and manslaughter. Before NUMBERS. him without the borders of the city CHRIST of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; the shall not be guilty of blood: 1451. + Heb. no blood shall be to him, Ex. 22, 2. u ch. 27. 11. Of the marriage of heiresses. Before 1451. the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their CHRIST inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be 28 Because he should have remain-put to the inheritance of the tribe ed in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession." 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by x Deut. 17. 6. the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. & 19. 15. Matt. 18. 18. 2 Cor. 13. 1. Heb. 10, 28. 31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, + Heb. faulty which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. to die. y Ps. 106. 38. z Gen. 9, 6. Deut. 21. 23. b Ex.29,45,46. a ch. 28. 29. b ch. 26, 55, & 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. રી 34 Defile not therefore the land CHAPTER XXXVI. AND the chief fathers of the fami- с 2 And they said, b The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was comJosh, 17.3,4.manded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. c ch. 27, 1, 7. 3 And if they be married to any of 4 And when the jubilee of the Lev. 25. 10. children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Josephi hath said well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they + Heb. think best; fonly to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And hevery daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY. Before CHRIST 1451. CHAPTER I. 1 Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the story 6 of God's promise, 13 of giving them offcers, 19 of sending the spies to search the land, 84 of God's anger for their incredulity, 41 and disobedience. A Josh. 9.1, 10. THESE to whicon uses HESE be the words which Moses side Jordan in the wilderness, 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 bunto Kadesh-barnea.) & 22. 4, 7. Į Or. Zuph. b Num. 13.26 ch. 9 23. eNum.33.38. 1451. d Num. 21.24, 33. e Num. 21.33. Josh. 13. 12. 1491. fEx. 3. 1. 1. Num. 10. 11. neighbours. 3 And it came to pass "in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 d After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth "in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us fin Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt g See Ex. 19. long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, +Heb. all his and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your 1 Gen. 12.7.& fathers, h Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed + Heb. given. 15. 18. & 17. 7, 8. & 26. 4. & 28, 13. i Ex. 18. 18. after them. 9 And I ispake unto you at that Num. 11. 14. time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: k Gen. 15. 5. 10 The LORD your God hath multich, 10. 22. &plied you, and, behold, kye are this day as the stars of heaven for multi 28. 62. 12 Sam. 21.3.tude. m Gen. 15. 5. & 22. 17. & 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as n1 Kings 3.8. he hath promised you!) 26. 4. Ex. 32, 13. 9. บ 12 "How can I myself alone bear 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and † made Į pEx. 18. 25. them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and "judge | 4ch. 16. 18. righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. The story of what befell Israel DEUTERONOMY. Before the valley of Eshcol, and searched it, CHRIST | out. 1451. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word eNum 13.27. again, and said, "It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give d Num. 14. 1. 2, 3, 4. Ps. 106.21,25. e ch. 9. 28. † Hob. melted, Josh. 2, 11 fNum. 13.28, 31, 32, 33. ch. 9. 1, 2. g Num. 13.28. h Ex. 14. 14, 25. Neh. 4. 20. i Ex. 19. 4. ch. 32.11. 12. Is. 46. 3, 4 & 63.9. Hos 11 3. See on Acts 13. 18. k Ps. 106. 24. Jude 5. 1 Ex. 13. 21, Ps. 78. 14 in Num. 10. 33. Ez. 20. 6. n ch. 2. 14, 15. 1491. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 h The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet in this thing kye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, "and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of o Num. 11.22. these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 23. Ps. 95. 11. p Num. 14.21, 30. Joshi, 14. 9. Num. 14.24. + Heb. fulfillel to go after. r Num 20. 12. & 27. 14 ch. 3. 26. & 4. 21. & 31. 4. Ps 106.32. a Num. 14 30 t Ex. 24, 13 & 33 11. See 1 Sam. 36 P Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because The hath wholly followed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, t which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: "encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day 2 had no knowledge between good and evil, u Num.27.18, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 19 x Num. 14.31. y Num 14. 3. z Is. 7. 15, 16. Rom. 9 11. a Num. 14.25. # 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. 41 Then ye answered and said unto b Num. 14.40.me, b We have sinned against the C & 20. 1, 22. Judg. 11. 17. a Num. 14.25. ch. 1. 40. 14. 3 Ye have compassed this mountain blong enough: turn you north- See ver, 7, ward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the Num. 20. 14. coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, † no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. + Heh, even to the treading of the sole of the foot. d Gen. 36, 8. Josh, 24. 4. e ch. 8 2, 3, 4. 8 f And when we passed by from fJudg. 11. 18. our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from & Elath, and 81 Kin, 9. 26 from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me, n Num. 21.12. || Or, valley, Num. 13.23. o Num. 13.26. Num 14.33. & 26 64. Num 14 35. ch, 1. 34, 35 Ez, 20. 15. r Ps. 78. 33. & 106. 26. 12 m The Horim also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them. 13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. n 14 And the space in which we came "from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; P until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD Sware unto them. 15 For indeed the "hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 T So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying, 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any. possession: because I have given it Gen. 19. 38. unto the children of Lot for a possession. on their way toward Canaan. sess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 d 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 shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 26 T And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, Before CHRIST 1451. d Ex. 15. 14, 15. -h. 11. 25 Josh, 2. 9, 10, e ch. 20. 10. 22. 27 Let me pass through thy land: IfNum. 21.21, will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor Judg. 11. 19. to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet: 29 (h As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me:) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. g Num. 20. 19. h See Num. 20. 18. ch. 23. 3. 4. Judg. 11. 17, 18. 30 i But Sihon king of Heshboni Num. 21.23. would not let us pass by him: for k the LORD thy God hardened his kJoshi. 11. 20. spirit, and made his heart obstinate, | 1 Ex 4. 21. that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth thi day. 31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. m eh. 1. 8. 32 "Then Sihon came out against n Num.21.23. us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 0 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: a ch. 7. 2. 20. 16 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the rch, 3, 12, & brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD P. 44, 3. our God delivered all unto us: 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto u whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us. CHAPTER III. 1 The story of the conquest of Og king of Bashan. 11 The bigness of his bed. 12 The distribution of those lands to the two tribes and half. 23 Moses' prayer to enter into the land. 26 He is permitted to see it. TH THEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and "Og the The conquest of Og. Before 1461. DEUTERONOMY. Moses' prayer to see the land. Before CHRIST 1451. king of Bashan came out against us, | river Jabbok, which is the border CHRIST he and all his people, to battle bat of the children of Ammon; Edrei. 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under y Num. 34.11. Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. beh. 1. 4. c Num. 21.34. & Num. 21.35 el Kin. 4. 13. fch. 2. 21. 12. & 136, 19, 29, 21. 2 And the LORD said 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 didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: dand we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. е 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king fof HeshP.135.10.11. bon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. gch. 4. 48. Ps 29.6. h1 Chr. 5 23. ich, 4, 49 k Josh 12. 5. & 13, 11. 1 Amos 2. 9. m Gen. 14. 5. n 2 Sam. 12. 26, Jor. 49. 2. o ch. 2. 36. Josh. 12. 2. p Num.32, 33 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it h Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and kall Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead 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 possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and P the cities thereJosh. 12 6.& of, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 18 ¶ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: bye shall pass over armed under before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are † mect for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. 21 T And'd I commanded Joshua at a Num.27.18. that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. |