Of murder. Deuteronomy. Zelophebads daughters. whereunto they are received; so shall it be of Ifrael, mall be wire unto one of the fa taken from the lot of our inheritance. mily of the tribe of her father, that the 4 And when the jubile of the children child en of Ifrael mayenjoy every man of f frael shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto y inheritance of tribe 9 Neither shall the inheritanc. remove

whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

5 And Mofes commanded the children of Ifrael, according to the word of the LORD, faying, The tribe of the fons of Jofeph hath faid well.

the inheritance of his fathers.

from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Ifrael shall keep himself to his own inheri tance.

to Even as the LORD commanded Moses, fo did y daughters of Zelophehad. For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, &

6 This is the thing which ý LORD doth Mitcah, and Noah, the daughters of

Zelophehad, were married unto their fathers brothers fons.

12 And they were married in the families of the fons of Manaffeh the son of Jo feph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, faying, Let them marry to whom they think belt; onely to the family off tribe of their father shall they marry: 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Ifrael remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of If13 These are the commandments and rael shall keep himself to the inheritance the judgements which the LORD comof the tribe of his fathers manded by the hand of Mofes, unto the

8 And every daughter that poffeffethan children of Ifrael in the plains of Moab inheritance in any tribe of the children by jordan near Jericho,

The fifth Book of MOSES called DEUTERONOMY.

CHAP. I. Moses rehearseth the story. 6 Of Gods promise. 34 Of his anger.

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Hefe be the words which Mofes
spake unto all Ifrael, on this fide
Jordan in the wilderness, in the
plain over against the Red-sea,

II (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times fo many more as ye are, & bleffe you as he hath promised you) asiye 12. How can I my felf alone bear your cumbrance, & your burden, & your strife? 13 Take you wife men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I 14. And ye answered me, and faid, The

between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban will make them rulers over you. and Hazeroth and Dizalbab.

2 (There are eleven days journey from thing which thou hast spoken, is good for Horeb by the way of mount Seir, unto us to do. Kadesh-barnea)

15. So I took the chiefofyour tribes,

3 And it came to pass in the fortieth wife men, and known, and made them year, in the eleventh moneth, on the first heads over you, captains over thousands, day of the moneth, that Mofes frake unto and captains over hundreds, and captains the children of Lirael, according unto all over fifties, and captains overtens, and that the LORD had given him in com- officers among your tribes.

mandment unto them;

16 And I charged your judges at that

4 Afterhe had flain Siaon the king of time, saying, Hear the causes between your the Ancorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, brethren, and judge righteoufly between and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt every man and his brother, and the stranat Astaroth in Edrei.

ger that is with him.

5. On this fide Jordan, iný land of Moab, 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judge. began Mofes to declare this law, faying, ment, but you shall hear the small as 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in well as the great; you shall not be afraid Horeb, faying, Ye have dwelt long of the face ofman, for the judgement is enough in this mount: Gods; and the cause that is to hard for you,

7 Turn you, and take your journey, & bringituntome, and I will hear it. go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto 18 And I commanded you at that time all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, all the things which ye should do, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the 19 And when we departed from Ho. fouth, and by the fea-fide, to the land of reb, we went through all that great and the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto terrible wilderness, which you saw by the the great river the river Euphrates. way of the mountain of the Amorites, as 8 Belhold, I have fet the land before the LORD our God commanded us: and you go inand possess the land which the we came to Kadesh-barnea. LORD Iware unto your fathers, Abraham, 20 And I faid unto you, Ye are come un. Ifaac, and Jacob, to give unto them, and to the mountain of the Amorites, which to their feed after theni. the LORD our God doth give unto us.

alone:

9And I fpake unto you at that time, 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath fet saying, I am not able to bear you my felf the tand before thee: go up, and posless it, as the LORD Godofthy fathers hath faid To The LORD your Godhath multiplied unto thee; fear not neither be discouraged youand behold, you are this day as the 22 And ye came near unto me every heaven for multicumle.

tars of

one

A rehearsal Chap.ii. of former things. one of you, and faid, We will fend men 41. Then ye answered and faid unto me. before us, and they shall search us out the We have finned against the Lord, we

land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we -shall come.

23. And the laying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe.

will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

24 And they turned and went up into 42 And the LORD faid untome, Say

the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

25. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.

unto them, Go not up, neither fight, for I am not among you, left ye be fmitten before your enemies.

43 Solfpakeunto you, and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuoufly up into the hill.

44 And the Amorites which dwelt in that mountain, came outagainst you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

27 Andye murmured in your tents, and faid, Because the LORD bated us, he hath 45 And ye returned and wept before the brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, LORD, but the LORD would not hearken to deliver us into the hand of the Amo- to your voyce, nor give car unto you, rites, to deftroy us.

