All communion with the

CHAP. VIII.

nations is forbidden.

other gods: so will the anger of the LORD but shalt well remember what the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all suddenly.

Egypt;

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye 19 The great temptations which thine shall destroy their altars, and break down eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, their images, and cut down their groves, and the mighty hand, and the stretched and burn their graven images with fire. out arm, whereby the LORD thy God 61 For thou art a holy people unto brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God God do unto all the people of whom thou hath chosen thee to be a special people art afraid.

unto himself, above all people that are 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will upon the face of the earth. send the hornet among them, until they 7 The LORD did not set his love upon that are left, and hide themselves from you, nor choose you, because ye were thee, be destroyed. more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he 22 And the LORD thy God will put out had sworn unto your fathers, bath the those nations before thee by little and litLORD brought you out with a mighty hand, tle: thou mayest not consume them at and redeemed you out of the house of once, lest the beasts of the field increase bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh king upon thee.

of Egypt. 23 ¶ But the LORD thy God shall de9Know therefore that the LORD thy liver them unto thee, and shall destroy God, he is God, the faithful God, which them with a mighty destruction, until they keepeth covenant and mercy with them be destroyed.

that love him and keep his commandments 24 And he shall deliver their kings into 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.

thine 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 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the com- shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not demandments, and the statutes, and the judg-sire the silver or gold that is on them, nor ments, which I command thee this day, take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the

to do them.

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if LORD thy God. ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomiand do them, that the LORD thy God shall nation into thine house, lest thou be a keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly which he sware unto thy fathers: detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

CHAP. VIII.

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 ALL thd thee this day shall ye observe land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine

the commandments which I com

oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and of thy sheep, in the land which he sware go in and possess the land which the LORD unto thy fathers to give thee. sware unto your fathers.

14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peo- 2 And thou shalt remember all the way ple: there shall not be male or female which the LORD thy God led thee these barren among you, or among your cattle. forty years in the wilderness, to humble 15 And the LORD will take away from thee, and to prove thee, to know what was thee all sickness, and will put none of the in thine heart, whether thou wouldest evil diseases of Egypt (which thou know- keep his commandments, or no. est) upon thee; but will lay them upon all 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered them that hate thee. thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna,

18 And thou shalt consume all the peo-which thou knewest not, neither did thy ple which the LORD thy God shall deliver fathers know; that he might make thee thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon know that man doth not live by bread only, them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; but by every word that proceedeth out of for that will be a snare unto thee. the mouth of the LORD, doth man live.

17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than 1, how can dispossess them?

is Thou shalt not be afraid of them:

4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son,

Obedience to God's will.

DEUTERONOMY.

The Israelites' rebellions so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the com- of whom thou hast heard say, Who can mandments of the LORD thy God, to walk stand before the children of Anak! in his ways, and to fear him. 3 Understand therefore this day, that

7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee the LORD thy God is he which goeth over mto a good land, a land of brooks of water, before thee; as a consuming fire he shall of fountains, and depths that spring out of destroy them, and he shall bring them down valleys and hills; before thy face: so shalt thou drive them 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a hath said unto thee. land of oil-olive, and honey;

4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread that the LORD thy God hath cast them out without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any from before thee, saying, For my rightthing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and eousness the LORD hath brought me in to out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. possess this land: but for the wickedness 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, of these nations the LORD doth drive them then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for out from before thee. the good land which he hath given thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to thy God, in not keeping his command-possess their land: but for the wickedness ments, and his judgments, and his statutes, of these nations, the LORD thy God doth which I command thee this day : drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

12 Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13 And when thy herds and thy flocks 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is thy God giveth thee not this good land to multiplied, and all that thou hast is multi-possess it for thy righteousness; for thou plied; art a stiff-necked people.

14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou thou forget the LORD thy God, which provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, the wilderness: from the day that thou from the house of bondage; didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until

15 Who led thee through that great and ye came unto this place, ye have been reterrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ser-bellious against the LORD.

pents, and scorpions, and drought, where 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD there was no water; who brought thee forth to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with water out of the rock of flint; you to have destroyed you.

16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with 9 When I was gone up into the mount, manna, which thy fathers knew not, that to receive the tables of stone, even the tahe might humble thee, and that he might bles of the covenant which the LORD made prove thee,to do thee good at thy latterend: with you, then I abode in the mount forty 17 And thou say in thine heart, My days and forty nights, I neither did eat power and the might of my hand hath bread, nor drink water: 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.

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.

19 And it shall be, if thou do at all for- 11 And it came to pass at the end of get the LORD thy God, and walk after forty days and forty nights, that the LORD other gods, and serve them, and worship gave me the two tables of stone, even the them, I testify against you this day that ye tables of the covenant. 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.

12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

13 Furthermore, the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy

them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

15 So I turned and came down from the

The two tables renewed.

29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. CHAP. X.

T that time the LORD said unto me,

mount, and the mount burned with fire: Aew thee two tables of stone like

and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 And I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

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.

