Moses exhorteth the DEUTERONOMY. Before people to obedience. Before 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven HRIST so' nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil 1451. things that we call upon him for? in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him CHRIST 1451. ch. 5, 26. Josh. 24, 18. Ps. 145, 18. 3,2, Prov. 1 Gen. 18, chap. 6. 7. 19. Ps. 78,6. k 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath sta-to anger; 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: m 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you kch. 50, 19 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the Heb. men of number Gen. 34, 30 Jub 16, 22 see, m Ps. 115,4 Jer. 10, 2,4 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before m Ex.19,16. the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said Heb. 12, 18. unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will Ps. 51, 8. n make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the 29 But if " from thence thou shalt seek the LORD n Neh. 1, earth, and that they may teach their children. thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with Jer. 29, iz 11 And ye came near and stood under the moun-all thy heart, and with all thy soul. ch. 9, 23 tain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the PEL. 20,21. midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, P and thick darkness. 7 lea. 40, 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. 8 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 Mal. 2, 15. that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the Col. 1, 15. midst of the fire;) 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which a Job 8, 9 were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the 'one side of heaven r ch. 30. 4 unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard,' and Judg. 13 live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by " tempta- uGen. 22, L tions, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and y Ex. 7, 5 by great terrors, according to all that the LORD 2 9, a ch. 26, 8 your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God: there is none else ь Isa. 45, 5 besides him. 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; (Ex. 13, 2. 38 To drive out nations from before thee, greater Isaiah 63,9 and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in 1 Chr. 25 thy heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day, that The ten commandments. CHRIST 1451. CHAPTER V, VI. CHRIST 1451. Moses receiveth the law. BIST of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Ma- || stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy GodBefore nassites. commanded thee to " keep the sabbath-day. 161 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, och. 4, 10. the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt not ' kill. a ch. 6, 17. & 19, 7. 44 I And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45" These are the testimonies, and the statutes, King 25. and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the chil-in dren 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 Nam. 21, Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which chap. 3, 3 were on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising; 23. D ch. 3, 9. Num. 24, chap. 3, 17. 7 ch. 3, 17. a ch. 29, 10. 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. r 1 The covenant in Horeb....6 The ten commandments....27 At the AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, o do them, Mat. 23, 3. b ch. 4, 23. € Ex. 19, 20. d G. 3, 21. e Ex. 33, 11. (Ex. 19, 16, 19. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in c Horeb. d 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. e 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, Sals, 19. 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, Heb. servants, Ex. 20, 2. 2 Sam. 7,23. 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, s. 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. Ezek. 20, 5, 21 Neither shalt thou" desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his cx, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 1 Tim. 6,10. 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your as- Heb. 13, 5sembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of tEx. 20, 16. the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he * added no more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even Gal: 3.198 the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this d Gen. 18, great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of 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? 27 1 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our 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. e ch.33, 2. leh 12, 18. Jer. 20, 9. (2 Cor. 5.6 Gal. 3, 21. g Gen. 6,12, . 40, 6. Thess. 1, h Josh & a 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with ch. 11,1. their children for ever! n 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 2 Pet. 1, 2 statutes, and the judgments, which thou shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them Joba 14, that love me, and keep my commandments. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guilt-them to possess it. less that taketh his name in vain. i verse 3... Heb. 4 12 Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the P right hand or to the left. p isa. 30,21. १ 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the q P110,6 LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye reb. 4,40 may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. CHAPTER VI. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work; * Gea. 22 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD 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 151 of thy cattle, nor thy' stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant Lev. 25, may rest as well as thou. NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the and the judgments which the LORD your God chap 44 land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in James 1, thee out thence through a mighty hand and by all the land whither ye got to possess it: 44 m 1 The end of the law is obedience....3 An exhortation thereto. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as 'frontlets between thy eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the "posts of P. 3, 3. thy house, and on thy gates. 2 Pet. 1, 13. 1 Ex. 13. 9. m Ex. 12, 7. 13. CHRIST 145! Communion with the nations forbidden. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these Before statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. h g Job £5,7 b) Lui e 10, 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe 28. to do all these commandments before the LORD our i Les (2,5 God, as he hath commanded us. CHAPTER VII. 1 All communion with the nations is forbidden. WHEN the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier b Ex. $3,2 than thou; b c verse 23 ch. 28, 14. 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with a Ezra 9, 2 them, nor shew mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 41 For they will turn away thy son from follow f d 1 Kings 11, 2 Cor. 6, 14 Era 9,1, e 2. 2, 4. g1 Kings 11, 9. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shalling me, that they may serve other gods: so will the Sam. 11, have brought thee into the land which he sware unto anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to destroy thee suddenly. Josh. 24, give thee great and goodly cities, which thou Buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, when thou shalt have eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve Jer. 4,2 him, and shalt ' swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods. of the people which are round about you; 20 And when thy son asketh thee in † time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our Esaha 78 God hath commanded you? ? