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1 These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on In the country of Moab. this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain So that the wilderness was between the sea and the plain of Moab. over against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is actively set forth in this book. Even through their ingratitude and many rebellions against God, for the space forty years. (Deu_9:7) they deserved to have been cut off from the number of his people, and forever to have been deprived of the use of his holy word and ordinances: yet he ever preserved his Church even for his own mercy's sake, and would still have his name called upon among them. Wherefore he brings them into the land of Canaan, destroys their enemies, gives them their country, towns and goods, and exhorts them by the example of their fathers (whose infidelity, idolatry, adulteries, complaining and rebellions, he had most severely punished) to fear and obey the Lord, to embrace and keep his law without adding to it or diminishing from it. For by his word he would be known to be their God, and they his people, by his word he would govern his Church, and by the same they would learn to obey him: by his word he would discern the false prophet from the true, light form darkness, ignorance from knowledge, and his own people from all the other nations and infidels: teaching them by it to refuse and detest, destroy and abolish whatever is not agreeable to his holy will, seem it otherwise never so good or precious in the eyes of man. For this cause God promised to raise up kings and governors, for the setting forth of his word and preservation of his Church: giving to them a special charge for the executing of it: whom therefore he wills to exercise themselves diligently in the continual study and meditation of the same: that they might learn to fear the Lord, love their subjects, abhor covetousness and vices, and whatever offends the majesty of God. As he had before instructed their fathers in all things belonging both to his spiritual service and also for the maintenance of that society which is between men: so he prescribes here anew all such laws and ordinances, which either concern his divine service, or else are necessary for a common good: appointing to every estate and degree their charge and duty: as well, how to rule and live in the fear of God, as to nourish friendship toward their neighbours, and to preserve the order which God has established among men: threatening most horrible plagues to them that transgress his commandments, and promising blessings and happiness to those who observe and obey them.

2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from In Horeb, or Sinai, forty years before the law was given: but because all that were then of age and judgment were now dead, Moses repeats the same to the youth who either then were not born, or had not judgment. Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

3 And it came to passe in the first day of the eleuenth moneth, in the fourtieth yeere that Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according vnto all that the Lord had giuen him in commandement vnto them,

4 After he had slain By these examples of God's favour, their minds are prepared to receive the law. 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, The second time. began Moses to declare this law, saying,

6 The LORD our God spake unto us in In the second year and second month, (Num_10:11). Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

7 Turne you and depart, and goe vnto the mountaine of the Amorites, and vnto all places neere thereunto in the plaine, in the mountaine, or in the valley: both Southwarde, and to the Sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and vnto Lebanon: euen vnto the great riuer, the riuer Perath.

8 Beholde, I haue set the land before you: go in and possesse that land which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue vnto them and to their seede after them.

9 And I spake By the counsel of Jethro my father-in-law, (Exo_18:19). unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

10 The LORD your God hath Not so much by the course of nature, as miraculously. multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you, as he hath promised you)

12 How can I myself alone Signifying how great a burden it is, to govern the people. bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and Whose godliness and uprightness is known. known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

14 Then ye answered me and said, The thing is good that thou hast commanded vs to doe.

15 So I took the chief of your tribes, Declaring what sort of men ought to have a public charge, read (Exo_18:21). wise men, and known, and made 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 iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] You are his Lieutenants. God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.

18 Also I commaunded you the same time all the things which ye should doe.

19 Then we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wildernesse (as yee haue seene) by the way of the mountaine of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commaunded vs: and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

20 And So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised. I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

21 Beholde, the Lord thy God hath layde the land before thee: go vp and possesse it, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath saide vnto thee: feare not, neither be discouraged.

22 Read (Num_13:3).And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

23 So the saying pleased me well, and I tooke twelue men of you, of euery tribe one.

24 Who departed, and went vp into the mountaine, and came vnto the riuer Eshcol, and searched out the land.

25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and That is, Caleb, and Joshua; Moses prefers the better part to the greater, that is, two to ten. said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go vp, but were disobedient vnto the commaundement of the Lord your God,

27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD Such was the Jews unthankfulness, that they counted God's special love, hatred. hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28 Whither shall we go up? our The other ten, not Caleb and Joshua. 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 Anakims there.

29 But I sayd vnto you, Dread not, nor be afrayd of them.

30 The LORD your God Declaring that to renounce our own force, and constantly to follow our calling, and depend on the Lord, is true boldness, and agreeable to 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 wildernesse, where thou hast seene how the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doeth beare his sonne, in all the way which ye haue gone, vntill ye came vnto this place.

32 Yet for all this ye did not beleeue the Lord your God,

33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tentes in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to goe, and in a cloude by day.

34 Then the Lorde heard the voyce of your wordes, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this froward generation, see that good land, which I sware to giue vnto your fathers,

36 Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh: he shall see it, and to him will I giue the land that he hath troden vpon, and to his children, because he hath constantly followed the Lord.

37 Also the Lorde was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not goe in thither,

38 [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth Who minister to you. before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

39 Moreover your Who were under twenty years of age, (Num_14:31). little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

40 But as for you, turne backe, and take your iourney into the wildernesse by the way of the red Sea.

41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, This declares man's nature, who will do that which God forbids, and will not do that which he commands. we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I [am] Signifying that man has no strength, but when God is at hand to help him. not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

43 And when I told you, ye would not heare, but rebelled against the commaundement of the Lord, and were presumptuous, and went vp into the mountaine.

44 Then the Amorites which dwelt in that mountaine came out against you, and chased you (as bees vse to doe) and destroied you in Seir, euen vnto Hormah.

45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not Because you rather showed your hypocrisy, than true repentance; rather lamenting the loss of your brethren, than repenting for your sins. hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

46 So ye abode in Kadesh a long time, according to the time that ye had remained before.

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1 Then They obeyed, after God had chastised them. we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir Eight and thirty years, as in (Deu_2:14). many days.

2 And the Lord spake vnto me, saying,

3 Ye haue compassed this mountaine long ynough: turne you Northward.

4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the This was the second time, before they had caused the Israelites to return, (Num_20:21). 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 Ye shall not prouoke them: for I wil not giue you of their land so much as a foot breadth, because I haue giuen mount Seir vnto Esau for a possession.

6 Ye shall buy meate of them for money to eate, and ye shall also procure water of them for money to drinke.

7 For the LORD thy God hath And given you means, with which you may make recompence: also God will direct you by his providence, as he has done. 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.

8 And when we were departed from our brethren the children of Esau which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plaine, from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and went by the way of the wildernes of Moab.

9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children Which were the Moabites and Ammonites. of Lot [for] a possession.

10 The Signifying that as these giants were driven out for their sins: so the wicked when their sins are ripe, cannot avoid God's plagues. Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

11 They also were taken for gyants as the Anakims: whom the Moabites call Emims.

12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir before time, whome the children of Esau chased out and destroyed them before them, and dwelt in their steade: as Israel shall doe vnto the land of his possession, which the Lord hath giuen them.

13 Now rise vp, sayd I, and get you ouer the riuer Zered: and we went ouer the riuer Zered.

14 And the He shows by this, that as God is true in his promise, so his threatenings are not in vain. space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; 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 His plague and punishment to destroy all that were twenty years old and above. hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

16 So when all the men of warre were consumed and dead from among the people:

17 Then the Lord spake vnto me, saying,

18 Thou shalt goe through Ar the coast of Moab this day:

19 And thou shalt come neere ouer against the children of Ammon: but shalt not lay siege vnto them, nor moue warre against them: for I will not giue thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession: for I haue giuen it vnto the children of Lot for a possession.

20 (That also was accounted a land Who called themselves Rephaims: that is, preservers, or physicians to heal and reform vices: but were indeed Zamzummims, that is, wicked and abominable. of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

21 A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:

22 As he did to the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims before them, and they possessed them, and dwelt in their stead vnto this day.

23 And the Auims which dwelt in Hazarim euen vnto Azzah, the Caphtorims which came out of Caphtor destroyed them, and dwelt in their steade.

24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the According to his promise made to Abraham, (Gen_15:16). Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess [it], and contend with him in battle.

25 This day will I This declares that the hearts of men are in God's hands either to be made faint, or bold. 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 Then I sent messengers out of the wildernes of Kedemoth vnto Sihon King of Heshbon, with wordes of peace, saying,

27 Let me passe through thy land: I will go by the hie way: I will neither turne vnto the right hand nor to the left.

28 Thou shalt sell me meate for money, for to eate, and shalt giue me water for money for to drinke: onely I will go through on my foote,

29 (As the Because neither intreaty nor examples or others could move him, he could not complain of his just destruction. 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.

30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God God in his election and reprobation not only appoints the ends, but the means tending to the same. hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day.

31 And the Lorde sayd vnto me, Beholde, I haue begun to giue Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possesse and inherite his land.

32 Then came out Sihon to meete vs, him selfe with all his people to fight at Iahaz.

33 But the Lord our God deliuered him into our power, and we smote him, and his sonnes, and all his people.

34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the God had cursed Canaan, and therefore he did not want any of the wicked race to be preserved. women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

35 Onely the cattell we tooke to our selues, and the spoyle of the cities which we tooke,

36 From Aroer, which is by the banke of the riuer of Arnon, and from the citie that is vpon the riuer, euen vnto Gilead: there was not one citie that escaped vs: for the Lorde our God deliuered vp all before vs.

37 Onely vnto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor vnto any place of the riuer Iabbok, nor vnto the cities in the mountaines, nor vnto whatsoeuer the Lorde our God forbade vs.

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1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan Therefore aside from the commandment of the Lord, they had just cause to fight against him. came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

2 And the Lorde sayde vnto me, Feare him not, for I will deliuer him, and all his people, and his land into thine hand, and thou shalt doe vnto him as thou diddest vnto Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

3 So the Lorde our God deliuered also vnto our hand, Og the King of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him, vntill none was left him aliue,

4 And we tooke all his cities the same time, neither was there a citie which we tooke not from them, euen three score cities, and all ye countrey of Argob, the kingdome of Og in Bashan.

