Mat. 23, 27. 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; 26 as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. Acts 23, 3 4 Therefore it shall be, when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God k Josh. 3, 7 And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, and shalt 9 ¶ And Moses, and the priests the Levites, spake 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to Gen. 29, s 14 I have not eaten thereof in my "mourning, curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and " Zebulun, t neither have I taken away aught thereof for any un-Dan, and Naphtali. clean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead; but 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all u Gen. 50, Hosea 3, 4. I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, the men of Israel with a loud voice, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 20. 5, 6, 7. 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven xGen. 30, 4, or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. d z ch. 11, 29 23, 13. 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's 2 Kings 'landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 12 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to 20 Cursed be he that "lieth with his father's wife; be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the and that thou shouldest keep all his command-people shall say, Amen. ments; 8 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in g Isa. 5, 6, 5. honour ;_ and that thou mayest be a holy people 1. C1, & unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. e Ex. 20, 12 f ch. 19, 14 g Job 29, 15 b ch. 22, 90. chap. 1, 4 Amanded sts, wople, sayings, Keep all the com-cretly red all the people shall say, & 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour se- Zech. 13,6 mandments which I command you this day. c 2 And it shall be, on the day when you shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God The blessings for obedience, DEUTERONOMY. and curses for disobedience. Before of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy Amen. doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. CHRIST 1491. m Num. 5, 2. a Ex. 15,26. Isa. 55, 2. b m CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience....15 The curses for disobedience. AND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt "hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will Phil,14. set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3, b. Col. 3, 1, 2. c verse 15. Zech. 1, 6. Ps. 107, 33. & 128, 1. e Gen. 1, 22. Exod. 1, 12. Lev. 26, 4. C 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. e 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the Psal. 128, 1. fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 1 Tim. 4, 3. ( ch. 26, 2. g 2 Chron. 1. 12. Ps 121, 8. Acts. 1, 21. 38. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up h2Sam. 22, against thee to be smitten before thy face: they Rom. 16, 20. shall come out against thee one way, and ' flee before i Rev. 16, thee seven ways. 15. Lev. 4, 6. k m 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon Gen. 33, 3. thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou "settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 1 Lev. 25, 21. verse 20. 9 The LORD shall establish thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou p ch. 14, 1. art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. q ch. 11, 25, r Job 38, 22. s Lev. 11, 14. t Prov. 22, 7. a ch. 15, 16. I verse 1. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and chap. 20, goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land taken away from before thy face, and shall not be rewhich the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.stored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good trea- enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. sure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail Ps. 118, thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt with longing for them all the day long: and there shall not borrow. be no might in thine hand. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the "head, and not the tail: and thou shalt be above only, and thou John 8, 23 shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. b a 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the 1 Sam. 14, flocks of thy sheep. e ch. 7, 23. 20. Zech. 14, 13. f Ps. 80, 16. 1a. 30, 17. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee "cursing, vex51,20&ation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou eB, 13. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king & which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which 2 Kings 24, neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there 1 shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become "an astonishment, a b Jer. 24,9 proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall i Joel. 1,▲ consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. Plagues threatened Before CHRIST 1451. ↑ Heb. they shall not be Chine Heb. Te tatsul, only here, thought to be a fruits. plagre m Job 30, 1, 2. CHAPTER XXIX. 8 Before CHRIST for disobedience 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but † thou 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonshalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.derful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of locust consume. long continuance. m 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee † very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 1451. g Dan. 9, 12 h Ex. 8, 9. ↑ Heb. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which trees and to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. is not written in the book of this law, them will the 45° Moreover, all these curses shall come upon LORD † bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas Web high, thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; bethe voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his command-cause thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD i Gen. 34, ments and his statutes which he commanded thee: thy God. 46 And they shall be upon thee for a P sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from zek 17,3, far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle Ban. 2, 4. flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 1 m end, Mat. 8, 8, 9. 30. Num. 9, 20 63 And it shall come to pass, that, as the LORD Isa. 1,9 rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply k Gen. 22, you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy 17. & 26, 4. you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be Neh. 9, 23. plucked from off the land whither thou goest to pos- 1ch. 30, 2. sess it. ch. 10, 22. Jer. S2, 41. 26. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all peo- m Prov. 1, ple, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; Rev. 18, 20 and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find "no Mat. 11, 23 ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, 96. and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:HE 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the ch. 13,6. remnant of his children which he shall leave: a ch. 15, 19. verse 56. 23, 29. Mic. 7, 5. 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the e verse 53. flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 17. 2 Chr. 36, Jer. 5, 10. & 31, 22 56 The tender and delicate woman among you,{ PS. 127,1,2 which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her Lam. 4, 4, 5. eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ↑ Heb. after birth. 57 And toward her † young one that cometh out? from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness wherewith? Ex. 20,7. thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. Mat. 6, 3. Lev. 24, 11. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of Ex. this law that are written in this book, that. thou may-{ Sam 6,2 est fear this glorious and fearful name, THE Phil 21 LORD THY GOD: P. 35, 18. e a ch. 1, 1. 2 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the memory of the d c b Mic. 6, 5. d ch. 4, 5, & 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have 34.17, 18. seen, the signs, and those great miracles: e Isa. 6, 2, Mat. 13, 3. 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. Ezek 36,26. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: 2 Cor. 3, 5. your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy f ch. 8, 4. shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. you g ch. 8, 3 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have Ps. 78, 24. drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know P72,15 that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 21. k Num. 3 33 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with? 2. Neb. 10, the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD Eccl. 82 thy God maketh with thee this day: 29. p ch. 7,6. & 22, 0. Mercies promised unto the penitent. in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and Before cast them into another land, as it is this day. k CHRIST 1451 i Acts 7, 1. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do k Isa. 8, 20 all the words of this law. CHAPTER XXX. 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant....15 Life and AND it shall come to pass, when all these things a Rom.8, 3., c b eh. 4, 24, 1 Kings & 46. 13 That he may establish thee to-day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a 4 Gen. 17,7. 4 God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and Luke 15,17 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenantshalt obey his voice according to all that I command Jams,40 and this oath; thee this day, thou, and thy children, with all thine Rom. 10, 10 heart, and with all thy soul; 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woHeb. 4, 22 man, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away 3, 12. this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the Or, a poi gods of these nations; lest there should be among Heb. rok, you a root that beareth || gall and wormwood; 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the Hosea 10, 4. Words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, Acts 8, 23. saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the || imHeb. 12, 25. agination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his " jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written 1 John 1,7. in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall y blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil 'out of x Gen. 4,7. all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of y ch. 25, 19. the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children, Ezek. 13, 9. that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; f Psal. 1, 6. had not dirided to them, Ch. 4, 19 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God Pe 7,3 gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers' possessed, and thou shalt Ps. 69, 54 possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will 'circumcise thine i Col. 2, 11 heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD & Rom. 13, thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, 10. that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments, which I command thee this day. m Isa. 63, 19. Jer. 32, 41. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plente- 11 Tim. 4, & ous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again" rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Luke 15,6, LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest the LORD done thus unto this land? what meanethsay, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they'knew not, and † whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Dan 9,11. this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are h Jer. 24, 6. Written in this book: S Jer. 32, 17 p John 3,13. Rom. 10, 6 Tim. 3,16. 71, 20 Rom. 10, 7. unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? s John 6, 23. 15. 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his John 14 commandments and his statutes and his judgments, 1 John 3,23 that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. & 5, 3. u ch. 28, 12 17 But if thine heart" turn away, so that thou wilt Acts 20, 30. |