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, becaufe of all your fins which ye finned, in doing wickedly in the fight of the LORD, to prooke him to anger. 19 (For I was afraid of the anger and hot dit pleafure wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to deftroy you.) But the LORD hearkened unto ine at that time alfo. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have deftroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron alfo the fame time. 21 And I took your tin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and ftamp ed it, and ground it very fmall, even until it was as fmall as duft and I caft the duft thereof into the brook that defcended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberal, and at Malah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewife, when the LORD fent you from Kadeh-barnea,faying, Go up and poffefs the land which I have given you; then yerebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the fir; becaufe the LORD had faid he would deftroy you. 26 I prayed, therefore, unto the LORD, and faid, O LORD God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy greatness, which thou haft brought forthout of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy fervants Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob: look not unto the stubbornnefs of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their fin; 28 Left the land whence thou broughitett us out fay, Becaufe the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promifed them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to flay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people, and thine nheritance, which thou broughteft out by thy mighty power, and by thy ftretched-out arm. CHAP. X. Gods mercy in restoring the two tables. A The two tables of none like unto the thee two tables of itone like unto the firit, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark or wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that werein the firft tables, which thou brakcdft, and thoufhalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of hittim-wood, and hewed two tables of ftone like unto thefirft, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And lie wrote on the tables, according to the firft writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD fpakeunto you in the mount, out of the midft of the fire, in the day of the affembly: and the LORD gave them unto 5 And I turned myfelf, 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 Ifrael took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakin to Mofera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his fon miniftered in the pricfts office in his ftead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Godgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, aland of rivers of waters. 8 At that time the LORD feparated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to ftand before the LORD, to minifter unto him, and to blefs in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inhe ritance with his brethren: the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promifed hin. 10 And I ftayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not deftroy thee. 11 And the LORD faid unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and poffefs the landwhich I fware unto their fathers to give unto them. 12 And now, Ifracl, 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 ferve the LORD thy God with all. thy heart, and with all thy foul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Loan, and his ftatutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, is the LORDS, thy God; the earth alfa, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fa-1 thers to love them, and he chofe their feed after them, even you, above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcife, therefore, the foreskin of your heart, and be no more ftiff-necked, 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not perfons, nor taketh reward.. 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherlefs and widow, and loveth the franger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye, therefore, the stranger: for ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him fhalt thou ferve, and to him thalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 Heir thy praife, and he is thy God,that hath done for thee thefe great and terrible things which thine eyes have feen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threefcere and ten perfons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of hea ven for multitude. CHAP. XI. An exhortation to obedience. 264 bleffing and a curfe is fet before them. God, and keep his charge, and his ftaHerefore thou shalt love the LORD thy tuites, 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 feen the chaltifement of the LORD your God, his greatnefs, his migh ty hand, and his stretched-out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midft 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 horfes, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red fea to overflow them as they purfued after you, and how the LORD hath deftroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto you in the wildernels, untilye came into this place; 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the fons of Eliab, the fon of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth and fwallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the fubftance that was in their poffeffion, in the midft of all Ifrael. 7 But your eyes have feen all the great ads of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be ftrong, and go in and poffefs the land whither ye go to poffefs it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD fware unto yourfathers to give unto them and to their feed a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goeft in to poffefs it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou lowedit thy feed, and wateredit it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to poffels it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven; 12 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 pafs, if ye fhall hearken diligently unto my commandments, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to ferve him with all your heart, and with all your foul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feafon, the first rain, and the latter rain, that thou mayelt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayeft eat, and be full. 16 Take heed to yourfelves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you, and he thut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit, and left ye perith quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore fhall ye lay up thefe my words in your heart, and in your foul, and bind them for a fign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And yefhall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, when thoulieft down, and when thourifcft up. 10 And thou shalt write them upon the doorpolts of thine houfe, and upon thy gates; the days of your children, in the land which 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the LORD fware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. commandments which I command you to do 22 For if ye thall diligently keep all these them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; nations