5 All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside As villages and small towns. unwalled towns a great many.

6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, Because this was God's appointment, therefore it may not be judged cruel. women, and children, of every city.

7 But all the cattell and the spoyle of the cities we tooke for our selues.

8 Thus we tooke at that time out of the hand of two Kings of the Amorites, the land that was on this side Iorden from the riuer of Arnon vnto mount Hermon:

9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Shirion, but the Amorites call it Shenir)

10 All the cities of the plaine, and all Gilead, and all Bashan vnto Salchah, and Edrei, cities of the kingdome of Og in Bashan.

11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his The more terrible this giant was, the greater reason they had to glorify God for the victory. 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 riuer of Arnon, and halfe mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gaue I vnto the Reubenites and Gadites.

13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdome of Og, gaue I vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: euen all the countrey of Argob with all Bashan, which is called, The land of gyants.

14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto Meaning, when he wrote this history. this day.

15 And I gaue part of Gilead vnto Machir.

16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Which separates the Ammonites from the Amorites. Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;

17 The plaine also and Iorden, and the borders from Chinnereth euen vnto the Sea of the plaine, to wit, the salt Sea vnder the springs of Pisgah Eastwarde.

18 And I commanded That is, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Manasseh, as in (Num_32:32). you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war.

19 Your wiues onely, and your children, and your cattel (for I know that ye haue much cattel) shall abide in your cities, which I haue giuen you,

20 Vntill the Lorde haue giuen rest vnto your brethren as vnto you, and that they also possesse the lande, which the Lorde your God hath giuen them beyond Iorden: then shall ye returne euery man vnto his possession, which I haue giuen you.

21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the So that the victories did not come by your own wisdom, strength or multitude. LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

22 Ye shall not feare them: for the Lord your God, he shall fight for you.

23 And I besought the Lorde the same time, saying,

24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can He speaks according to the common and corrupt speech of those who attribute power to idols that only belongs to God. do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly He means Zion, where the Temple should be built, and God honoured. mountain, and Lebanon.

26 But the Lord was angrie with me for your sakes, and would not heare me: and the Lord said vnto me, Let it suffice thee, speake no more vnto me of this matter.

27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and As before he saw by the spirits of prophecy the good mountain which was Zion: so here his eyes were lifted up above the order of nature to behold all the plentiful land of Canaan. lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

28 But charge Ioshua, and incourage him, and bolden him: for hee shall goe before this people, and he shall deuide for inheritance vnto them, the land which thou shalt see.

29 So wee abode in the valley ouer against Beth-Peor.

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1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to For this doctrine stands not in bare knowledge, but in practice of life. do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

2 Ye shall Think not to be more wise than I am. not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye God will not be served by halves, but will have full obedience. diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

3 Your God's judgments executed on other idolaters ought to serve for our instruction, read (Num_25:3-4). eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

4 But ye that did And were not idolaters. cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive every one of you this day.

5 Behold, I haue taught you ordinances, and lawes, as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should doe euen so within the land whither ye goe to possesse it.

6 Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your Because all men naturally desire wisdom, he shows how to attain it. wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.

7 For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] Helping us, and delivering us out of all dangers, as in (2Sa_7:23). nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?

8 And what nation is so great, that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous, as all this Lawe, which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed to thyself, and He adds all these words, to show that we can never be careful enough to keep the law of God and to teach it to our posterity. keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

10 Forget not the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said vnto me, Gather me the people together, and I wil cause them heare my wordes, that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shal liue vpon the earth, and that they may teache their children:

11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain The law was given with fearful miracles, to declare both that God was the author of it, and also that no flesh was able to abide the rigour of the same. burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire, and ye heard the voyce of the wordes, but sawe no similitude, saue a voyce.

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to God joins this condition to his covenant. perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14 And the Lord commanded me that same time, that I should teach you ordinances & lawes, which ye should obserue in the lande, whither ye goe, to possesse it.

15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no Signifying, that destruction is prepared for all who make any image to represent God. manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

16 That ye corrupt not your selues, and make you a grauen image or representation of any figure: whither it be the likenes of male or female,

17 The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:

18 Or the likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the earth, or the likenesse of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth,

19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath He has appointed them to serve man. divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the He has delivered you out of most miserable slavery and freely chosen you for his. iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day.

21 And the Lord was angrie with me for your words, and sware that I should not goe ouer Iorden, and that I should not goe in vnto that good land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance.

22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but Moses good affection appears in that while he himself is deprived of such an excellent treasure, he does not envy those who must enjoy it. ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

23 Take heede vnto your selues, least ye forget the couenant of the Lorde your God which hee made with you, and least ye make you any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, as the Lorde thy God hath charged thee.

24 For the LORD thy God [is] a To those that come not to him with love and reverence, but rebel against him. consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.

25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall Meaning by this all superstition and corruption of the true service of God. corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

26 I Though men would abuse you, yet the insensible creatures will be witnesses of your disobedience. call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27 And the LORD shall So that his curse will make his former blessings ineffectual. scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

28 And there ye shall serue gods, euen ye worke of mans hand, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor heare, nor eate, nor smell.

29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy Not with outward show or ceremony, but with a true confession of your faults. heart and with all thy soul.

30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come vpon thee, at the length if thou returne to the Lorde thy God, and bee obedient vnto his voyce,

31 (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he To certify to them even more the assurance of their salvation. sware unto them.

32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and Man's negligence is partially the cause for his ignorance of God. [ask] from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing [is], or hath been heard like it?

33 Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?

34 Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by By so manifest proofs that none could doubt of it. temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest He shows the reason why God did these miracles. know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.

36 Out of heauen hee made thee heare his voyce to instruct thee, and vpon earth he shewed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his voyce out of the middes of the fire.

37 And because Freely, and not because they deserved it. he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

38 To thrust out nations greater and mightier then thou, before thee, to bring thee in, and to giue thee their land for inheritance: as appeareth this day.

39 Vnderstande therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heauen aboue, and vpon the earth beneath: there is none other.

40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may God promises reward not for our merits, but to encourage us, and to assure us that our labour will not be lost. go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

41 Then Moses separated three cities on this side of Iorden toward the sunne rising:

42 That the slayer should flee thither, which had killed his neighbour at vnwares, and hated him not in time past, might flee, I say, vnto one of those cities, and liue:

43 That is, Bezer in the wildernesse, in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites: and Golan in Bashan among them of Manasseh.

44 So this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

45 These [are] the The articles and points of the covenant. testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

46 On this side Iorden, in the valley ouer against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come out of Egypt:

47 And they possessed his land, and the lande of Og King of Bashan, two Kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Iorden towarde the sunne rising:

48 From Aroer, which is by the banke of the riuer Arnon, euen vnto mount Sion, which is Hermon,

49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto That is, the salt sea. the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

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1 Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them.

2 The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.

3 The LORD Some read, God made not this covenant, that is, in such ample forth and with such signs and wonders. made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.

4 The LORD talked with you So plainly that you do not need to doubt it. face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

5 (At that time I stoode betweene the Lorde and you, to declare vnto you ye word of the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said,

6 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

7 Thou shalt have none God binds us to serve him only without superstition and idolatry. other gods before me.

8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth.

9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a That is, of his honour, not permitting it to be given to others. jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that The first degree to keep the commandments, is to love God. love me and keep my commandments.

11 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine.

12 Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13 Six days Meaning, since God permits six days for our labours, we should willingly dedicate the seventh to serve him wholly. thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou.

15 For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day.

16 Not for a show, but with true obedience, and due reverence.Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

17 Thou shalt not kill.

18 Neither shalt thou commit adulterie.

19 Neither shalt thou steale.

20 Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour.

21 Neither shalt He not only speaks of that resolute will, but that there should be no motion or affection. thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.

22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he Teaching us by his example to be content with his word, and add nothing to it. added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.

23 And when ye heard the voyce out of the middes of the darkenes, (for the mountaine did burne with fire) then ye came to me, all the chiefe of your tribes, and your Elders:

24 And ye sayd, Beholde, the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glory and his greatnes, and we haue heard his voyce out of the middes of the fire: we haue seene this day that God doeth talke with man, and he liueth.

25 Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye.

26 For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued?

27 Go thou neere and heare all that the Lord our God saith: and declare thou vnto vs all that the Lorde our God saith vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it.

28 Then the Lorde heard the voyce of your wordes, when ye spake vnto me: and the Lorde sayd vnto me, I haue heard the voyce of ye wordes of this people, which they haue spoken vnto thee: they haue well sayd, all that they haue spoken.

29 O He requires nothing but obedience from us, showing also that we ourselves are the unveiling of it. that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

30 Go, say vnto them, Returne you into your tentes.

31 But stand thou here with me, and I wil tell thee all the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which thou shalt teach them: that they may doe them in the land which I giue them to possesse it.

32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not You shall neither add nor take away, (Deu_4:2). turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may In the same way that God, by way of our obedience, gives us all happiness: so from disobeying God proceed all our miseries. live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess.

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1 These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lorde your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:

2 That thou mayest A reverent face and love for God is the first beginning to keeping God's commandments. fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life. in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

4 Heare, O Israel, The Lord our God is Lord onely,

5 And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.

6 And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart.

7 And thou shalt Some read, «You shall whet them upon your children»: that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory. teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {(teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen)}

8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them upon the That when you enter in you may remember them. posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

10 And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,

11 And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards & oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,

12 Do not let wealth and ease cause you to forget God's mercies, by which you were delivered out of misery.[Then] beware lest thou shouldest forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {(bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants)}

13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully. swear by his name.

14 Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,

15 (For the Lorde thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

16 Ye shall not By doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces. tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

17 But ye shal keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

18 And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the Here he condemns all of man's good intentions. sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,

19 To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.

20 [And] when God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory. thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

21 Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.

