1.7. See Lev. 27.30. ch. 14. 28, Cp. Amos 4.4. thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is in the midst of thee. 12 When thou hast made an end Cp. Tobit of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is *the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 and thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof " for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15° Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. P. 119.141, Cp. Lev. 153, 176. 7.20 & 21. 1, 11 & Hos. 9. 4. Cp. Jer. 167 *Tobit 4. 17 & Ecclus. 30.18. Isa. 63. 15. Zech. 2. 13. 16 This day the LORD thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and judgements: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou shouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgements, and hearken unto his voice: 18 and the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be a peculiar people unto himself, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; See ch.7.6. and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. ch. 7. 6 # 14.2. See Ex. 19.5. r ch. 28. 1. ch. P. 86. 9. a w See Ex. 3. 8. commandment which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the day "when ye shall pass oyer u Josh. 4. L. Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: 3" and thou shalt write upon them v Josh. 8.32. all the words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, " land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee. 4 And it shall be when ye are passed over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of 2 unhewn stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: 7 and thou shalt sacrifice peace offerings, and shalt eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. a ch. 11. 29. Josh. 8.30. 15 Cursed be the man that mak- e See Ex. eth a graven or molten image, an 1 And Moses and the elders abomination unto the LORD, the 27 of Israel commanded the peo- work of the hands of the crafts ple, saying, Keep all the man, and setteth it up in secret. 1 Or, for a praise, and for a name, and for an honour 2 Heb. whole. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed be he that setteth light & Jer. 11.5 by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. & 28. 6 & 1 Cor. 14. 16. g Ex. 20. 12 & 21. 17. Lev. 19. 3. See ch. 21. 18-21. 14. See ch. 19. i Lev. 19. 14. j See Ex. 22. 21, 22. A: See Lev. 18. 8. 30. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that wresteth the judgement of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath 1 See ch. 22. uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. in See Lev. 18. 23. n Lev. 18. 9 & 20. 17. Cp. Ezek. 22.11. o Lev. 18. 17 & 20, 14. p ch. 19. 11. m 22" Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 23°Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his Ex. 21. 12, neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen. 14. 7 ch. 16. 19. Ezek. 22. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reEx. 23.7.8. ward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 12. r ch. 28. 15. Jer. 11. 8. Cited Gal. 3. 10. Cp. Ex. 15. 26 & 23, 22 & Isai.55.2. t ch. 26. 19. " ver. 15. Zech. 1. 6. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. I And it shall come to pass, 28 if thou shalt hearken dili gently unto the voice of the & Lev. 25.3 LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: 2 and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and "overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and "blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee: they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall establish thee for an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous for good, in "the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure the heaven to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, Isai. 9. 14, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them; 14 and shalt not turn aside from m See ch. 5. any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 But it shall come to pass, "if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command 120. thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and Ps. 80. 16. Isai. 30. 17 & 51. 20 16. ! See Lev. 26.25. # Lev. 26. 16. 1 Kin. 8. Chr. 6. 28 Hag. 2. 17. 17. te Lev. 26. 13. ch. 32. 30. Lev. 9. 17, Isa. 30. 17. Cp. ver. 7. 8 cursed shalt thou be when thou Mal. 2. 2. goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. 22 "The LORD shall smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with "blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be 2tossed to and fro among all the king doms of the earth. 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and "there shall be none to fray them away. 27 The LORD shall smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the cemerods, Cp.1 Sam. and with the scurvy, and with the P2 itch, whereof thou canst not be Jer. 16.4 healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and with blindCp. ver.25. ness, and with astonishment of el Sam. 5.6 heart: 29 and thou shaltgrope at Le 21.20 noonday, as the blind gropeth in Cp. ver. 34 darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled alway, and there shall be none to save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof. 31 Thine Cp. Mie. 6. ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not Chr.29.8 & mg. for Ing. & 34. 17 45. 17.44.45 & 19.7 e Jer. 1. 33. & mg. & 2.2 & Zech. Job. 14. 12. 10. gch. 20. 5-7. Jer. 8. 10. à Amos 5. 11. Zeph. 1. 13. ich. 20. 6. Lev. 19. 23-25. 15. 1 Or, according to some ancient versions, drought be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the Neh. 5. 5. power of thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34 so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, "with a sore boil, whereof thou » Cp. ver. canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away. 38 & Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39" Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. ch. 4. 