Confession of him that BEFORE CHRIST 1451. Ruth 4.6. DEUTERONOMY, XXVI. call him, and speak unto him: and if 9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of Ruth 4.7. the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. • Ruth 4.11. ch. 19. 13. q Lev. 19. Prov. 11. 1. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 ¶ When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, Pthine eye shall not pity her. 13 T Thou shalt not have in thy bag 2 divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine stone and a house 3 divers measures, a great and stone. 8 Heb. an ephah and an ephah. Ex. 20.12. • Prov. 11.1. 1 Thess.4.6. * Ex. 17. 8. a Ps. 36. 1. Prov. 16. 6. Rom. 3. 18. 8. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. offereth the firstfruits. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt 4 And the priest shall take the bas- 6 And the Egyptians evil en- 8Ex.1.11,14 treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on 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 wonders: 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land that floweth with milk 1 Ex. 3. 8: and honey. 17 Remember what Amalek even 18 How he met thee by the way, 19 Therefore it shall be, when the 1 Sam. 15. LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to posEx. 17.14. sess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. Ex. 23.19. & 34. 26. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 The confession of him that affereth the basket ND it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first Num. 18.13. of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the ch. 16. 10. Prov. 3. 9. 10 And now, behold, I have brought 12 When thou hast made an end The law to be BEFORE CHRIST 1451. q Lev. 7. 20. & 21. 1, 11. Hos. 9. 4. r Is. 63. 15. Zech. 2. 13. Ex. 20. 19. t Ex. 6. 7. & 19. 5. ch. 7. 6. & 14. 2. & 28.9. u ch. 4. 7, 8. & 28. 1. Ps. 148. 14. DEUTERONOMY, XXVII. 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 16 T This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast "avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee "high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; Ex. 19. 6. and that thou mayest bean holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. ch. 7. 6. & 28. 9. 1 Pet. 2. 9. a Josh. 4. 1. ND Moses with the elders of written on stones. 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 ple the same day, saying, peo 12 These shall stand 'upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal 2 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, 15 'Cursed be the man that maketh any graven 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 A'Israel commanded the people, people shall answer and say, Amen. a saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth bJosh.8.32. thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister : b 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 ch. 11. 29. this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. Josh. 8. 30. 16 'Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17 m Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's 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. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, father-ch. 10. 18. & less, and widow. And all the people al. 3. 5. shall say, Amen. 20 P Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. 24. 17. PLev. 18. 8. & 20. 11. ch. 22. 30. & 20. 15. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with Lev. 18.23. any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. r Lev. 18. 9. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his & 20.17. Blessings for obedience. DEUTERONOMY, XXVIII. Curses for disobedience. Lev. 18.17. & 20. 14. t Ex. 20. 13. & 21. 12, 14. Lev. 24. 17. Num. 35.31. ch. 19. 11. ☐ Ex. 23.7.8. 16. ch. 10. 17. & Ezek. 22.12. I ch. 28. 15. Ps. 119. 21. Jer. 11. 3. Gal. 3. 10. ■ Ex. 15. 26. Lev. 26. 3. Is. 55. 2. b ch. 26. 19. c ver. 15. Zech. 1. 6. d Ps.128.1,4. 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. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people 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. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience. 15 The curses A thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, 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 Blessed shalt thou be in the Gen. 39. 5. city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. f ver. 11. Gen. 22. 17. & 49. 25. ch. 7. 13. Prov. 10.22. 1 Tim. 4. 8. Or, dough, or,kneading trough. Pa. 121.8. b ver. 25. Lev. 26. 7, 8. 2 Sam. 22. 88, 39, 41. Ps. 89. 23. 1 Lev 25. 21. 8 Or, barns. Prov. 3. 10. ch. 15. 10. 1 Ex. 19. 5, 6. ch. 7.6. & 26. 18, 19. & 29. 13. m Num. 6. 27. Is 63. 19. Dan. 9.18, 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the 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 2 store. 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 against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 3 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon 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. 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the ver. 3, &c. city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 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 flocks of thy sheep. 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, avexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he 22 The LORD shall smite thee hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt with a consumption, and with a fever, keep the commandments of the LORD and with an inflammation, and with thy God, and walk in his ways. an extreme burning, and with the 10 And all people of the earth'sword, and with blasting, and with Or, mildew; and they shall until thou perish. 23 And thy heaven that is over Lev. 26.19. 2 Chr. 7.14. shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. • Job 31.10. Jer. 8. 10. p Job 31. 8. Jer. 12. 13. Amos 5. 11. Zeph. 1. 13. Mic. 6. 15. q ch. 20. 6. 8 Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat: as ch. 20. 6. 4 Heb. shall not return to thee. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and mastonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt "grope at noonday, 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. 0 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: P thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not 'gather the grapes thereof. 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, Ps. 119.82. and thine eyes shall look, and "fail with longing for them all the day long and there shall be no might in thine hand. | for disobedience. over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. a BEFORE CHRIST 1451. y ver. 64. ch. 4. 28. Jer. 16. 13. 1 Kings 9. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-7,8. word, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. b 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. с 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. 24.9. & 25.9. Zech. 8. 18. • Ps. 44. 14. b Mic. 6. 15. Hag. 1. 6. Joel 1. 4. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy 2 Heb. they them; for they shall go into cap-thine. tivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 3 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: f he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. shall not be d Lam. 1. 5. 8 Or, possess. ver. 12. Lam. 1. 5. 45 Moreover & all these curses shall & ver. 15. 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. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, abundance of all things; The curses BEFORE CHRIST 42 Kings 25. 1, 2, 4. Lev.26.29. 2 Kings 6. 28, 29. Jer. 19. 9. Lam. 2. 20. & 4. 10. DEUTERONOMY, XXIX. 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 Heb.belly. the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: a ch. 15. 9. t ch. 13. 6. ver. 54. 8 Heb. afterbirth. Gen.19.10. 7 Ex. 6. 3. 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 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 shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 3 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 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 glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy Dan. 9.12 plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every for disobedience. plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. 2 Heb.cause to ascend. bch. 4. 27. ch. 10. 22. Neh. 9. 23. Jer. 32. 41. • Prov.1.26. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD drejoiced over you to d ch. 30.9. do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD 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. 64 And the LORD shall scatter Lev. 28.53. 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 of thy foot have rest: 'but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, 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. CHAPTER XXIX. 1 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the H covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside a the covenant whichch. 5. 2, 3. he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have Ex. 19. 4 seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto |