1 The people are commanded to write the law upon stones, 5 and to build an altar of whole stones. 11 The tribes divided on Gerizim and Ebal. 14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal.

AND Moses with the elders of Israel

commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

a Josh. 4. 1. 2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, b Josh. 8.3 that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:

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; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this Sch.11.29 day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

Josh. 8. 30.

5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: d Exod. 20. d thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon

25 Josh. 8.

31.

them.

6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

9¶ And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take e ch. 26. 18. heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

f ch. 11. 29. Josh.8.33.

10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

12 These shall stand upon mount GeJudges 9.7. rizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

Curses pronounced.

CHRIST 1451. ch. 11. 29. Josh. 8. 33.

13 And these shall stand upon mount Before Ebal + to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 ¶ And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

+ Heb. for a

cursing.

h ch. 33. 10. Josh. 8.33.

i Exod. 20.

17. Lev. 19.

15 Cursed be the man that maketh Dan. 9. 11. any graven or molten image, an abomi- 4, 23 & 34nation unto the LORD, the work of the 4 & 26. 1. hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in th4, 16, 23. a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

16 Cursed be he that setteth light his father or his mother. And all people shall say, Amen.

4. & 5. 8. Isai.

49. Hos.

13.2.

k See Numb. 5- 22. Jer.

by 11.Cor. the 14 16.

1 Exod. 20. 12. & 21.17. Lev. 19. 3

ch.21.1

17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the peo- mn ch. 19. 14. ple shall say, Amen.

14.

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind" Lev. 19. to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

19 °Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall Amen.

say,

21, 22. ch.

10.

Exod. 22. 18. & 24

17. Mal. 3-5

Lev. 18. &

& 20. 11. ch.

20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his 22 30 father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

23 Cursed be he that lieth with his Lev. 18. 17 mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people 1 shall say, Amen.

25 "Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII.

1 The blessings for obedience. 15 The curses for disobedience.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his Lev. 364 good treasure, the heaven to give the ch 14 29. rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

ch. 15.6.

Isai. 9. 14,

•Lev. 14, Lam. 2. 17.

13 Mal. 2.2. Bar. 1. m.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou 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 D3 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:

y ver. 3, &c.

18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou

CHRIST

1451,

2 Mal. 2. 2.

a 1 Sam. 14.

13.

20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for 20. Zech. 14. to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby hast forsaken me.

thou

Ps. 80. 16. i. 30. 17. 66. 15.

& 51. 20. &

+ Heb. which thou

wouldest do.

e Lev. 26. 25

21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have con- Jer. 24. 10. sumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

22 The LORD shall smite thee with a d Lev. 26. 16. consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the || sword, and with drought. blasting, and with mildew; and they ⚫ Amos 4.9. shall pursue thee until thou perish.

I Or,

23 And 'thy heaven that is over thy fLev. 26. 19. head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms

earth.

of the

26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

r. 7. Lev. 26. 17, 37.ch.32.30 Isai. 30. 17.

hJer. 15. 4. Ezek. 23. 45.

& 24.9.

+ Heb. for a removing.

27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with 'the emerods, & 15. 26. and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

m

P.78.66.

28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonish- m Jer. 4. 9. ment of heart:

n Job 5. 14.

29 And thou shalt "grope at noon- Isai. 59. 10. day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Jer. 8. 10. Job 31. 8. Jer. 12. 13.

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and Job 31. 10. another man shall lie with her: "thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Amos 5. 11. Zeph. 1.13. ch. 20. 6. it

Mic. 6. 15

+ Heb. pro fane, or, use

as common

meat: as

31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: ch. 20. 6 thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be the shatt restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given thee. unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

not return to

32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and 'fail with longing for Ps. 119. 82

Curses threatened

Before CHRIST 1451.

s ver. 51.

Jer. 5- 17.

Before CHRIST

t ver. 67.

u ver.27.

x 2 Kings 17. 4,6. & 14. 12,

14. & 25.7 33. 11. & 36.

11. 2 Chron.

6, 20.

y ch.4. 28. & ver. 64. Jer. 16. 13. z 1 Kings 9.

34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

35 The LORD shall "smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and 'there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

37 And thou shalt become an astonish7. & Jerment, a proverb, and a byword, among Zech. 8. 13. all nations whither the LORD shall lead a Ps. 44.14 thee.

9.

b Mic. 6. 15. Hag. 1. 6.

58 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little c Joel 1.4 in; for the locust shall 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.

40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

41 Thou shalt beget sons and daugh+Heb. they ters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

shall not be thine.

d Lam. 1. 5.

d

42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land Or, possess. shall the locust || consume.

e ver. 12.

f ver. 13. Lam. 1. 5.

g ver. 15.

b Isai. 8. 18. Ezek. 14.8.

i Neh. 9. 35, 36,37.

