Deuteronomy. Mofes Speech to the Ifraelites. dren of Ifrael fhall be, then shall their that the children of Ifrael may enjoy inheritance be put unto the inheritance every man the inheritance of his faof the tribe whereunto they are received: thers. fo fhall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Mofes commanded the children of Ifrael, according to the word of the LORD, faying, The tribe of the fons of Jofeph hath faid well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, faying, Let them marry to whom they think beft; only to the family of the tribe of their father fhall they marry: So fhall not the inheritance of the children of Ifrael remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Ifrael fhall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fatt.ers. 8 And every daughter that poffeffeth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Ifrael, fhall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, The Fifth Book of MOSES, CHAP. I. Mofes in the end of the fortieth year briefly rehearfeth the story, 6 of Gods promife, 34 and bis anger for their incredulity, 41 and difobedience. T Hefe be the words which Mofes fpake unto all Ifrael, on this fide Jordan in the wildernefs, in the plain over against the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir, unto Kadefh-barnea) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the cleventh month, on the firft day of the month, that Mofes spake unto the children of Ifrael, according unco all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had flain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Hefhbon, and Og the king of Bafhan, which dwelt at Aftaroth in Edrei; 5 On this fide Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Mofes to declare this law, Taying, 6 The LORD our God fpake unto us in Horeb, faying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey, nd go to the mount of the Amorites, 9 Neither fhall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Ifrael fhall keep himself to his own inheri tance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Mofes, fo did the daughters of Zelophehad. 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milkah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their fathers brothers fons. 12 And they were married into the families of the fons of Manaffeh the fon of Jofeph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13 Thefe are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Mofes, unto the children of Ifrael in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho. called DEUTERONOMY. and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the fouth, and by the fea-fide, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have fet the land before you: go in and poffefs the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them, and to their feed after them. 9 And I fpake unto you at that time, faying, I am not able to bear you my felf alone: 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the ftars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many mo as ye are, and bless you as he hath promifed you) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your ftrife? 13 Take ye wife men and underftanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and faid, The thing which thou haft spoken, is good for us to do. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, A repetition of fundry Chap. i. ftories and paffages. wife men and known, and made them brethren have difcouraged our heart, heads over you, captains over thousands, faying, The people is greater and taller and captains over hundreds, and captains than we, the cities are great and walover fifties, and captains over tens, and led up to heaven, and moreover we officers among your tribes. have feen the fons of the Anakims there. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, faying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the ftranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not refpect perfons in judgment, but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you fhall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is Gods: and the caufe that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye fhould do. 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you faw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea. 20 And I faid unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath fet the land before thee: go up and poffefs it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath faid unto thee; fear not, neither be difcouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and faid, We will fend men before us, and they fhall fearch us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we fhall come. 23 And the faying pleafed me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of tribe. a 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Efhcol, and fearched 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 faid, It is a good land, which the LORD our God doth give us. 26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God. 27 And ye murmured in your rents, and faid, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to deftroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our 29 Then I faid unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he fhall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes: 3 And in the wilderness, where thou haft feen how that the LORD thy God bare thee as a man doth bear his fon, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you to fearch you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night to fhew you by what way ye fhould go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and fware, faying, 35 Surely there fhall not one of thefe men of this evil generation fee that good land which I fware to give unto your fathers; 36 Save Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, he fhall fee it, and to him will I give the land that he hath troden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. 37 Alfo the LORD was angry with me for your fakes, faying, Thou alfo fhalt not go in thither. 38 But Joshua the fon of Nun, which ftandeth before thee, he fhall go in thi ther. Encourage him: for he fhall caufe Ifrael to inherit it. 39 Moreover, your little ones, which ye faid fhould be a prey, and your children which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall poffefs it. 40 But as for you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red fea. 41 Then ye answered and faid unto me, We have finned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the LORD faid unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight, for ent of the LORD, and went preufly up into the hill. nd the Amorites which dwelt in untain, came out against you, and ou as bees do, and deftroyed you even unto Hormah. nd ye returned and wept before D; but the LORD would not ■to your voice, norgive ear unto ye abode in Kadesh many days, ng unto the days that ye abode CHAP. IL Fory is continued touching the Edo9 the Moabites, 17 the Amzes, 24 and Sihon the Amorite. en we turned, and took our jourey into the wilderness, by the way Red fea, as the LORD fpake unto d we compassed mount Seir many nd the LORD spake unto me, e have compaffed this mountain Heddle not with them; for I will e fhall buy meat of them for mohat ye may eat; and ye fhall alfo water of them for money, that ye Brink. For the LORD thy God hath blef ee in all the works of thy hand: oweth thy walking through this wilderness: thefe forty years the thy God hath been with thee, thou acked nothing. and when we paffed by from our en the children of Efau, which in Seir, through the way of the Can Plash and from Ezion-gaber, as the 11 Which alfo were accounted giants, as the Anakims, but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims alfo dwelt in Seir be fore-time, but the children of Efau fuc ceeded them when they had deftroyed them from before them, and dwelt in cheir ftead, as Ifrael did unto the land of his poffeffion, which the LORD gave unto them. 13 Now rife up, faid I, and get you over the brook Zered: and we went o ver the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from Kadeh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wafted out from among the hoft, as the LORD fware unto them. 