Mercy promised the penitent. CHAP. XXX, XXXI.

The people encouraged. dren for ever, that we may do all the in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou words of this law. mayest do it.

CHAP. XXX.

15 T See, I have set before thee this

AND it shall come to pass, when all day life and good, and death and evil; these things are come upon thee, the 16 In that I command thee this day to blessing and the curse, which I have set love the LORD thy God, to walk in his before thee, and thou shalt call them to ways, and to keep his commandments, and mind among all the nations whither the his statutes, and his judgments, that thou LORD thy God hath driven thee, mayest live and multiply: and the LORD 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy thy God shall bless thee in the land God, and shalt obey his voice according to whither thou goest to possess it.

all that I command thee this day, thou 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that and thy children, with all thine heart, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn with all thy soul; away, and worship other gods, and serve

18 I denounce unto you this day, that

3 That then the LORD thy God will them; turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not from all the nations whither the LORD thy prolong your days upon the land, whither God hath scattered thee. thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it,

4 If any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, 20 That thou mayest love the LORD and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thy God, and that thou mayest obey his thee good, and multiply thee above thy voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto fathers. him (for he is thy life, and the length of

6 And the LORD thy God will circum- thy days) that thou mayest dwell in the cise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, land which the LORD sware unto thy fato love the LORD thy God with all thine thers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, heart, and with all thy soul, that thou to give them. mayest live.

ay and the LORD thy God will put all

these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

CHAP. XXXI.

words unto all Israel,

ND Moses went and spake these

2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over plenteous in every work of thine hand, in before thee, and he will destroy these na the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of tions from before thee, and thou shalt posthy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for sess them: and Joshua he shall go over good: for the LORD will again rejoice over before thee, as the LORD hath said. thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

4 And the LORD shall do unto them as ke did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom of the LORD thy God, to keep his com- he destroyed.

mandments and his statutes which are 5 And the LORD shall give them up be written in this book of the law, and if thou fore your face, that ye may do unto them turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine according unto all the commandments heart and with all thy soul. which I have commanded you.

11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,

and do it?

6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD, thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

7 T And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that must go with this people unto the land thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the which the LORD hath sworn unto their fasea for us, and bring it unto us, that we thers to give them; and thou shalt cause may hear it, and do it? them to inherit it.

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee,

8 And the LORD, be it is that doth gọ

God's charge to Joshua.

DEUTERONOMY. He testifies against the people.

before thee; he will be with thee, he will unto other gods, and serve them, and not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear provoke me, and break my covenant. not, neither be dismayed. 21 And it shall come to pass, when 9 And Moses wrote this law, and de- many evils and troubles are befallen them, livered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that this song shall testify against them as which bare the ark of the covenant of the a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. of the mouths of their seed: for I know 10 And Moses commanded them, say- their imagination which they go about, ing, At the end of every seven years, in even now, before I have brought them the solemnity of the year of release, in into the land which I sware. 22 T Moses therefore wrote this song

the feast of tabernacles,

11 When all Israel is come to appear the same day, and taught it the children before the LORD thy God in the place of Israel.

which he shall choose, thou shalt read this 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun law before all Israel in their hearing. a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good 12 Gather the people together, men, courage: for thou shalt bring the children and women, and children, and thy stran- of Israel into the land which I sware unto ger that is within thy gates, that they may them: and I will be with thee. hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

24 ¶ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

25 That Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

13 And that their children which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan 26 Take this book of the law, and put

to possess it.

it in the side of the ark of the covenant 14 T And the LORD said unto Moses, of the LORD your God, that it may be Behold, thy days approach that thou must there for a witness against thee. die: call Joshua, and present yourselves 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy in the tabernacle of the congregation, that stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive I may give him a charge. And Moses and with you this day, ye have been rebellious Joshua went and presented themselves in against the LORD; and how much more afthe tabernacle of the congregation. ter my death?

15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of

the tabernacle.

28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Be- 29 For I know that after my death ye hold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn and this people will rise up, and go a aside from the way which I have commandwhoring after the gods of the strangers of ed you; and evil will befall you in the the land, whither they go to be among latter days; because ye will do evil in the them, and will forsake me, and break my sight of the LORD, to provoke him to ancovenant which I have made with them. ger through the work of hands.

your

17 Then my anger shall be kindled 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all against them in that day, and I will for- the congregation of Israel the words of sake them, and I will hide my face from this song until they were ended. them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them,

GIVE

CHAP. XXXII.

IVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will so that they will say in that day, Are not speak; and hear, O earth, the words these evils come upon us, because our God of my mouth.

is not among us?

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, 18 And I will surely hide my face in my speech shall distil as the dew, as the that day for all the evils which they shall small rain upon the tender herb, and as have wrought, in that they are turned unto the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of 19 Now therefore write ye this song for the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our you, and teach it the children of Israel: put God.

other gods.

it in their mouths, that this song may be a 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: witness forme against the children of Israel. for all his ways are judgment: a God of 20 For when I shall have brought them truth and without iniquity, just and right into the land which I sware unto their fa-is he.

thers, that floweth with milk and honey; 5 They have corrupted themselves, their and they shall have eaten and filled them-spot is not the spot of his children: they are selves, and waxen fat; then will they turn a perverse and crooked generation.