22 And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,

23 And he Nothing should move us more to true obedience than the great benefits which we have received from God. brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

24 Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.

25 And it shall be our Because no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith. righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

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1 When the Lorde thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,

2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them Into thy power. before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

4 For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. (Deu_12:3). ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

6 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.

7 The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were mo in number then any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:

8 But because the LORD Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do. loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know therefore And so put difference between him and idols. that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

10 And repayeth Meaning revealed, or in this life. 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.

11 Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits. mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

13 And he wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.

15 Moreouer, the Lorde will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.

16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; We should not be merciful when God commands severity. thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.

17 If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

18 Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt:

19 The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lorde thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.

20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them. hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lorde thy God is among you, a God mightie & dreadful.

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 the It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish. beasts of the field increase upon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.

24 And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast 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 And be enticed to idolatry. be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

26 Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.

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1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe Showing that it is not enough to hear the word, unless we express it by the example of our lives. to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to Which is declared in afflictions, either by patience, or by grudging against God's visitation. prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by Man does not live by meat only, but by the power of God, who gives it strength to nourish us. bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot As those that go barefoot. swell, these forty years.

5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God So that his affliction are signs of his fatherly love toward us. chasteneth thee.

6 Therefore shalt thou keepe the commaundements of the Lorde thy God, that thou mayest walke in his wayes, and feare him.

7 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land in the which are riuers of water and fountaines, and depthes that spring out of valleis and mountaines:

8 A land of wheate and barley, and of vineyards, and figtrees, and pomegranates: a land of oyle oliue and hony:

9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land Where there are mines of metal. whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt To receive God's benefits and not be thankful, is to despise God in them. bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

11 Beware that thou forget not the Lorde thy God, not keeping his commandements, and his lawes, and his ordinances, which I commaunde thee this day:

12 Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,

13 And thy beastes, and thy sheepe are increased, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is increased,

14 Then thine heart By attributing God's benefits to your own wisdom and labour, or to good fortune. be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

15 Who was thy guide in the great and terrible wildernes (wherein were fierie serpents, & scorpions, and drought, where was no water, who brought forth water for thee out of ye rock of flint:

16 Who fed thee in the wildernesse with MAN, which thy fathers knewe not) to humble thee, and and to proue thee, that he might doe thee good at thy latter ende.

17 Beware least thou say in thine heart, My power, and the strength of mine owne hand hath prepared me this abundance.

18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that If things concerning this life proceed only from God's mercy, how much more do spiritual gifts and everlasting life. 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 Or take to witness the heaven and the earth, as in (Deu_4:26). testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20 As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.

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1 Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan Meaning shortly. this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast By the report of the spies. (Num_13:26). heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which To guide you and govern you. goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my Man by himself deserves nothing but God's anger, and if God spares anyone it comes from his great mercy. righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

5 For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a Like stubborn oxen who will not endure their masters yoke. stiffnecked people.

7 Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: He proves by the length of time, that their rebellion was great and intolerable. from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

8 Also in Horeb ye prouoked the Lorde to anger so that the Lord was wroth with you, euen to destroy you.

9 When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies & fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water:

10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men. 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 when the fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes were ended, the Lorde gaue me the two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant.

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 As soon as man declines from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt. 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 vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and beholde, it is a stifnecked people.

14 Demonstrating that the prayers of the faithful are a bar to restrain God's anger so that he does not consume all.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 returned, and came downe from the Mount (and the Mount burnt with fire, and ye two Tables of the couenant were in my two handes)

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 That is, from the Law: in which he declares what the cause of our punishment is. way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 Therefore I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.

18 And I fell downe before the Lorde, fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, as before: I neither ate bread nor dranke water, because of al your sinnes, which ye had committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, in that ye prouoked him vnto wrath.

19 (For I was afraide of the wrath and indignation, wherewith the Lord was mooued against you, euen to destroy you) yet the Lord heard me at that time also.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have By which he shows the danger they are in who have authority and do not resist wickedness. destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the Horeb, or Sinai. mount.

22 Also in Taberah, & in Massah and in Kibrothhattaauah ye prouoked ye Lord to anger.

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

24 Ye haue bene rebellious vnto the Lorde, since the day that I knewe you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD By which is signified that God requires earnest continuance in prayer. forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

26 And I prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnesse, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt by a mightie hand.

27 The godly in their prayers ground on God's promise, and confess their sins.Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

28 Lest the countrey, whence thou broughtest them, say, Because ye Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, or because he hated them, he caried them out, to slay them in the wildernesse.

29 Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mightie power, and by thy stretched out arme.

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1 In the same time the Lord said vnto me, Hewe thee two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and come vp vnto me into the Mount, and make thee an Arke of wood,

2 And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke.

3 And I made an ark [of] Which is a wood of long endurance. 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.

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the When you were assembled to receive the Law. assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

5 And I departed, and came downe from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made: and there they be, as the Lorde commanded me.

6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to This mountain was also called Hor, (Num_20:28). Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

7 From thence they departed vnto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Iotbath a land of running waters.

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 That is, to offer sacrifice, and to declare the Law to the people. minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor So God turned the curse of Jacob to a blessing (Gen_49:7). inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

10 And I taried in the mount, as at ye first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and the Lorde heard me at that time also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee.

11 But the Lord said vnto me, Arise, goe forth in the iourney before the people, that they may goe in and possesse the land, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them.

12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God For all our sins and transgressions God requires nothing but to turn to him and obey him. require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13 That thou keepe the commaundements of the Lord, and his ordinances, which I commaunde thee this day, for thy wealth?

14 Beholde, heauen, & the heauen of heauens is the Lords thy God, and the earth, with all that therein is.

15 Although he was Lord of heaven and earth, he chose no one but you.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 Cut off all your evil affections, (Jer_4:4).Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lordes, a great God, mightie and terrible, which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward:

18 Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.

19 Loue 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 Read (Deu_6:13). swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and hee is thy God, that hath done for thee these great & terrible things, which thine eyes haue seene.

22 Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with seuentie persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as ye starres of ye heauen in multitude.

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1 Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt keepe that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his lawes, and his commandements alway.

2 And You who have seen God's graces with your eyes should be moved, rather than your children who have only heard of them. 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,

3 And his signes, and his actes, which hee did in the middes of Egypt vnto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and vnto all his land:

4 And what he did vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, vnto their horses, and to their charets, when he caused the waters of the red Sea to ouerflowe them, as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroied them vnto this day:

5 And As well concerning his benefits, as his corrections. what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

6 And what he did vnto Dathan & Abiram the sonnes of Eliab ye sonne of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, & swallowed them with their housholds and their tents, and all their substance that they had in the middes of al Israel.

7 For your eyes haue seene all the great actes of the Lord which he did.

8 Therefore shall ye keep Because you have felt both his chastisement and his benefits. all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

9 Also that ye may prolong your daies in the land, which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, to giue vnto them and to their seede, euen a lande that floweth with milke and honie.

10 For the land, whither 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 By making gutters for the water to come out of the Nile river to water the land. foot, as a garden of herbs:

11 But the land whither ye goe to possesse it, is a land of mountaines and valleis, and drinketh water of the raine of heauen.

12 This land doth the Lord thy God care for: the eies of the Lord thy God are alwaies vpon it, from the beginning of the yeere, euen vnto the ende of the yeere.

13 If yee shall hearken therefore vnto my commaundements, which I commaund you this day, that yee loue the Lorde your God and serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule,

14 That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, In the seed time, and toward harvest. the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

15 Also I will send grasse in thy fieldes, for thy cattel, that thou maist eate, and haue inough.

16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not By devising foolish devotions according to your own fantasies. deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

17 And so the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut vp the heauen, that there be no raine, and that your lande yeelde not her fruit, and yee perish quickly from the good land, which the Lord giueth you.

18 Therefore shal ye lay vp these my words in your heart and in your soule, and binde them for a signe vpon your hand, that they may be as a frontlet betweene your eyes,

19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them, whe thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp.

20 And thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thine house, and vpon 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 As long as the heavens and earth endure, (2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12). the days of heaven upon the earth.

22 For if ye keepe diligently all these commandements, which I command you to doe: that is, to loue the Lord your God, to walke in all his waies, and to cleaue vnto him,

23 Then will the Lorde cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall possesse great nations and mightier then you.

24 Every place whereon the soles of This was accomplished in David and Solomon's time. your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost The Mediterranean. sea shall your coast be.

25 No man shall stande against you: for the Lorde your God shall cast the feare and dread of you vpon all the land that ye shal treade vpon, as he hath said vnto you.

26 Beholde, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

27 The blessing, if ye obey the commandements of the Lorde 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 He reproves the malice of men who leave that which is certain to follow that which is uncertain. known.

29 When the Lord thy God therefore hath brought thee into ye lande, whither thou goest to possesse it, then thou shalt put the blessing vpon mount Gerizim, and the curse vpon mount Ebal.

30 [Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way Meaning, in Samaria. where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

31 For yee shall passe ouer Iorden, to goe in to possesse the land, which ye Lorde your God giueth you, and ye shall possesse it, & dwell therein.

32 Take heede therefore that ye doe all the commaundements and the lawes, which I set before you this day.

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1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God By which they are admonished to seek no other God. of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shal possesse, serued their gods vpon the hie mountaines and vpon the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their In which they sacrificed to their idols. 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 You shall not serve the Lord with superstitions. not do so unto the LORD your God.

5 But ye shal seeke the place which the Lord your God shall chose out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, and there to dwell, and thither thou shalt come,

6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave Meaning, the first fruits. offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

7 And there ye shall eat Where his Ark shall be. 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 Not that they sacrificed after their fantasies, but that God would be served more purely in the land of Canaan. here this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.

