in the holy place. 20 ¶ When the LORD thy God CHRIST shall enlarge thy border, bas he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou may est eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. k ch. 14. 26.b Gen. 15. 14, 15. & 26. 11. & 27. 7. m Judg. 17. 6. & 21. 25. Ex. 31. 24. ch. 11. 24. & 19. 8. 10 But when nye go over Jordan, n ch. 11. 31. ver. 15. 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: d ver. 16. t Heb. be e Gen. 9. 4. o ver. 5, 14, & 15. 20. & 16.2, &c. & 18. 1. 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-of- 17. 8. & 18. ferings, and your sacrifices, your 6. & 23. 16. tithes, and the heave-offering of & 26. 2. & your hand, and all your choice 31. 11. Josh. Vows which ye vow unto the LORD: 12 And Pye shall rejoice before 29. Ps. 78. the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is with in your gates; forasmuch as q he hath no part nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest: 1 Kings 8. 68. p ver. 7. r Lev. 17. 4. 14 But in the place which the s ver. 11. 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. 15 Notwithstanding, thou may-t ver. 21. est 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 u ver. 22. may eat thereof, as of the roe-x ch. 14. 5. & 15. 22. buck, 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, Dor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or beave-offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them be-z ver. 11, 12. fore the LORD thy God in the place & ch. 14. 23. which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine bands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thog forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. 14. 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 c Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23dOnly t be sure that thou eat not the blood; e for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as wa ter. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; fthat it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, g when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and ithy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy 9, 13. & 17. burnt-offerings, the flesh and the 11. 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. Lev. 18.21. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every tabomination 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: q thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAPTER XIII. 1 Enticers to idolatry, 6 hoe near soever unto thee, 9 are to be stoned to death. 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared. 169 Enticers to idolatry to be stoned. IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, DEUTERONOMY. Before CHRIST 1451. a Zech. 10. 2 And the sign or the wonder 2. come to pass, whereof he spake b Matt. 24. unto thee, saying, Let us go after 24. 2 Thess. other gods, which thou hast note See ch. 18. known, and let us serve them; 2.9. 22. 22. Jer. 28. 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto 9. Matt. 7. the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God d proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. d ch. 8. 2. 24. 24. 1 Cor. 11. 19. Before Idolatrous cities to be destroyed make search, and ask diligently; CHRIST and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 1451. u Ex. 22. 20. 21. 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, "destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the x Josh. 6. 24. street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be y an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. y Josh. 8. 28. 25. 2. Jer. 4Ye shall e walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey hise 2 Kings 23. voice, and ye shall serve him, and 3. 2 Chr. 34. 3 ch. 7. 26. f cleave unto him. 31. f ch. 10. 20. Jer. 14. 15. + Heb. spoken revolt against the LORD. Josh. 6. 18. b Gen. 22. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may a turn from the fierceness of his anger, compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, bas he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 5 And that prophet, or that & 30. 20. dreamer of dreams, shall be put tog ch. 18. 20. Josh. 6.26. and shew thee mercy, and have death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD Zech. 13. 3. 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 h ch. 17. 7. put the evil away from the midst of & 22. 21, 22, thee. 7 Namely, of the gods of the peo17. ple 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; 8 Thou shalt m not consent unto m Prov. 1. him, nor hearken unto him; nei- 10. ther shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill n ch. 17. 5. him; thine hand shall be first 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away + Heb. from the LORD thy God, which bond-men. brought thee out of the land of p eh. 17. 13. Egypt from the house of † bondage. & 19. 20. 11 And Pall Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is, among you. 12 T4 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, c ch. 12. 25, 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, eto keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning. 3 What may, and what may not be eaten, 4 of beasis, 9 of fishes, 11 of fowle. 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. a Rom. 8.16. YE & 9. 8, 26. b Lev. 19.28. 1 Thess. 4. ch. 7. 6. Or, bison. ↑ Heb. dishon. E are a the children of the LORD your God: bye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 c 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 TdThou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 e These are the beasts which ye shall eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roo-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the t 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 bare, 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 divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye us go and serve other gods, which. Jude 19. Lev. 11. 26, shall not eat of their flesh, fnor 2 Kings 17.27. ye have not known; 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 nighthawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the giereagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. Lev. 11. 20. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: k they k See Lev. shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 11. 21. Lev. 17. 15. & 22. 8. Ezek. 4. 14. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: m for thou art an holy peoplem ver. 2. unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mo- & 34. 26. ther's milk. n Ex. 23. 19. o Lev. 27.30. