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CHAPTER III....IV. Moses prayer to enter the land. Before terly destroyed † the men, and the women," and the 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereCHRIST little ones, of every city; we left none to remain : of, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto our-even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. city of men, selves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to pos- y Gen. 14, 3 sess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are † meet for the war. 20 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your a Num. cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

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36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God' delivered all unto us.

37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon Num. 21, thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto 1 2 Chr. 20, whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.

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20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you. HEN we turned, and went up the way to Ba- 211 And I commanded Joshua at that time, say- b Num. 27, shan and Og the king of Bashan came outing, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD c1 Sam. 17, do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

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2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt Num. 21, at Heshbon.

23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, s. 65, 1. 24 O LORD God, thou hast begun to shew thy Rev. 18, 11, 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what Num. 21, Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and god is there in heaven or in earth that can do accordwe smote him, until none was left to him remaining.ing to thy works, and according to thy † might? 4 And we took all his cities at that time; there was 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good not a city which we took not from them, threescore land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, P. 86 cities, all † the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og and 'Lebanon. in Bashan. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your g sakes, and would not hear me and the LORD said & unto me,' Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

Moses appointeth the three cities of refuge on that side Jordan. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and Rom. 2 n. 14,5 remnant of' giants; behold, his bedstead was a bed-possess the land which the LORD God of your fath156, stead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children ers giveth you. of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and Sam. 12, four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, o Gen.6,15. from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the † Reubenites, and to the Gadites.

14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes, and judgof Argob, unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maacha-ments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, ver 12,13, thi; and called them after his own name, Bashan- that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to posKings 10, havoth-jair, unto this day.

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7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statPs. 145, 18 utes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but' teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Eph. 6, 4. LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto mEx. 19,16. me, Gather me the people together, and I will make H. 12,18. them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me n Ps. 51,8. all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

o ch. 9, 23. p Ex. 20, 21.

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11 And ye came near, and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, P and thick darkness.

12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandEx. 31, 18. ments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to ■ Ex. 21, 1. teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, Jer. 17, 21. (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that u Isa. 40, 18. of the fire,) the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst

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people to obedience. and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven Bere image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger;

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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you k ch. 30, 19. this day, that ye shall soon utterly' perish from off the 1 ch. 30, 18. land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left † few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither" sec, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 But if" from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

{ 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a na16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a tion from the midst of another nation, by "temptations, uGen. 22, 1. x Ex. 20, 4. graven image, the similitude of any figure, the like-by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a ness of male or female; mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great teriors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, e Ex. 19, & that he might" instruct thee: and upon earth he a P. 94, 12. shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out'in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

e Ex. 24, 16.

Ex. 13, 21.

& 14, 19. Isaiah 63, 9.

1 Cor. 10, 1.

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38 To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give ch. 3, 4, thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in b1 Chr. 28, thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else.

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40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. 41 I Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising;

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42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should 14 kill his neighbour1 unawares, and hated him not in Ex. 21,12 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, { times past; and that, fleeing unto one of these cities, chap. 18, 2 he might live:

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43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain Josh en strong. children, and shalt have † remained long in the land. country of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, {

The ten commandments.

CHAPTER V....VI.

Moses receweth the law. Before of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manas- stretched-out arm: therefore the LORD thy God comCHRIST sites. manded thee to keep the sabbath-day.

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44 1 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel :

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45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out? of Egypt:

47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising;

48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount P Sion, which is Hermon; 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

CHAPTER V.

1 The covenant in Horeb....6 The ten commandments....27 At
the people's request Moses receiveth the law from God.

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2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us bch. 4, 23. in Horeb.

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21 Neither shalt thou "desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his &22, 21. field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great tEx. 20, 16. voice; and he added no more: and he wrote them Ex. 20, 12 in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. x chap-4,2 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain Job 19, 23. did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even z Ex. 20, 13

AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, all Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath Heb. 12, 18. which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have a Ex. 20, 18 Heb. keep them, and † keep and do them. heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have bEx. 19, 19. seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this a Gen. 16, great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of 13. the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and 'lived?

e Ex. 19, 20.

3 The LORD made not this covenant with our d Gal. 3, 21. fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire,

5 (I stood 'between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD; for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or Ex. 20, 3. any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them John 14, that love me, and keep my 'commandments. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy chap. 8,2 God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work; 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD Heb 4, thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any Neh. 13, of thy cattle, nor thy 'stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

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Jer. 20, 9

e ch. 33, 2.

Heb. 12, 18.

Gal. 3, 21.

27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our (2 Cor. 3,6 God shall say; and 'speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

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29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

NOW

CHAPTER VI.

1 The end of the law is obedience....3 An exhortation thereto.
TOW these are the commandments, the statutes, a chap. 41
and the judgments, which the LORD your God James 1,22
commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in
the land whither ye go † to possess it:

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Moses exhorteth the

CHAPTER VIII....IX. Before Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

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16 And thou shalt consume all the people which Num. 14, the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

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17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations fch. 8, 17. are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto b Ps. 77,11. Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

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19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the EL 17,7 LORD thy God is among "you, a mighty God and terrible.

25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn 6 Isa. 30, 22. with fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that 11 Chr. 14, is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. u Isa. 30, 22. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into Josh 6, thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

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Israchites to obedience. land; a land of brooks of water, of " fountains, and Before depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig- n Ezek. 47, trees, and pomegranates; a land of † oil-olive, and ". honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt Peat bread without 10, 11. scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land Heb. olive whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou Ps. 52, 8. mayest dig brass.

1 Cor. 4,

x Isa. 65, 12

y Jer. 2, 6.

z Num.21,

14 Then thine heart" be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought; where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble P114, 7, 8. thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

17 And thou say in thine heart, My power, and the might of mine hard, hath gotten me this wealth. 14 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, P that he may establish his covenant, which he sware Hosea 2, a unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

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e Prov. 10,

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19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, 105, 13, and worship them, I testify against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

g ch. 30, 19

Dan. 9, 12

Luke 12, 19

20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth beAn exhortation to obedience in regard of God's dealing with fore your face, "so shall ye perish; because ye would Amos 3, 2 not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAPTER IX.

them.

AFL. the commandments which I command thee
this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may
live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

Moses dissuadeth them from the opinion of their own right

eousness.

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this day, to go in to possess nations greater chap. 1. 3 and mightier than thyself, cities great, and fenced up Josh. 4 to heaven;

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2 A people great and tall, the children of the Num. 15, Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou 23.

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3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hun-hast heard say, "Who can stand before the children der 13 P102, ger, and fed thee with manna, (which thou knewest of Anak! (Ex. 16, 14 not, neither did thy fathers know,) that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth Rom. 10,17. of the LORD doth man live.