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Expiation of an uncertain murder. DEUTERONOMY. A flubborn fon tobe fiomed.

that they thall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

11 And it fhall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it thall be, that all the people that is found therein fhall be tributaries unto thee, and they fhall Terve thee.

12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou fhalt befiege it :

13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou fhalt fmite every male thereof with the edge of the fword.

14 But the women, and the little ones, and the carcle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, fhalt thou take unto thyself: and thou shalt eat the fpoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus halt thou do unto all the cities which are very tar off from thee, which are not of the cities of chefe nations.

16 But of the cities of thefe people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt lave alive nothing that breathech:

17 But thou shalt utterly deftroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorices, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

18 That they each you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; fo fhould ye fin against the LORD your God.

19 When thou shalt befiege a city a long time, in making war againt it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayeft eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down, (for the tree of the field is man's life,) to employ them in the fiege.

20 Only the trees which thou knoweft that they be not trees for meat hou shalt deftroy, and cut them down; and thou fhalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until ir be fubdues.

CHAP. XXI.

1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 15
The firfl-born is not to be dijinherited upon
18 A fubborn fon is to
private affection.
be fomed to death.
IF one be found flain in thland which the
LORD thy od giveth thee to poffefs it,
lying in the field, and it be not known who
hath flain him;

2 Then thy elders and thy judges fhall come
forth, and they thall measure unto the cities
which are round aboue him that is "ain:

3 And it thall be, that the city which is next unto the flain man, even the elders of that city, thall take an heifer which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

4 And the elders of that city fhall bring down the heiter unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor fown, and thali ftrike off the heiter's neck there in the valley:

5 And the priests the fons of Levi fhall come near, (for them the LORD thy God hath choten to minitter unto him, and to blefs in the name of the Lorn,) and by their word

fhall every controversy and every stroke he

tried.

6 And all the elders of that city,that are next unto the flain man, thall wath their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

7 And they hali answer and lay, Our hands have not fhed this blood, neither have our eyes feen it.

8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Ifrael, whom thou haft redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Ifrael's charge. And the blood thall be forgiven them.

9 So fhalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou mhalt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD.

10 When thou goeft forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered chem into thine hands, and thou hatt taken them captive,

11 And feeft among the captives a beautiful woman, and has a desire unto her, that thou wouldeft have her to thy wife;

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine houfe, and the hall have her head and pare her nails;

13 And the thall put the raiment of her captivi y from c. her, and shall remain in thine houfe, and bewail her tather and her mother a full month: and after that thou fhall go in unto her, and be her husband, and the fhall be thy wife.

14 And it thall be, it thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither the will; but thou shalt no: fell her at all tor money, thou thalt not make merchandise of her, because thou haft humbled her.

15 It a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated: and if the first-born fon be her's that was hated;

16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his fons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the fon of the beloved first-born before the font the hated, which is indeed the first-born:

17 But he thall acknowledge the fon of the hated for the firit-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning his strength; the right or the firit-born is his.

18 If a man have a tubborn and rebel. lious fon, which will not quey the voice of his father, of the voice of hened nine, wit that, when they have chaftened him, will not hearken unto them;

19 Then thall his tacher and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and undo the gate of his place:

20 And they fhali fay unto the eiders of his city, This our fon is ftubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city fhali ftone him with ftones that he die: fo shalt thou put evil away from among you: and all Ifrael thall hear, and fear.

22 And if a man have committed a fin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

23 His body thaif not remain all night up. on the tree, but thou shalt in any wife burycurfed him that day; (for he that is hanged is ac

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cursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, swhich the LORD thy God giveth thee for an Laberitance.

CHA P. XXII.

Of bumanity toward brethren. 20, 22 Of adultery. Divers laws. 25 of rape. 28 Offornication. 30 of incef. Hoti halt not fee thy brother's ex or his theep go aftray, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt in any cafe bring them again unto thy brother.

2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not: then thou shalt bring it unto thine own houfe, and it shall be with thee until thy brother feek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

In like manner thalt thou do with his afs, and fo thalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath loft, and thou haft found, shalt thou do likewife: thou mayeft not hide thy felf.

