Idolatry Deuteronomy. to be destroyed. in their possession in the midst of all Ifrael. your teet shall tread, shall be yours: from 7 But your eyes havefeen all the great the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the acts of the LORD, which he did. river, the river Euphrates, even unto the 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the com- uttermoft sea, shall your coatt be. mandments which I command you this 25 I here shall no man be able to stand day that ye may be strong, and go in and before you: for the LORD your God shall poisess land whither ye go to poffets it: lay the fear of you and the dread of you as he hath faid unto you. 9 And that ye may prolong your days in upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their feed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. + το For the land whither thou goest in to polless it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy feed and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 26 Behold, I fet before you this day a blesling and a curse: 27 A blefling, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day: 28 Anda curse, it ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn afide out of the way which I command you this day, to goafter other gods But the land whither ye go to poffels it, is a land of hills, and valleys, and drin- which ye have not known. ketli water of the rain of heaven: 29 And it shall come to pass when the 12 A land which the LORD thy God ca- LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto reth for the eyes of the LORDthy God the land whither thou goest to possess it, are always upon it, from the beginning of that thou shalt put blessing upon mount the year, even unto the end of the year. Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall, 30 Are they not on the other fide Jorhearken diligently unto my commande- dan, by the way where the fun goeth down, ments which I command you this day, to in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell love the LORD your God, and to ferve him in the champian over against Gilgal, bewith all your heart, and with all your foul, fide the plains of Morch? 14. That I will give you the rain of your 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to land in his due season, the first rain and goin to poffef's the land which the LORD the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oyl. 15. And I will fend grafs in thy fields, for thy cattel: y thou mayeft eat & be full. 16 Take heed to your felves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and ferve other gods, and worship them: 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kin. died against you, & he shut up the heaven that therebe no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit, and left ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. your God giveth you, and ye shall poflef's it and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the ftatutes and judgements which I fet before you this day. CHAP. XII. Monuments of Idolatry to be destroyed. 5. The place of Gods service to be kept. 16. 13 Blood is forbidden. Twich Hele are the statutes and judgements ye shall obferve to doin the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to poflefsit, all the days that 18. Therefore shall ye lay up these my ye live upon the earth. words in your heart and in your foul, and 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, bind them for a fign upon your hand, that wherein the nations which ye shall pofthey may be as frontlets between your eyes sess served their gods, upon the high 19 And ye shall teach them your chil- mountains, and upon the hills, and under dren, speaking of them when thou sittest every green tree. in thine house, and when thou walkest by 3. And you shall overthrow their altars, the way, when thou liest down, and when thou rifeft up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-polts of thine house, and upon thy fates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all thefe commandments which I comntand you to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him: 23 Then will the LORD drive out all thele nations from before you, and ye mall poffef's greater nations and mightiet then your felves. 24 Every place whereon the foles of and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you 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 Butunto 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 buratofferings, & your facrifices, & your tithes, and heav-offerings of your hand, & 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, andye shall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto, ye and your Idolaters onghe Chap.xiii. zo be destroyed your houfholds, wherein the LORD thy 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is God hath bleffed thee. eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean 8 Ye shall not do after all the things and the clean thall eat of themalike. that wedo here this day, every man whatCoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to therest, and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. to 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, fo that ye dwell in safety: 23 Onely be fure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayelt not eat the life with the thesh. 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 fight of the LORD. 26 Onely thy holy things which thou hait, and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: Then there shall be a place which LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring #11 that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, & ings, the flesh and the blood, upon the al 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offertar of the LORDthy God: and the blood of thy facrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. heay-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord, 12 And ye shall rejoyce before the LORD your God, ye, and your fons, and Your daughters, and your men-fervants, 28 Oblerve and hear all these words and your maid-fervants, and the Levite which I command thee, that it may go that is within your gates; forasmuch as he well with thee, and with thy children after hath no part nor inheritance with you. thee for ever, when thou doest that which Take heed to thy felf that thou offer is good and right in the tight of the LORD not thy burnt-offerings in every place thy God. that thou feeft. 13 14 But in the place which the LORD mall chule in one of thy tribes, there thou thalt offer thy barnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayeft kill and eat flesh in allthy gates, whatsoever thy foul lufteth after, according to the bleslingofthe 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 Onely ye shall not eat the blood; ye hall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayeft not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or ofthy.oyl, or the firttlings of thy herds. or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows, which thou vowelt, mor thy free-will-offerings, or heav-offering of thine 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 fon, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Le vite that is within thy gates, and thou shalt rejoyce before the LORD thy Godin all that thou puttest thinehands unto. 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goelt to posless them, and thou succeedelt them, and dwellest in their land: 30. Take heed to thy felf, that thou be not fnared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, faying, How did these nations serve their gods: even fo 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 fons and their daughters they have burntin the fire to their goals. 