46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren according unto the days that ye abode

have difcouraged our heart, saying, 'The people is greater and taller then we, the eities are great and walled up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the fons of the Anakims there.

29 Then I faid unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes:

31 Andin the wilderness, where thou haft seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee as a man doth bear his fon, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

32 Yetinthisthing ye did not believe the LORD your God.

there.

CHAP. II.

The storie is continued touching the Edomites, the Moabites, 17 the Ammonites, 24 and Sibon the Amorite.

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Hen weturned, and took our journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red-fea, as the LORD fpake unto me: and we compalled mount Seir many dayes. 2 And the LORD ipake unto me, laying, 3 Ye have compaffed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, faying, Yeare to paffe through the coaft of your brethren the children of Efau, which dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto your selves therefore.

5 Meddle not with them, for I will not give you of their land, no not so much as a foot-breadth, because I have given mount Seir unto Efau for a poffeffion. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; & ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

33. Who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and fware, faying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation fee that good land, 7 For the LORD thy God hath bleffed which i fware to give unto your fathers: thee in all the works of thy hand: he 36 Save Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, he knoweth thy walking through this greas small fee it, and to him will I give the land wilderness: these fourty years the LORD he hath troden upon, and to his children, thy God bath been with thee, thou haft

because he hath wholly followed LORD. lacked nothing.

37 Alfothe LORD was angry with me 8 And when we paffed by from our bre for your fakes, saying, Thou also shalt not thren the children of Efau, which dwelt in go in thither. Seir, through y way of y plain from Elath,

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which and from Ezion-gaber, weturned and pafstandeth before thee, he shall go in thither. fed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. Encourage him: for he shall caule lírael 9 And the LORD'aid unto me, Distress to inherit it. not the Moabites, neither contend with

30 Moreover, your little ones, which them in battel: for I will not give thee ye faid should be a prey, and your children of their land for a poffeffion, because I which in that day had no knowledge be- have given Ar unto the children of Loc tween good and evil, they shall go in thi- for a poffeffion.

ther, and unto them will I give it, and to The Emims dwelt therein in times they shall poffefsit. past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; Whichalso were accounted giants, as the Anakims, but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The

40 Butas for you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red-fea.

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With whom Ifrael Deuteronomy. may not fight. 12 The Horims alfo dwelt in Seir be- 30 But Sihon king of Heihbon would fore-time, but children of Efau succeed- not let us pais by him: for the LORD thy ed them when they had destroyed them Godhardened his spirit, & made his heare from bef rethem, and dwelt in theirstead, obftinate, that he might deliver him into as Ifrael did unto the land of his poffef- thy hand, as appeareth this day. fion, which the Lord gave unto them. 21 And the LORD faidunto me, Be13 Now rifeupsaid I, and get you over hold, I have begün to give Sihon and his the brook Zered: and we went over the land before thee: begin to possess, thac brook Zered.

thou mayest inherithis land.

14 And the space in which we came 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he from Kadesh-barnea, untill we were come and all his people, to fightat Jahaz. over the brook Zered, wes thirty & eight 33 And the Lord our God delivered years, untill all the generation of the him before us, and we fmote him, and his men of war were wasted out from among fons, and all his people.

the hoft: as the LORD fware unto them. 34 And we took all his cities at that 15 For indeed the hand ofthe LORD was time, and utterly destroyed the men, and against them, to destroy them from among the women, and the little ones of every

the hoft, untill they were confumed.

16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were confumed & dead from among the reople,

17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying, 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coaft of Moab, this day.

city, we left none to remain:

35 Onely the cattel we took for a prey unto our selves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city § is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered at unto us.

19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any poffeflion, because I have given it unto the children of Lot for cities in the mountains, nor unto what foe

apoffeilion.

20 (Thatalso was accounted aland of giants, giants dwelt therein in old time, & y Ammonites callthem Zamzummims, 21 A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

37 Onely unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the

ver the LORD our God forbade us.
CHAP. III.