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was againft them, to deftroy them from among the hoft, until they were confumed. 16¶So it came to pafs, when all the men of war were confumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD fpake unto me, faying, 18 Thou art to pafs over through Ar, the coaft of Moab, this day. 19 And when thou comeft nigh over against the children of Ammon, diftrefs them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any poffeffion, be caufe I have given it unto the children of Lot for a poffeffion. 20 (That alfo was accounted a land of giants, giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims, 21 A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD deftroy ed them before them, and they fucceeded them, and dwelt in their ftead: 22 As he did to the children of Efau which dwelt in Seir, when he deftroyed the Horims from before them, and they fucceeded them, and dwelt in their ftead mee 24 Rife ye up, take your journey, and pafs over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sibon the Amorite king of Hefhbon, and his land: begin to poffefsit, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee, and the fear of thee, upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who fhall hear report of thee, and fhall tremble, and be in anguish becaufe of thee. 26 And I fent meffengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Hefhbon, with words of peace, faying, Their land diftributed. Og king of Basban. 23 Mofes prayer to enter into the land. 26 He is permitted to fee it. T : Hen we turned and went up the way to Bashan and Og the king of Balhan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD faid unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him as thou didf unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Hefhbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og alfo the king of Ba27 Let me pafs through thy land: Ifhan, and all his people: and we fmote will go along by the high-way, I will him until none was left to him remainneither turn unto the right hand, nor to ing. the left. 28 Thou shalt fell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pals through on my feet: 29 (As the children of Efau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me), until I fhall pafs over Jordan, into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. 30 But Sihon king of Hefhbon would not let us pafs by him: for the LORD thy God hardned his fpirit, and made his heart obftinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 31 And the LORD faid unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to poffefs, that thou mayft inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us, and we fmote him, and his fons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly deftroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city, we left none to remain : 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto our felves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too ftrong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us. 37 Only unto the land of the children ef Ammon thou cameft not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, norunto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us, 4. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threefcore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Barhan. All thefe cities were fenced with high walls, gates and bars, befide unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly deftroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, ur rerly deftroying the men, women, and children of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the fpoil of the cities, we took for a prey to our felves. 8. And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amo rites, the land that was on this fide Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon: 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion: and the Amorites call it Shenir) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bafhan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bafhan: 11. For only Og king of Bafhan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bed-ftead was a bed-ftead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And this land which we poffeffed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites.. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Ba fhan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manaffeh; all the H3 regi region of Argob, with all Bafhan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manaffch took all the country of Argob, unto the coafts of Gefuri,and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bafhan havoh-jair, unto this day. into the land. and north-ward, and fouth-ward, and caft-ward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites, I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the chil-1 dren of Ammon: 17 The plain alfo, and Jordan, and the coaft thereof, from Chinnerech even unto the fea of the plain, even the.faltfea, under Ashdoth-pifgah east-ward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, faying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to poffs it: ye shall pafs over armed before your brethren the children of Ifrael, all that are meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle (for I know that ye have much cattle) fhall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given reft unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they alfo poffefs the land which the LORD your God hath given them. beyond Jordan: and then thall ye return every man unto his poffeflion which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Jofhua at that time, faying, Thine eyes have feen all that the LORD your God hath done unto thefe two kings: fo thall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou paffeft. 22 Ye fhall not fear them: for the LORD your God he fhall fight for you. 23 And I befought the LORD at that time, faying, 24 O Lord GOD, thou haft begun to fhew thy fervant thy greatnefs, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee let me go over, and fee the good land that u beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your fakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD faid unto me, Let it fuffice thee, speak no more unto me of this matter. 28 But charge Jofhua, and encourage him, and ftrengthen him: for he thall go over before this people, and he fhall cause them to inherit the land which thou fhalt fee. 29 So we abode in the valley over againft Beth-peor. CHA P. IV. An exhortation to obedience. 41 Majes appointeth the three cities of refuge on that fide Fordan. No Ów therefore hearken, O Ifrael, unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and poffefs the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye fhall not add unto the word) which I command you, neither fball you diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have feen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath deftroyed them from among you. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God, are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you ftatutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye fhould do fo in the land whicher ye go to pol fefs it. 6 Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wildom and your underftanding in the fight of the nations, which hall hear all these ftatutes, and fay, Surely this great nation is a wife and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there fo great, who hath God fo nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there fo great, that hath ftatutes and judgments fo righ teous, as all this law which I fer before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thy felf, and keep thy foul diligently, left thou forget the things which thine eyes have feen, and left they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them chy fons, and thy fons fons,:.. 27 Get thee up into the top of Pif-10 Specially the day that thou ftoodst gah, and lift up thine eyes weft-ward, before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when |