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Moses' song of God's

CHAP. XXXII.

mercy and judgment. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O fool-shall consume the earth with her increase, ish people and unwise? is not he thy father and set on fire the foundations of the mounthat hath bought thee? hath he not made tains. thee, and established thee?

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I 7¶ Remember the days of old, consi- will spend mine arrows upon them. der the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy el-devoured with burning heat, and with bitders, and they will tell thee. ter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds 25 The sword without, and terror withof the people according to the number of in, shall destroy both the young man and the children of Israel, the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;

12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, their Rock had sold them, and the LORD with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of had shut them up?

Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure even our enemies themselves being judges: blood of the grape. 32 For their vine is of the vine of So

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons,

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and dom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are thick, thou art covered with fatness; then bitter: he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. and the cruel venom of asps. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make. haste.

36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 20 And he said, I will hide my face 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifrom them, I will see what their end shall fices, and drank the wine of their drinkbe: for they are a very froward generation, offerings? let them rise up and help you, children in whom is no faith. and be your protection.

21 They have moved me to jealousy 39 See now that I, even I am be, and with that which is not God; they have pro-there is no god with me: I kill, and I make voked me to anger with their vanities: and alive; I wound, and 1 heal: neither is I will move them to jealousy with those there any that can deliver out of my hand. which are not a people; I will provoke 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and them to anger with a foolish nation. say, I live for ever.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will

The majesty of God.

DEUTERONOMY.

render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

The twelve tribes blessed. 7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Ju42 I will make mine arrows drunk with dah, and bring him unto his people: let blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; his hands be sufficient for him, and be thou and that with the blood of the slain and of a help to him from his enemies. the captives from the beginning of revenges 8 T And of Levi he said, Let thy Thumupon the enemy. mim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

47 For it is not a vain thing for you: because it is your life; and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whitherye goover Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that self-same day, saying,

9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

12 ¶ And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

49 Get thee up into this mountain Aba- 13 ¶ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of rim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land the LORD be his land, for the precious of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and things of heaven, for the dew, and for the behold the land of Canaan which I give deep that coucheth beneath.

unto the children of Israel for a possession: 14 And for the precious fruits brought 50 And die in the mount whither thou forth by the sun, and for the precious goest up, and be gathered unto thy peo-things put forth by the moon.

ple; as Aaron thy brother died in mount 15 And for the chief things of the anHor, and was gathered unto his people: cient mountains, and for the precious things 51 Because ye trespassed against me of the lasting hills. among the children of Israel at the waters 16 And for the precious things of the of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. CHAP. XXXIII.

earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns

AND this is the blessing wherewith of unicorns: with them he shall push the Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Issachar, in thy tents.

19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

4 Moses commanded us a law; even the 20 ¶ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, 5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when and teareth the arm with the crown of the the beads of the people and the tribes of head. Israel were gathered together.

6

21 And he provided the first part for

Let Reuben live, and not die; and himself, because there, in a portion of the let not his men be few. lawgiver, was he seated: and he came

Death of Moses.

CHAP. I.

Joshua succeeds him. with the heads of the people, he executed Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land the justice of the LORD, and his judgments of Judah, unto the utmost sea, with Israel.

22 T And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.

23 T And of Naphtali he said, O Naph- 4 And the LORD said unto him, This is tali, satisfied with favour, and full with the the land which I sware unto Abraham, unblessing of the LORD: possess thou the west to Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will and the south. give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

7 T And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

8T And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety so the days of weeping and mourning for alone; the fountain of Jacob shall be upon Moses were ended. a land of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down dew.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full. of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is laid his hands upon him: and the children like unto thee,O peoplesaved by the LORD, of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the shield of thy help, and who is the the LORD commanded Moses.

sword of thy excellency! and thine ene- 10 And there arose not a prophet mies shall be found liars unto thee; and since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the thou shalt tread upon their high places. LORD knew face to face, CHAP. XXXIV.

ND Moses went up from the plains of

to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho and the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

11 In all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land vants, and to all his land;

12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of in the sight of all Israel.

Now after the death of Moses, the ser

vant of the LORD, it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

of JOSHUA.

6 Be strong and of a good courage: for

unto this people shalt thou divide for an

inheritance the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

7 Only be thou strong and very cou2 Moses my servant is dead; now there- rageous, that thou mayest observe to do acfore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and cording to all the law which Moses my all this people, unto the land which I do servant commanded thee: turn not from give to them, even to the children of Israel. it to the right hand or to the left, that 3 Every place that the sole of your foot thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou shall tread upon, that have I given unto goest. you, as I said unto Moses.

8 This book of the law shall not depart

4 From the wilderness and this Leba- out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate non even unto the great river, the river therein day and night, that thou mayest Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and observe to do according to all that is writunto the great sea toward the going down ten therein: for then thou shalt make thy of the sun, shall be your coast. way prosperous, and then thou shalt have

5 There shall not any man be able to stand good success. before thee all the days of thy life: as I 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be was with Moses, so I will be with thee: Istrong and of a good courage; be not will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the