Chap.x.xị. The tables renewed. An exhortation. 24 You have been rebellious against the Andthe LORD faid unto me, Arife, LORD, from the day that I knew you. take thy journey before the people, that 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD they may go in and poffefs the land which fourty dayes, and fourty nights, as I fell I fware unto their fathers to give unto down at be firft: because the LORD had them. faid he would destroy you. 12 And now Ifrael, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but t fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his wayes, and to love him, and to ferve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and faid, O Lord GOD, deftroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thout haft redeemed through thy greatnefs, which thou haft brought forth out of E-all thy foul. Bypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy lervants, Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob, look not unto the flubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their fin: 28 Left the land whence thou broughteft us out, fay, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promiled them, and becaufe he hated them, he hath brought them out to lay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughteft out by thy mighty power and by thy ftretched out arm. CHA P. X. Gods mercy in restoring the two tables,&c. 12 Anexbortation to obedience." Tthat time the LORD faid unto me, AHew thee two tables of ftone like unto the firft, and come up unto me into the inount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on tables the words that were in the firft tables which thou brakeft, and thou fhalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of fhittim-wood, and hewed two tables of ftone 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 command ments, which the LORD fpake unto you in the mount, out of the midft of the fire in the day of the affembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned my felf and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 13 To keep the commandments ofthe LORD, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the LORDS thy God, the earth alfo with all that therein is. 15 Onely the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chofe their feed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day, 16 Circumcife therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more ftiff-necked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of Eods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not perfons, nor taketh reward. 18 He doth execute the judgement of the fatherlefs and widow, and loveth the ftranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the ftranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou fhalt fear the LORD thy God; him fhalt thou ferve, and to him fhalt thou cleave, and wear by his name. 21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God that hath done for thee thefe great & terrible things, which thine eyes have feen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threefcore and ten perfons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the ftars of heaven for multitude. BHAP. XI. Anexbortation to obedience. 26 bleffing and curfe is set before them. Tthy God, and keep his charge, and his ftatutes, and his judgements, and his commandments alway. Herefore thou shalt love the LORD 2 And know you this day: for I speak 6 And the children of Ifrael took their not with your children which have noc journey from Beeroth of the children of known, and which have not feen the chaJaakan, to Mofera: there Aaron died, and ftifement of the LORD your God,his greatthere he was buried, and Eleazar his fun nefs, his mighty hand, and his ftretchedminiftred in the priefts office in his flead. out arm, 7 From thence they journeyed unto 3 And his miracles, and his acts which Gudgodah, and from Gudgodahto Jot- he did in the midit ofEgypt, unto Pharaoh bath, a land ofrivers of waters. the king of Egypt, and unto all his land, 8 At that time the LORD feparated 4 And what he did unto the army of Ethe tribe of Levi,tobear the ark of the co- gypt, unto their horfes, and to their chavenant of the LORD, to ftand beforethe riots, how he made the water of the RedLORD to minifter unto him, and to blets fea to overflow them as they pursued after in his name unto this day. you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor in heritance with his brethren: the LORD 5 And what he did unto you in the wil is his inheritance, according as the LORD dernefs, until ye came into this place. thy God promifedhim. 16 And what he did unto Dathanand AbiTO And I ftayed in the mount, according ram, the tons of Eliab, the fon of Reuben: to the first time, fourty dayes and fourty how the earth opened her mouth Bc fwalTights: and the LORD hearkened unto me lowed them up, and their houfholds, ant it that time alfo: andthe LORD wouldnot theirtents, and all the fubftance that was leftroy thee. G Deuteronomy. Idolatry to be destroyed. in their poffeffion inthe midst of all Ifrael. your teet fhall tread, fhall be yours: from 7 But your eyes have feen all the great the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the acts of the LORD, which he did. river, the river Euphrates, even unto the 8 Therefore fhall ye keep all the com- uttermoft fea, fhall your cualt be. mandments which I command you this 25 T here fhall no man be able to ftand day that ye may be strong, and go in and before you: for the LORD your God fhall poffefs land whither ye go to poffels it: lay the fear of you and the dread of you 9 And that ye may prolong your days in upon all the land that ye fhall tread upon, the land which the LORD fware unto your as he hath faid unto you. fathers to give unto them, and to their feed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. to For the land whither thou goeft in to pollefs it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou fowedft thy feed and wateredft it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: TT But the land whither ye go to poffefs it, is a land of hills, and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: the a 26 Behold, I fet before you this day blefling and a curse: 27 Ablefling, ifye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day: 28 Anda curfe, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn afide out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known. 