3 his stretched out arm, and his 'signs', and his works', which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this 6 place; and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that "followed them', in the midst of all Israel: 7 °but your eyes have seen all the great Iwork of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the 'commandment which I command 'thee! this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither 9 ye go over to possess it; and that ye may prolong your days 'upon the land, which the LORD sware your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land 'flowing with 10 milk and honey. For the land, whither

unto

thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, 11 as a garden of herbs: °but the land,

whither ye go lover' to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh 12 water of the rain of heaven: a land

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which the LORD thy God 'careth for; the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

And it shall come to pass, if 'ye! shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and (14 with all your soul, that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the Iformer rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and 15 thy wine, and thine oil. And I will Igivel grass in thy fields for thy cattle,

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and thou shalt eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship

1 Heb. seeketh after.

(17 them; and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these 'my words in your heart and in your soul; and 'ye shall' bind them for a sign upon your hand, 'and' they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, 'talking' of them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the

door posts of thine house, and upon 21 thy gates that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of 'the heavens above the 22 earth. For if ye shall diligently keep

all this commandment' which I com- * mand you, to do it!; to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to *23) cleave unto him; then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24) Every place whereon the sole of your 'foot' shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be (25 your 'border". There shall no man be able to stand before you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath spoken' unto you.

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Behold, I set before you this day 27 a blessing and a curse; the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, 28 which I command you this day: and Ithe curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

beyond Jordan, behind the way of the Igoing down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the 'Arabah', over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 31 °For ye are to 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 the judgements which I set before you this day.

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These are the statutes and 'the' judgements, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, 'hath given' thee to possess it, all the days that 2 ye live upon the earth. Ye shall isurely destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and 3 under every green tree: and 'ye! shall break down their altars, and Idash in pieces' their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and 'yel shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy 'their name out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 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, 6 and thither thou shalt come: and thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd' and of your 'flock': 1 and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that 'yel put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the 8 LORD thy God hath blessed thee. "Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes: °for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the (10 LORD your God giveth thee!. But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God Icauseth' you to inherit, and he giveth you rest from all your enemies round 11 about, so that ye dwell in safety; then lit shall come to pass that the place

1 Or, Iterebinths

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 offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow 12 unto the LORD: and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no 'portionꞌ nor inheritance with 13 you. "Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every 14 place that thou seest: 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 I command thee. 15) Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within' all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle', and as 16 of the hart. Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it 'out' 17 upon the earth as water. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, nor the heave 18 offering of thine hand: but thou Ishalt 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 manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hand' 19 unto. Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land'.

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When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth' to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after 21) 'all the desire of thy soul. If the place which the LORD thy God 'shall choose to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of

Or, lobelisks!

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thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat Iwithin' thy gates, after all the desire 22 of thy soul. Even as the gazelle' and las' the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat 'thereof the unclean and the clean 23 shall eat 'thereof alike. Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not 24 eat the life with the flesh. °Thou

shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it 25 out upon the earth as water. "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 leyes 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 27 choose 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 28 the flesh. 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 eyes of the LORD thy God.

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When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to possess them, and thou possessest' them, and 30 dwellest in their land; take heed to thyself that thou be not 'ensnared 1to follow them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do like31 wise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters 'do they burn' in the fire to their gods.

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 3 them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether yel love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your 4 soul. 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 5) unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed 'theel out of the house of bondage, to 'draw thee laside' out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast (7 not known, thou, nor thy fathers; of the gods of the peoples' 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 8 of the earth; thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt 9 thou conceal him: but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the 10 people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to draw thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, 'out of1 11 the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee'.

5 Or, in

Heb. sons of worthlessness.

drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other 14 gods, which ye have not known; then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the 15 midst of thee; 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 16 sword. 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, unto the LORD thy God: and it shall be lan! "heap for ever; it 11 shall not be built again. And there shall cleave nought of the devoted' thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy 18 fathers; 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.

141 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your * 2 eyes for the dead. For thou art lan' holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

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Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. These are the beasts which ye shall eat the ox, the sheep, and 5) the goat, the hart, and the gazelle', and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the 'antelope', and the chamois. And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and "cheweth the cud, 'among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that 'have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the "coney, 'because they chew the cud but 'part' not the hoof, they are unclean unto ) you: and the swine, because the

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Heb. devoting it.

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parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, land' their 'carcases ye shall not touch.

These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath' fins and 10 scales shall ye eat: and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

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Of all clean birds ye may eat. 12 °But these are they of which ye shall not eat the eagle, and the 'gier 13) eagle', and the ospray; and the

glede, and the falcon', and the kite 14 after its kind; and every raven after 15 its kind; and the ostrich', and the

night hawk, and the 'seamew1, and 16 the hawk after its kind; the little

owl, and the great owl, and the 'horned 17 owl'; and the pelican, and the Ivul18 ture, and the cormorant; and the

stork, and the heron after its kind, 19 and the hoopoel, and the bat. And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be (20 eaten. Of all clean fowls ye may

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Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest' give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner' : for thou art lan' holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its' mother's milk.

Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth of the field year by 23 year. And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to cause his name 'to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock'; that thou mayest learn to fear 24 the LORD thy God always. And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, 'because! the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy 25 God shall bless thee: 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 26 God shall choose: and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever

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thy soul desireth', for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul 'asketh of thee and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household: 27 and the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no 'portion' nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and 29 shalt lay it up within thy gates: and the Levite, because he hath no 'portion' nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

151 At the end of every seven years 2) thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent' unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour 'and' his brother; because the LORD's release (3) hath been proclaimed'. °Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thine hand shall release. 4 Howbeit there shall be no poor Iwith thee; (for the LORD will surely bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance 5) to possess it ;) if only thou 'diligently! hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment' which I command thee 6 this day. For the LORD thy God Iwill bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

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If there be with theel a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine 8 hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt 'surely open thine hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which 9 he wanteth. Beware that there be not a 'base' thought in 'thine' heart,

1 Or, release: save when there &c.

saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be 10 sin unto thee. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy 'work', and in all that thou puttest 11) thine hand unto. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt 'surely open thine hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

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If thy brother, 'an' Hebrew man, or lan' Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go (13 free from thee. And when thou 'let

test him go free from thee, thou 14 shalt not let him go empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy 'threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress: las the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou 15 shalt give unto him. And thou shalt

remember that thou wast a bondman in the 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 unto thee,

I will not go 'out' from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, be17 cause he is well with thee; then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy 2servant for ever. And also unto

thy maidservant thou shalt do like18) wise. It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou 'lettest' him go free from thee; for 'to the double of the hire of an hireling' hath he 'served' thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

19 All the firstling males that lare born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God thou shalt do no work with the firstling of 'thine ox', nor shear the 20 firstling of thy flock'. "Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 21 And if it have any blemish, as if it 3 Or, bondwomanl

* Or, Ibondman!