'from the way of the Arabah' from Elath and from Ezion-geber1.

And we turned and passed by the 9 way of the wilderness of Moab. And the LORD said unto me, 'Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of 'his' land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot 10 for a possession. (The 'Emim' dwelt therein aforetime', a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim' : 11 these also are accounted "Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the 12 Moabites call them 'Emim'. °The Horites also dwelt in Seir laforetime', but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the (13 LORD gave unto them.) Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were Iconsumed from the midst of the Icamp', as the LORD Sware unto them. 15 Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

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So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead 17 from among the people, that the (18) LORD spake unto me, saying, "Thou

art this day to pass over Ar, the 'bor19 der of Moab: and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, 'vex" them not, nor contend with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for al possession: because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a posses20 sion. (That also 'is' accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim' dwelt therein laforetime; but the Ammonites call 21 them 'Zamzummim'; a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim'; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and 22 dwelt in their stead: as he did for the children of Esau, which 'dwell' in Seir, when he destroyed the 'Horites!

from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead 23 even unto this day: and the 'Avvim' which dwelt in villages as far as Gaza', the Caphtorim, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, 24 and dwelt in their stead.) Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and con25 tend with him in battle. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, 21 saying, Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right 28 hand nor to the left. Thou shalt sell me 'food' for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink only let me pass through 29 on my feet; as the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. 30 °But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as 'at' this 31 day. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up' Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit 32 his land. "Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, 'unto 33 battle at Jahaz. And the LORD our

God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and 34) all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we 35 left none remaining!: only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, Iwith the spoil of the cities which 36 we had taken!. From Aroer, which is on the ledge of the valley of

Arnon, and from the city that is lin the valley', even unto Gilead, there was not lal city too 'high' for us the LORD our God delivered up' all 'be37 forel us: only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not 'near; all the side of the river Jabbok, 'and' the cities of the hill country, and wheresoever! the LORD our God forbad us.

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Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, 'unto battle at Edrei, 2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not for I have delivered' him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Hesh3 bon.

So the LORD our God delivered into our 'hand' Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him I remaining. And we took all his cities at that time: there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5) All these were cities fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the 6)1unwalled towns a great many. And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, Iwith the women and 'the little ones'. 7 °But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto our)selves. And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, from the valley of Arnon unto mount Hermon; (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, 10 and the Amorites call it 'Senir' ;) all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto 'Salecah' and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in 11 Bashan. (For only Og king of Bashan

remained of the remnant of the Rephaim'; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in 'Rabbah' of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit

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12 of a man.) And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gad(13 ites and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, leven all Bashan. ('The same is called the land of 'Re14) phaim'. Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region' of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and 'the Maacathites'; and called them, leven' Bashan, "after his own name, 15 'Havvoth1-jair, unto this day.) And 16 I gave Gilead unto Machir. ° And

unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border 'thereof; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Am17 mon; the 'Arabah' also, and Jordan

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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all (19 the men of valour. But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in cities which I have

your (20 given you; until the LORD 'givel rest unto your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God giveth' them beyond Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which 21 I have given you. 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 do unto all the kingdoms whither thou 'goest 22 over. Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God, he 'it is that fighteth for you.

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begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy mighty acts? 25) Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not Junto me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more (27 unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou 28 shalt not go over this Jordan.

But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which 29 thou shalt see. So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. 41) And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the judgements, which I teach you, for to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the (2 God of your fathers, giveth you.

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shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God 3 which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroved them from the midst 4 of thee1. But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every 5 one of you this day. "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgements, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to 6 possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples', which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understand(7) ing people. For what great nation is

there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is 'when(8) soever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this law, which I set before you

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9 this day? Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes 'saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but 'make them known unto thy children and thy children's children'; (10 the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may 11 teach their children. And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, 'cloud', 'and thick darkness. (12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no 'form'; 13 only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even 'the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgements, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to 15 possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of 16 the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt

yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, 17 the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl 18 that flieth in the heaven', the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth: 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all the peoples' under (20 the whole heaven. But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, 21 as at this day. Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not

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go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an 22 inheritance: but I must die in this

land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that 23 good land. Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of any thing which the LORD thy God hath for(2 bidden thee. For the LORD thy God is a devouring1 fire, a jealous God.

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When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of any thing, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto yel go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the LORD shall scatter you among the 'peoples', and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD 28 shall lead you away. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

But if from thence ye shall seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. (30)When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, 1in the latter days thou shalt 'return to the LORD thy God, and 'hearken unto 3 his voice for the LORD thy God is a merciful God; he will not 'fail' thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one lend of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath 33 been heard like it? Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast 34 heard, and live? Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation

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from the midst of another nation, by 2temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in 35 Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there 36 is none else beside him. °Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see 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 brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out (38 of Egypt; to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as lat! 39 this day. Know therefore this day, and lay it to thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath: there is none 40 else. And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, 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 land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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Then Moses 'separated' three cities beyond Jordan toward the sunrising: 42 that the manslayer might flee thither, which slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time! past; and that fleeing unto one of 43 these cities he might live: namely,

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they took his land in possession', and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, which were beyond Jordan toward the sun48 rising; from Aroer, which is on the ledge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Her49 mon), and all the Arabah beyond'

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Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the 'Arabah', under the slopes of Pisgah.

And Moses called 'unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgements which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe 2 to do them. "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this 4 day. The LORD spake with you face to face in the mount out of the 5 midst of the fire, (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid 'because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

6 21 am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, lout of the house of bondage.

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Thou shalt not make unto thee lal graven image, 'the likeness of any 'form' that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in 9 the water under the earth: 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, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that 10 hate me; and shewing mercy unto "thousands, of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Observe the sabbath day, to 'keep it holy, as the LORD thy God com13) manded thee. Six days shalt thou 11 labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not

do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. (15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God commanded thee: that thy days may be 'long', and that it may go well with thee, Jupon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt 'do no murder'.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Neither shalt thou steal.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

21) Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

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These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 23 °And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain did burn with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, 24 and your elders; and ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us 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 speak with man, and he 25 liveth. 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 26 shall die. 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 27 lived? Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say:

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