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The two tables restored.

BEFORE CHRIST 1451.

c Ex. 25. 16, 21.

dEx.25.5,10. & 37.1.

e Ex. 34. 4.

f Ex. 34. 28.

2 Heb. words.

DEUTERONOMY, XI.

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 a shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten 2 commandments, & which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of h Ex. 19.17. the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

g Ex. 20. 1.

ch. 9. 10. & 18.16.

i Ex. 34. 29.

* Ex. 40. 20.

11 Kings 8.9.

m Num. 33.

31.

n Num. 33. 30.

• Num. 20.

5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; 1and there they be, as the LORD COMmanded me.

6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beerothm of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was 28. & 33. 38. 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 Num.4.15. ark of the covenant of the LORD, sto

p Num. 33.

32, 33.

q Num. 3. 6. & 4. 4. & 8. 14. & 16.9.

ch. 18.5.

Lev. 9. 22.

Num. 6. 23.

ch. 21. 5.

u Num. 18.

20, 24.

ch. 18. 1, 2.

Ezek. 44.28.

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stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

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 hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the pecple, 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 dto 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? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORDS thy & Gen. 14.19. God, & the earth also, with all that therein is.

ch. 6. 24.

1 Kings 8,

27.

Ps. 115. 16.

& 148. 4.

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An exhortation

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199 Love ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers in the Col. 3. 25. land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, tand swear by his name.

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.

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THEREFORE thou shalt love ac

the thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, dhis greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he 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; show 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;

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the

ch.10.12.& 30.16, 20. b Zech. 3. 7.

cch. 8. 5.

4 ch. 5. 24.

ch. 7. 19.

Pa.78.12.

& 135.9.

& Εχ. 14. 27,

28. & 15. 9, 10.

Ps. 106. 11.

Num.16.1, Ps. 106. 17.

h ch. 4. 37.

31. & 27.8.

to obedience.

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1451.

2. Or, living substance which followed them.

3 Heb. was at their feet.

DEUTERONOMY, XI. The blessing and the curse.

son of Reuben: how the earth opened
her mouth, and swallowed 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 1 ch. 5.3. & great acts of the LORD which he did.

7.19.

8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command

Josh. 1.6,7. you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

1 ch. 4. 40. &
5. 16.
Prov. 10.27.
meh. 9.5.

Ex. 3. 8.

• Zech. 14.

18.

Pch. 8.7.

4 Heb. seeketh. 91 Kings 9.3.

ver. 22. ch. 6. 17.

ch. 10. 12.

t Lev. 26.4. ch. 28. 12.

James 5.7.

9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, mwhich 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 garden 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:

12 A land which the Lord thy God careth 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.

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 your heart and with all your soul,

14 That I will give you the rain Joel 2. 23. 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.

P3.104.14.

15 And I will send grass in thy 5 Heb. give. fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest yeat and be full.

ch. 6. 11.

Joel 2. 19.

ch. 29.18. Job 31. 27.

ach. 8. 19. 30.17.

b eh. 6. 15.

• 1 Kings

8.35.
2 Chron. 6.
26. & 7.13.

d ch. 4. 268

& 8.19,20.

& 30.18.

Josh. 23.13, 15, 16.

e ch. 6. 6. & 32.46.

fch. 6.8.

sch. 4. 9,10. 6.7.

16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart 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 dye 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.

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21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your chil- Prov. 3. 2. dren, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, kas the days of heaven upon the Ps. 72.5. 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 m to cleave unto him;

23 Then will the LORD " drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

24 P Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be your's: 9 from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

25 There shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

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26 "Behold, I set before you
this day a blessing and a curse;
27 A blessing, if ye obey the x ch. 23.2.

commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day:

28 And a curse, if ye will not ch. 28.15.
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 put the blessing upon mount Geri-z ch. 27.12, zim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Josh. 8. 33.

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

19 And ye shall teach them your | I set before you this day.

18.

Gen. 12. 6.

Judg. 7.1.

bch. 9.1.

Josh. 1. 11.

ech. 5. 32. & 12.92.

Idolatry to be destroyed.

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a ch. 6. 1.

b ch. 4. 10.

1 Kings 8.

40.

• Ex. 34. 13.

ch. 7. 5.

2 Or.

inherit.

d 2 Kings

16. 4. & 17.

10, 11.

Jer. 3. 6.

e Num. 33. 52.

Judg. 2. 2.

3 Heb.break down.

f ver. 31.

g ver. 11. ch. 26. 2.

1 Kings 8.

29.

2 Chron. 7.

12.

Ps. 78. 68.