from before you, and ye thall poffet's 13 Then will the LORD drive out all thefe greater nations and mightier than your elves. feet fhall tread thall be yours: from the wil 24 Every place whereon the foles of your river Euphrates, even unto the uttermott fea dernefs, and Lebanon, from the river, the fhall your coaft be. fore you: for the LORD your God thall lay the blefling and a curfe; ments of the LORD your God, which I com 28 And a curfe, if ye will not obey the turn afide out of the way which I command commandments of the LORD your God, but you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known. LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the by the way where the fun goeth down, in the to poffefs the land which the LORD your God tutes and judgments which I fet before you which ye thall obferve to do in the land Hele are the ftatutes and judgments which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to poffefsit, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye thall utterly deftroy all the places ferved their gods, upon the high mountains, wherein the nations which ye thall poflefs and upon the hills, an under every green tree. 3. And ye thall overthrow their altars, and with fire, and ye (hall hew down the graven break their pillars, and burn their groves images of their gods, and deftroy the names of them out of that place. God. your God thall choofe out of all your tribes, come: 6 And thither ye fhall bring your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the 6ritings of your herds and of your flocks. 7 And there ye thall eat before the LORD your God; and ye thall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your houfeholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee. 8 Ye fhall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man what foever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the reft, 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 rohen he giveth you rett from all your enemies round about, fo that ye dwell in fafety; 11 Then there hall be a place which the LORD your God thall chooie, to canfe his name to dwell there, thither thall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye thall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your fons, and your daughters, and your inen-fervants, and your maidfervants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forafmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you, 13 Take heed to thyfelf, that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou feeft: 14 But in the place which the LORD fhall choofe in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayeit kill and eat fieth in all thy gates, whatfoever thy foul Iufteft after, according to the blefling of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the uncican and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe buck, and as of the hart. 16 Only ye thailnot cat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou maycit not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firitlings of thy herds, or of thy flock, or any of thy vows which thou voweit, nor thy free-will-offerings, or leaveoffering of thine hand; 18 But thou muft eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe, thon, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou putteft thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyfelfthat thou forfake not the Leviteas long as thou liveft upon the earth. 20 When the LORD thy God thall enlarge thy border, as he hath promifed thee, and thou thalt fay, I will eat ficfh, (becaufe thy foul longeth to eat fieth,) thou mayett cat feth, whatfoever thy foul luiteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chofen 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 thice, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatfoever thy foul lufteth after. 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, fo thou shalt cat them; the unclean and the clean fhall cat of them alike, 23 Only be fure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayeft not eat the life with the feth. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou haft, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD fhall choofe. 27 And thou fhalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the fleth and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy facrifices fhall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God; and thou fhalt eat the fcth. 28 Obferve and hear all thefe words which command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doett that which is good and right in the light of the LORD thy God. 297 When the LORD thy God thall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goeit to poffefs them, and thou fucceedeft them, and dwelleft in their land; 30 Take heed to thyfelf, that thou be not fnared by following them, after that they be deftroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did thefe nations ferve their gods? even fo will I do likewife. 31 Thou shalt not do fo unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminith from it.. CHAP. XIII. Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near foever, 9 are to be floned to death. 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be fpared. rare are among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a fign or a wonder, 2 And the fign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, faying, Let us go after other gods, which thou halt not known, and let us ferve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your foul. 4 Ye thall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye fhall ferve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, thall he put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LoRD your God, which brought you out of earth. the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of fen thee to be a peculiar people unto him the houfe of bondage, to thrust thee out of felf, above all the nations that are upon the the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in: fo fhalt thou put the evil away from the midft of thee. 6 If thy brother, the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods, which thou hast not Enown, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither halt thou (pare, neither fhalt thou conceal him; 9 But thou fhalt furely kill him; thine hand thall be firft upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou fhalt ftone him with itones, that he die; becaufe he hath fought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the houfe of bondage. 11 And all Ifrael ball hear, and fear, and fhall do no more any fuch wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou fhalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and ferve other gods, which ye have not known, 14Then fhalt thou enquire,and make fearch, and afk diligently: and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that fucli abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt furely fmite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the fword, deftroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the fword. 16 And thou fhalt gather all the fpoil of it into the midit of the freet thereof, and fhalt burn with fire the city, and all the fpoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God; and it fhall be an heap for ever, it fhall not be built again. 