9 For ye are not yet come to rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

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 It was not enough to conquer unless God maintained them in rest under his protection. rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

11 When there shalbe a place which the Lord your God shall chose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall yee bring all that I commaund you: your burnt offrings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offring of your hands, and all your speciall vowes which ye vowe vnto the Lord:

12 And ye shall reioyce before the Lord your God, yee, and your sonnes & your daughters, and your seruaunts, and your maidens, and the Leuite that is within your gates: for hee hath no part nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heede that thou offer not thy burnt offrings in euery place that thou seest:

14 But in the place which the LORD shall As was declared ever by the placing of the ark in Shiloh 243 years, or as some write more that 300 years, and in other places till the temple was built. 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 thy soul lusteth after, according to the As God has given you power and ability. blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, Everyone may eat equally at home the beast appointed for sacrifice and the other. as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

16 Onely ye shal not eat the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the Meaning, whatever was offered to the Lord, may not be eaten, except where he had appointed. 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 thine hand:

18 But thou shalt eate it before the Lorde thy God, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse, thou, & thy sonne, & thy daughter, & thy seruat, and thy maid, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

19 Beware, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

20 When the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I wil eate flesh, (because thine heart longeth to eate flesh) thou maiest eate flesh, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

21 If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy bullockes, and of thy sheepe which the Lorde hath giuen thee, as I haue commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

22 Euen as the roe bucke, and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them. both the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.

23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood Because the life of beasts is in their blood. [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

24 Therefore thou shalt not eat it, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

25 Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go wel with thee; and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord:

26 Only thy That which you will offer in sacrifice. 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 make thy burnt offerings of the flesh, and of the blood vpon the altar of the Lorde thy God, and the blood of thine offerings shall bee powred vpon the altar of the Lorde thy God, and thou shalt eate the flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go God by promise binds himself to do good to those who obey his word. 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 When the Lorde thy God shall destroy the nations before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou shalt possesse them and dwell in their lande,

30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not By following their superstitions and idolatries, and thinking to serve me by it. snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31 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 they have They held nothing too dear to offer to their idols. burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 Therefore whatsoeuer I command you, take heede you doe it: thou shalt put nothing thereto, nor take ought therefrom.

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1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams. dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, He shows that to which the false prophets tend. 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 God ordains all these things that his may be known. proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

4 Yee shall walke after the Lorde your God and feare him, and shall keepe his commaundements, and hearken vnto his voyce, and yee shall serue him, and cleaue vnto him.

5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be Being convicted by testimonies, and condemned by the judge. 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 All natural affection must give place to God's honour. 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 Whom you love as your life. soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

7 Any of the gods of the people which are round about you, neere vnto thee or farre off from thee, from the one ende of the earth vnto ye other:

8 Thou shalt not cosent vnto him, nor heare him, neither shall thine eye pitie him, nor shewe mercie, nor keepe him secret:

9 But thou shalt surely kill him; As the witness is charged. thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he dye (because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of ye land of Egypt, from ye house of bondage)

11 That all Israel may heare and feare, and doe no more any such wickednesse as this among you.

12 If thou shalt heare say (concerning any of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee to dwell in)

13 Wicked men are gone out from among you, & haue drawen away the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let vs go and serue other gods, which ye haue not knowen,

14 Then shalt Which are appointed to see faults punished. thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;

15 Thou shalt euen slay the inhabitants of that citie with the edge of the sworde: destroy it vtterly, and all that is therein, and the cattel thereof with the edge of the sworde.

16 And Signifying that no idolatry is so detestable, nor more grievously to be punished, than of those who once professed God. 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 an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city, read (Deu_7:26; Jos_7:11). cursed 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 fathers;

18 When thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, and keepe all his commandements which I command thee this day, that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

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1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.

2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a Therefore you should not follow the superstition of the Gentiles. peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

3 Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.

4 This ceremonial Law instructed the Jews to seek a spiritual pureness, even in their meat and drink.These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roe buck, and the bugle, and the wilde goate, and the vnicorne, & the wilde oxe, and the chamois.

6 And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde, that shall ye eate.

7 But these ye shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely: ye camell, nor the hare, nor the cony: for they chewe the cudde, but deuide not ye hoofe: therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you:

8 Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shal not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.

9 These ye shall eate, of all that are in the waters: all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate.

10 And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.

11 Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:

12 But these are they, whereof ye shall not eate: the egle, nor the goshawke, nor the osprey,

13 Nor the glead nor the kite, nor the vulture, after their kind,

14 Nor all kinde of rauens,

15 Nor the ostrich, nor the nightcrow, nor the semeaw, nor the hawke after her kinde,

16 Neither the litle owle, nor the great owle, nor the redshanke,

17 Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:

18 The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.

19 And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.

20 But of all cleane foules ye may eate.

21 Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that Because their blood was not shed, but remains in them. dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the Who is not of your religion. stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

22 Thou shalt truly The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites, who had no inheritance. tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eate before the Lorde thy God (in the place which he shall chose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy kine and of thy sheepe, that thou maiest learne to feare the Lord thy God alway.

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 thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, When he shall give thee abilities. when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and take the money in thine hand, and goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chose.

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: After the Priest has received the Lord's part. and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

27 And the Leuite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites, these were laid up in store for the poor. bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:

29 Then ye Leuite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe, which are within thy gates, and shall eate, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest.

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1 At the terme of seuen yeeres thou shalt make a freedome.

2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year. creditor that lendeth [ought] 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.

3 Of a stranger thou mayest require it: but that which thou hast with thy brother, thine hand shall remit:

4 For if your debtor is rich, he may be forced to pay.Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it:

5 So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all these commandements, which I commande thee this day.

6 For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, as he hath promised thee: and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, but thou thy selfe shalt not borow, and thou shalt reigne ouer many nations, & they shall not reigne ouer thee.

7 If one of thy brethren with thee be poore within any of thy gates in thy land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand vnto him, and shalt lend him sufficient for his neede which he hath.

9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, to say, The seuenth yeere, the yeere of freedome is at hand: therefore it grieueth thee to looke on thy poore brother, and thou giuest him nought, and he crie vnto the Lorde against thee, so that sinne be in thee:

10 Thou shalt giue him, and let it not grieue thine heart to giue vnto him: for because of this the Lord thy God shal blesse thee in al thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

11 To try your charity, (Mat_26:11).For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt You shall be liberal. open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

12 If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him goe away emptie,

14 Thou shalt In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours. furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

15 And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, & the Lord thy God deliuered thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

16 And if he say vnto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loueth thee & thine house, and because he is well with thee,

17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant To the year of Jubile, (Lev_25:40). for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double For the hired servant served but three years, and he six. hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: For they are the Lords. thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

20 Thou shalt eate it before the Lord thy God yeere by yeere, in the place which the Lord shall chose, both thou, and thine household.

21 But if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or haue any euill fault, thou shalt not offer it vnto the Lord thy God,

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts. as the roebuck, and as the hart.

23 Onely thou shalt not eate the blood thereof, but powre it vpon the ground as water.

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1 Observe the month of Read (Exo_13:4). Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

2 Thou shalt therefore You shall eat the Easter lamb. sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt. affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 And there shalbe no leauen seene with thee in all thy coastes seuen dayes long: neither shall there remaine the night any of the flesh vntil the morning which thou offeredst ye first day at euen.

5 Thou mayest This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was built. not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Which was instituted to remind them of their deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the hope of Jesus Christ, of whom this lamb was a figure. passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt roste & eate it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and shalt returne on the morowe, and goe vnto thy tentes.

8 Six daies shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, and ye seuenth day shall be a solemne assemblie to ye Lord thy God thou shalt do no worke therei n.

9 Seven weeks shalt thou Beginning the next morning after the Passover, (Lev_23:15; Exo_13:4). number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.

10 And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God, euen a free gift of thine hand, which thou shalt giue vnto the Lorde thy God, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

11 And thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, and thy maide, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, & the stranger, & the fatherles, and the widowe, that are among you, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse to place his Name there,

12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt: therefore thou shalt obserue and doe these ordinances.

13 Thou shalt That is, the 15th day of the seventh month, (Lev_23:34). observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

14 And thou shalt reioyce in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, & thy maid, & the Leuite, & the stranger, & the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are wtin thy gates.

15 Seuen daies shalt thou keepe a feast vnto the Lorde thy God in the place which the Lorde shall chuse: when the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thine increase, and in all the workes of thine hands, thou shalt in any case be glad.

16 Three times in the yeere shall all the males appeare before the Lorde thy God in the place which he shall chuse: in the feast of the vnleauened bread, and in the feast of the weekes, and in the feast of the Tabernacles: and they shall not appeare before the Lord emptie.

17 Every man [shall give] as he is According to the ability that God has given him. able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

18 He gave temporary authority to the people to choose magistrates for themselves.Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

19 Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, & peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.

20 That which The magistrate must constantly follow the tenor of the law, and in noting decline from justice. is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt plant thee no groue of any trees neere vnto the altar of the Lorde thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

22 Thou shalt set thee vp no pillar, which thing the Lord thy God hateth.

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1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do. blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or Showing that the crime cannot be excused by the frailty of the person. woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded. commanded;

4 And it be tolde vnto thee, and thou hast heard it, then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

5 Then shalt thou bring foorth that man, or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing) vnto thy gates, whether it be man or woman, & shalt stone them with stones, til they die.

6 At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is woorthie of death, die: but at the mouth of one witnesse, he shall not die.

7 The hands of the By which they declared that they testify the truth. witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the To signify a common consent to maintain God's honour and true religion. people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

8 If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood & blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,

9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the Who will sentence as the priests counsel him by the Law of God. judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

10 And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.

11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, You shall obey their sentence that the controversy may have an end. thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left.

12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounces according to his word. minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

13 So all the people shall heare and feare, and doe no more presumptuously.

14 Whe thou shalt come vnto ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and dwell therein, if thou say, I will set a King ouer me, like as all the nations that are about me,

15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a Who is not from your nation, lest he change true religion into idolatry, and bring you to slavery. stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother.

