[Ver. 18 in Heb.] 11. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false 22 These words the LORD spake See ch.4. 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 jch. 9. 10, & See eh. 4. 12. 1 See eh. 3. 24. 31. ch. 18. 16. w See ch. 4. 40. I Now this is the command- xch. 4.1 x 31 added no more. And he wrote 6 ment, the statutes, and the judge-52.1. them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye Leard 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, and your elders; 24 and ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and 'his Ex. 19. 19. greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth * See ch. 4. speak with man, and he "liveth. 25 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 shall die. 26" 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 lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say and Pspeak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: ch. 18. 17. they have well said all that they ch.22.29 have spoken. 291 Oh that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all Lake 19. my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! 30 Go say to them, Return ye to your tents. 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and 'I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgements, which thou shalt teach them, that they p See Ex. 20. 19. P. 51. 13. 42. . See ch. 4. 40. : Gal. 3. 19. ch. 5. 29 & 13. 4. 13. ments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it: 2 that thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be See ch. 4. prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: 26 the LORD our God is one LORD: 5 and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And d these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thine heart: 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. 99 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thy house, and upon thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fa thers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee; great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 and houses full of all good Cp. Josh. things, which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive trees, 1 Or, Oh that they had such an heart as this alway, to fear me, and keep all my commandments, that &c. 2 Or, the LORD our God, the LORD is one Or, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one Or, the LORD is our God, the LORD alone 30. 8, 9. j Cited Matt. 4. 10 & Luke 4.8. ch. 10. 20. which thou plantedst not, and thou i Cp. Prov. shalt eat and be full; 12 then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; and him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, m of the gods of the peoples which are round about you; 15 for "the & 11. 16, 28 LORD thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth. Josh. 2. 12. Ps. 63. 11. Isai. 45. 23 & 65. 16. Jer. 12. 16. / ch. 8. 19 & 13. 2, 3 & 28. 14. Jer. 25. 6. m ch. 13. 7. n ch. 7. 21. o See Ex. 20. 5. p ch. 7. 4 & 11. 17. 9 Cited & Luke 4. r ch. 9. 22 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him Matt. 4.7 in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18' And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, 19" to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 2-7. See Ex. 17. ch. 11. 22. See ch. 12. Ps. 119. 4. 25. u Ex. 23. 28-30. Num. 33. 52, 53. v Ex. 12. 26 & 13. 14. Cp. Ex. 20. 2. r Ps. 135. 9. See ch. 4. 34. 20" When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgements, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? 21 then thou shalt say unto thy son, "We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 and the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes: 23 and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear 2 ch. 10. 13. the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 25 And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. y ver. 2, 13. Jer. 32. 39. a ch. 4. 1 & 8. 1. Cp. Lev. 18. 5 & Ps. 41. 2. b ch.24. 13. c ch. 31. 3. Ps. 44. 2, 3. d See Ex. 23. 23. a When the LORD thy God 7shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations e greater and mightier e than thou; 2 and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt 29 utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: 3'neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; 'ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and m burn their graven images with fire. 6 For "thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be "a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because the LORD loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God; the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. II "Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgements, which I command thee this day, to do them. 1 Heb. pluck off. 2 Heb. devote. 12" And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these judge ments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with 3 Or, obelisks 4 Or, out of & 28.9. Ex. 19. 6 72. 14. 21. ych. 30. 9. P. 105. 8. thee the covenant and the mercy Luke 1. 55, which he sware unto thy fathers: Cp. John 13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all :Ex. 23. 26. peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the Ex. 9. 14 & 15. 26. b ver. 2. c ch. 13. 8 df ver. 25. Judz. & 27. ch. 1. 29 & 31. 6. & 105. 5. gch. 6. 22 & 11 3. LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and he will put none of a ch. 28. 27, the evil a diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be da snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou P. 77. 11 shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 the great 1 temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and 2 hide themselves, perish from before thee. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the LORD thy God is 'in the midst of thee, a great God and Josh. 3. 19. a terrible. 22 And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 'But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt "make their name to perish from under heaven: Ex. 21. 28. Josh. 24.12. i ch. 6. 15. Num. 11.20 & 14. 14. ch. 10. 17. Neh. 1. 5 & 4. 14 3.32. Cp.ch. 28. *Ex. 2.29, 10. (ver. 2. m Josh. 10. See ch. 9. & 23.2. destroyed them. 25 The graven 1 All the commandment which 8 I command thee this day shall And & 7. 1. tch. 4.1. & 6. 1-3. ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee "these forty years in the wil- uch. 1.3 derness, that he might humble thee, "to prove thee, "to know what was in thine heart, "whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that a man doth not live by bread only, but by every thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 46 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. thou shalt consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 And thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy & Prov. 29. God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, da land of brooks of water, of foun- deh. 11. 10tains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and eCp. Num. fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olives and honey; 9a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. there shall no man be able to 11 Beware lest thou forget the LORD stand before thee, until thou have thy God, in not keeping his com10r, trials See ch. 4. 84, and 29.3. 2 Or, hide themselves from thee, perish 3 Or, quickly Heb. 12. 17 & Hos. 10. 10 & Rev. 3. 19. 12. 20: 5. fch. 6. 11, & 28. 47 4.7. h Ps. 78. 11 i See ch. 1. 19. j Num. 21. 6. Is. 30. 6. 1 Ex. 17. 6. Num. 20. 11. Ps. 78. 15 & 114. 8. Cp. ch. DEUTERONOMY. mandments, and his judgements, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12/lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt Hos. 13.6. therein; 13 and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all Cp. 1 Cor. that thou hast is multiplied; 149 then thine heart be lifted up, and thou h forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 15 who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, * Hos. 13. 5. and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with " manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, " to do thee good at thy latter end: 17 and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for Pit is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; his covenant which he sware unto 7 that he may establish thy fathers, as at this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou shalt forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, "I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God. 32. 13. m ver. 3. Ex. 16. 15. n Cp. Jer. 24. 5-7 11. & Heb. 12 o Cp. ch. 9.4. 10. 22 p Cp. Prov. & Hos. 2.8. q ch. 7. 8, 12. r Cp. ch. 4.26 & 30. 18. s Cp. Dan. 9. 11, 12. t ch. 11. 31 & 12. 10. Josh. 1. 11. u See ch. 4. 38. 13. 22. w ch. 1. 28. I Hear, O Israel: thou art 'to saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: whereas for the wicked- bch. 18. 12. drive them out from before thee. 20. 23. ness of these nations the LORD doth Lev. 18. 24, 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for 18 the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go in to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word d See Gen. which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 Know therefore, that this good land to possess it for thy the LORD thy God giveth thee not righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 7 Remember, forget LORD thy God to wrath in the wilthou not, how thou provokedst the derness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. the tables of stone, even the tables gone up into the mount to receive 9h When I was of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God;. 31. 18. 10 And the LORD to all the words, which the LORD and on them was written according spake with you in the mount out of of the assembly. 11 And it came the midst of the fire in the day ch. 4. 10 9 pass over Jordan this day, to go to pass at the end of forty days Ex. 19. 17. in to possess nations "greater and forty nights, that the LORD and mightier than thyself, cities gave me the two tables of stone, great and fenced up to heaven, 2 a See Num. people great and tall, the sons of even the tables of the covenant. the Anakim, whom thou knowest, Arise, get thee down quickly from Ex. 32. 7, 8. 12 And the LORD said unto me, and of whom thou hast heard say, hence; for thy people which thou Who can stand before the sons of hast brought forth out of Egypt Anak? 3 Know therefore this day, have corrupted themselves; they that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee as "a de- the way which I commanded them; Judg. 2. are quickly turned aside out of m Cp. ch. vouring fire; he shall destroy them, they have made them a molten 17. and he shall bring them down before image. thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD hath spoken unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, ch. 4. 11 & 3. 23. 31. 17. ch. Ex. 34.28. Cp. Pe. 106. 23. I ver. 9. ch. 10. 10. wch. 4. 25. Ex. 32. 14 £33. 17. mightier and greater than they. - Ex. 32. 15. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount Ex. 19. 18. burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two Ex. 32. 19. hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God; ye had made you a molten calf: mye had turned aside Judg. 2. quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I "fell down before the LORD, "as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, win doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against zeh. 10. 10. you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the Ex. 32.20. same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at a Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 And when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 "So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 And I prayed unto the LORD,.and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this : Num. 11. 1-3. Ex. 17.7. * Em 11. 34 Num. 13.3 & 14. L d Ps. 106. ƒ See Ex. 2.11-13. 2 m 1 Kin. 8. Neh. 1. 10. Cp. Ps. 95.7. 21. Ex. 25. 16, Ex. 25. 10 &37. 1. m Ex. 34. 4. Ex. 20. I. See ch. 9. 10. 81 Kin. 8. 9. I At that time the LORD IO said unto me, 'Hew thee two iEx.34.1,2. tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of Ex. 25. 10. wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 So I made an ark of acacia 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 n Ex. 34. 28. the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned and came down q Ex. 34. 29. from the mount, and put the tables r Ex. 40. 20. in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 (And the children of Israel 'journeyed from 2 Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: "there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7" From thence they journeyed un- Num. 33. to Gud godah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8 At that time the LORD w Num. 3.6 separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 9° Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God spake unto him.) 10 And I stayed in the ch. 9. 18, mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the c ch. 9. 19. LORD hearkened unto me that time also; the LORD would not destroy 1 Heb. words. 2 Or, the wells of the children of Jaakan |