the Lord their God, or tempt them to serve false gods.

Then Moses told the children of Israel, that they should not be afraid of those nations, who now dwelt in the land of Canaan, though they were greater and mightier than themselves, but should remember what the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and all Egypt. For God would do unto these nations as He had done unto Pharaoh and the Egyptians. But he said that the Lord would not drive out all these nations at once, but by little and little, as the children of Israel should become more in number, and require the whole land of Canaan to live in.

Then Moses again charged the children of Israel to give good heed to the commandments of the Lord their God. And he bade them consider in their hearts how the Lord had chastened them in the wilderness when they had sinned against Him there, and beware lest they should forget the Lord their God, when they should have come into the promised land, and should provoke the Lord to punish them. The children of Israel

were to beware and fear, lest, when they should have come into that rich and pleasant land, and should have eaten and be full, and their flocks, and their herds, and their silver, and their gold should be multiplied, their hearts should grow proud, and they should think that they had gotten those good things by their own power, and should forget the Lord their God, who gave them all that they had. For Moses said, that if they should forget the Lord their God, and not be obedient to His voice, they should surely perish.

And then he reminded the children of Israel of their many sins against God, the many times that they had rebelled against Him; and he told them to remember, that it was not for their right eousness that they were to go in to possess the land, for they were a rebellious people. It was because of the wickedness of the nations who dwelt in the land of Canaan, that the Lord drove them out from before them, and that He might perform the work which He sware unto their fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And Moses said, "And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord, and His statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?"

When Moses had finished speaking all the commandments which the Lord had given him, he set before the children of Israel all the blessings which God had promised to them and to their children after them for ever, if they would serve Him and obey His voice; and the cursings and the fearful punishment which God would send upon them, if they should forget the Lord their God, and sin against Him. And then he said, "See, I have set before thee this day, life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, and to walk in His ways, that thou mayest live and multiply and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land, whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not

hear, I denounce unto you this day, that thou shalt surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou goest over Jordan to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."

Deut. vii. viii. ix. 4, 5 ; x. 12 ; & xxx. 15—19.

Utterly, means altogether.

Mightier or more mighty, is stronger or more powerful.

To require, sometimes means to desire or wish, sometimes to want or stand in need of. God required, or desired, the children of Israel to fear Him, and walk in His ways. The children of Israel, when they multiplied, would require, or stand in need of, the whole land to dwell in.

To chasten, is to punish.

To deliver into the hands of a person, is to give into his power. To deliver out of the hands of a person, is to save.

Chapter LXXVE.

THE FEASTS OR FESTIVALS OF GOD'S PEOPLE.

THE children of Israel had been commanded by Moses to take heed to themselves and keep their souls diligently, that they might not forget the Lord their God, and the great things which He had done for them, when they should have come into the promised land.

Now God had given His people statutes and ordinances to help them to remember Him, and to remind them in time to come of the mighty works which He had done for their fathers.

God had commanded that the children of Israel should keep three solemn feasts in every year for ever, that they might bless the Lord their God always for all the good things which He had given them, and might remember how the Lord had brought them forth from the bondage of Egypt, and had led them in the wilderness forty years.