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were QIxod.1 & * Pharaoh's bond-men in Egypt; and the LORD Rom. 6, 17. rought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and Heb, evil, upon all his household, before our eyes: 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the 'fewest of all people: ch. 10. 22 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because mch. 10,15 he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto Mat. 11, 26 your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with an Exod. 52. mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, from the hand of Pharach king of Egypt. 91 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, † if ye hearken bere. to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the 1 1 Tim. 4,8 LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the " mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: Lev. 26,9 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and P. 105,8 multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy Luke 1, 5 womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy John 14, 21 wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the ch. 28 » flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female a barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases b verse 7. a Ex. 23,2 Ex. 14, Moses exhorteth the Before 1451. c CHRIST 1451. BRIST Egypt which thou knowest upon thee; but will lay || good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, Before them upon all them that hate thee. and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and figtrees, and pomegranates, a land of † oil-olive, and honey; .Num. 14, & d 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall à ch. 13, 8. have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve Ex. 23, 38: their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say 'in thine heart, These nations Num. 14, are more than I, how can I dispossess them? Ps. 106, 36. feb. 2, 17. e 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt Ps. 77, 1 well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; ich. 4, 34. k ch. 4, 34. 29. 3. 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 Jost 24, 1 hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 2. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Ex. 17,7 LORD thy God is among "you, a mighty God and terrible. n 1 Sam. 4, 7. 8. Ps. 79, G. f Heb. 22 And the LORD thy God will † put out those naluck of tions before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the "beasts of the Ezek.34,25. field increase upon thee. > ch. 9, 3. p Lev. 26, 6. 23 1 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thy unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty 1 Kings 20, destruction, until they be destroyed. face, 29. q ch. 2, 15. r Josh. 10, 24 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy 10, hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. • I-30, 22. 12 1 Chr. 14, 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye 'burn with fire: thou shall not desire the "silver or gold that sa-30,22. is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy 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. * Josh. 6, 17. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and 1106, serve them, and worship them, I testify against you gch. 50, 19 this day that ye shall surely perish. Amos 3, 2. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face," so shall ye perish; because ye would hDan. 9.12 not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. Luke 12,48. CHAPTER IX. Moses dissuadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness. HEAR, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan 2 Num. 34 this day, to go in to possess nations greater ch. 1, 1. and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up Jesh 4.19. to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hun-heard say, Who can stand before the children of (Ex. 16, 14. ger, and fed thee with 'manna, which thou knewest Anak? not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread g Mat. 4, 4. only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the Ps 97.3. mouth of the LORD, " doth man live. Reva 18,17 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years 5 Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as * Pr. 3, 11. a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments Ex 19 20 of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. ■ ch. 6, 10. 7 For the LORD thy God" bringeth thee into a e 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee, as a e Num. 14, consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall Ps. 56 34. bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive fch. 4, 24. them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD 8 ch. 7, 22 hath said unto thee. 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables Mat. 4,2 of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. t Mat. 12, 28. Luke 11, 20. 31. Iteb. 8, & 15. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two u Jer. 31, tables of stone, even the tables of the "covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people watch thou *Ex. 32,10. hast brought forth out of Egypt have * corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made Juig. 2, 17. them a molten image. & 34, 9. y Gen. 18, ver. 16. 1 Ex. 32, 2. ver. 16. a The tables renewed "Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against tne † commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed 73, 2, him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. D Num. 11 Ps. 30. o Nam, 31. ↑ Heb. mouth. 16. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days p Num 24 and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because q Rom. 3, the LORD had said he would destroy you. 8 20. Gal. 3, 22 r ver. 12. t 1 Pel. 2, 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O LORD God, destroy not thy people and thine "in-Ex. $2,11 heritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy 9,10. greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of u Ex. 34, 3 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: x ver. 29. y Ex. 32, 13. Nam 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out, 2 Ex. 52. 12 say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them 16 into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. a Jer. 14,8 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, Ps. 95, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. 13 Furthermore, the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-shalt put them in the ark. b Ex. 32, 9. necked_people : ach. 32, 19. e Ex 32,10, 11, 12. ↑ Heb. burning, Ex. 20, 18. d Ex. 32,19. Armen take and handle t'e shield. 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 P. 106, 23. 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. e Ex. 32, 31. f Ex. 3, 28. I's 119, 120. g Ex. 32,34. 19 (For I was afraid of the anger and hot dis-waters. LZ: 52,21. ¡Ex. 52, 20. isa. 31, 7. 4. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and Ex. 92.20. ground it very small, even until it was as small as 1 Num. 11, dust and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And Taberah, and at " Massah, and at|| & 1, 2. an Ex. 17, 7. Heb. 3, 8, m k n 32. Num. 3, 4, 5. 8 I At that time the LORD separated the tribe n Ex. 28, 1 of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto Rom. 1 1 him, and P to bless in his name, unto this day. o Num. 4, 15. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, ac- 20 cording as the LORD thy God promised him. 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 Lev. 23 Num. 14 ch 12, 19. |