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the fieldch. 12. 6, 17. bringeth forth year by year. Neh. 10. 37. p ch. 12. 5, 6, 7, 17, 18. CHAPTER XV. The seventh year a year of release for the poor. 7 It must be no let of lending or giving. 12 An Hebrew servant, le except he will not depart, must in the seventh year go forth free and well furnished. 19 All fratling males of the cattle are to be sanctified unto the Lord. Ex. 21. 2. AT the end of a every seven years & 23. 10, 11. Lev. 25. 2, 4. ch. 31. 10. Jer. 34. 14. + Heb. master of the lending of his hand. b See ch. 23. 20. Or, To the end that there be no poor among you. d ch. 28. 1. e ch. 28. 12, And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which ne shall choose to place his name, there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and a the ch. 15, 19, fch. 28. 13. firstlings of thy herds and of thy 29. flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to from thee, which the LORD thy God carry it; or if the place be too far r ch. 12. 21 shall choose to sot his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul f desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household. Prov. 22. 7. 17. 1 John 3. h Lev. 25.35. ↑ Heb. word. ich. 28, 54, 56. Pro. 23. Im 2 Cor. 9. thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every † creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. 3 b Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release: 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only d if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and e thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and f thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, g thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 h But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine i eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and lit be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and mthine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that n for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath q blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. Jer. 34. 14. 9 Prov. 10. Before 1451. The feast of the passover, &c. thou eat unleavened bread thereCHRIST with, even the bread of affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life. g Ex. 13. 7. h Ex. 12. 10. & 34. 25. Or, kill. r ch. 5. 15. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the & 16. 12. land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it shall be, if he say un- Ex. 21. 5, 6. | to thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do like wise. 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee: for he hath been worth a double hired servant tot See 1s. 16. thee, in serving thee six years: and 14. & 21. 16. the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. 19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. Ex. 13. 2. & 34. 19. Lev. 27. 26. Num. 3. 13. i Ex. 12. 6. k Ex. 12. 8,9. 2 Chr. 35. 13. 23. John 2. 13, 23. & 11. 55. m Ex. 12.16. restraint. Lev. 23. 36. n Ex. 23. 16. & 34. 22. I Or. 4 g And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; h neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not || sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread and m on the seventh day shall be a † solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of thine hand which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, ° ac14. 23. & 16. 1 Cor. 16. 2. cording as the LORD thy God hath x ch. 12. 5, 11, 14. o ver. 17. p ch. 12. 7, q ch. 15. 15. r Ex. 23. 16. Num. 29. 12. wine-press. &c. blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 q And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy f corn, and thy wine. 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy Neh. 8. 9, feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates: t Lev. 23. 39, 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine Tincrease, and in all the works of Idolaters to be put to death. thine bands,therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. CHAPTER XVII. Before CHRIST 1451. Before CHRIST 1451. u Ex. 23. 14, ch. 13. 9. k ver. 12. ch. 13. 5. & 19. 19. 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place 17. & 31 23. Acts 7. 58. which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall givet as het is able, y according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. 18 Judges and officers shait thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 2 Ex. 23 & 34. 20. 15.12 Chr. 19. 10. Hag. 2. 11. Mal. 2. 7. See Ex. 21. 13, 20, 22, Heb. according to the gift of his hand. Cor. 8. 12. y ver. 10. ch. 1. 16. Chr. 23. 4. & 26. 29. 2 Chr. 19. 5, 8. 15. 28. & 22. 2. Num. 35. 11, 16, 19. ch. 19. 4, 10, 11. ch. 12. 5. Ps. 122. 5. & 19. 17. o See Jer. 18. 18. 24. Ezek. 44. The election and duty of a king. witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, m between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and Punto the judge that shall be in those shew thee the sentence of judgment: 19 Thou shalt not wrest judg-a Ex. 23. 2, ch. 19. 17. days, and inquire; 4 and they shall ment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Te Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAPTER XVII. 1 The things sacrificed must be sound. 2 Idolaters must be slain. 8 Hardcontroversies are to be determined by the priests and judges. 12 The contemner of that determination must die. 14 The élection, 16 and duty of a king. 6. Lev. 19. bch. 1. 17. Prov. 24. 23. Ex. 23. 8. Prov. 17. 23. Eccles. 7. 7. Or, matters. Heb. Justice, justice. d Ezek. 18. 5,9 Ex. 34. 13. ! Kings 14. 15. & 16. 33. 2 Kings 17. 16. & 21. 3. 2 Chr. 33. 3. f Lev, 26. 1. Or, statue, or, pillar. 4 f And it be told thee, and thou hest heard of it, and inquired dili-fch. 13. 12, gently, and behold, it be true, and 14. the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judg ment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, uor to the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and t thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presump tuously. 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee y whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply a horses to himself, nor cause the end that he should multiply horses: people b to return to Egypt, to the forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, d Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that e his heart turn not away: neither shall be greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be when he sit teth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of |