1 Mofes fong, which fetteth forth God's mercy and vengeance: 46 he exhorteth them to fet their hearts upon it.

Give eat, ye heavens, and I will speak;

and hear, O carth, the words of my mouth.

My doctrine fhall drop as the rain, my fpeech fhall diftil as the dew; as the fmall rain upon the tender herb, and as the thowers upon the grafs;

3 Because I will publish the same of the LORD; afcribe ye greatness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity, juft and right is he.

5 They have corrupted themfelves; their fpot is not the fpet of his children: they are a perverfe and crooked generation.

6 Do ye thus requite the LORD? O foolish people and unwife is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

7 Remember the days of old, confider the years of many generations: afk thy fa ther, and he will thew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;

8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he feparated the fons of Adum, he fet the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Ifrael.

9 For the LORDS portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found lum in a defert land, and in the wafte howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept liiin as the apple of his eye.

11 As an cagle tirreth up her nett, Ruttereth over her young, fpreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;

12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no ftrange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to fuck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of theep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bafhan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didit drink the pure blood

of the grape.

15 But Jefhurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatnefs. then he forfook God which made him, and lightly e#teemed the Rock of his falvation.

16 They provoked him to jealoufy with Arange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17They facrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that cainenewly up, whom your fathers feared not.

21 They have moved me to jealoufy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealonly with those which ar

not a people, I will provoke them to anger

with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and fhall burn unto the lowest hell, and fhall con fume the earth with her increase, and let os fire the foundations of the mountains.

231 will heap mifchiefs upon them; I st fpend mine arrows upon them.

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and d voured with burning heat, and with bitter de ftruction: I will allo fend the teeth of beaftr upon them, with the poifon of ferpents the duft.

25 The fword without, and terror within, thall deftroy both the young man and the virgin, the fuckling alfa, with the man ef grey hairs.

26 I faid, I would fcatter them into com ers, I would make the remembrance of the to ecafe from among men :

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath the enemy, let their adverfaries should have themfelvestrangely, andleft they should fay, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counte, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 0 that they were wife, that they under flood this, that they would confider their lat ter end!

30 How fhould one chafe a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except the Rock had fold them, and the LORD had th them up!

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themfelves being judges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodam, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grape are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitters

33 Their wine is the poifon of dragons, and the cruel venom of alps.

34 s not this laid up in flore with me, fealed up among my treatures?

35 To me belangeth vengeance and recom pence; their foot thall fide in due timer the day of their calamity is at hand, así De things that thall come upon them make hart.

36. For the LORD fhall julge his people, and repent himself for his fervants; he he feeth that their power is gone, and 196 is none fhut up or left.

37 And he thall fay, Where are theis gode their rock in whom they troited:

38 Which did eat the fat of their Lacrifiém. and drank the witte of their drink-offering let them rife up and help you, and be you protection.

39 See now that I, even 1, am he, and the is ñogad with me : i klil, and i make alintaa

down dew.

as I faid unto Mofes.

4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon. even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great fea, toward the going down of the fun, hall be your coaft.

SThere shall not any man be able to ftand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Mofes, jo I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

6 Be firong, and of a good courage; for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I fware unto their fathers to give them.

7 Only be thou ftrong, and very courageous, that thou mayeft obferve to do according to all the law hich Mofes my fervant commanded thee: turn not from it to the

4 And the Loan faid unto hima, This the land which I fware unto Abraham, Ifaac, and unto Jacob, faying, I will give unto thy feed: I have caufed thee to fee with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go on thither.

51 So Mofes, the fervant of the Los died there in the land of Moab, according the word of the LORD.

6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-pror no man knoweth of his fepulchre unto sh day.

And Mofes was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was notüim nor his natural force abated.

8 And the children of Ifrael wept i Mofes in the plains of Moab thirty days; i the days of weeping and mourning for Mur were ended.

9 And Joshua, the fon of Nun, wis of the fpirit of wifdom; for Mofes has land hands upon him: and the children of tha hearkened unto him, and did as the Let commanded Mofes.

10 And there arofe not a prophet in in Ifrael like unto Mofes, whom the knew face to face;

11 In all the figns and the wanders whic the LORD fent him to do in the land of Eg to Pharaoh, and to all hisfervants, and to his land,

12 And in all that mighty hand, and in the great terror which Mofes thewed in is fight of all Ifrael.

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right hand or to the left, that thou may profper whi herfoever thou goett.

8 This book of the law shall not depart of thy mou h; but thou shalt meditate tha in day and night, that thou mayeft obfers to do according to all that is written therrie for then thou shalt make thy way profpern and then thou shalt have good fuccci

9 Have not I commanded thee? Be ftre and of a good courage; be not afraid, neu be thou difmayed: for the Loan thy Gra with thee whitherfoever thou goeit.