16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to To avenge their injuries and to take their best horses from them; (1Ki_10:28). Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart From the Law of God. turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this Meaning, Deuteronomy. law in a book out of [that which is] before the He shall cause it to be written by them, or he shall write it by their example. priests the Levites:

19 And it shall be with him, and he shall reade therein all daies of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lord his God, & to keepe all ye words of this Lawe, and these ordinances for to doe them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his By which is meant that kings should love their subjects as nature causes one brother to love another. brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

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1 The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his That is, the Lord's part of his inheritance. inheritance.

2 Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lorde is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.

3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the The right shoulder, (Num_18:18). shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe shalt thou giue him.

5 For the Lorde thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.

6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease. all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

7 He shall then minister in the Name of the Lorde his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.

8 They shall have like portions to eat, Not forced to live from himself. beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

9 When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominatios of those nations.

10 There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to Signifying they were purged by this ceremony of passing between two fires. pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

11 Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.

12 For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before thee.

13 Thou shalt be Without hypocrisy or mixture or false religion. perfect with the LORD thy God.

14 For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lorde thy God hath not suffred thee so.

15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Meaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ, the end of all prophets, comes. Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

16 According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well spoken.

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his A promise not only made to Christ, but to all that teach in his name, (Isa_59:21). mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

19 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will By executing punishment on him. require [it] of him.

20 But the prophet that shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in the name of other gods, euen the same prophet shall die.

21 And if thou thinke in thine heart, Howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lorde hath not spoken?

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing Under this sure note he comprises all the other tokens. follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

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1 When the Lorde thy God shall roote out the nations, whose lande the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,

2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the middes of thy lande which the Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.

3 Thou shalt Make an open and ready way. prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every Who killed against his will, and bore no hatred in his heart. slayer may flee thither.

4 This also is ye cause wherfore the manslaier shal flee thither, and liue: who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time passed:

5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he That murder not be committed on murder. shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

6 Least the auenger of the blood followe after the manslaier, while his heart is chafed, and ouertake him, because the way is long, and slaie him, although he be not worthy of death, because he hated him not in time passed.

7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt appoint out three cities for thee.

8 And if the LORD thy God When you go over Jordan to possess the whole land of Canaan. enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

9 (If thou keepe all these commaundements to doe them, which I commaund thee this day: to wit, that thou loue the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies for euer) then shalt thou adde three cities moe for thee besides those three,

10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and Lest you be punished for innocent blood. [so] blood be upon thee.

11 But if a man hate his neighbour, and lay waite for him, and rise against him, and smite any man that he die, and flee vnto any of these cities,

12 Then the The magistrates. elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 Thine Then whoever pardons murder, goes against the word of God. eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

14 Thou shalt not remooue thy neighbours marke, which they of olde time haue set in thine inheritance, that thou shalt inherite in the lande, which ye Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.

15 One witnes shall not rise against a man for any trespasse, or for any sinne, or for any fault that hee offendeth in, but at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.

16 If a false witnesse rise vp against a man to accuse him of trespasse,

17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the God's presence where his true ministers are assembled. LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

18 And the Iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witnesse be found false, and hath giuen false witnes against his brother,

19 Then shall yee doe vnto him as hee had thought to doe vnto his brother: so thou shalt take euil away forth of the middes of thee.

20 And the rest shal heare this, and feare, and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickednes among you.

21 Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.

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1 When Meaning, upon just occasion: for God does not permit his people to fight every time it seems good to them. thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

2 And when ye are come nere vnto the battel, then the Priest shal come forth to speake vnto the people,

3 And shal say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them.

4 For the LORD your God [is] he that Is present to defend you with his grace and power. goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not For when they first entered to dwell in a house, they gave thanks to God, acknowledging that they had that benefit by his grace. dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

6 And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet] The Hebrew word signifies to make common or profane, (Lev_19:25) eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.

8 And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say, Whosoeuer is afrayde and faynt hearted, let him go & returne vnto his house, least his brethrens heart faynt like his heart.

9 And after that the officers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, they shal make captaines of the armie to gouerne the people.

10 When thou commest neere vnto a citie to fight against it, thou shalt offer it peace.

11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of If it accept peace. peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

12 But if it will make no peace with thee, but make war against thee, then shalt thou besiege it.

13 And the Lord thy God shall deliuer it into thine handes, and thou shalt smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sworde.

14 Onely the women, & the children, & the cattel, & all that is in the citie, euen all the spoyle thereof shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and shalt eate the spoyle of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee.

15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these For God had appointed the Canaanites to be destroyed, and made the Israelites the executers of his will, (Deu_7:1). nations.

16 But of the cities of this people, which the Lorde thy God shall giue thee to inherite, thou shalt saue no person aliue,

17 But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, & the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,

18 That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, & so ye should sinne against the Lorde your God.

19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the Some read: For man shall be instead of the tree of the field, to come out in the siege against you. tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:

20 Onely those trees, which thou knowest are not for meate, those shalt thou destroy and cut downe, & make fortes against the citie that maketh warre with thee, vntil thou subdue it.

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1 If [one] be found This law declares how horrible murder is, seeing that because of one man a whole country will be punished, unless remedy is found. slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him:

2 Then thine Elders & thy Iudges shal come forth, and measure vnto the cities that are round about him that is slayne.

3 Aud let ye Elders of that citie, which is next vnto the slaine man, take out of the droue an heifer that hath not bene put to labour, nor hath drawen in the yoke.

4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough That the blood shed of the innocent beasts in a solitary place, might make them abhor the fact. valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

5 Also the Priests the sonnes of Leui (whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister, & to blesse in the name of the Lorde) shal come forth, & by their word shal all strife & plague be tried.

6 And all the Elders of that citie that came neere to the slayne man, shal wash their hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

7 And shal testifie, and say, Our handes haue not shed this blood, neither haue our eies seene it.

8 Be merciful, This was the prayer, which the priests made in the audience of the people. O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

9 So shalt thou take away the cry of innocet blood from thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

10 Whe thou shalt go to warre against thine enemies, & the Lord thy God shal deliuer them into thine hands, & thou shalt take the captiues,

11 And shalt see among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, & wouldest take her to thy wife,

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; Signifying that her former life must be changed before she could be joined to the people of God. and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, As having renounced parents and country. and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy This was only allowed in the wars, otherwise the Israelites could not marry strangers. wife.

14 And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another This declares that the plurality of wives came from a corrupt affection. hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

16 Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a As much as to two of the others. double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] Unless he is unworthy, as Reuben, Jacob's son, was. his.

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his For it is the mother's duty also to instruct her children. mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

19 Then shall his father and his mother take him, & bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, & vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,

20 And shall say vnto the Elders of his citie, This our sonne is stubburne and disobedient, and he wil not obey our admonition: he is a ryotour, and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city shall A death which was also appointed for blasphemers and idolaters: so that to disobey the parents is most horrible. stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

22 If a man also haue committed a trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death, & thou hangest him on a tree,

23 His body shall not remain For God's law is satisfied by his death, and nature abhors cruelty. all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

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1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and As though your did not see it. hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

2 And if thy brother [be] not Showing that brotherly affection must be shown, not only to those who dwell near to us, but also to those who are far off. nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

3 In like manner shalt thou do with his You are bound to do much more for your neighbour. ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

4 Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse nor his oxe fal downe by the way, and withdrawe thy selfe from them, but shalt lift them vp with him.

5 The For that alters the order of nature, and shows that you despise God. woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, If God detests cruelty done to little birds, how much more to man, made according to his image? thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

7 But shalt in any wise let the damme go, & take the yong to thee, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy dayes.

8 When thou buildest a newe house, thou shalt make a battlemet on thy roofe, that thou lay not blood vpo thine house, if any man fal thence.

9 Thou shalt not The tenor of this law is to walk in simplicity and not to be curious about new fads. sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

10 Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together.

11 Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

12 Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon the foure quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou couerest thy selfe.

13 If a man take a wife, and when he hath lyen with her, hate her,

14 And give That is, be an occasion that she is slandered. occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15 Then shal the father of the mayde and her mother take and bring the signes of the maydes virginitie vnto the Elders of the citie to the gate.

16 And the maydes father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, and he hateth her:

17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the Meaning, the sheet, in which the signs of her virginity were. cloth before the elders of the city.

18 Then the Elders of the citie shal take that man and chastise him,

19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father For the fault of the child becomes the shame of the parents: therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless. of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20 But if this thing be true, that the mayde be not found a virgine,

21 Then shall they bring forth the mayde to the doore of her fathers house, & the men of her citie shal stone her with stones to death: for shee hath wrought follie in Israel, by playing ye whore in her fathers house: so thou shalt put euill away from among you.

22 If a man be found lying with a woman marryed to a man, then they shall dye euen both twaine: to wit, the man that lay with the wife, & the wife: so thou shalt put away euil from Israel.

23 If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, & a man finde her in the towne & lye with her,

24 Then shall yee bring them both out vnto the gates of the same citie, and shall stone them with stones to death: the mayde because she cried not, being in the citie, & the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you.

25 But if a man finde a betrothed mayde in the field, and force her, and lye with her, then the man that lay with her, shal dye alone:

26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished. [is] this matter:

27 For he found her in the fieldes: the betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man to succour her.

28 If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde,

29 Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of siluer: and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.

30 A man shall not He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Lev. 18:1-30). take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, Either to bear office, or to marry a wife. shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

2 This was to cause them to live chastely, that their posterity might not be rejected.A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

3 The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: euen to their tenth generation shal they not enter into the Congregation of the Lord for euer,

4 Because they By this he condemns all who do not aid the children of God in their calling. met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

5 Neuerthelesse, the Lorde thy God would not hearken vnto Balaam, but the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee.

6 Thou You shall have nothing to do with them. shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

7 Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite: for he is thy brother, neither shalt thou abhorre an Egyptian, because thou wast a strager in his land.

