Threatenings andpromises. CHAP. VIII, IX. CHAP. VIII. An exhortation to obedience. ALL the commandments which I command Pride forbidden. 6 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing to be a special people unto himself, above all people 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 thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because land, which the LORD Sware unto your fathers. he would keep the oath which he had sworn un- 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which to your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove the house of bond-men, from the hand of Pha-thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether raoh king of Egypt. thou wouldest keep his commandinents, or no. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to is God, the faithful God, which keepeth cove-hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou nant and mercy with them that love hiin and keep knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that 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. he might make thee know that man doth not Hive 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the command-did thy foot swell these forty years. ments, and the statutes, and the judgments, 5 Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as which I command thee this day, to do then. a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hear-chasteneth thee. ken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and covenant and the mercy which he sware unto to fear him. thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or feinale barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will pat none of the evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil-olive, and honey; 9 A 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 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 12 Lest when thou bast eaten, and art full, and 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These na-hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; tions are more than I, how can I dispossess them? 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and al well remember what the LORD thy God did unto that thou hast is multiplied; Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 14 Then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorGod do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. pions, and drought, where there was no water: 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the who brought thee forth water out of the rock of hornet among them, until they that are left, and flint; hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest tlie beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Load thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might Irumble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end: 17 And thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God! for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all 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 destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX. Moses rehearseth Israel's rebellions. EAR, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day to go in to possess nations HE rehearsed by Mosce. greater and mightier than thyself, cities great you to destroy you.) But the LORD hearkened and fenced up to heaven, unto me at that time also. 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak? 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as ground it very small, even until it was as sinall a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he as dust: and 1 cast the dust thereof into the shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt brook that descended out of the mount. thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from KaLORD thy God hath cast them out from before desh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD which I have given you; then ye rebelled against hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. drive them out from before thee. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the upright-from the day that I knew you. ness of thy heart dost thou go to possess their 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days land: but for the wickedness of these nations, and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; bethe LORD thy God doth drive them out from because the LORD had said he would destroy you. fore thee, and that he may perform the word 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abra-O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine ham, Isaac, and Jacob. inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy of Egypt with a mighty hand. righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provo-Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this peokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilder-ple, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: ness: from the day that thou didst depart out of 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, out, say, Because the LORD was not able to bring ye have been rebellious against the LORD. them into the land which he promised them, 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, and because he hated them, he hath brought so that the LORD was angry with you to have them out to slay them in the wilderness. destroyed you. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance 9 When I was gone up into the mount, to re-which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power ceive the tables of stone, even the tables of the and by thy stretched out arm covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread, nor drink water: CHAP. X. God's mercy in restoring the tables. T that time the LORD said unto me, Hew Athee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two 3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. down quickly from hence; for thy people which 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have cor- first writing, the ten commandments, which the rupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the out of the way which I commanded them; they midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and have made them a molten image. the LORD gave them unto me. a 13 Furthermore, the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is stiff-necked people: 5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I 6 And the children of Israel took their journey will make of thee a nation mightier and greater from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: than they. there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; 16 And I looked, and behold, ye had sinned and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers against the LORD your God, and had made you of waters. a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of 8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe the way which the LORD had commanded you. of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. him, and to biess in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither according as the LORD thy God promised him. eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your 10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and 19 (For I was afraid of the anger and hot dis- the LORD would not destroy thee. pleasure wherewith the LORD was wroth against 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy Love to strangers. CHAP. XI, XII. Blessing and curse proposed journey before the people, that they may go in 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: and possess the land which I sware unto their the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon fathers to give unto them. it, from the beginning of the year even unto the 12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD end of the year. thy God require of thee but to fear the LORD thy 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken God, to walk in all his ways, and to love hini, diligently unto my commandments which I comand to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart mand you this day, to love the LORD your God, and with all thy soul, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. 14 That will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and against you, and he shut up the heaven, that Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, there be no rain, and that the land yield not her which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the 18 Hle doth execute the judgment of the father- good land which the LORD giveth you. less and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in him food and raiment. your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God bath made theeasthestars of heaven for multitude. CHAP. XI. TH An exhortation to obedience. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thy house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these comTHEREFORE thou shalt love the LORD thy mandments which 1 command you, to do them, God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his his judgments, and his commandments, always. ways, and to cleave unto him; 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sca shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he of you, and the dread of you upon all the land made the water of the Red sea to overflow them that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 26 1 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 Ablessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day; 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the comthe sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the mandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them out of the way which I command you this day, up, and their households, and their tents, and to go after other gods which ye have not known. all the substance that was in their possession, in 29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD the midst of all Israel: thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whith 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of er thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the command-mount Ebal. 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Morch? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. CHAP. XII. THESE Idols must be destroyed. are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to posseNI God's place of worship to be kept. DEUTERONOMY. Blood forbidden ft, all the days that ye live upon the earth. which the LORD hath given thee, as I have com21 Yeshall utterly destroy all the places, where-manded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates In the nations which ye shall possess served their whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, hills, and under every green tree: so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 51 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come : 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerfngs, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 23 Only be sure that thon eat not the blood: 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 water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the 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. 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. 29 1 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, 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: 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD by following them, after that they be destroyed your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell from before thee; and that thou inquire not after there; thither shall ye bring all that I command their gods, saying, How did these nations serve you; your burnt-offerings,and your sacrifices, your their gods? even so will I do likewise. titles, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: for every abomination to the LORD which he 12And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, hateth have they done unto their gods; for even ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your their sons and their daughters they have burnt men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the in the fire to their gods. Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as 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: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that 1 command thee. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest 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 may cat thereof, as of the roe-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, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, or heave-offering of thy hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place 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 thy hands unto. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor dimin ish from it. CHAP. XIII. Against enticers to idolatry. of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, F there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD 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 put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee 20 1 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will cat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people 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; 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, 8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,lunto him; neither shall thinc eyepity him, ueither Idolatrous cities to be destroyed. CHAP. XIV, XV. shalt thou spare, neither shait thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him, thy hand shall cormorant, be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Tithes of increase 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 10 And thou shalt stone hini with stones that 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unhe die; because he hath sought to thrust thee clean unto you: they shall not be eaten. away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is no more any such wickedness as this is,among you. in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, sell it unto an alien: for thou art a holy people which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe there, saying, a kid in his mother's milk. 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of out from among you, and have withdrawn the thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy serve other gods, which ye have not known; God, in the place which he shall choose to place 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy the thing certain, that such abomination is herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn wrought among you; to fear the LORD thy God always. 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 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 a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thec, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set 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 thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for what17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed soever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for thing to thy hand that the LORD may turn from sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat and have compassion upon thee, and multiply there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. CHAP. XIV. Y Of meats clean and unclean. E are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. rejoice, thou, and thy household. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 ¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy 2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the peculiar people unto himself, above all the na-work of thy hand which thou doest. tions that are upon the earth. 3¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. CHAP. XV. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: The AT the end of every seven years thou shak ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallowdeer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois. 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. 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. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them but that which is thine with thy brother thy that chew the cud, or of them that divide the clo-hand shall release: ven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the co- 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; ney for they chew the cud, but divide not the for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an in8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, heritance to possess it: yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. 9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall cat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 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 night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 5 Only 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 thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and 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, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth. |