Cp. Ex. bch. 21. 1. c ch. 21. 4. ⚫ ch. 21. 11. the month. 39 And Aaron was "an I And the LORD spake unto hundred and twenty and three years 34 Moses, saying, 2 Command old when he died in mount Hor. 40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, which dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. 41 And they journeyed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. 42 And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon. 43 And they journeyed from Punon, and dch. 21. 10. pitched in Oboth. 44 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab. 45 And they journeyed from eh. 21. 20. Iyim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. ch.46 And they journeyed from Dibon. gad, and pitched in Almon-diblathaim. 47 And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48 And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even unto Abel- shittim in the plains of Moab. 4 Cp. Jer. 422 (7) & Ezek. 6. 14.09. A Deut. 32. ch. 22. 1. Cp. Josh. Ex. 2 24.33 *413 De at 7. * Lev. 28. 1. Ch. 26. 53, 50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say Deut. 9.1. unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan, 252 then 'ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their "figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places: 53 and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein: for unto you have I given the land to possess it. 54° And ye shall in herit the land by lot according to your families; to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit. 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then shall those which ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, Ja and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. 56 And it shall p. Deut. come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you. 1 Or, for a border the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof,) 3 then "your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the ver. 12. Salt Sea eastward: 4 and your border shall turn about southward of w the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass Josh. along to Zin: and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to " Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon: 5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea. 6 And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the Chr. 13.5. border thereof: this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor: 8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the enter ing in of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad: 9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan : this shall c Ezek. 47. be your north border. 10 And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham : 11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the 2 Kin. 23. east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the 2 side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: 12 and the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea: this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: 14" for the ch.32.33. tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received, their inher & 19. 51. itance: 15 the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the 1 Josh. 14. 1 land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one jch. 1. 4, 16. prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. 19 And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 23 Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod: 24 and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. A See ch. 22. 1. 1 Josh. 14. 3,4 & 21. 2. See Ezek. 45. 1-5 m See Lev. 23.34 & mg. for mg. And the LORD spake unto 35 Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their & 48. 8-14. possession cities to dwell in; and im suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cu1 Or, pasture lands Deut. 4. Josh. 20. 2, 7,8 21.3.13, 21, 27, 32, 36, 38. bits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. 6 And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be " the six n ver. 13. cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee thither: and beside them ye shall give forty and two cities. 7 All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them o Josh. 21. shall ye give with their suburbs. 8 And concerning the cities which ye shall give P of the possession of pJosh.21.3. the children of Israel, from the q ch. 26. 54 many ye shall take many; and from 33. 54. the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites. 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the manslayer which killeth any person 2 unwittingly may flee thither. 12 And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgement. 13 And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. 14" Ye shall give three cities beyond Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities 41. Ex. 21. 12. 14. Lev. 24. 17. Deut. 19. 11, 12. of refuge. 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and v ch. 15. 16. for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge: that every one that killeth any person 2 unwittingly may flee thither. 16" But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall him 2 Or, through error Deut. 19. 6, 12. Josh. 20. Deut. 19. + Dent. 19. 6.12. Josh. 20. 55 a ver. 12. Josh. 20.6. Ex. 29.7. Lev. 4.3 & 21. 10. self put the manslayer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, Ex. 21. 14. lying in wait, so that he died; 21 or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer: the avenger of blood shall put the manslayer to death, when he meeteth him. 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon Ex. 21. 13. him any thing without lying in wait, 23 or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 24 then a the conJosh. 20.6. gregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgements: 25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; 27 and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; 1he shall not be guilty of blood: 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. 29 And these things deh. 27.11. shall be for da statute of judgement unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoso killeth any person, the manslayer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death. 32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein Deut. 17.6 Heb. 10. 28. & 13. 15. Cp. Matt. 1. 16 & John 8. 17 & 2 Car. 13.1 A 1 Tim. 5. 19. Ps. 108. 33. Jer. 3. 1, Cp. Mic. 4.11. 36 25. & 33. 54. ch. 27.1, 7. Josh. 17. 3, 4. 1 And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the jch. 26. 29. son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel: 2 and they said, The ch. 26.55 LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when m the jubile of the children of Israel m Lev. 25. shall be, then shall their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph "speaketh right. 6 This is "Cp. ch. the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for the children of Israel ? shall pCp. 1 Kin. cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an 71 Chr. 23. inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her ch. 27. 1. Josh. 17.3. a ch. 3. 17. Josh. 3. 16 & 11. 2, 16 & 12. 1, 3, 8, al. 21. 14. c 1 Sam. 25. 1. See Num. 10. 12 (?). 35 & 12. 16 & 33. 17 (?). e ch. 2. 14 & 9. 23. Num. & 32. 8 & 34. 4. 13.26 Cp. Num. 33. 38. g See Num. 21.21-32. I See Num. 21. 33-33. father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: 11" for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were с THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED DEUTERONOMY. THESE be the words which I Moses spake unto all Israel beyond Jordan in the wilderness, in athe1Arabah over against 26Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zaCp. Num. hab. 2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, Num. 11. in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei: 5 beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the "South, and m by the sea shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and ich. 3.1, 10. Josh. 12. 4 & 13. 12. j ch. 29. 1. k ch. 2. 3. Cp. Ex. 19. 1 & Num. 10. Cp. Num. 11. 13, 29. 22. 1. Num. 11. Cp. Ex. 18. 14. 18. Cp. ch. 10. 22 see G 24. 3. * Gen. 12. 2 & 22. 17 324. Cp. 1 kin. 3.8, 9. Cp. Ex. 18. 21 16, 17. ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. II" The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you! 12 How can I my self alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, v Ex. 18. 25. captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you .6. w 1 That is, the deep valley running North and South of the Dead Sea. 2 Some ancient versions have, the Red Sea. 4 ch. 8. 15 2. 10. Jer. 2. 6. C. Num. 2012 See ver. 2. ech. 31. 8. Josh. 1.9. unto us. 19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God giveth 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be 22 And ye came near dismayed. unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. 23 And the thing pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one man See Num. for every tribe: 24 and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied 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 giveth unto us. 26 Yet ye would not goup, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your P106.25. God: 27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD d Sum. E 29-27. See Nur 14.1-4. , ch. 9.28. 122. hated us, he hath brought us forth ¿Cp Josh. out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, 21.2 The people is greater and taller See Num. than we; the cities are great and exam. fenced up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God who goeth before you, he shall fight for you, 11, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 and 146.3,4 in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, 3.22. Ex. 14. 14, Jh. 10. 42.3.10. C. Neh. 420 12. Ex. 19. 4. 1 Or, for all this thing 8 n Ps. 106. 24. Jude 5. o See Ex. 13.21. p Num. 10. See ch. 2. Num. 14. 15 until ye came unto this place. 32 Yet in this thing "ye did not believe the LORD your God, 33° who went before you in the way, Pto seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of 7 these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36" save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children: because he hath wholly followed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither: 38 Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: courage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover "your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in. thither, and unto them will I give 15, 16. it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. 41 Then ye answered and said unto me, Ŵe y Num. 14. have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and 2 were forward to go up into the mountain. 42 And the LORD said unto me, x w u en Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 43 So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the mountain. 44° And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, das bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46 Sofye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there. e 2 Or, deemed it a light thing |