Israel exhorted DEUTERONOMY, fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 1 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest 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 soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou to obedience. 29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Ca naanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. CHAP. XII. Idols must be destroyed. isest and thou shalt write them Tjudgment whe statutes and 20 upon the door posts of thy house, serve to do in the land which the and upon thy gates: LORD God of thy fathers giveth 21 That your days may be mul- thee to possess it, all the days that tiplied, and the days of your chil-ye live upon the earth. dren, in the land which the LORD 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all sware unto your fathers to give the places, wherein the nations them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 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 ways, and to cleave unto him; which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that 23' Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater na-place. tions and mightier than your- 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. selves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast 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 T Behold, I set before you this day a blossing and a curse: 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day; 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-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 rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, 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 Of the place you. CHAP. XII. of burnt-offerings which the LORD your God giveth | say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou may est eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety: 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd 11 Then there shall be a place and of thy flock, which the LORD which the LORD your God shall hath given thee, as I have com choose to cause his name to dwell manded thee, and thou shalt eat in there; thither shall ye bring all thy gates whatsoever thy soul lustthat I command you; your burnt-eth after. offerings, and your sacrifices, your 22 Even as the roe-buck and the tithes, and the heave-offering of hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat your hand, and all your choice them: the unclean and the clean vows which ye vow unto the shall eat of them alike. LORD: 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye,, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself 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 soul lusteth after, according to the blessing 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. 16 T Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 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 sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burntofferings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 Observe and hear 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 sight of the LORD thy God. 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the 29 1 When the LORD thy God firstlings of thy herds or of thy shall cut off the nations from beflock, nor any of thy vows which fore thee, whither thou goest to thou vowest, nor thy free-will-of-possess them, and thou succeedferings, or heave-offering of thy est them, and dwellest in their hand: land; 18 But thou must eat them before 30 Take heed to thyself that thou the LORD thy God in the place be not snared by following them, which the LORD thy God shall after that they be destroyed from choose, thou, and thy son, and thy before thee; and that thou inquire daughter, and thy man-servant, not after their gods, saying, How and thy maid-servant, and the Le-did these nations serve their gods? vite that is within thy gates: and even so will I do likewise. thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou 187 Of the year of release. DEUTERONOMY, Of the passover any of thy gates in thy land which come of thy herd and of thy the LORD thy God giveth thee, flock thou shalt sanctify unto the thou shalt not harden thy heart, LORD thy God: thou shalt do no nor shut thy hand from thy poor work with the firstling of thy bulbrother: lock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. The Solemn Yearly Feasts. OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shali choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste :) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; neither shal there any thing of the flesh, whica thou sacrificedst the first day a: even,, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shal: sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to CHAP. XVII. feast of weeks, &c. 9 T Seven weeks shalt thou number unto theo: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these 13 T Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine. 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates: 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thy hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 T Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty : 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. 18 11 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Of judges and justice words of the right 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 1 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. Idolaters to be put to death. HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil favouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 21 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his cove 9 And thou shalt come unto the 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; priests the Levites, and unto the thou shalt not respect persons, nei-judge that shall be in those days, ther take a gift: for a gift doth and inquire; and they shall shew blind the eyes of the wise, and thee the sentence of judgment: Election, &c. of a king. DEUTERONOMY, Portion for the priests 10 And thou shalt do according | he, and his children, in the midst to the sentence, which they of that of Israel. place which the LORD shall choose) shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: CHAP. XVIII. Priests' and Levites' Portion. THE priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have 11 According to the sentence of no part nor inheritance with Isthe law which they shall teach rael: they shall eat the offerings thee, and according to the judg-of the LORD made by fire, and ment which they shall tell thee, his inheritance. thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 12 T And the man that will do 3 T And this shall be the priest's presumptuously, and will not due from the people, from them hearken unto the priest that stand-that offer a sacrifice, whether it be eth to minister there before the ox or sheep; and they shall give LORD thy God, or unto the judge, unto the priest the shoulder, and even that man shall die: and thou the two cheeks, and the maw. shalt put away the evil from 4 The first-fruit also of thy corn, Israel. of thy wine, and of thine oil, and 13 And all the people shall hear, the first of the fleece of thy sheep, and fear, and do no more pre-shalt thou give him. sumptuously. 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 16 But he shall not multiply 8 They shall have like portions horses to himself, nor cause the to eat, besides that which cometh people to return to Egypt, to the of the sale of his patrimony. end that he should multiply horses: 9 When thou art come into the forasmuch as the LORD hath said land which the LORD thy God givunto you, Ye shall henceforth re-eth thee, thou shalt not learn to do turn no more that way. after the abominations of those nations. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. |