3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I 4 And he wrote on the tables, according did neither eat bread, nor drink water, be- to the first writing, the ten commandments, cause of all your sins which ye sinned, in which the LORD spake unto you in the doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the to provoke him to anger. day of the assembly: and the LORD gave

19 (For I was afraid of the anger and them unto me. hot displeasure wherewith the LORD was 5 And I turned myself and came down wroth against you to destroy you.) But the from the mount, and put the tables in the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. ark which I had made; and there they be,

20 And the LORD was very angry with as the LORD commanded me. Aaron to have destroyed him: and I pray- 6 T And the children of Israel took their ed for Aaron also the same time. journey from Beeroth of the children of 21 And I took your sin, the calf which Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son stamped it, and ground it very small, even ministered in the priest's office in his stead. until it was as small as dust: and I cast the 7 From thence they journeyed unto dust thereof into the brook that descended Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotout of the mount. bath, a land of rivers of waters.

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, take thy journey before the people, that and said, O Lord GoD, destroy not thy they may go in and possess the land which people and thine inheritance, which thou I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. hast redeemed through thy greatness, 12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt LORD thy God require of thee but to fear with a mighty hand. the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways,

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stub-God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, bornness of this people, nor to their wick- 13 To keep the commandments of the edness, nor to their sin: LORD, and his statutes, which I command 28 Lest the land whence thou brought- thee this day for thy good? est us out, say, Because the LORD was not 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven able to bring them into the land which he of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the promised them, and because he hated them, earth also, with all that therein is. he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their

An exhortation

DEUTERONOMY.

to obedience. seed after them, even you above all people, sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with as it is this day. thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin 11 But the land, whither ye go to posof your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. sess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and 17 For the LORD your God is God of drinketh water of the rain of heaven: gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a 12 A land which the LORD thy God mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God not persons, nor taketh reward: are always upon it, from the beginning of

18 He doth execute the judgment of the the year even unto the end of the year. fatherless and widow, and loveth the 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall stranger, in giving him food and raiment. hearken diligently unto my commandments 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for which I command you this day, to love ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. the LORD your God, and to serve him with 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; all your heart and with all your soul, 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 hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

CHAP. XI.

14 That I 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 NHEREFORE thou shalt love the LORD kindled against you, and he shut up the thy God, and keep his charge, and heaven, that there be no rain, and that the his statutes, and his judgments, and his land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish commandments, always. quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

TH

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,

18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in 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 And ye shall teach them your chil3 And his miracles, and his acts, which dren, speaking of them when thou sittest he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh in thine house, and when thou walkest by the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; the way, when thou liest down, and when 4 And what he did unto the army of thou risest up.

Egypt, unto their horses, and to their 20 And thou shalt write them upon the chariots; how he made the water of the door posts of thine house, and upon thy 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 into this place;

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

6 And what he did unto Dathan and earth. Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, these commandments which I command and swallowed them up, and their house-you, to do them, to love the LORD your holds, and their tents, and all the substance God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave that was in their possession, in the midst unto him; of all Israel:

23 Then will the LORD drive out all

7 But your eyes have seen all the great these nations from before you, and ye shall acts of the LORD which he did. possess greater nations and mightier than

8 T Therefore shall ye keep all the yourselves. commandments which I command you this 24 Every place whereon the soles of day, that ye may be strong, and go in and your feet shall tread shall be yours: from possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the 9 And that ye may prolong your days in river, the river Euphrates, even unto the the land which the LORD sware unto your uttermost sea shall your coast be. fathers to give unto them, and to their seed, 25 There shall no man be able to stand a land that floweth with milk and honey. before you: for the LORD your God shall 10 For the land, whither thou goest in lay the fear of you, and the dread of you to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, from whence ye came out, where thou as he bath said unto you.

God's place of worship to be kept. CHAP. XII.

Blood forbidden.

26 T Behold, I set before you this day and to the inheritance which the LORD a blessing and a curse: your God giveth you.

27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day;

28 And a curse, if ye will not obey 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.

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:

11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye 29 And it shall come to pass when the bring all that I command you; your burntLORD thy God hath brought thee in unto offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, the land whither thou goest to possess.it, and the heave-offering of your hand, and that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount all your choice vows which ye vow unto Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. the LORD:

30 Are they not on the other side Jor- 12 And ye shall rejoice before the dan, by the way where the sun goeth LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and down in the land of the Canaanites, which your daughters, and your men-servants, dwell in the champaign over against Gil- and your maid-servants, and the Levite gal, beside the plains of Moreh?

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.

HESE and judgments

Test are the statutes ae to do in the

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 I command thee. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill

and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever

land which the LORD God of thy fathers thy soul lusteth after, according to the giveth thee to possess it, all the days that blessing of the LORD thy God which he ye live upon the earth. hath given thee: the unclean and the clean

2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the may eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and places, wherein the nations which ye shall as of the hart.

possess served their gods, upon the high 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; mountains, and upon the hills, and under ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. every green tree: 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy

3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, and break their pillars, and burn their or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds groves with fire; and ye shall hew down or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which the graven images of theirgods, and destroy thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or the names of them out of that place. heave-offering of thine hand:

4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the 5 But unto the place which the LORD LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy your God shall choose out of all your tribes son, and thy daughter, and thy man-serto put his name there, even unto his habi-vant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite tation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

come:

6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your 19 Take heed to thyself that thou for tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, sake not the Levite as long as thou livest and your vows, and your free-will-offer- upon the earth. ings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks:

20 TWhen the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised And there ye shall eat before the thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusthouseholds, wherein the LORD thy God eth after.

hath blessed thee.

21 If the place which the LORD thy 8 Ye shall not do after all the things God hath chosen to put his name there be that we do here this day, every man what- too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy soever is right in his own eyes. herd and of thy flock, which the LORD 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest hath given thee, as I have commanded