An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY.-CHAP. IX. e years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that i man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thyraiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to m fear him. 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-y 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. B. C. 1451. d P&.136.16. e Job 33.17. 31. 8 Ch.32. ..29. Ne.9.21. He 12.5,6. m 1 Sa.12. 21. n of olive- o c.33.25. 31. q1 Ch.29. Ps. 103.2. r Pr.30.9. 16; 114.8. 1 Co. 10.4. w ver.3. b Israel's rebellions rehearsed. tions greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 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? 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them; and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thy 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 upNu.21.6. rightness of thy heart, dost thou go to possess Hos 13.5. their land: but for the wickedness of these Nnations, 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. 10 When thou hast Peaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the be.4.25 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 I command thee this day: 30.18. c 2 Ch.36. a Jos. 4.19. ..33. 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: m from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. to have destroyed you. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to 12 Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and b Nu. 13. 29 wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his cove-p nant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget there.8.6. LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the .9.20 LORD your God. 9 When I was gone up into the mount, o receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables 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 amount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 16 And I looked, and behold, ye had sinned TEAR, O Israel: Thou art to pass over y Ex 19.18 against the LORD your God, and had made Jordan this day, to go in to possess nayou a molten calf: ye had turned aside quick Moses intercedes for Israel. DEUTERONOMY.-CHAP. X., XI. An exhortation to obedience. A. M. 2553 the mount, and put the tables in the ark which ly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 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 bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing|f wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. B. C. 1451. z Ex.32.10.. a Lu 124,5. b Ex.33.17. P106. 23. d 1.31.7. e Nu.11.1.. 4. Ex.17.7. i Pa.78.22 k ver.18. 1 Ex. 32.11, 6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's 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 m bless in his 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at & Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise h when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled 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 first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and m thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of 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 P sin: r n P&.78.8. o Pr.21.12. p Mi. 7.18. q Ex.6.6..8. r Nu.14.16. b Ex.25.10. He.9.4. c Ex.37.1. Ex.20.1.. 17. 1.8.9. h Nu.33.31 ..38. i Nu.3.6. 9. J Nu.4.15. k Pa. 135.2. 1 c.18.5. Ro. 127. n Nu.18.20, o or, j for 9 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, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD P hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, I take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 12 And now, Israel, 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 serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? W 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of y 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. a d 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, mer days and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: p Ex. 32.14. r Mi.6.8. 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 5.33 brought them out to slay them in the wilder 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 my hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, f 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 me. 5 And I turned myself and came down from Ps.34.9. u c.6.5. 11.13. 30.16,20. 37. 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, Job 36.11. and i swear by his name. Zep. 3.9. w c.6.21. XP.115.16 y P.148.4. z Ge 14.19. a Je.4.4. b Jos. 22.22. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY.-CHAP. XII. Place of God's service to be kept. 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 horses, 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 wilderness, until ye came into this place; c.6.17. 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abi-f seckah. ram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: g 1 Ki 9.3. how the earth opened her mouth, and swal-h ver.22 lowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts Joel 223. of the LORD which he did. 8Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a gar-t den of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: f i c.10.12 J Le.26.4. Ja.5.7. 1 Ps. 104.14. m gire. n Joel 2.19. Jos.23.11 ..16. p c.29.18. q c.6.15. 1K1.8.35 2 Ch.7.13. s c.6.6..9. Pr.3.3. u c.4.9,10. Pr.4.10. 9.11. 30.20. 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth 10.20. 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. h y c.9.5. z Jos. 1.3. a Ge. 15.18. 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken ↳ diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all b c.7.24. your heart, and with all your soul, 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 oil. 0 г c Jos. 2.9,24. & Ex.23.27. 19. f c.28.2..13. 68. h 1 Sa. 12. c.27.12.13. Jos. 8.33. a 0.6.1. b c.4.10. Ex.34.13. d or, inhe e 2 Ki. 17. f break 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. 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 i 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 Canaanites, 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. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall d possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall f overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their h groves with fire; and ye 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 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: 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for 28.15.. thy cattle, that thou mayest" eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your Pheart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 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, 1KL 15.13 VOWS, and your free-will-offerings, and the when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thy house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers to give 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; 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 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 ye go over » Jordan, and dwel Enticers to idolatry DEUTERONOMY.-CHAP. XIII. 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 w c.14.26. x ver.22. c.15.22 y Ge.9.4. zver.11,12 Le.7.26. c.14.23. a 1 Co.10. 31. 14.27. e all thy days. a1 Ch.4.10. Ge.23.14. Ex.34.24. f ver. 15,16. g strong. Le.17.11, 14. i c.4.40. Ex.15.26. Ki.11.38. No.5.9,10. thy k &c. Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever 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 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour 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 oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thy 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 son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hands unto. d 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 say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 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 and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth 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 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. k 26 ¶ Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 1 Sa.1.21.. 24. m Le.1.5,9, 13, 17.11. n Ex. 34.11. 2 Ch.7.17. Eze.37.24. are to be stoned to death 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings 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. 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; r 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 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 shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. b dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a Jn. 15.10, sign or a wonder, 14. C d 2 And the sign or the wonder & come to pass, 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 ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. h 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of 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. m 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or Re.13.14. thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy c.18.22 bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own Soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Ki13.3 Je. 28.9. Mat 7.22, 23; 24.24. 2 Co.11.13 ..15. 2 Th-2.9.. 11. Re. 13.13, 14. e 1 Co.11. 19. f 2 Ch.34. 31. g Je.7.23. h c.10.20. i Zec.13.3. revolt against the Lord k c.17.7. 1 Co.5.13. 1 c.28.54. Mi.7.5. m 1 Sa.20. 17. n Pr.1.10. o c.17.7. 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 "consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought Of meats clean and unclean. DEUTERONOMY.-CHAP. XIV., XV. 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have with-u Ex.22.20. drawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; Jos.8.29. Je.49.2. w or, devo- x c.7.26. c Ge. 22.17. d P119.6. Seventh year a release. 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 Swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth m 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants b d a Je.3. 19. Je. 15.6. c Le.20.26. e Eze. 4.14. 1 Co. 10. or, bison. 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his command-t dishon, ments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thysell.3, God. 4. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou may- 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall h Le.11.25, choose: 1.34.14. 27. i Le.11.9. J Le. 11.13. k Le.17.15. 1 ver.2. m Ex. 23.19. n Le.27.30. Nu 1821. c. 12.6,17. oc 12.5,&c. 20. 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-pc.15.19, deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and q c.12.21. rasketh of thee. 8 c. 12.7,18. 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for " he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritar with thee,) and the stranger, and the fat,rless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that yeu N 1820 be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may shall eat. c.18.1,2 v c.26.12. ver.27. 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them 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 h touch their dead carcass. 9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins 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 ossifrage, and the ospray, ..24. Job 31.16 ..22 1.n. 14.12 He. 13.2. 19.17. bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. CHAPTER XV. 1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor. 7 It must be no let of lending or Amake a release. b 2 And this is the manner of the release: Pr3,9,10. Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his Mal.3.10. neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact F.23.10, it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because Le. 25.2.. it is called the LORD's release. 4. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release: e 4 Saved when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the 1 |