the several

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CHRIST

• Ex. 14. 11.

& 16. 2.

& 17. 2.

Num. 11. 4.

& 20.2.

& 25. 2.

ch. 31. 27.

Pa. 106. 19.

how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also Pin Horeb ye provoked the PRI 824 LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 4 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

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24.12,

Ex. 24. 18.

& 34.23.

14 a Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

15 So I turned and came down Ex. 19.18. from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

ch. 4. 11. &

5.23.

f Ex. 32. 19.

Ex. 94. 23. Ps. 106. 23.

16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

rebellions of Israel.

24 Ye have been rebellious a-a ch. 31. 27. gainst the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Thus I fell down before the ver. 18. LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

The two tables restored.

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• Ex. 25. 16, 21.

dEx.25.5,10. & 37. 1.

e Ex. 34. 4.

f Ex. 34. 28.

2 Heb. words..

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten 2 commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of Ex. 19.17. the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

8 Ex. 20. 1.

ch. 9. 10. & 18. 16.

! Ex. 34. 29.

Ex. 40. 20. 11 Kings 8.9.

m Num. 33. 31.

n Num. 33. 30.

• Num. 20.

p Num. 33. 32, 33.

5 And I turned myself and 'came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

6 ¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was 23. 33. 33. buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 P From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 ¶ At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, "to bear the rNum.4.15. ark of the covenant of the LORD, "to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and tto bless in his name, unto this day.

q Num. 3. 6. & 4. 4. & 8. 14. & 16. 9.

. ch. 18. 5.

t Lev. 9. 22.

Num. 6. 23. ch. 21. 5. u Num. 18. 20, 24. ch. 18. 1, 2.

9 "Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Ezek. 44.28. LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

1 Ex. 34. 28. ch. 9. 18, 25. 1491.

Or former

days.

y Ex. 32. 14,

33, 34. & 33.

17.
ch. 9. 19.

Ex. 32.34. 4 Heb. go in

& 33. 1.

journey.

a Mic. 6. 8.

b ch. 6. 13. • ch. 5. 33. 4 ch. 6. 5. &

11. 13. & 30. Matt. 22.37.

16, 20.

⚫ ch. 6. 24.

f 1 Kings 8. 27.

Ps. 115. 16. & 148. 4.

Gen. 14.19. Ex. 19. 5.

Ps. 24. 1.

b ch. 4. 37.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

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12 ¶ 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,

13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD s thy God, & the earth also, with all that therein is.

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15 Only the LORD had a delight

18 P He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21 "He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

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1 See Lev. 26. 41. ch. 30. 6. Jer. 4. 4. Rom. 2. 28,

29

Col. 2. 11.

ch. 9.6, 13. Josh.22.22. Dan. 2.47.&

Ps. 136. 2.

11. 36. mRev.17.14.

& 19. 16.

n ch. 7. 21. 02 Chr.19.7.

Job 34. 19.

Acts 10. 34.
Rom. 2. 11.

Gal. 26.
Col. 3.25,

Eph. 6. 9.

1 Pet. 1. 17. P Ps. 68. 5.

& 146. 9. 34.

q Lev. 19.83,

An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their own experience of God's great works, 8 by promise of God's great blessings, 16 and by threatenings. 18 A careful study is required in God's words. 26 The blessing and curse is set before them.

THE

THEREFORE thou shalt a love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

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3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

4. And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; & how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the

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Ex. 1. 5.
Acts 7. 14.

z Gen. 15. 5. ch. 1. 10. & 28. 62.

son of Reuben: how the earth opened CHRIST her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

Or, living substance which fol

lowed them.

8 Heb. was at their feet.

7.19.

7 But 'your eyes have seen all the 1 ch. 5. 3. & great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command Josh. 1.6,7. you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

1ch. 4. 40. & 5. 16. Prov.10.27. I ch. 9. 5.

Ex. 8:8.

• Zech. 14. 18.

P ch. 8. 7.

4 Heb. seeketh. q 1 Kings 9.3.

r ver. 22. ch. 6. 17.

ch. 10. 12.

t Lev. 26. 4. ch. 28. 12.

James 5.7.

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9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, " a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

11 P But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, "to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 That I will give you the rain Joel 2. 23. of your land in his due season, " the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

17 And then b the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth

you. 18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your

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children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20h And thou shalt write them ch. 6. 9. upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

21 That your days may be mul-1 tiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

22 T For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

23 Then will the LORD " drive out

all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

24 P Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be your's: a from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

26 Behold, I set before this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the ch. 28. 2. commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:

28 And a curse, if ye will not y ch. 28. 15. obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Geri-ch. 27. 12, zim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Josh. 8. 33. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

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31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.

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Gen. 12. 6.

Judg. 7. 1.

b

ch. 9. 1.

Josh. 1. 11.

32 And ye shall observe to doch, 5. 32. all the statutes and judgments which & 12. 32. I set before you this day.

Idolatry to be destroyed.

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a ch. 6. 1.

b ch. 4. 10.. 1 Kings 8. 40.

• Ex. 34. 13.

ch. 7. 5.

2 Or, inherit. d 2 Kings 16. 4. & 17. 10, 11. Jer. 3. 6.

CHAPTER XII.

1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed. 5 The place of God's service is to be kept. things must be eaten in the holy place. 19 The Levite is not to be forsaken. 29 Idolatry is not to be enquired after.

15, 23 Blood is forbidden. 17, 20, 26 Holy

HESE are the statutes and

Tjudgments, which statutes and

serve to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, ball the days that ye live upon the earth.

2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, d upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their Num. 33. altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

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Judg. 2. 2. 3 Heb.break down.

f ver. 31.

g ver. 11. ch. 26. 2. Josh. 9. 27. 1 Kings 8. 29.

2 Chron. 7. 12.

Ps. 78. 68.

4.

4 f Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your Lev. 17.3, burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your

1 ver. 17. ch. 14. 22, 23. & 15. 19, 20.

k ch. 14. 26.

Lev. 23. 40. ch. 16. 11, 14, 15. & 26. 11. & 27.7.

flocks:

7 And there ye shall eat before ver. 12,18. the LORD your God, and 1ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety ;

11 Then there shall be a place 15. 20. & 16. which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

Is. 78. 69.

4 Heb. the choice of your vows.

Holy things to be eaten

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12 And Pye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and P ver. 7. the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

ach. 10. 9.

& 14, 29.

Lev. 17.4.

14 But in the place which the ver. 11. LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

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15 Notwithstanding thou mayest ver. 21. kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: "the unclean and the clean may eat a ver. 22. thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

x ch. 14. 5. & 15. 22.

Gen. 9.4.
17.10.

ch. 15. 23.
& ver. 23,24.

ch. 14. 23.

18 But thou must eat them beforever. 11,12. the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

19 Take heed to thyself that thou ch. 14.27. forsake not the Levite 2 as long as thou livest upon the earth.

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20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

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2 Heb. all thy days.

Gen.15.18 Ex. 34. 24. & 19.8.

& 28. 14.

ch. 11. 24.

22 Even as the roebuck and the ver. 15. hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.