17 And there hall cleave nought of the curred thing to thine hand; that the LORD may turn from the fiercenefs of his anger, and thew thee mercy, and have companion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers: 18 When thou (halt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. CHAP. XIV. Gods children are not to disfigure themfelves, in mourning, 3 What may be eaten, and what not. Y God. Ye thall not cut yourfelves, nor E are the children of the LORD your make any baldnefs between your eyes, for the dead: 2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the Loan hath cho 31 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 Thefe are the beatts which ye thall cat: the ox, the theep, and the goat. 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois, 6 And every beat that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beafts; that ye fhall eat. 7 Neverthelefs, thefe ye fhall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8. And the fwine, becaufe it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye thall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcafe. 9 Thefe ye shall eat of all that are in the waters; all that have fins and fcales thali ye eat: 10 And whatfoever hath not fins and feales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not" cat: the eagle, and the offifrage, and the ofpray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the fwan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the ftork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is uncican unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou fhalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayett fell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mothers milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy feed, that the heid bringeth forth year by year, 23 And thou fhalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he thall choofe to put his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firftlings of thy herds, and of thy flocks; that thou mayett learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, fo that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God thall choofe to fet his name thee; there, when the LORD thy God hath bleed 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe; 26 And thou shalt beftow that money for whatfoever thy foul lufteth after, for oxen, or for theep, or for wine, or for itrong drink, or for whatfoever thy foul defireth: and thou (halt eat there before the LORD thry God, and thou fhalt rejoice, thou and thine household, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forfake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou fhalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increafe the fame year. and fhalt lay it up within thy gates. 29And the Levite, (becaufe he hathuopart nor inheritance with thee,) and the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, which are within thy gates, thall come, and fhall eat and be fatisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doeft. CHAP. XV. 1 The feventh year, a year of releafe for the A 2 And this is the manner of the releafe: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour thall releafe it; he thall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; becaufe it is called, The LORDS releafe. 3. Of a foreigner thou mayeft exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand thall releafe; 4 Save when there fhall be no poor among you: for the LORD fhall greatly blefs thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to poffefs it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all thefe commandments, which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God bleffeth thee, as he promised thee; and thou thalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 79 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God givet thee, thou shalt not liarden thy heart, nor thut thine hand, from thy poor brother; 8 But thou fhalt open thine hand wide unto him, and fhalt furely lend him fufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, faying, 'The feventh year, the year of releafe is at hand; and thine eye be evil againft thy poor brother, and thou giveft him nought, and he cry unto the LORD againit thee, and it be fin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt furely give him, and thine heart fhall not be grieved when thou giveit unto him; becaufe that for this thing the LORD thy God thall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou putteft thine hand unto. 11 For the poor fhall never ceafe out of the land: therefore I command thee, Taying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poot, and to thy needy, in thy and. 12 Andif thy brother, an Hebrew mat, or an Hebrew woman, be fold unto ruer and ferve thee fix years; then in the feventh year thou thalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou fende him out free from thee, thou thalt not let him go away empty : 14 Thou shalt furnith him liberally out of thy Hock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-prefs: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath bleed thee, thou thalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore 1 command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it thall be, if he fay unto thee, I will not go away from thee, (because he lov eth thee and thine houfe; because he is well with thee,) 17 Then thou thalt take an awl, and thruft #through his eat unto the door, and he shall be thy fervant for ever: and alfo unto thy inaid-fervant thou shalt do likewife. 18 It thall not feem hard unto thee, when thou fendeft him away free from thee: for he hath been worth a double hired fervant to thee, in ferving thee fix years: and the LORD thy God thall blefs thee in all thatthou doet. 19 All the firitling males that come of thy herd, and of thy flock, thou thalt fanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou fhalt do no work with the firitling of thy bullock, nor thear the firttling of thy theep: 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God, year by year, in the place which the LORD thall choofe, thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemith therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou fhalt not facrifice it unto the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean perfon hull eat it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt not cat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. CHAP. XVI. The feast of the pafforter, 9 of weeks, 13 of tabernacles. 18 of judges, and juice. paffover unto the LORD thy God: for Bferve the month of Abib, and keep the in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou thalt, therefore, facrifice the pafs over unto the LORD thy God, of the dock and the herd, in the place which the LORD thall choote to place his name there. 3 Thou fhalt eat no leavened bread withit. feven days thalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; (for thou cameft forth out of the land of Egypt in hatte, that thou mayett remember the day when thou camest forth cat of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there thall be no leavened bread feen with thee in all thy coatts feven days; neither thall there any thing of the ficth, which thou acrificedit the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayeft not facrifice the paffover within any of thy gates which the LORD the God giveth thee; |