The two tables restores "Exod.34. 1, CHAP. Χ. DEUTERONOMIE. I Gods mercy in restoring the two tables, 6 in continuing the priesthood,& in se arating the tribe of Levi, 10 in hearkening unso Moses hu suit for the people. 12 An exhortation unto obedience. T that time the LORD said unto me*Hew A thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according Heb, words to the first writing, the ten † commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly : and the LORD gave them unto * Num. 33. ३०% 28. 20. me. 5 And I turned my self 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 Jaakan, to* Mofera : * there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his sonne mi Num. 20. niftred in the priests office in his stead. 7 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 ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to blesse in his name, unto this day. Num. 18. 9* Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the LORD his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount, according For former to the first time, fourty dayes and fourty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. dayes. 1 Heb. go in jour pey. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arife, † take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possesse the land which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 12 And now Ifrael, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his wayes, and to love him, and to ferve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy foul, 3 To keep the commandments of the LORD feverall Exhortations. and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens the LORDS thy God, the earth Pfal.24-1 also with all that therein is. 15 Onely the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their feed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circummcise therefore the foreskinne of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 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 perions, 2. Chron nor taketh reward. 19.7. Acts 10 34 18 He doth execute the judgement of the Job 34.19. fatherlessfe and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Rom. 2.11 for ye co Gal.2.6. 1 Pet 1.17 Love ye therefore the stranger: were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 * Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; "Chap.6. him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou 13. * cleave, and swear by his name. Matt.4 10% Luke 4. 8 21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God that "Chap. hath done for thee these great and terrible 4. things which thine eyes have seen. Exod. 1.5. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt*with "Gen.46. threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD 27 thy God hath made thee * as the starres of Gen.15 heaven for multitude. CHAP. X I. I An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their own experience of Gods great works, 8 by promise of Gods great blessings. 16 and by threathings. 18 A carefull study is required in Gods words. 26 The blessing and curse is set before them. Herefore thou shalt love the LORDthy TGod, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments alway. 2 And know you 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 greatnesse, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 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 horfes, 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 wilderneffe, untill ye came into this place, 31.& 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abi- Num ram, the sonnes of Eliab, the fonne of Reuben: P how the earth opened her mouth and swallow-7(edthem up, and their housholds, and their tents, bfeck 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and poffefse the land whither ye go to poffefse it : 9 And that ye may prolong your dayes in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their feed, a land that floweth with milk and hony. b.gires 10 For the land whither thou goest in to poffefse it, & not as the land of Egypt, from whense ye came out, where thou towedst thy feed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land whither ye go to possesse it, is a land of his and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven : 12 A land which the LORD thy Godtcareth for:thee eyes of the LORD thy God are alwayes upon it, from the beginning of the yeare, even unto the end of the yeare. 13 And it shall come to passe, if you 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 foul; 14 That I will give you the rain 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 oyl. 15 And I willffend graffe in thy fields, for thy cattel, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to your selves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods and worship them: 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the land yeeld not her fruit, and left 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 foul, and hap.6.8. *binde them for a figne upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. hap.4. 19 *And ye shall teach them your children, and 6.7. fpeaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, 22 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 wayes, and to cleave unto him ; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall poffeffe greater nations, and mightier then your selves. 24 * Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: from the wil- "Jom.1.3. dernesse, and Lebanon, from the riverthe river, Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall your coafts be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a bleffing and a curse: 27 * A blessing, if ye obey the command- *Chap. 28. ments of the LORD your God which I com- 2. mand you this day : 28 And a * curse, ifye will not obey the Chap. 28. commandments of the LORD your God, but 15. 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 passe when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possesse it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, "Chap.27 and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other fide Jordan, by the way where the sunne goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champian over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh ? 31 For ye shall passe oyer Jordan to go in to poffefse the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possesse it and dwell therein. 12,13. Joth.8.33 32 Andye shall observe to do all the sta- *Chap.s tutes and judgements which I set before you 32. this day. CHAP. X II. I Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed 5 The place of Gods Service is to be kept. 16,23 Bloud is forbidden. 17,20, 26 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place. 19 The Levite is not to beforfa en. 29 Itolatry is not to be enquired after. Hese are the statutes and judgements when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeftup. I which ye shall obferve to do in the land 20 And thou shalt write them upon thy doore-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your dayes may be multiplied, and the dayes of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the dayes of heaven upon the carth. which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possesse it, all the dayes that ye live upon the earth. 2 *Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, *Chap. 7.5 wherein the nations which ye shall & poffeffe #Or, inherit served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. Y 3 3 And Idolatrie forbidden. down. : DEUTER ONOMIE. Judg.2.2. 3 And you shall † overthrow their altars, + leb break and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD 1 Kings 8 your God shall * choose out of all your tribes, 2 Chron.7. to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye feek, and thither thou shalt come: 29. 12, 1 Heb, the choice of yeur vous. 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your facrifices, and your tithes, and have offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks. 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto, ye and your housholds 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 yego over Jordan, and dwell in the land which theL ORD 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 which the LOR Dyour God shal choofe to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and alltyour choise vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye shall rejoyce before the LORD your God, ye, and your sonnes, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-fervants, and the Levite that is within *Chap 10. your gates, forasmuch as he hath no part nor 9. inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest. 14 But in the place which the 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. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy foul lusteth after, according to the bleffing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and as of the hart. The eating of bloud forbidden. 16** Onely ye shall not eat the bloud, ye Chap shall poure 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 oyl, or the firstlings of thy herds, or of thy flock, hor any of thy vows which thou voweft, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy fonne, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoyce before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. 23. 19 *Take heed to thy felf that thou forfake. Chap not the Levitetas long as thou livest upon the 27. earth. Ecclus 7. 31. Gen. 20 When the LORD thy God shall en-Heb. large thy border, * as he hath promised thee, thy dajet and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh (because thy foul longeth to eat flesh) thou mayest eat flesh chap 191 whatsoever thy foul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there, be too farre from thee; then thou shalt kill of thy herd and ofthy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy foul lufteth after. 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Onely the furely that thou eat not the Heb. i bloud: for the bloud is the life, and thou may- trong. est not eat the life with the flesh, 2.4 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt poure 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 Onely the holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the L'OR D shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the fleshand the bloud, upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and the bloud of thy facrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 Observe and heare all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the fight of the LORD thy God: 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goeft 4 30 Take heed to thy self that thou be not eb. after snared T by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods ? even to will I do likewife. cap. Ic. 2 And the signe or the wonder come to paffe, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not known) and let us serve 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, you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your foul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave usto him. 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death (because he hath h spoke tspoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of ft the Egypt, and re deemed you out of the house of RD. bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in) so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6 If thy brother the fonne of thy mother, or thy fonne, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosome, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee secretly, faying, Let us go and serve other gods (which thou haft not known, thou, nor thy fathers) 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee or farre 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 hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pitie him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him. I dolatrie must be destroyed. 9Bu:*:hou shalt surely kill him;thine hand *Chap. 17. shall be first upon him to put him to death, and 7. afterwards the hand of all the people, 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die: because he hath fought to thruft thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of † bondage. +Heb bond + Chap. 17. 11 And tall Israel shall heare, and fear, and men. shall do no more any fuch wickednesse as this is, among you. 12 If thou shalt heare say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying, 13. 13 Certain men, #the children of Belial, are #Or, uaughgone out from among you, and have with-ty men. drawn the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which ye have not known) 14 Then shalt thou enquire and make search, and ask diligently: and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that fuch abomina tion is wrought among you: 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants ofthat citie with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattel thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the citie, & all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God:and it shall be an heap for ever, it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD turn from the fiercenesse of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compaffion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; may 18 When thou shalt 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. + Ordevo red. 26,18. shall not cut your selves, nor make + Levit. 19. any baldnesse between your eyes for the dead, 28. 2 † For thou art an holy people unto the anch LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 † These are the beasts which ye shall eat: Lev: 11.2 the ox, the sheep, and the goat, The &c. Meats clean and unclean. DEUTERONOMIE. The year of release The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fal- / be too farre from thee which the LORD thy #Or, befon. low-deer, and the wilde-goat, and the † pygarg, and the wilde ox, and the chamois. ↑ Heb. di. show, 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud amongst the beasts; that ye shall eat. 7 Neverthelesse, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the cony: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcafe. * Lev. 11. 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have finnes and scales shall ye 9. eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not finnes and scales, 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 eat: the eagle, and the offifrage, and the ofpray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kinde, 14 And every raven after his kinde, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kinde, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swanne, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 13 And the stork, and the heron after her * Lev. 11. kinde, and the lapwing, and the * bat. 19. 19 And every creeping thing that fleth, unclean 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 it self: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an ho*Exod.23, ly people unto the LORD thy God. Thou 19.and 34. shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk. 26. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy feed, that the field bringeth forth yeare by yeare. God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee : 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and binde up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choofe. 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy foul lusteth after, for oxen, or for fheep, of for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy foul † desireth: and thou shalt + Heb eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou #th of t shalt rejoyce, thou and thine houshold, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, Chap thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part 19. nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three yeares thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same yeare, and shalt lay it up within thy gates. 29 And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be fatisfied; that the LORD thy God may blesse thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. 4 # Save when there shall be no poore & Or, to among you: for the LORD shall greatly blesse end the thee in the land which the LORD thy God here b giveth thee for an inheritance to possesse it: 5 Onely if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. poort a 30%. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee, and thou shalt lend unto Chap many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and 12 thou shalt reigne over many nations, but they 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD 7 If there be among you a poore man of one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, |