4¶ Thou shalt not fee thy brother's afs or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thy felf from them; thou thalt furely help him to lift them up again.

5 The woman fhall not wear that which percaiacra unto a man, neither thall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do fo are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6¶ if a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, and the dam fitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

But thou shalt in any wife let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayet prolong thy days..

8 When thou buildeft a new houfe, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine houfe, if any man fall from thence,

9 Thou that not fow thy vineyard with divers feeds: lett the fruit of thy feed which thou haft fown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an afs together.

11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers forts, as of woollen and linen together.

12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vetture, wherewith thou coverest thyfelf.

13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

14 And give occafion of fpeech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and fay, I took this woman, and, when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15 Then shall the father of the damfe, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damfel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate

16 And the damfel's father fhail fay unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hatech her;

17 And, lo, he hath given occafions of fpeech against her, faying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet thefe are the tokens of my daughter's virginity: and they hall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18 And the elders of that city thall take that man, and chattile him.

19 And they hail amerce him in an hundrea bekels of filver, and give them unto the

and punishments.

father of the dimfel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of liracl, and the shall be his wite; he may not put her away all his days.

20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damfel;

21 Then they shall bring out the damiel to the door of her father's h. ufe, and the men of her city thall stone her with tones that the die; because the hath wrought tolly in Ifrael, to play the whore in her father's house: fo thale thou put evit away from among you.

22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an huinant, then they thall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: fo thalt thou put away evil from Ifrael.

23 a damfel that is a virgin be be trothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye thail tone them with stones that they die; the damfel, becaufe the cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbied his neighbour's wife: fo thou shalt put away evil from among you.

25 But if a man find a betrothed damfel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

26 But unto the damfel thou shalt do nts thing; there is in the danifel no fin worthy of death: for as when a man rifeth against his neighbour, and flayeth him, even fo is this matter:

27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damfel cried, and there was none to fave her.

28 ft a man find a damfel that is a vir gin, which is not betrothed, and lay held on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

29 Then the man that lay with her thall give unto the damfel's father fifty freke's of filver, and the thall be his wife; because he hach humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30 A man fhall not take his father's wife, nor difcover his father's skirt.

СНАР. ХХІІ.

1 Who may, or may not, enter into the congreTM kation. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the bofl. 21 Uf vows. 24 of trefpales. H' that is wounded in the frones, or hath his privy member cut off, fhall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

2 A baftard thall not enter into the congre. gation of the LORD; even to his tenth genera tion fhall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

3 An Ammonite or Moabite fhall not enter into the congregation of the IORD; even to their tenth generation fhall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the fon of Beur,of Pethor of Mefopota mia, to curfe thee.

5 Neverthe efs, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curfe into a bleffing unto thee, because the Loko thy God loved tree. 6 Thou faalt not feek their peace nor their profperity all thy days for ever.

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7¶Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyp

pledges, juftice, &c. ers. 8 of leprosy. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 of juice.

tian; because thou wait a fi ranger in his land. WH

8 The children that are begotten of them fhall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

9¶When the hot goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

10 If there be among you any man that is not clean, by reafon of uncleannefs that chancen him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp; he thall not come within the camp:

11 But it fhall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wath bimfelf with water; and, when the fun is down, he thall come into the camp again.

12 Thou shalt have a place alfo without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. 13 And thou shall have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyfelfabroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and fhalt turn back, and cover that which cometh from thee.

14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midft of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee: therefore hall thy camp be holy, that he fee no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the fervant which is escaped from his mafter unto thee:

16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he thall choose, in one of thy gates where it liketh him beft: thou shalt not opprefs him.

17 There thall be no whore of the daughters of Ifrael, nor a fodomite of the fons of Ifrael.

18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the houfe of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both thefe abomination unto the LORD thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend upon ufury to thy brother; ufury of money, ufury of victuals, ufury of any thing that is lent upon ufury.

20 Unto a firanger thou mayeft lend upon ufury, but unto thy brother thon fhalt not lend upon ufury; that the LORD thy God may blefs thee in all that thou fetteft thine hand to, in the land whither thou goeft to poflefs

it.