Of Og king of Bashan. 23 Moses prayer
to enter the land. 261 He is permitted to
Seeit.
Then

Hen we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: & Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people

22 Ashe did to the children of Efau to battel at Edrei. which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed 2 And the LORDfaid unto me, Fear the Horims from before them, and they him not: for 1 will deliver him, and all his

fucceeded them, and dwelt in their stead

even un o this day:

people, and his land into thy hand, and thou fhalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihonking of the Amorites, which dwelt

23. And the Avims which dweltin Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims at Hesibon. which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead)

3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan,

24 Rifeye up, take your journey: and and all his people: and we smote him unpafs over the river Arnon: behold, I have till none was left to him remaining. given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite 4 And we took all his cities at that times, king of Hefhbon, and his land: begin to there was not a citie which we took not poffefs it, and contend with him in battel, from them, threescore cities, ally region 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. of thee, and the fear of thee upon the na- All these cities were fenced with high tions that are under the whole heaven, walls, gates, and bars, befide unwalled whoshall heat report of thee, and shall towns a great many. tremble, & be in anguish because of thee. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we 26 And I fent mesfengers out of the did unto Sihonking of Heshbon, utterly wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihonking destroying the nien, women, and children of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, of every city,

27 Let me pals through thy land: I will 7 But all the cattel, and the spoil of y go along by the high-way, I will neither cities, we took for a prey to our selves. turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 8 And we took at that time out of the 28 Thou shalt fell memeat for money, hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that I may eat and give me water for mo- the land that was on this fide Jordan, froin ney, that I may drink: onely I will pass the river of Arnon untomount Hermon: through on my feet: 9 (Wbich Hermon the Sidonians call

29(As the children of Efau which Sirion: and the Amorites call it Shenir) dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which to All the cities of the plain & all Gidwell in Ar did unto me) untill I shalllead, & all Bashan, unto Salchah & Edrei, Isover Jordans into the land which the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bathan: ORD Our Godgiveth us.

11 For

Og-overcome. Chap. iv. Mofes prayer. For onely Og king of Bashan remain ward, and fouthward, and eastward, and ed of the remnant of giants; behold, his beholdit with thine eyes; for thou shale

bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

12 And this land which we poffefsed at chat time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereofgave I unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites.

13 And the rest of Gilead, & all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manaffeh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

not go over this Jordan.

28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall caute them to inherit the land & thou shalt fee; 29 Sowe abode in the valley overagainst Beth-peor.

CHAP. IV.

An exhortation to obedience. 14 Moses appointed the three cities of refugeon that fide Iordan.

Ow therefore hearken, Offrael, unto

Nthe theorendaten the judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and goin and possefs the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

14 Jair the fon of Manaffeh took all the countrey of Argob, unto the coasts of Geshuri, and Maachathi: and called them 2 Yeshall not add unto the word which after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, I command you, neither shall you dimi unto this day.

15. And Igave Gilead unto Machir.

nish ought from it, that ye may keep the conimandments of the LORD your God

16 And unto the Reubenites, and unto which I command you. the Gadites, I gave from Gilead even unto 3 Your eyes have feen what the LORD the river Arnon, half the valley, and the did because of Baal-peor; for all the men border, even unto the river Jabbok, which that followed Baal-peor, the LORDthy the border of the children of Ammon: Godhath destroyed them from among you 17 The plainalfo, & Jordan, and the 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD coaft thereof, from Chinnereth even unto your God are alive every one of you this the fea of the plain, even the salt-fea, un- day. der Afhdoth-Pisgah eastward.

5. Behold, I have taught you statutes and

18 And I commanded you at that time, judgements, even as the L ORDmy God Saying, The LORD your Godhath given conimanded me, that ye should do fo int you this land to possessit: ye shall pass the land whither ye go to possels it. over armed before your brethren the chil- 6 Keep therefore and do them, for this dren of Ifrael, all that are meet for y war. is your wisdom and your understanding 19 But your wives, and your little ones, in the fight of y nations, which shall hear and your cattel (for I know that ye have all these statutes, & say, Surely this great much cattel) shall abide in your cities

which Lhave given you;

20 Untill the LORD hath given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, & until they also possess the land & the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: & then shall ye return every man unto his poffeffion which I have given you.

21 And I commanded Joshua at that time saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD dountoall the kingdoms-whither thou passest.

22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

23 And I befought the LORD at that

time, saying,

24 O LORD GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 2511 pray thee let me go over, and fee the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain and Lebanon.

nation is a wife & understanding people. 7. For what nation is there so great, who bath God fo nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?

9 Onely take heed to thy felf & keep thy soul diligently, left thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, & left they de part from thy heartall dayes of thy lifes but teach them thy fons, & thy fons fons: To Specially the day that thou stoodst before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when LORD faid unto me, Gather me the peoples together, and I will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the dayes that they shall live upon earth, and that they may teach their children.

It Andye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloudsand thick darkness.

26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your fakes, and would not hear me; and the LORD faid unto me; Let it fuffice thee, speak no more unto me of this mat- yebeard a voyce.

12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voyce of the words, but faw no fimilitude, onely 13 And he declared unto you his cove27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and nant, which he commanded you to per lift up thine eyes westward and north-forin, even ten commandments, and he Deuteronomy. to obedience. wrote them upon two tables of ftone. these things are come upon thee, even in