35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou 4 The LORD talked with you face to face mightest know that the LORD he is God; in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, there is none else besides him. 5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, 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, 6 am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and of bondage. brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 38 To drive out nations from before thee, 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven greater and mightier than thou art, to bring image. or any likeness of any thing that is in thee in to give thee their land for au inhe-heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, ritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in neaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandirents, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. 41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising, 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares and hated him not in times past; and that, fleeing unto one of these cities, he might live or that is in the waters beneath the earth 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD wil not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12 Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour and do all thy work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do plain country of the Reubenites and Ra-any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh.moth in Gilead of the Gadites; and Golan ter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid serin Bashan of the Manassites. vant nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of 44 And this is the law which Moses set thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy before the children of Israel: gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid 45 These are the testimonies, and the sta-servant may rest as well as thou. tutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake 16 And remember that thou wast a servant unto the children of Israel, after they came in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy forth out of Egypt, God brought thee out thence through a migh 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over ty hand, and by a stretched out arm thereagainst Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king fore the LORD thy God commanded thee to of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbou, keep the sabbath-day. whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, after they were come forth out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising ; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, winch is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. CHAP. V. as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 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 AND Moses called all Israel, and said un-maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing judgments which I speak in your ears this These words the LORD spake unto all day, that ye may learn them, and keep and your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and that is thy neighbour's. do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant darkness, with a great voice; and he added with us in Horeb. no more end he wrote them in two tables 3 The LORD made not this covenant with of stone, and delivered them unto me. our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 23 And it came to pass, when ye beard the voice out of the midst of the darkness; (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye; 6 And these words, which I command thee came near unto me, eren all the heads of this day, shall be in thine heart: your tribes, and your elders; 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently un bath shewed as his glory, and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. S And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this 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 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. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me and the LORD said unto me. I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 Ob that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might he well with them, and with their children for ever! 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and tc Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst uct, 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; 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 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 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 15(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you :) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 ¶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers; 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which LORD our LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it; 22And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee; thou, and thy son, and thy son's son. all the days of thy life,and that thy days may be prolonged. 23 And he brought us out from thence,that 3 Hear therefore, Ŏ israel, and observe he might bring us in, to give us the land to do it; that it may be well with thee, and which he sware unto our fathers. that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD 24 And the LORD commanded us to do God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, the land that floweth with milk and honey. for our good always, that he might preserve 4 Hear, O Israel; The LORD our God is us alive, as it is at this day. one LORD: 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bond-men in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a migh ty hand: CHAP. VII. 15 And the LORD will take away from WHEN the LORD thy God shall bring thee all sickness, and will put none of the thee into the land whither thou goest to evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, possess it, and hath cast out many nations be- upon thee; but will lay them upon all them fore thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, that hate thee. and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and 16 And thou shalt consume all the people the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Je- which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; busites, seven nations greater and mightier thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neithan thou; ther shalt thou serve their gods; for that will 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deli-be a snare unto thee. ver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make nations are more than 1, how can I dispossess no covenant with them, nor shew mercy un- them? to 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. 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt: 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the 4 For they will turn away thy son from mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, following me, that they may serve other whereby the LORD thy God brought thee gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kin-out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all dled against you, and destroy thee suddenly the people of whom thou art afraid. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send shall destroy their altars, and break down the hornet among them, until they that are their images, and cut down their groves, and left, and hide theinselves from thee, be deburn their graven images with fire. stroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them ; 6 ¶ For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath for the LORD thy God is among you, a chosen thee to be a special people unto him-mighty God and terrible. self, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, norchoose you,because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little : thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with 8 But because the LORD loved you, and a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their brought you out with a mighty hand, and name from under heaven: there shall no redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, man be able to stand before thee, until thou from the band of Pharaoh king of Egypt. have destroyed them. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, 25 The graven images of their gods shall he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the covenant and mercy with thein that love him, silver or gold that is on them, nor take it and keep his commandments, to a thousand unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it generations; is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine 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 CHAP. VII. LL the commandments which I com 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the command-cursed thing. ments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. Amand thee this day shall ye observe to 12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in them, that the LORD thy God shall keep un-and possess the land which the LORD sware to thee the covenant and the mercy which he unto your fathers. sware unto thy fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, which the LORD thy God led thee these for and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit ty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy and to prove thee, to know what was in thine corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the in-heart, whether thou wouldest keep his comcrease of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, mandments, or no. in the land which he sware unto thy fathers 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to give thee. to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers there shall not be male or female barren know, that he might make thee know that among you, or among your cattle. man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak? 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the command-them, and he shall bring them down before ments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his thy face so shalt thou drive them out, and ways, and to fear him. destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land; a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil-olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread with 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 79 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multi-depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye plied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you, to have destroyed you. 15 Who led thee through that great and 9 When i was gone up into the mount, to terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ser- receive the tables of stone, even the tables of pents, and scorpions, and drought, where the covenant which the LORD made with there was no water; who brought thee forth you, then I abode in the mount forty days water out of the rock of flint; and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water. 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two might humble thee, and that he might prove tables of stone, written with the finger of thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; God and on them was written according 17 And thou say in thine heart, My pow-to all the words which the LORD spake with er, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten you in the mount, out of the midst of the me this wealth. fire, in the day of the assembly. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty God; for it is he that giveth thee power to days and forty nights, that the LORD gave get wealth, that he may establish his cove-me the two tables of stone, even the tables of nant, which he sware unto thy fathers, as it the covenant. out scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which command thee this day: is this day. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the thee down quickly from hence; for thy LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, people which thou hast brought forth out of and serve them, and worship them, I testify Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are against you this day, that ye shall surely quickly turned aside out of the way which perish. commanded them; they have made them 20 As the nations which the LORD de-a molten image. stroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX. O thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great, and fenced up to heaven: 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, is a stiff-necked people. it 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under 15 So I turned, and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and first, and come up unto me into the mount, the two tables of the covenant were in my and make thee an ark of wood. two hands. And I will write on the tables the words 1 And I looked, and behold, ye had sin-that were in the first tables which thou braned against the LORD your God, and had kest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. inade you a molten call: ve had turned aside) 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and quickly out of the way which the LORD had hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, commanded you. and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as which the LORD spake unto you in the at the first, forty days and forty nights: mount, out of the midst of the fire in the day did neither eat bread nor drink water, be-of the assembly: and the LORD gave them cause of all your sins which ye sinned, in do- unto me. ing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to 5 And I turned myself, and came down provoke him to anger. from the mount, and put the tables in the 19 (For I was afraid of the anger and hot ark which had made and there they be, displeasure wherewith the LORD was wroth as the LORD commanded me. against you to destroy you.) But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 6¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of 20 And the LORD was very angry with Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and Aaron to have destroyed him and I prayed there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which stead. ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudstamped it, and ground it very small, even un-godah, and from Gudgodal to Jotbath, a til it was as small as dust and I cast the dust land of rivers of waters," thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 22 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 ae 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 first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 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 bless in his name, unto this day. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount, accord ing 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 journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and sware unto their fathers to give unto them. said. O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people, 12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD and thine inheritance, which thou hast re- thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD deemed through thy greatness, which thou thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love hast brought forth out of Egypt with a migh-him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all ty hand. thy heart, and with all thy soul. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, 13 To keep the commandments of the Isaac, and Jacob: look not unto the stub-LORD, and his statutes, which I command bornness of this people, nor to their wicked-thee this day for thy good? ness, nor to their sin; 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people, and thine in-] heritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power, and by thy stretched-out armi. CHAP. X. 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-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 A that time the LORD said unto me, Hew persons, nor taketh reward. thee two tables of stone like unto thel 18 He doth execute the judgment of the |