10 Then Joshua commanded the of of the people, faying,,

11 Pafs through the hoft, and command people, faying, Prepare you victuals; forwit in three days ye thall país over this Jon to go in to poffefs the land which the Lu your God giveth you to poffefs it.

12 And to the Reubenices, and to Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manaia fpake Joshua, faying,

13 Remember the word which Mofes, fervant of the LORD commanded you, farts The LORD your God hath given you res, hath given you this land.

14 Your wives, your little ones, and cattle, hall remain in the land which M gave you on this fide Jordan, bat ye shall before your brethren armed, all the m men of valour, and help them,,

15 Until the Loen hath given your thren rett, as he hath given you, ami the fo have poffeffed the land which t

twelve ftones; and ye fhall carry them eve with you, and leave them in the lodgingplace, where ye thall lodge this night.

know the way by which ye muft go; for ye have not palled this way heretofore. 51 And Joshua faid unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

6 And Joshua fpake unto the priefts, faying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pafs over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 7 And the LORD faid unto Jofhua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the fight of all Ifracl, that they may know that as I was with Mofes, fo I will be with thee.

8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, faying, When "ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye fhall stand till in Jordan.

And Joshua faid unto the childreh of Ifrael, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

to. And fothua faid, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without faildrive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hi vites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgafhites, and the Amorites, and the Jebufites.

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth palleth over before you into Jordan.

12 Now, therefore, take ye twelve men out of the tribes of Ifrael, out of every tribe

a man.

13 And it fhall come to pafs, affoon as the foles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, fhall rett in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan fhall be cut off from the waters that come down from above, and they fhall stand up on an heap.

14 And it came to pafs, when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

16 That the waters which came down from above stood, and rofe up upon an heap, very far from the city Adam, that is befide Zaretan: and thofe that came down toward the fea of the plain, even the falt-fea, failed, and were cut off; and the people paffed over right against Jericho.

17 And the priests, that bare the ark of the Covenant of the LORD, tood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Ifraelites paffed over on dry ground, until all the people were paffed clean over jordan. СНАР. IV.

Twelve ftones taken for a memorial out of Jordan: 9 Izvelve other fones are fet up in the midft thereof. 10, 19 The people pafs over. 14 God magnifieth Joshua.

And it came to pals, when all the people were clean paffed over Jordan, that the LORD fpake unto Joshua, faying,

2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man;

3 And command ye them, faying, Take you hence out of the midit of Jordan, out of the place where the pricits feet stood firm,

4 Then Joshua called the twelve me whom he had prepared of the children of li rael, out of every tribe a man ;

S And Joshua faid unto them, Pafs over be fore the ark of the LORD your God inte midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his thoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the child of liraci.

6 That this may be a fign among rus that when your children atk "their faths in time to come, faying, What mean ye there stones?

7 Then ye fhall answer them, That t waters of Jordan were cut off before the of the covenant of the LORD; when it pada over Jordan, the waters of Jordan werest off: and thele ftones thall be for a memor unto the children of Ifrael for ever.

8 And the children of Ifrael did fö as fhua commanded, and took up twelvesle out of the midft of Jordan, as the Las fpake unto Joshua, according to the ma ber of the tribes of the children of tinc and carried them over with them unteth place where they lodged, and laid the down there.

9 And Joshua fet up twelve tones in midit of Jordan, in the place where the of the pricits which bare the ark of thes venant ftood: and they are there unto t day.

to For the priests which bare theả ftood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commande Joshua to fpeak unto the people, according to all that Mofes commanded forhua : and the people hatted and paffed over.

11 And it came to pals, when all the nople were clean palled over, that the ark the LORD palled over, and the pricfts, in prefence of the people.

12 And the children of Reuben, and children of Gad, and half the tribe of natfch, paffed over armed before the childrež of Ifrael, as Mofes ipake unto them.

13 About forty thoufand, preparedfors paffed over before the Load unto battle, the plains of Jericho.

14 On that day the LORD magnífied | fhua in the fight of all Ifracl, and they ed him, as they feared Mofes, all the day his life.

15 And the LORD fpake unto Joshua,faying 16 Command the priests that bear the of the tellimony, that they come up out Jordan.

17 Joshua, therefore,commanded thepriestų faying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

18 And it came to pass, when the priest that bare the ark of the covenant of LORD, were come up out of the mid

Jordan, and the foles of the priests feet lifted up unto the dry land, that the water Jordan returned unto their place, and foss over all his banks, as they did before.

19 And the people came up out of dan on the tenth day of the firit month, encamped in Gilgal, in the caft bordere richo.