8 The children that are begotten If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision. of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

9 When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies, keepe thee then from all wickednesse.

10 If there be among you any that is vncleane by that which commeth to him by night, he shall goe out of the hoste, and shall not enter into the hoste,

11 But at euen he shall wash him selfe with water, and when the sunne is downe, he shall enter into the hoste.

12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt For the necessities of nature. go forth abroad:

13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and Meaning by this that his people should be pure both in body and soul. cover that which cometh from thee:

14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the mids of thy campe to deliuer thee, and to giue thee thine enemies before thee: therefore thine hoste shalbe holy, that he see no filthie thing in thee and turne away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not This is meant of the heathen, who fled because of their masters' cruelty, and embrace the true religion. deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

16 He shall dwell with thee, euen among you, in what place he shal chuse, in one of thy cities where it liketh him best: thou shalt not vexe him.

17 There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shal there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel.

18 Thou shalt not bring the Forbidding that any income gained from evil things should be applied to the service of God, (Mic_2:7). hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

19 Thou shalt not giue to vsurie to thy brother: as vsurie of money, vsurie of meate, vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie.

20 Unto a This was permitted for a time because of the hardness of their hearts. stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may If you show charity to your brother, God will declare his love toward you. bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

21 When thou shalt vowe a vowe vnto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not be slacke to paye it: for the Lorde thy God will surely require it of thee, and so it should be sinne vnto thee.

22 But when thou absteinest from vowing, it shalbe no sinne vnto thee.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt If the vow is lawful and godly. keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

24 When thou comest into Being hired for labour. thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy To bring home to your house. vessel.

25 When thou commest into thy neighbours corne thou mayest plucke the eares with thine hand, but thou shalt not moue a sickle to thy neighbours corne.

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1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: By this God does not approve light divorcement, but permits it to avoid further inconvenience; (Mat_19:7). then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2 And when she is departed out of his house, & gone her way, and marrie with an other man,

3 And if the latter husband hate her, & write her a letter of diuorcement, & put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife:

4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is Seeing that by divorcing her he judged her to be unclean and defiled. defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, That they might learn to know one another's conditions, and so afterward live in godly peace. neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

6 No man shall take the nether or the upper Not anything by which a man gets his living. millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.

7 If any man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh marchandise of him, or selleth him, that thiefe shal die: so shalt thou put euil away from among you.

8 Take heede of the plague of leprosie, that thou obserue diligently, and doe according to all that the Priestes of the Leuites shall teach you: take heede ye doe as I commanded them.

9 Remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Miriam by the way after that ye were come out of Egypt.

10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go As though you would appoint what to have, but shall receive what be may spare. into his house to fetch his pledge.

11 But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee.

12 Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee Though he would be unthankful, yet God will not forget it. before the LORD thy God.

14 Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.

15 Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.

16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers, but euery man shalbe put to death for his owne sinne.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the Because the world valued these people least, therefore God has most care over them. stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

18 But remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt, and howe the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence. Therefore I commaund thee to doe this thing.

19 When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy fielde, and hast forgotten a sheafe in the fielde, thou shalt not goe againe to fet it, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherles, & for the widowe: that the Lorde thy God may blesse thee in all the workes of thine hands.

20 When thou beatest thine oliue tree, thou shalt not goe ouer the boughes againe, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.

21 When thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee, but they shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.

22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast God judged them not mindful of his beasts, unless they were beneficial to others. a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, Whether there is a plaintiff or not, the magistrates should try our faults, and punish according to the crime. that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, When the crime does not deserve death. and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

3 The superstition Jews later removed one, (2Co_11:24).Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

4 Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her Because the Hebrew word does not signify the natural brother, and the word that signifies a brother, is taken also for a kinsman: it seems that it does not mean that the natural brother should marry his brothers wife, but some other kindred that was in the degree that might marry. husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

6 And the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

7 And if the man will not take his kinsewoman, then let his kinsewoman goe vp to the gate vnto the Elders, and say, My kinsman refuseth to rayse vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: hee will not doe the office of a kinsman vnto me.

8 Then the Elders of his citie shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I wil not take her,

9 Then shall his kinswoman come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shooe from his foote, and spit in his face, and answere, and say, So shall it be done vnto that man, that will not buylde vp his brothers house.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose shooe is put off.

11 This law imputes that godly shamefacedness is preferred: for it is a horrible thing to see a woman past shame.When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye shall not spare her.

13 Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,

14 Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small:

15 But thou shalt haue a right & iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

16 For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

17 Remeber what Amalek did vnto thee by the way, when ye were come out of Egypt:

18 How he met thee by ye way, & smote ye hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast fainted & weary, & he feared not God.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the This was partly accomplished by Saul, about 450 years later. remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

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1 Also when thou shalt come into the lande which the Lord thy God giueth thee for inheritance, and shalt possesse it, & dwell therein,

2 By this ceremony they acknowledged that they received the land of Canaan as a free gift from God.That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to To be called upon, served and worshipped spiritually, (Deu_12:5). place his name there.

3 And thou shalt come vnto the Priest, that shall be in those dayes, and say vnto him, I acknowledge this day vnto the Lord thy God, that I am come vnto the countrey which the Lorde sware vnto our fathers for to giue vs.

4 Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, & set it downe before the altar of the Lord thy God.

5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria. Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, Only by God's mercy, and not by their father's deserving. and populous:

6 And the Egyptians vexed vs, and troubled vs, and laded vs with cruell bondage.

7 And when we Alleging the promises made to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

8 And the Lord brought vs out of Egypt in a mightie hande, and a stretched out arme, with great terriblenesse, both in signes and wonders.

9 And he hath brought vs into this place, & hath giuen vs this land, euen a lande that floweth with milke and hony.

10 And now, behold, I have In token of a thankful heart, and mindful of this benefit. brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine Signifying that God does not give us goods for ourselves only, but to be used also by those who are committed to our charge. house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.

12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tythes of thine increase, the thirde yeere, which is the yeere of tithing, and hast giuen it vnto the Leuite, to the stranger, to the fatherlesse, & to the widowe, that they may eate within thy gates, and be satisfied,

13 Then thou shalt Without hypocrisy. say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not Of malice and contempt. transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:

14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done As far as my sinful nature would allow: or else as David and Paul say, there is not one just, (Psa_14:3; Rom_3:10). according to all that thou hast commanded me.

15 Looke downe from thine holy habitation, euen from heauen, and blesse thy people Israel, & the lande which thou hast giuen vs (as thou swarest vnto our fathers) the land that floweth with milke and hony.

16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with With a good and simple conscience. all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

17 Thou hast set vp the Lorde this day to be thy God, and to walke in his wayes, and to keepe his ordinances, and his commandements, and his lawes, and to hearken vnto his voyce.

18 Signifying that there is a mutual bond between God and his people.And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;

19 And to make thee high aboue al nations (which he hath made) in praise, & in name, and in glory, & that thou shouldest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.

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1 And Moses with the elders of Israel As God's minister and charged with the same. commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

2 And when ye shal passe ouer Iorden vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and playster them with plaister,

3 God would have his law set up in the borders of the land of Canaan, that all that looked on it might know that the land was dedicated to his service.And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

4 Therefore when ye shal passe ouer Iorden, ye shal set vp these stones, which I command you this daye in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would continue but for a time: for God would have only one altar in Judah. iron [tool] upon them.

6 Thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones, and offer burnt offerings thereon vnto the Lord thy God.

7 And thou shalt offer peace offrings, & shalt eate there and reioyce before the Lord thy God:

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law That everyone may well read it, and understand it. very plainly.

9 And Moses & the Priestes of the Leuites spake vnto all Israel, saying, Take heede & heare, O Israel: this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.

10 Thou This condition has bound you to it, that if you will be his people, you must keep his laws. shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh. Joseph, and Benjamin:

13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to Signifying, that if they would not obey God out of love, they would be made to obey out of fear. curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 And the Leuites shal answere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce,

15 Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten Under this he contains all the corruptions of God's service, and the transgression of the first table. image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

16 Cursed [be] he that Or, condemns; and this applies to the second table. setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

17 Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's He condemns all injuries and extortions. landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

18 Cursed [be] he that maketh the Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour. blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

19 Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.

20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's In committing wickedness against him, (Lev_20:11; Deu_22:30; Eze_22:10) skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: And all the people shal say: So be it.

22 Cursed be he that lyeth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: And all the people shal say: So be it.

23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his Meaning, his wife's mother. mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

24 Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour For God that sees in secret, will avenge it. secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

25 Cursed be he that taketh a reward to put to death innocent blood: And all the people shal say: So be it.

26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the wordes of this Law, to do them: And all the people shal say: So be it.

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1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will He will make you the most excellent of all people. set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and When you think you are forsaken. overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the You will live richly. city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.

4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit Your children and succession. of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

5 Blessed shalbe thy basket and thy dough.

6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou All your enterprises will have good success. comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.

7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee Meaning many ways. seven ways.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine God will bless us, if we do our duty and are not idle. hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

9 The Lorde shal make thee an holy people vnto himself, as he hath sworne vnto thee, if thou shalt keepe the commandements of the Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes.

10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art In that he is your God, and you are his people. called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

11 And the Lord shal make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruite of thy body, and in the fruite of thy cattell, and in the fruite of thy grounde, in the land which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers, to giue thee.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the For nothing in the earth is profitable but when God sends his blessings from heaven. heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the Lord shal make thee the head, & not the tayle, & thou shalt be aboue onely, and shalt not bee beneath, if thou obey the commandements of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to keepe and to do them.

14 But thou shalt not decline from any of the wordes, which I command you this day, either to the right hand or to the left, to goe after other gods to serue them.

15 But if thou wilt not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, to keepe & to do all his commandementes and his ordinances, which I command thee this day, then al these curses shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.

16 Cursed shalt thou bee in the towne, and cursed also in the fielde.

17 Cursed shal thy basket be, & thy dough.

18 Cursed shall be the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy land, the increase of thy kine, & the flockes of thy sheepe.

19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou commest in, and cursed also when thou goest out.