43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

46. And they shall be upon thee "for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

i

47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with kch. 32. 15. 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 1 Jer. 28. 14. he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

m Jer. 5. 15& 6. 22, 23.

49 "The LORD shall bring a nation Luke 19. 43. against thee from far, from the end of

51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy +Heb. cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until face. Prov. thou be destroyed: which also shall not & Dan. 8. leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the 23 increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy 36. 17. Isai. sheep, until he have destroyed thee. p ver. 33. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all sai. 1.7.& thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls q'2 Kings 25. come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

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:

62.8.

-1,2,4

Lev. 26. 29. 28, 29. Jer. 2 20. & 4. 10. +Heb. belly.

2 Kings 6.

19.9. Lam. Bar. 2.3

54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye ch. 15.9shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward tch. 13. 6. the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

55 So that he will not give to any of them of the 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.

56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, "her eye u ver-54shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

57 And toward her young one that Heb.efter cometh out from between her feet, and Gen. 49. toward her children which she shall bear: 10. for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this Exod. 6. 3. glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of Dan. 9. 12. thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD drejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD Pr. 1.will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Neh. 1.8. Jer. 16. 13. t ver. 36.

h Amos 9.4

64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; 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 ease, neither shall the sole i Lev. 26. 36. of thy foot have rest: 'but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and Lev. 26. 16. 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:

1 Job - 4

m ver. 34

n Jer. 44-7Hos. 8. 13. & 9.2

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 where with thou shalt fear, and "for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way © ch. 17. 16 whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Moses exhorteth to obedience.

an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

e

Before CHRIST 1451.

8.2.

5 And I have led you forty years in ech. 1. 3. & the wilderness: 'your clothes are not f ch. 8. 4. waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

16. 12. ch.

6 "Ye have not eaten bread, neither & See Exod. have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that 8.3. P. 78. ye might know 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:

24, 25.

Numb. 21. ch.2.32. &

23, 24, 33.

3. 1.

i Numb. 32.

33. ch. 3. 12,

8 And we took their land, and 'gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, 13. and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

ch.46Kings 2. 3.

1 Josh. 1.7.

9. 21, 23, 27.

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from them See Joh. hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12 That thou shouldest enter into ↑ Heb. pass. covenant with the LORD thy God, and "into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

29.

Neh. 10.

ch. 28. 9

13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said P Exod. 6. 7. unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy 4 Gen. 17-7. fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only 'do I make this covenant and this oath;

Jer. 31.31,

32,33. Hebr. 8. 7, 8.

Secret things belong unto God.

Before

CHRIST 1451.

b ch. 9. 14.

© Matt. 24. 51.

+ Heb. is written,

+ Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick.

d Ps. 107:34 Zeph. 2.9. 24, 25. Jer.

Jer. 17. 6.

• Gen. 19.

90. 16.

fi Kings 9. 8, 9. Jer. 22. 8, 9.

lousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children 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; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, aand salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

24 Even all nations shall say, 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth 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 had given they knew not, and whom he had not to them any

Or, who

portion. † Heb. divided.

g Dan. 9. 11, 13, 14.

h1 Kings 14. 15. 2 Chron.

5. Prov. 2.

given unto them:

27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28 And the LORD "rooted them out of 7. 20. P. 52. their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

22.

a Lev, 26.40. ch. 28.

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 all the words of this law.

CHAP. XXX.

1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant. 11 The commandment is manifest. 15 Death and life are set before them.

AND it shall come to pass, when ball

these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have ch.49 set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

30. 1 Kings 47,48.

d Neb. 1.9. Isei. 55.7.

Joel 2. 12,13.

2 And shalt return unto the LORD Lam. 3. 40. thy God, and shalt obey his voice accordPs. 106. 45. ing to all that I command thee this day, 3161,4 thou and thy children, with all thine Lum. 3. 22, heart, and with all thy soul;

Jer. 29.

32.

f P6. 147. 2.

3 That then the LORD thy God will 3 turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather

Ezek 34. 13. & J. 24

4 "If any of thine be driven out unto gch. 28. 64. the outmost parts of heaven, from thence Neh... will the LORD thy God 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 possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, 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 com mandments which I command thee this day.

ch. 10. 16 Ezek. 11. 19. 36. 26.

Jer. 32. 39.

9 And the LORD thy God will make i ch. 28. 11. thee plenteous 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 ch. 28.63. over thy fathers:

10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the 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.

Jer. 32. 41.

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, 1it is not hidden Isai 45-19from thee, neither is it far off.

6, &c.

12 "It is not in heaven, that thou m Rom. 10. shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest Who shall say, go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

ch. 11. 26

15¶ See, "I have set before thee this ver. 1, 19 day life and good, and death and evil;

16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;