the chief fathers of the Israelites, 2. And said, The Eternal commanded my lord to divide the land by lot among the Israelites, and to give the possession of Zelophehad our brother, to his daughters 3. And if they be married to any in other tribes, then shall their inheritance be added to that family; thus will our paternal inheritance be disjoined and diminished forever. 4. And even when the Jubilee shall come it shall continue. 5. Then Moses having enquired of the Eternal, said, The posterity of Joseph's tribe have said right. 6. The Eternal commanded concerning Zelophehad's daughters, that they should marry only in their own tribe; 7. That their inheritance remain in it, and be not removed to another. 8. But women who have no inheritance, may marry into any tribe they please, as they have no land to alienate. 9. But possessions shall not be removed from one tribe to another; 10. For the Eternal hath so commanded. 11. Zelophehad's five daughters were married to their father's brother's sons. 12. So their inherit ance remained in their own tribe, 13. As the Eter nal commanded in the valley of Moab, by Jordan, opposite to Jericho. THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY. CHAP. I. MOSES REPEATS GOD'S PROMISES. MOSES spake to the Israelites the words of this book in the wilderness, on the east side of Jordan, in the valley opposite to the Dead Sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2. (There are eleven days journey from Horeb, the way of mount Seir, by Kadesh-barnea). 3. On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after their exit from Egypt, Moses rehearsed to the Israelites all that the Eternal commanded him. 4. After having slain Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei. 5. Moses thus declared and explained the law, in the land of Moab. 6. The Eternal, our God, said to us at Horeb, Ye have dwelt long by this mountain; 7. Take now your journey to the mountains of the Amorites, and all the adjacent places on the plain, the hills, and on the vale, to the south, and to the north, Canaan, and Lebanon, even to the great river Euphrates. 8 Lo, the land is before you to possess, which the Eternal solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for their seed. 9. I said to you then, I am not able to bear the weight of all your affairs alone. 10. The Eternal your God hath multiplied you as the stars of heaven. 11. May the Eternal, the God of your fathers, encrease you still a thousand fold more, and bless you, as he promised. 12. I cannot alone bear the toil of your causes, your provisions, and all your contentious matters; 13. Chuse ye men from among your tribes known for wisdom and understanding, and I will constitute them rulers over you, (Exod. xviii. Numb. ii.) 14. Then ye answered, It is good for us to do as thou hast said. 15. So I took the chief of your tribes, men knowing and wise, and made them officers over you, rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. 16. And I charged then the judges to attend to the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously both between Israelites, and the strangers among you. 17. Ye shall not respect any person in judgement, but attend to the small as well as the great; you shall fear no man for the judgement is God's; you are God's vicegerents. And bring any difficult matter to me. 18. So I gave you commands then concerning all you ought to do. 19. And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, as you have seen, on your way to the Amorites' mountains, as the Eternal your God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20. Then I said to you, The Eternal our God gives us the Amorites' mountains to which ye are come. 21. Lo, he hath set the land before you, go and possess it, as he, the Eternal, the God of your fathers, said to you: fear not, nor be discouraged. 22. Then ye all came to me, and said, We will send men before us to view the land, and tell us what way we must go, and to what cities we shall enter. 23. This proposal pleased me; and I took twelve men, one of each tribe, 24. Went across the mountains, and went to the valley of Eshcol, viewing the land. 25. And brought us some of its fruits, and said, It is a good land which the Eternal, our God, giveth us. 26. Yet ye would not go, but rebelled against the Eternal your God's command; 27. And murmured in your tents, saying, Because the Eternal hated us, he brought us from Egypt, to deliver us to the Amorites, to destroy us. 28. How shall we go? our brethren have discouraged us, saying, The people are greater and stronger than we; the cities are great, and their walls very high; we also saw the Anakim's posterity (terrible giants) there. 29. Then I said to you, Fear not, nor dread them. 30. The Eternal, your God, who leads you, will discomfit your enemies, like to all that he did for you before your eyes in Egypt, 31. And in the wilderness, where you have seen that he bare you all the way into this place, as a man doth his son. 32. Notwithstanding all this extraordinary support, ye did not trust in the Eternal your God, 33. Whọ went before you in a fire by night, to shew you the way, and in a cloud by day, to shade you from the heat, to chuse a place to pitch your tents in. 34. And the Eternal, hearing your murmuring, was angry, and sware, saying, 35. Surely not one of this evil generation shall see that good land, of which I sware to their fathers to give their posterity, 36. Save Caleb, Jephunneh's son, and Joshua, the son of Nun. To Caleb will I give the land on which he trod, and to his posterity, because he hath done what was right in the Eternal's sight with all his heart. 37. Moreover, the Eternal was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go into that land; 38. But Joshua, the son of Nun, thy attendant, shall go into it: encourage him, for he shall put Israel in possession of it. 39. Your little ones also, who, ye said, would be a prey, and your children, who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, shall enter into it. 40. But turn ye, and traverse the wilderness along the Weedy Sea. 41. Then ye said, We have sinned against the Eternal, we will go and fight, according to all that our God commanded us: then every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and was ready to ascend the hill. 32. Then the Eternal said to me, Say to them, Go not to fight, lest ye be smitten by your enemies; for I am not with you. 43. And though I spake to you, ye would not hear. ken, but rebelled against the Eternal's command, and went presumptuously up to the mountains. 44. And the Amorites, and Canaanites, who dwelt on the mountains, came out, and chased you before them, as bees do, and overthrew you from Seir, even to Hormah. 45. Then ye returned and wept before the Eternal; but he would not hearken nor regard you. 46. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, as ye had done before. CHAP. II. THE STORY TOUCHING THE EDOMITES, &c. THEN we turned, and journeyed into the wilder ness, along the Weedy Sea, as the Eternal ordered me, and compassed Mount Seir many days. 2. Then the Eternal said to me, 3. You have recompassed this mountain long, turn northward; 4. And command the people, saying, Ye are to pass by the boundaries of your brethren, the Edomites, in Seir, who will be afraid of you. 5. Meddle not with them, for I will not give you a foot of their land, because I have given Mount Seir to Edioin for a possession. 6. Ye shall purchase food to eat, and water to drink, from them for money. 7. For the Eternal hath given thee abundance, and cared for |