20 The Lorde shall sende vpon thee cursing, trouble, & shame, in all that which thou settest thine hand to do, vntil thou be destroyed, and perish quickely, because of the wickednesse of thy workes whereby thou hast forsaken me.

21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee, vntill he hath consumed thee from the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.

22 The Lorde shall smite thee with a consumption, and with the feuer, and with a burning ague, and with feruent heate, & with the sworde, and with blasting, and with the mildew, & they shal pursue thee vntill thou perish.

23 And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass. brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.

24 The Lorde shal giue thee for the rayne of thy land, dust & ashes: euen from heauen shal it come downe vpon thee, vntil thou be destroyed.

25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be Some read, you shall be a terror and fear, when they hear how God has plagued you. removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

26 And thy You will be cursed both in your life and in your death: for the burial is a testimony of the resurrection a sign you will lack because of your wickedness. carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.

27 The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, & with the emeroids, & with the skab, and with the itche, that thou canst not be healed.

28 And ye Lorde shal smite thee with madnes, and with blindnes, and with astonying of heart.

29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the In things most evident and clear you will lack discretion and judgment. blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, & another man shal lye with her: thou shalt builde an house, and shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eate the fruite.

31 Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eate thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shalbe giuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal rescue them for thee.

32 Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes When they will return from their captivity. shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.

33 The fruite of thy land and all thy labours shall a people, which thou knowest not, eate, and thou shalt neuer but suffer wrong, and violence always:

34 So that thou shalt be madde for the sight which thine eyes shal see.

35 The Lord shal smite thee in the knees, and in the thighes, with a sore botche, that thou canst not be healed: euen from the sole of thy foote vnto the top of thine head.

36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy As he did Manasseh, Joiakim, Zedekiah and others. king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

37 And thou shalt be a wonder, a prouerbe and a common talke among all people, whither the Lord shall carie thee.

38 Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.

40 Thou shalt haue Oliue trees in all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynt thy selfe with the oyle: for thine oliues shall fall.

41 Thou shalt beget sonnes, and daughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shall goe into captiuitie.

42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land Under one kind he contains all the vermin, which destroy the fruit of the land: and this is an evident token of God's curse. shall the locust consume.

43 The straunger that is among you, shall clime aboue thee vp on hie, and thou shalt come downe beneath alow.

44 He shall lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him: he shalbe the head, & thou shalt be ye tayle.

45 Moreouer, all these curses shall come vpon thee, and shall pursue thee and ouertake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to keepe his commaundements, and his ordinances, which he commanded thee:

46 And they shalbe vpon thee for signes & wonders, and vpon thy seede for euer,

47 Because thou seruedst not the Lorde thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good heart for the abundance of all things.

48 Therefore thou shalt serue thine enemies which the Lord shal send vpon thee, in hunger & in thirst, and in nakednesse, and in neede of all things? And he shall put a yoke of yron vpon thy necke vntill he haue destroyed thee.

49 The Lord shall bring a nation vpon thee from farre, euen from the ende of the world, flying swift as an Egle: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not vnderstand:

50 A nation of a fierce countenance, which will not regarde the person of the olde, nor haue compassion of the yong.

51 The same shall eate the fruit of thy cattell, and the fruite of thy land vntill thou be destroyed, and he shall leaue thee neyther wheate, wine, nor oyle, neither the increase of thy kyne, nor the flockes of thy sheepe, vntill he haue brought thee to nought.

52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities, vntill thine hie and strong walles fall downe, wherein thou trustedst in all the lande: and hee shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy lande, which the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee.

53 And thou shalt eate the fruite of thy bodie: euen the flesh of thy sonnes and thy daughters, which the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee, during the siege & straitnesse wherein thine enemie shall inclose thee:

54 So that the man (that is tender and exceeding deintie among you) shalbe grieued at his brother, and at his wife, that lieth in his bosome, and at the remnant of his children, which hee hath yet left,

55 For feare of giuing vnto any of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eate, because he hath nothing left him in that siege, and straitnesse, wherewith thine enemie shall besiege thee in all thy cities.

56 The tender and delicate As came to pass in the days of Joram king of Israel, (2Ki_6:28) and when the Romans besieged Jerusalem. woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

57 And toward her Hunger will so bite her, that she will be ready to eat her child before it is delivered. young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

58 If thou wilt not observe to do For he that offends in one, is guilty of all, (Jam_2:10) all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

59 The the Lord wil make thy plagues wonderfull, and the plagues of thy seede, euen great plagues and of long continuance, and sore diseases, and of long durance.

60 Moreouer, he will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, whereof thou wast afraide, and they shall cleaue vnto thee.

61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not Declaring, that God has infinite means to plague the wicked, besides those that are ordinary or written. written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

62 And ye shall be left few in nomber, where ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God.

63 And as the Lord hath reioyced ouer you, to doe you good, and to multiply you, so he will reioyce ouer you, to destroy you, and bring you to nought, and ye shalbe rooted out of the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.

64 And the LORD shall Signifying that it is a singular gift from God to be in a place where we may worship God purely and declare our faith and religion. scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.

65 Also among these nations thou shalt finde no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest: for the Lord shal giue thee there a trembling heart, and looking to returne till thine eyes fall out, and a sorowfull minde.

66 And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt feare both night and day, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life.

67 In the morning thou shalt say, Woulde God it were euening, and at the euening thou shalt say, Would God it were morning, for ye feare of thine heart, which thou shalt feare, and for the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see.

68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with Because they were unmindful of that miracle, when the sea made room for them to pass through. ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

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1 These [are] the That is, the articles, or conditions. words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in At the first giving of the law, which was forty years earlier. Horeb.

2 And Moses called all Israel, and said vnto them, Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt vnto Pharaoh and vnto all his seruantes, and vnto all his lande,

3 The The proofs of my power. great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

4 Yet the LORD hath not He shows that it is not in man's power to understand the mysteries of God if it is not given to him from above. given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5 And I haue led you fourty yere in the wildernesse: your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you, neyther is thy shooe waxed olde vpon thy foote.

6 Ye have not eaten Made by man's art, but manna, which is called the bread of angels. bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

7 After, ye came vnto this place, and Sihon King of Heshbon, and Og King of Bashan came out against vs vnto battell, and we slewe them,

8 And tooke their lande, and gaue it for an inheritance vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

9 Keepe therefore the wordes of this couenant and doe them, that ye may prosper in all that ye shall doe.

10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your Who knows your hearts, and therefore you may not think to conceal from him. God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,

11 Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,

12 That thou shouldest Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a beast in two, and past between the parts divided, (Gen_15:10). enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

13 For to establish thee this day a people vnto him selfe, and that he may be vnto thee a God, as he hath said vnto thee, and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.

14 Neither make I this couenant, & this othe with you onely,

15 But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] Meaning, their posterity. that [is] not here with us this day:

16 For ye knowe, how we haue dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed thorowe the middes of the nations, which ye passed by.

17 And ye haue seene their abominations and their idoles (wood, and stone, siluer and golde) which were among them,

18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and destroy you. a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add For as he that is thirsty desires to drink much so he that follows his appetites seeks by all means and yet cannot be satisfied. drunkenness to thirst:

20 The Lord will not be mercifull vnto him, but then the wrath of the Lorde and his ielousie shall smoke against that man, and euery curse that is written in this booke, shall light vpon him, and the Lorde shall put out his name from vnder heauen,

21 And the Lord shall separate him vnto euil out of all the tribes of Israel, according vnto all the curses of the couenant, that is written in the booke of this Lawe.

22 So that the God's plagues on those who rebel against him will be so strong, that all ages will be astonished. generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

23 (For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)

24 Then shall all nations say, Wherefore hath the Lorde done thus vnto this lande? how fierce is this great wrath?

25 And they shall answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lorde God of their fathers, which he had made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

26 And went and serued other gods and worshipped them: euen gods which they knewe not, and which had giuen them nothing,

27 Therefore the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot against this land, to bring vpon it euery curse that is written in this booke.

28 And ye Lord hath rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and hath cast them into another land, as appeareth this day.

29 The Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that are only known to God: and their negligence who do not regard that which God has revealed to them, as the law. secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

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1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt By calling to mind both his mercies and his plagues. call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine In true repentance there is no hypocrisy. heart, and with all thy soul;

3 Then the Lord thy God wil cause thy captiues to returne, and haue compassion vpon thee, and wil returne, to gather thee out of all the people, where the Lord thy God had scattered thee.

4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of Even to the worlds end. heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he And bring you into your country. fetch thee:

5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, & thou shalt possesse it, and he will shewe thee fauour, and will multiplie thee aboue thy fathers.

6 And the LORD thy God will God will purge all your wicked affections, a thing that is not in your own power to do. circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

7 And the Lorde thy God will lay all these curses vpon thine enemies, and on them, that hate thee, and that persecute thee.

8 If we will have God work in us with his Holy Spirit, we must turn again to him by repentance.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 plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again He does not mean that God is subject to these passions, to rejoice, or to be sad: but he uses this manner of speech to declare the love that he has for us. rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

10 Because thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, in keeping his comandements, and his ordinances, which are written in the booke of this Law, when thou shalt returne vnto the Lord thy God with all thine heart & with al thy soule.

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] The law is so evident that no one can pretend ignorance. not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off.

12 It is not in heauen, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go vp for vs to heauen, & bring it vs, and cause vs to heare it, that we may doe it?

13 Neither [is] it beyond the By heaven and the sea he means places most far distant. sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

14 But the Even the law and the gospel. word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest By faith in Christ. do it.

15 Beholde, I haue set before thee this day life and good, death and euill,

16 In that I command thee this day So that to love and obey God, is only life and happiness. to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest He adds these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his. live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17 But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,

18 I pronounce vnto you this day, that ye shal surely perish, ye shall not prolong your dayes in the lande, whither thou passest ouer Iorden to possesse it.