DEUTERONOMY, XII. Holy things to be eaten DEUTERONOMY, XIII. Of enticers to idolatry. DEUTERONOMY, XIV.

CHAPTER XII.

1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed.

5 The place of God's service is to be kept. 15, 23 Blood is forbidden. 17, 20, 26 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place. 19 The Levite is not to be forsaken. 29 Idolatry is not to be enquired after.

HESE

are the statutes and

serve to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, ball the days that ye live upon the earth,

2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, d upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their 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 f Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall & choose out Josh. 9. 27. 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 Lev. 17.3, burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your

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7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, m every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

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 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, so that ye dwell in safety;

11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye

ch. 14. 23. &

15.20. & 16.

2, &c. & 17.

8. & 18.6.

& 23. 16. &

23. 2. & 31.

11.

Josh. 18. 1.

1 Kings 8.

29.

Ps. 78.68.

4 Heb. the choice of

your vows.

vow unto the LORD:

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p ver. 7.

12 And Pye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor 9 ch. 10.9 inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

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.

& 14. 29.

Lev. 17. 4.

⚫ver. 1L

15 Notwithstanding thou mayest t ver. 21.

kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy 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 roebuck, 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 freewill offerings, or heave 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 son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

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20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, bas he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul long- &19.& eth 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 roebuck and the ver. 16.

hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

in the holy place.

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d ver. 16.

Heb.

be strong.

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 Lee, pour it upon the earth as water.

e Gen. 9. 4.

14.

fch. 4. 40.

Is. 3. 10.

ε Εx. 15. 26.

ch. 13. 18.

1 Kings 11. 38.

h Num. 5. 9,

10. & 18. 19.

11 Sam. 1.

21, 22, 24.

Lev. 1.5,9,

13. & 17.11.

1 ver. 25.

m Ex. 23.23. ch. 19.1. Josh. 23. 4.

3 Heb. inheritest, or, possessest them.

ch. 7. 16.

4 Heb. after them.

• ver. 4. Lev. 18. 3, 26, 30.

2 Kings 17. 15.

5 Heb. abo

mination of the.

P Lev. 18.21.

& 20.2.

ch. 18. 10. Jer. 32. 35. Ezek.23.37.

q ch. 4. 2. & 13.18. Josh. 1. 7. Prov. 30.6. Rev. 22. 18.

Zech.10.2.

b Matt. 24.

24.

2 Thess. 2.9.

• See

ch. 18. 22.

Jer. 28. 9.

Matt. 7. 22.

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.

26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

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, 1 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;

30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not shared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire 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 Peven 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: 9 thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

CHAPTER XIII.

1 Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near soever unto thee, 9 are to be stoned to death. 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared.

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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 beh. 17.7.& the midst of thee.

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy 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;

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;

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8 Thou shalt mnot consent unto mProv.1.10.

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; thine 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 thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

11 And Pall Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of

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Of meats clean

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CHRIST 1451.

certain, that such abomination is
wrought among you;

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge u Ex. 22. 20. of the sword, "destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Lev. 27. 28. Josh. 6. 17, 21.

16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street Josh.6.24. thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it Josh. 8.28. shall be van heap for ever; it shall

Is. 17. 1. & 25. 2. Jer. 49. 2.

zch. 7. 26. Josh. 6. 18.

2 Or, devoted.

a Josh. 6.26.

b Gen.22.17.

& 26.4, 24. & 28. 14.

28, 32.

not be built again.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, bas he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the ch. 12.25, voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

▲ Rom. 8.16.

& 9.8,26. Gal. 3. 26.

CHAPTER XIV.

and unclean.

eth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

BEFORE

CHRIST 1451.

(Lev.11.26,

27.

9These ye shall eat of all that & Lev. 11. 9. 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.

eat.

11-Of all clean birds ye shall

12 But these are they of which Lev.11.13. ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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 cuckow, 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 kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

1 God's children are not to disfigure them-
19 And every creeping thing that
selves in mourning. 3 What may, and what flieth is unclean unto you: they

may not be eaten, 4 of beasts, 9 of fishes, 11 of fowls. 21 That which dieth of itself may not be eaten. 22 Tithes of divine service.

23 Tithes and firstlings of rejoicing before the Lord. 28 The third year's tithe of alms and charity.

Y

E are the children

of the LORD

your God: bye shall not cut b Lev.19.28. yourselves, nor make any baldness

& 21.5. Jer. 16. 6.

& 41. 5.

& 47.5.

1 Thess. 4.

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between your eyes for the dead.

2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the 34 pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, 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; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the swine, because it divid

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