32 What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAP. XIII. 2 Inticers to idolatry, 9 bow near Soever, 9 are to be stoned, 12 Idolatrous cities not to be spared. Fthere arife among you a prophet, or & dreamer of dreams, and giveth theea fignor a wonder, 2 And the fign or the wonder cometo pass, whereof he spake unto thee, fayfor-ing, Let us go after other gods (which thou haft not known) & let us serve them: 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of 19 Take heed to thy felf that thou fake not the Leviteas long as thou livest upon the earth. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, dreams: for the LORD your God proveth and thou shalt fay, I will eat flesh (because you, to know whither ye love the LORD thy foul Hongeth to eat flesh) thou mayest your God with all your heart and with all eat Heih whatsoever thy foul lufteth after. your foul. 21 If the place which the LORD thy 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God hath chofen to put his name there, be God, and fear him, and keep his command 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 whatfoever thy foul lufteth after. ments, and obey his voyce, and you than serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death (becausehe hath spoken to turn you away from the G2 LORD of dean and unolean beafts. make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou artan holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himfelf, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Deuteronomy. LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thruft thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walkin) to shalt thou put the evil away from the midit of thee. 6 If thy brother the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofome, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go andierve other gods (which thou halt not known, thou, por thy fathers.) 7 Namely, of the gods of people which are round about you, nigh unto thee or far off from thee, from the one end of earth even unto the other end of the earth: 8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither halt thou conceal him. 9 Butthou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, & afterwards y hand ofally people 10 And thou shaltstone him withstones, that he die: because he hath fought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. thing. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable 4 Thele are the beasts which ye shall eat the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and y fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wilde ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud amongst the beafts: that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; & the camel, and the hare, and the cony: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 Ard 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 touch their dead carcafe. And all Ifrael thall hear, and fear, 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in and shall do no moreany such wickedness as this is, among you. 12 If thou shalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, faying, Let us go and serve other gods (which ye have not known.) 14. Then shalt thou enquire and make search, and ask diligently:and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you: 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabisants of that city with the edge of the word, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattel thereof, with the edge of the word. the waters: all that have finsand scales shallye eat: roAnd whatsoever hath not fins & Scales ye may not eat: it is unclean unto you. Ofall clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the offifrage, and the ofpray, 13 And theglede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, & the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the fivan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat, 19 And every creeping thing that fieth, 16 Andthoushalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and is unclean unto you: they shal not be eaten shalt burn with fire the city, and all the fpoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever, it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fiercenelle of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compaffion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I comniand thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. CHAP. XIV. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of it self: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feeth a kid in his mothers mitk. 22 Thou shalt truely titheall the increate of thy feed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in y place which he shall choofe to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oyl, and the firstlings of thy herds, and of the 24 Andifthe way be too long for thee, 1 Gods children are not to disfigure them- flocks, that thou mayelt learn to fear thy Selves in mourning. 3 Wbat may be LORD thy Godalwayes. eaten, whatnot. 22 Oftitbes. Yare E are the children of the LORD your so y thou art not able to carry it, or if the ye shall not cut yourselves, nor place be too far from thee, whichy LORD thy The year of release. Chap.xv.xvi. Ofleading. thy God shall choose to fet his name there, unto him: because that for this thing the when LORD thy God hath blessed thee: LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, works, and in all that thou puttelt thime and bind up the mony in thine hand, and hand unto. shalt go unto the place which the LORD 11 For the poor shall never cease out thy God shall choose. 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy foul lusteth after, for oxen, or for theep, or for wine, or for ftrong drink, or for whatsoever thy foul defßreth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, && thou shalt rejoyce, thou and thine houshold. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forfake 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 fame year, and shall lay it up within thy gates. 29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, & the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be fatisfied; 1; that th the Lo ORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of chine hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV. 1 The Seventh year a year of release to the Amaltake offere end of every leven years thou 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditour y lendeth ought unto his neighbour, shal release it, he shal not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother, becaufe it is called the LORDS release. of the land: therefore I command thee, faying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land. 12 And if thy brother an Hebrew man or an Hebrew woman, be fold unto thee, and serve thee fix years; then in y seventh year thou shalt let him go free front thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy tlock, and out of thy hoor, and out of thy wine-prefs, of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath bleised thee, thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 16 And it shall be if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; (because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee) 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, & thruft it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy fervant forever: and alfonnto thy maid-fervant thou shalt do likewife. 