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 That is, love and obey God; which is not in man's power, but only God's Spirit works it in his elect. choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

20 By louing the Lorde thy God, by obeying his voyce, and by cleauing vnto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes: that thou mayest dwell in the lande which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue them.

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1 Then Moses went and spake these wordes vnto all Israel,

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

3 The Lord thy God he will go ouer before thee: he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possesse them. Ioshua, he shall goe before thee, as the Lorde hath said.

4 And the Lord shall doe vnto them, as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings of the Amorites: and vnto their lande whome he destroyed.

5 And the LORD shall give them up Into your hands. before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

6 Plucke vp your hearts therefore, and be strong: dread not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lorde thy God him selfe doeth goe with thee: he will not faile thee, nor forsake thee.

7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and For he that must govern the people, must be valiant to repress evil, and constant to maintain virtue. of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth Signifying that man can never be of good courage, unless he is persuaded of God's favour and assistance. go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

9 And Moses wrote this Lawe, and deliuered it vnto the Priestes the sonnes of Leui (which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde) and vnto all the Elders of Israel,

10 And Moses commanded them, saying, Euery seuenth yeere when the yeere of freedome shalbe in the feast of the Tabernacles:

11 When all Israel is come to appear Before the Ark of the covenant, which was the sign of God's presence, and the figure of Christ. before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

12 Gather the people together: men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may heare, and that they may learne, and feare the Lorde your God, and keepe and obserue all the wordes of this Lawe,

13 And [that] their children, which Who were not born when the law was given. 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 to possess it.

14 Then the Lorde saide vnto Moses, Beholde, thy dayes are come, that thou must die: Call Ioshua, and stande ye in the Tabernacle of the Congregation that I may giue him a charge. So Moses and Ioshua went, and stoode in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar. cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

16 And the Lorde said vnto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people will rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein) and will forsake me, and breake my couenant which I haue made with them.

17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will That is, I will take my favour from them; as turning his face toward us shows his favour. hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?

18 But I will surely hide my face in that day, because of all the euill, which they shall commit, in that they are turned vnto other gods.

19 Now therefore write ye this To preserve you and your children from idolatry, by remembering God's benefits. song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; For this is the nature of flesh, no longer to obey God, than it is under the rod. then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall That these evils are come upon them, because they have forsaken me. testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel.

23 And God gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the lande, which I sware vnto them, and I will be with thee.

24 And when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe in a booke vntill he had finished them,

25 Then Moses commaunded the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde, saying,

26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a Of your infidelity, when you turn away from the doctrine contained in it. witness against thee.

27 For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke: beholde, I being yet aliue with you this day, ye are rebellious against the Lorde: howe much more then after my death?

28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your As governors, judges and magistrates. officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the By idolatry, and worshipping images, which are the work of your hands. work of your hands.

30 Thus Moses spake in the audience of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song, vntill he had ended them.

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1 Give ear, O ye As witness of this people's ingratitude. heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2 My He desires that he may speak to God's glory and that the people, as the green grass, may receive the dew of his doctrine. doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

3 For I will publish the name of the Lorde: giue ye glorie vnto our God.

4 [He is] the Or mighty God; noting that only God is mighty, faithful and constant in his promise. Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.

5 They haue corrupted them selues towarde him by their vice, not being his children, but a frowarde and crooked generation.

6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not Not according to the common creation, but he has made you a new creature by his Spirit. made thee, and established thee?

7 Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.

8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the When God by his providence divided the world, he lent for a time that portion to the Canaanites, which would later be an inheritance for all his people Israel. people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For the Lordes portion is his people: Iaakob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in ye land of ye wildernes, in a waste, & roaring wildernes: he led him about, he taught him, and kept him as ye apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, To teach them to fly. fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12 So the Lorde alone led him, and there was no strange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt. earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks. honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of kine, and milke of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the graines of wheat, and the red licour of the grape hast thou drunke.

15 He shows what is the principal end of our vocation.But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked him to jealousy with By changing his service for their superstitions. strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to Scripture calls new, whatever man invents, be the error ever so old. new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Thou hast forgotten the mightie God that begate thee, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his He calls them God's children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen. sons, and of his daughters.

20 And he said, I will hide my face from the: I will see what their ende shalbe: for they are a frowarde generation, children in who is no faith.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a Which I have not favoured, nor given my law to them. people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

23 I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.

24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.

25 The sword They shall be slain both in the field and at home. without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.

26 I haue said, I would scatter them abroade: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men,

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by God's hand. 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 voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would They would consider the happiness that was prepared for them, if they had obeyed God. consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, & two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold the, & the Lord had shut them vp?

31 For their god is not as our God, euen our enemies being iudges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.

33 Their The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man. wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laide in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures?

35 Vengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon 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 When neither strong nor weak in a manner remain. shut up, or left.

37 When men shal say, Where are their gods, their mighty God in whome they trusted,

38 Which did eate the fat of their sacrifices, & did drinke the wine of their drinke offring? let them rise vp, & help you: let him be your refuge.

39 Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is no gods with me: I kill, and giue life: I wound, and I make whole: neither is there any that can deliuer out of mine hand.

40 For I That is, I swear, read (Gen_14:22). lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

41 If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.

42 I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (& my sword shal eate flesh) for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I beginne to take vengeance of the enemie.

43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the Where the blood of God's people is shed for their sins or trial of their faith, he promises to avenge it. blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.

44 Then Moses came and spake all ye words of this song in the audience of the people, he and Hoshea the sonne of Nun.

45 When Moses had made an end of speaking all these wordes to all Israel,

46 Then hee said vnto them, Set your heartes vnto all the wordes which I testifie against you this day, that ye may commande them vnto your children, that they may obserue and doo all the wordes of this Lawe.

47 For it [is] not a For I will perform my promise to you, (Isa_55:10). vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

48 And the Lord spake vnto Moses the selfe same day, saying,

49 Goe vp into the mountaine of Abarim, vnto the mount Nebo, which is in the lande of Moab, that is ouer against Iericho: and beholde the lande of Canaan, which I giue vnto the children of Israel for a possession,

50 And die in the mount which thou goest vp vnto, and thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people, as Aaro thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people,

51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye You were not earnest and constant to maintain my honour. sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 Thou shalt therefore see the lande before thee, but shalt not go thither, I meane, into the land which I giue the children of Israel.

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1 And this [is] the This blessing contains not only a simple prayer, but an assurance of the effect of it. blessing, wherewith 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 Meaning, infinite angels. thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.

3 Yea, he loved the people; Hebrew, his saints, that is, the children of Israel. all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at As thy disciples. thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words.

4 Moses commanded us a law, [even] the To us and our successors. inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

5 Then he was among the righteous people, as King, when the heades of the people, and the tribes of Israel were assembled.

6 Let Reuben will be one of the tribes of God's people, though for his sin his honour is diminished, and his family but small. Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.

7 And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be Signifying, that he would barely obtain Jacob's promise, (Gen_49:8). sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.

8 And of Leui he said, Let thy Thummim and thine Vrim be with thine Holy one, whome thou diddest proue in Massah, and didst cause him to striue at the waters of Meribah.

9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, He preferred God's glory to all natural affection, (Exo_28:30). 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 Iaakob thy iudgements, & Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thy face, and the burnt offring vpon thine altar.

11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite He declares that the ministers of God have many enemies, and therefore need to be prayed for. 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 Because the temple would be built in Zion, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, he shows that God would dwell with him there. dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

13 And of Ioseph hee sayde, Blessed of the Lord is his land for the sweetenesse of heauen, for the dewe, and for the depth lying beneath,

14 And for the sweete increase of the sunne, and for the sweete increase of the moone,

15 And for the sweetenes of the top of the ancient mountaines, and for the sweetenes of the olde hilles,

16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the Which was God appearing to Moses, (Exo_3:2). 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 beautie shalbe like his first borne bullock, & his hornes as the hornes of an vnicorne: with them hee shall smite the people together, euen the endes of the world: these are also the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.

18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy In thy prosperous voyages on the sea, (Gen_49:13). going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.

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

20 Also of Gad he said, Blessed be hee that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, that catcheth for his praye the arme with the head.

21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the So the portion of the Gadites, and others on this side of the Jordan was God's, though it was not so known. lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lions whelp: he shall leape from Bashan.

23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou Meaning, near the sea. the west and the south.

24 And of Asher he saide, Asher shalbe blessed with children: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethren, and shall dippe his foote in oyle.

25 Thy shoes [shall be] You will be strong or, your country full of metal. It seems that Simeon is left out, because he was under Judah, and his portion of his inheritance, (Jos_19:9). iron and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be].

26 There is none like God, O righteous people, which rideth vpon the heauens for thine helpe, and on the cloudes in his glory.

27 The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.

28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: Who was plentiful in issue as a fountain. the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and Your enemies for fear shall lie and pretend to be in subjection. thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

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1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Which was a part of mount Abarim, (Num_27:12). Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost Called Mediterranean. sea,

3 And the South, and the plaine of the valley of Iericho, the citie of palmetrees, vnto Zoar.

4 And the Lord said vnto him, This is the lande which I sware vnto Abraham, to Izhak and to Iaacob saying, I will giue it vnto thy seede: I haue caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not goe ouer thither.

5 So Moses the seruant of the Lord dyed there in the land of Moab, according to the worde of the Lord.

6 And That is, the angel of the Lord, (Jud_1:9). he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto That the Jews might not have opportunity to commit idolatry by it. this day.

7 Moses was nowe an hundreth and twentie yeere olde when hee died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.

8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plaine of Moab thirtie dayes: so the dayes of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

9 And By this the favour of God is demonstrated, in that he does not leave his Church destitute of a governor. Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew To whom the Lord revealed himself so plainly as in (Exo_33:11). face to face,

11 In all ye miracles & wonders which ye Lord sent him to do in ye land of Egypt before Pharaoh & before all his seruantes, and before al his land,

12 And in all that mighty Meaning, the power of God working by Moses in the wilderness. hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.