21 When thou fhalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not flack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will furely require it of thee; and it would be fin in thee.

22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no in in thee:

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou fhalt keep and perform; even a free-will-of1ering, according as thou hart vowed unto the LoDthy God, which thou hart promifed with thy mouth.

24When thou comeft into thy neighbonr's vineyard, then thou mayeft eat grapes thy fill, at thine own pleafure; but thou shalt not put any in thy veffel.

25 When thou coment into the ftanding cern of thy neighbour, then thou mayeft pluck the cars with thine hand; but thou ihal not move a fickle unto thy neighbour's itanding corn.

CHAP. XXIV.

of divorce. 6 Of pledges. 7 of man-eat.

WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and mar. ried her, and it come to pass that the find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found fome uncleannefs in her; then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and fend her cut of his houfe. 2 And when the is departed out of his house, the may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and fendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which tock her to be his wife;

4 Her former husband, which fent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that the is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not caufe the land to fin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he thall not go out to war, neither fhall he be charged with any bufinefs: but he thall be free at home one year, and thall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

6 No man fhall take the nether or the upper millftone to pledge: for he taketh a wan's life to pledge.

7 If a man be found ftealing any of his brethren of the children of Ifrael, and maketh merchandife of him, or felleth him; then that thief fhall die, and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

8 Take heed in the plague of leprofy, that thou obferve diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites fhall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye thall obferve to do.

9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his houfe to fetch his pledge.

1 Thou shalt ftand abroad, and the man to whom thou doit lend thali bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not fleep with his pledge:

13 In any cafe thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the fun goeta down, that he may fleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it fhall be righteousnets unto thee before the LORD thy God.

14Thou shalt not opprefs an hired fervant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy ftrangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither fall the fun go down upon it; for he is poor, and fetteth his heart upon it: left he cry againft thee unto the LORD, and it be fin unto thee.

16 The fathers fhall not be put to death for the children, neither fhall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man thall be put to death for his own fin.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment" of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment to pledge :

18 But thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19¶ When

Of raising feed toe brother.

Of offering firfi-fruits. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and 3 fmail.

Chap. xxv, xxvi. 19 When thou cutteft down thine harvent in thy field, and haft forgot a fheat in the field, thou thait not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the ftranger, for the fatherlefs, and for the widow; that the 1.ORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine

hands.

20 When thou beateft thine olive tree, thou thalt not go over the boughs again: it thall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 When thou gathereft the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it thall be for the stranger, for the facheriefs, and for the widow.

22 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond-man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

CHAP. XXV.

1 Stripesmuff not exceed forty. 4 The ox is not to be muzzled. § of railing feed unto a brother. 11 of the immodest woman. 13 of uniuft weights. 17 The memory of Amalek to be blotted out.

F there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them, then they hall juftify the righteous, and condemn the wicked,

2 And it thall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge fhall caufe him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

3 Forty ftrines he may give him, and not exceed: left, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many firipes, then thy bro. ther should feem vile unto thee.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead fhall not marry without unto a ftranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wite, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

6 And it fhall be, that the firft-born which the beareth hall fucceed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Ifrael.

7 And if the man like not to take his bro. ther's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and fay, My hufband's brother refufeth to raise up unto his brother a name in lirael, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother;

8 Then the elders of his city thall call him, and speak unto him: and if he and to it, and fay, I like not to take her;

9 Then fhall his brother's wife come unto him in the prefence of the elders, and loofe his fhoe from off his foot, and fpit in his face, and thall anfwer and fay, so thall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's bouse.

10 And his name thall be called in Ifrael, The house of him that hath his fhoe loofed.

11 When men ftrive together one with another, and the wife of the one draw eth near for to deliver her huiband out of the hand of him that imi eth him, and putteth forth her hand, and takech him by the fecrets:

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

15 But thou that have a perfect and juft weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD ay God giveth thee.

For all that do fuch things, and ail that do unrighteouily, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 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 fmote the hindmoit of thee, even all that were tee ble behind thee, when thou wa faint and weary; and he feared not God.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hach given thee reft from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to poffets it, that thou art blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

CHAP. XXVI.