18 It shall not feem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired fervant to thee, in serving thee lix years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that 3. Of a forreiner thou mayeft exact it thou doelt. again but that which is thine with thy 19 All the firstling males that come brother, thine hand shall release: of thy herd, and of thy flock, thou shalt fanctifie unto the LORDthy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy Godyear by year, in y place which the LORD shall chuse, thou and thy houshold. as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill 4 Save when there shall be no pooramong you: for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy Godgiveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Onely if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all thefe commandments which 1 21 Andif there be any blemish therein, command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, blemish, thou shalt not facrifice it unto the as he promised thee, and thou shalt lend LORD thy God. ⚫ unto many nations, but thou shalt not bor- 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: row; and thou shalt reign over many na- the unclean and clean person shall eat it, tions, but they shall not reign over thee. alike, as the roe-buck, and as the heart. 7If there be among you a poor man 23 Onely thou shalt not eat the blood of one of thy brethren, within any of thy thereof thou shalt pour it upon the gates, in thy land which the LORD thy Godground as water. CHAP. XVI. giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor & The feast of the paffleover, of weeke brother: 23 of tabernacles. 18 Of judges and ja 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide tice. 21 Groves and images forbidden. unto him, and halt furely lend him fuffici + Blerve the moneth of Abib, and keep ent for his need in that which he wasteth. the pass-over unto the L ORD thy 9. Beware that there be not a thought in God: for in the moneth of Abib the LORD thy wickedheart, faying, The leventh yearthy God brought thee forth out of Egypt the year of release is at hand; and thine eyeby night. be evil against thy poor brother, and 2 Thou shalt therefore facrifice the passthou giveit him nought, and he cry unto fover unto the LORD thy God, of the LORD against thee, & it be fin unto thee. flock and the herd, in the place which the το Thou shalt surely give him, & thine LORD shall chuseto place his name there. heart shall not be grieved when thou givest 3 Thou shalt cat to leavened breadwich Idolaters punished. Deuteronomy. A kings day. it: feven days shalt thou eat unleavened cording to the bleffing of the LORD' thy bread therewith, even the bread of afflicti- God which he hath given thee. on (for thou cameft forth out of the land 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make of Egypt in haste) y thou mayeft remem- thee in all thy gates which the LORD thy ber the day when thou camest forth out of God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life, and they shall judge the people with juft 4 And there shall be no leavened bread judgement. feen with thee in all thy coafts feven 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgement, thou days, neither shall there any thing of the shalt not respect persons, neither take a Hesh which thon sacrificedst the first day at gift for a gift doth blind the eyes of the even, remain all night untill the morning. wife, & pervert the words of y righteous, 5 Thou mayelt not facrifice the pais- 20. That which is altogether just shalt over within any of thy gates, which the thou follow, that thou mayest live, and LORD thy God giveth thee. inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 6 Butat the place which the LORD thy God shall chose to place his name in, there thou shalt facrifice the pass-over ateven,at the going down of the fun, at the season thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of Y LORD, 22 Neither shalt thou fer thee up any 7 And thou shalt roft and eat it in the image, which the LORD thy God hateth. place which the LORD thy God shalt that thou cameft forth out of Egypt. CHAP. XVII. chose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, 1 Things facrificed must be found, 2 Idolaand go unto thy tents, ters to be flain. 14 The election, 16 and duty of a king. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day ball be fo-Hou shait not facrifice unto the lemn affembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein, LORD thy God any bullock, or sheeps wherein is blemish, or any evil-favoured 9. Seven weeks faalt thou number un- ness: for that is in abomination unto the to thee: begin to number the seven weeks LORD thy God. from fush time as thou beginnelt to put 2 If there be found among you within the fickle to the corn. to And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with atribute of a free-will-offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blesled thee. any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in fight of LORD thy God, in tranfgreffing his covenant. 3 And hath gone and ferved other gods, and worshipped them, either the fun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded. 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard ofit, and enquired diligently, and behold it be true, and the thing certain, tbar II And thou shalt rejoyce before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fuch abomination is wrought in Ifrael. fatherless, and the widow, that are among 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man you, in the place which the LORD thy or that woman (which have committed. God hath chofen to place his name there. that wicked thing) unto thy gates, ever 12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13 Thou shalt obferve the feast oftabernacles seven days, after that thou haft gathered in thy corn, and thy wine. that man or that woman, and shalt ftone them with itones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, be put to death, but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 14 And thou shalt rejoyce in thy feast, thou and thy fon, and thy daughter, & thy anan-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, and Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shait thou keep a folemn feast unto the LORDthy God, in blood, between plea and plea, & between the place which the LORD shall choose: stroke and stroke, being matter of controbecause the LORD thy God shall bless verfie within thy gates, then shalt thou thee in all thy increase, and in all the arife, and get thee up into the place which works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt the LORD thy God shalt choose; 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be firft upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people: fo thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgement, between blood and. furely rejoyce. 9 And thoushalt conie unto the Priefts 16 Three times in a year shall all thy the Levites, and unto the judge that shail males appear before the LORD thy God, be in thosedays, and enquire; and they in the place which he shall choose: in the shall shew thee the fentence of judgement. Feast of unleavened bread, and in the feaft to And thou shalt do according to the of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: fentence which they of that place (which and they shall not appear before the the LORD shall choose) shall shew thee. LORD empty and thou shalt observe to do according to 17 Every man shall givdas he is able, ac all that they enform thee; 4 1 |