28. 7,8 r1 Kin. 9. 2 Chr. 7.20. Mic. 6. 15. & 2. 25. u Zeph. 1. 13. 13. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself Mic. 6. 15. with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go w Lam. 1. 5. into captivity. 42 All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. 43 The stranger Cp. ver. that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower. 44" He shall Cp. ver. lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 And all z ver. 15. these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his plague boils a Cp. Isai. b Neh. 9. c Jer. 28. 14. d Cp. Jer. 5. 6. 22, 23 15-17 & Baruch 4. 15. See Isai. 5. e Jer. 48. 40 26-30. & 49. 22. Lam. 4. 19. Hos. 8. 1. Hab. 1. 8. 17. 3, 12. Isai. 28. 11 & 33. 19. Jer. 5. 15. 36. 17 & Isai. 47.6 & Baruch 4. 15. hver. 33. Jer. 5. 17. Cp. Isai. 62.8, 9. DEUTERONOMY. statutes which he commanded thee: 46 and they shall be upon theea for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever: 47 because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things: 48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 dThe LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 a nation of fierce countenance, 9 which shall not regard the person of the old, nor Cp. Ezek. shew favour to the young: 51 and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until Cp. 2 Chr. thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or the young of thy flock, until he have caused thee to perish. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee. 54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, 'his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he hath remaining: 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; "in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates. 56°The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and 17.5 Cp. 2 Kin. & 25.1,2,4. j ver. 57. Lev. 26. 29. Ezek. 5. 10. Cp. ? Kin. 6.28, 29 & Lam. 2. 20 Jer. 19. 9. & 4. 10 & 2 Esd. 15. 58 & Baruch 2.3. ever. 55, 57. 7 See ch. 15. 9. m cl. 13. 6. n ver. 53. O ver. 54. [CHAP. 28, v. 67. 15. toward her daughter; 57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly: "in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not oblaw that are written in this book, serve to do all the words of this that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, "THE LORD THY pEx. 6. 3. thy plagues wonderful, and the GOD; 59 then the LORD will make plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 And he will bring Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; upon thee again all the diseases of See ch. 7. and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left rch. 4.27. few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD 'rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will "rejoice over you stroy you; and ye shall be plucked to cause you to perish, and to deest in to possess it. 64 And the from off the land whither thou goLORD " shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt not known, thou nor thy fathers, serve other gods, which thou hast even wood and stone. among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no 65 And rest for the sole of thy foot: but trembling heart, and failing of eyes, the LORD shall give thee there a a Cp. Lev. life shall hang in doubt before thee; and pining of soul: 66 and thy bLev. 26.16. and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 in the morning thou cJob 7.3, 4. shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and d for the sight of thine eyes d ver. 34. 1 Or, afterbirth [Ch. 29. 1 in Heb.) Ex. 19. 4. Cp. Josh. 23.3. * Cp. Isai. 6.9, 10 & 63. 17 & John 8. $3 & Acts 25. 5,27 8.10. ? ch. 1. S && 2, 4. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, 'Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and See ch. 4. unto all his land; 3 the great temptations which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 4 but *the LORD hath not given you an heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And 'I have led you forty years in the Rom. 11. Wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Amos 2. 10. 6m Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, "Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites. 9P Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye in. 2.3 may prosper in all that ye do. Acts 13. 18. m ch. 8. 3. See Ex. 16.4. * ch. 2. 24. 为3.1. 3.32 See Num. 21.21-24, o eh. 3. 12, pch. 4. 6. Josh. 1. 7 kmg. for k mg. for 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in C Josh. the midst of thy camps, from the ...hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the Neh. 16.29. LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 that he may 'establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that "he may be unto thee a God, as he spake fch. 29.9. * Ex. 6. 7. unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only " do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also x Cp. Acts with him that is not here with us this day: 16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and a 6 2. 39. (mg.). Heb. 12. 15. Ps. 74. 1. Ps. 79. 5. Ps. 80. 4 (mg.). how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that y Acts 8.23 beareth 2 gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine heart, to destroy the moist with the dry: 20 the LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and "his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from c See ch. under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. 22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall d ver. 24. say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick; 23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men h 1 Or, deal wisely 2 Heb. rosh, a poisonous herb. 3 Or, oath and so vv. 20, 21. 4 Or, to add drunkenness to thirst |