2 The confeffor, of him that offereth the basket of p-fruits. 16 The covenant between Goa and the people.

AND it than be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and pollcifeft it, and dwelleff therein,

2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and fhali put it in a basket, and thait go unto the place which the LORD thy God thall choofe to place his name there.

3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in thofe days, and fay unto him, I profefs this day unto the LORD y God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD fware unto our fathers for to give us.

4 And the priest fhall take the basket out of thine hand, and fer it down before the

altar of the LORD thy God.

5 And hou shalt peak and fay before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish tuas my father, and he went down into Egypt, and fejourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and popu lous:

6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, arð 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 cur affliction, and our labour, and our oppreffion:

8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outftretched arm, and with great terriblenets, and with figns, and with wonders:

9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

IC And now, behold, I have brought the firft-fruits of the lard which thou, O LORD, haft given me. And thou shalt fet it before the LORD thy God, and worthip before the LORD thy God.

11 And thou fhalt rejoice in every good thing which he LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine houfe, thou, and the Levire, and the ftranger that is among you. 12 When thou haft made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the G3 third

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third year, which is the year of tithing, and haft given it unto the Levite, the ttranger, the tatherlets, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

13 Then thou shalt fay 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 haft commanded me: I have not tranfgreffed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them;

14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourn ing, neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught 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 blefs thy people Ifrael, and the land which thou haft given us, as thou fwareft unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

16¶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do thefe ftatuies and judg• ments; thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy foul.

17 Thou haft avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his ftatutes, 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 promifed thee, and that thou thouldeit keep all his commandments;

19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praife, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayeit be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath ipoken.

CHAP. XXVII.

The people are to write the law upon fiones. 14 The curfes from mount bal AND Mofes, with the elders of Ifrael, com. manded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this

day.

2 And it shall be, on the day when ye thall pafs over Jordan, unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt fet thee up great ftones, and platter them with plafter.

3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art pailed over; that thou mayeft 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.

written on flones.

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

9 And Mofes, and the priests the Levites, fpake unto all Ifrael, faying, Take heed, and hearken, O Ifrael; This day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his ftatutes, which I command thee this day. And Mofes charged the people the fame day, faying,

12 Thefe thail ftand upon mount Gerizim to blefs the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Ifachar, and Jofeph, and Benjamin.

13 And thefe hall ftand upon mount Ebal to curfe; Reuben, Gad, and Ather, and Ze bulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 And the Levites thall (peak, and fay unto all the men of Ifrael with a loud voice,

15 Curfed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the works of the hands of the craftfman, and putteth it in a fecret place: and all the people hall anfwer and fay, Amen.

16 Curfed be he that fetteth light by his father, or his mother: and all the people thall fay, Amen.

17 Curfed-be he that removeth his neigh bour's land-mark: and all the people thall fay, Amen.

18 Curfed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people fhall fay, Amen.

19 Curfed be he that perverteth the judg ment of the stranger, fatherlefs, and widow: and all the people fhall fay, Amen.

20 Curfed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people fhall fay, Amen.

21 Curfed be he that lieth with any manner of beaft: and all the people thall fay,

Amen.

22 Curfed be he that lieth with his fifter, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.

23 Curfed be he that lieth with his mother. in-law: and all the people thall fay, Amen. 24 Curfed be he that fmiteth his neigh bour fecretly and all the people thall fay, Amen.

25 Curfed be he that taketh reward to flay an innocent perfon: and all the people thait fay, Amen.

26 Curfed he he that confirmeth not all the 'words of this law, to do them : and all the people thall fay, Amen.

CHAP. XXVIII.

1 The blessings for obedience. 15 The curfes for difobedience.

hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to obferve and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will fet thee on high above all nations of the earth:

4 Therefore it shall be, when ye be gone AND it thall come to pass, if thou shalt over Jordan, that ye shall fet up thefe ftones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plafter them with plafter. 5 And there thalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of ftones: thou thalt not lift up any iron too! upon them.

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

And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, and halt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD My God

2 And all thefe blefings thall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

3 Bleiled fealt thou be in the city, and bleed alt thou be in the field.

4 Bleiled ball be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of

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