them on two tables of stone. 14. The Eternal commanded me then, to teach you other statutes and judgements, to do in the land ye go to possess.

15. Therefore take good heed, 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, by making a graven image of any figure or similitude, the likeness of male or female, 17. Of any beast of the earth, or fowl of the air, 18. Or of any thing that creepeth on the ground, or of any fish in the waters underneath the earth. 19. And lest thou worship the sun, moon, and stars, even all the host of heaven, when thou seest them, which the Eternal, thy God, hath made subservient to all nations under heaven. 20. But the Eternal brought you out of the iron furnace in Egypt, to be his peculiar people, as ye are this day.

21. Moreover, the Eternal being angry with me on your account, prohibited me from going over Jordan to that good land he giveth thee to inherit. 22. But I must die in this land.

23. Beware, lest ye forget the covenant which the Eternal your God made with you, and make to yourselves a graven image, or the likeness of any thing he hath forbidden. 24. For he is a jealous God, and a consuming fire to transgressors.

25. And when you have children, and grand children, and have remained long in the land, and corrupt yourselves by making a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, or shall do an evil in the Eternal thy God's sight, to provoke hiin to anger: 26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish utterly from the land ye go to possess, ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly wasted. 27. As the Eternal shall scatter you among all nations; and ye shall be left few in number among them. 28. And there ye shall worship strange gods of wood and stone, the work of mens' hands, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29. But if thou shalt there seek the Eternal thy God with all thy heart, and.

with all thy soul, thou shalt find him. 30. When thou art in tribulation in the latter days, by all these things coming upon thee, if thou return to the Eternal thy God, and obey his voice, he will not utterly cast thee off; 31. Nor forget the covenant he made by an oath with thy fathers; for he is a merciful God. 32. For enquire of the times past, since God created man upon the earth, and ask from the east to the west, whether any thing hath been heard of like this? 33. If ever any people heard God's voice speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast, and lived? 34. Or hath God exerted his power in taking any other nation from among the nations, by trials, and signs, and wonders, and war, and great power displayed, and great terrible miracles, according to all the Eternal did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35. All this was shewed thee, that thou mightst know the Eternal alone is God, and there is no other. 36. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, to instruct thee; and upon earth he shewed thee his great lightening, and thou heardst his words out of the midst of it. 37. And because he loved thy fathers, he chose to make their seed his peculiar people, and by his favour brought them out of Egypt with mighty power; 38. To drive out nations before thee, greater and mightier than thou, and to give thee their land, as he is now to do. 39. Know, therefore, and remember that the Eternal himself is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, there is no other. 40. Therefore keep his statutes and commands, which I commanded thee this day, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee; that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which the Eternal, thy God, giveth thee perpetually.

41. Then Moses separated three cities on the east side of Jordan, 42. That he who slew one unawares, and hated him not in time past, might flee to one of these, and live; 48. Namely, Bezer by the wil

derness, in the plain country of the Reubenites, and Ramoth, in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan, in Bashan of the Manassites.

Moses' first Charge continued to Chap. XXVII.

44. This was the law which Moses rehearsed and explained to the Israelites. 45. These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgements, which he delivered to them, 46. On the east side of Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, at Heshbon, whom the Israelites smote. 47. Whose land they possessed, with that of Og king of Bashan, two Amorite kings, on the east side of Jordan. 48. From Aroer, on the banks of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sirion, which is Hermon. 49. And all the plain on the east side of Jordan, even unto the lake of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

CHAP. V.

THE COVENANT IN HOREB-SINAI.

THEN Moses called all Israel, and said, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgements which I repeat in your hearing this day, that ye may learn them by doing them.

2. The Eternal our God made a covenant with us at Sinai-Horeb. S.He made it not with our fathers only, but with all of us their children, who are here alive this day. 4. The Eternal spoke to you openly on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, 5. (I interposed then between the Eternal and you to shew you his will; for ye were terrified by the fire, and approached not the mount). 6. And he said, I the Eternal, am thy God, who delivered thee from the Egyptian bondage.

7. Thou shalt have no gods but me.

8. Thou shalt not make to thyself a carved idol, nor any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or

on the earth beneath, or in the waters beneath the earth: 9. Thou shalt not bow to them, nor worship them; for I the Eternal thy God am jealous, visiting the punishment of the fathers sins also on the children (that follow their example), to the third and fourth generation of them that hate good; 10. But shewing mercy to thousands of generations of them that love me, and keep my commands.

11. Thou shalt not mention the Eternal thy God's name in vain: for he will terribly punish them that profane his name.

12. Keep the Sabbath-day holy, as the Eternal thy God commanded thee. 13. Six days thou shalt labour and do all thy work; 14. But the seventh is the Eternal thy God's Sabbath-in it thou shalt do no work, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy servant, nor thy maid, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger among you; that thy servants and cattle may rest, as well as thyself. 15. For remember thou wast a servant in Egypt, and the Eternal thy God delivered thee by great power and might from thence; and commanded thee to keep the Sabbathday.

16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Eternal thy God hath commanded thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thy days may be prolonged in the land which the Eternal thy God giv eth thee.

17. Thou shalt not commit murder.
18. Thou shalt not commit whoredom.
19. Thou shalt not steal, or wrong any.

20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

21. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, nor covet his house, nor his field, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his cattle, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

22. These words, and no more, the Eternal spake on the mount to all your assembly, out of the midst

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of the lightening and the thick dark cloud, with a great THUNDERING voice; and he wrote them on two tables of stone: and he delivered them to me.

23. And when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, involving the fire with which the mountain blazed, all your elders, the heads of your tribes, drew near to me, 24. And said, Behold, the Eternal our God hath shewed us his great glory, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and have seen that God speaketh with man, and yet he liveth. 25. But if we hear the Eternal's voice any more we will die; for this great fire will consume us. 26. Who of all mankind have heard the living God's voice out of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27. Draw thou near, and hear all the Eternal our God will say; and declare it to us, and we will hear thee, and do it.

28. The Eternal heard what ye then spake to me, and said, They have spoken well. 29. O that their hearts were such as to fear me, and keep all my commands always, that it might be well with them, and their posterity for ever.

30. Go and tell them to return into their tents. 31. But come thou, and stay here near me, and I will speak to thee all the commands, statutes, and judgements, which thou shalt teach them to do, in the land which I give them. 32. Be careful to do what the Eternal your God commanded you, without adding or diminishing; 33. By walking in all the ways of wisdom and goodness that are pleasantness and peace), which the Eternal thy God commanded thee; thus thou shalt enjoy long life and prosperity in the land ye shall possess-See on Exod. xx.

CHAP. VI.

OBEDIENCE IS THE END OF THE LAW.

Now these are the commands, statutes, and judgements, which the Eternal your God commanded to