29 And it fhall come to pafs when the 12 A land which the LORD thy God ca- LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto reth for the eyes of the LORD thy God the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, are always upon it, from the beginning of that thou shalt put blefling upon mount year, even unto the end of the year. Gerizim, and the curfe upon mount Ebal. 13 And it fhall come to pafs, if you fhall, 30 Are they not on the other fide Jorhearken diligently unto my commande- dan,by the way where the fun goeth down, ments which I command you this day, to in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell love the LORD your God, and to ferve him in the champian over against Gilgal, bewith all your heart, and with all your foul; fide the plains of Morch? 14 That I will give you the rain of your 31 For ye fhall pafs over Jordan to land in his due feafon, the first rain and go into poffefs the land which the LORD the latter rain, that thou mayeft gather in your God giveth you, and ye fhall polthy corn, and thy wine, and thine oy!. fefs it and dwell therein. 15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields, for thy cattel: ý thou nayeft eat & be full. 16 Take heed to your felves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn alide and ferve other gods, and worship them: 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you, & he fhut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit,and left ye perifh quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 32 And ye fhall obferve to do all the ftatutes and judgements which I fet before you this day. CHA P. XII. Monuments of Idolatry to be destroyed. 5. The place of Gods fervice to be kept. 16. 13 Blood is forbidden. Hele are the ftatutes and judgements which ye fhall obferve to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to poflefs it, all the days that ye liye upon the earth. 181 Therefore fhall ye lay up thefe my words in your heart and in your foul, and 2 Ye fhall utterly deftroy all the places, bind them for a fign upon your hand, that wherein the nations which ye fhall pofthey may be as frontlets between your eyes fefs ferved their gods, upon the high 19 And ye fhall teach them your chil- mountains, and upon the hills, and under dren, fpeaking of them when thou fitteft every green tree. in thine houfe, and when thou walkest by 3 And you fall overthrow their altars, the way, when thou lieft down, and when and break their pillars, and burn their thou rileft up. groves with fire, and you fhall hew down the graven images of their gods, and deftroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Yehall not do fo unto the LORD your God. 20 And thou fhalt write them upon the door-polts of thine houfe, and upon thy fates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 12 For if ye shall diligently keep all thefe commandments which I'command you to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him: 5 Butunto the place which the LORD your God fhall choofe out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, even unto his habitation fhall ye feek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye fhall bring your burat offerings, & your facrifices,& your tithes, and heav-offerings of your hand, & your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firftlings of your herds, and of your 23 Then will the LORD drive out all thele nations from before you, and ye flocks. mall puffel's greater nations and mightiet then your felves. 24 Every place whereon the foles of 7 And there ye fhall eat before the LORD your God, and ye fhall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto, ye and your Idolaters ought Chap.xiii. your houfholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee. 8 Ye fhall, not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatfoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to thereft, and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. to 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 reft from all your enemies Found about, fo that ye dwell in fafety: to be destroyed 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, fo thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean thall eat of them alike. 23 Onely be fure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayelt not eat the life with the fefb. 24 Thou shalt not eat it, thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD. 26 Onely thy holy things which thou halt, and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the LORD fhall choofe: 11 Then there fhall be a place which LORD your God fhall choofe to caufe his name to dwell there, thither fhall ye bring 11 that I command you: your burnt-offer- 27 And thoufhalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, & ings, the flesh and the blood, upon the alheay-offering of your hand, and all your tarofthe LORD thy God: and the blood choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. of thy facrifices fhall be poured out upon 12 And ye shall rejoyce before the the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou LORD your God, ye, and your fons, and fhalt eat the Hefh. Your daughters, and your men-fervants, 28 Oblerve and hear all these words and your maid fervants, and the Levite which I command thee, that it may go that is within your gates; forafmuch as he well with thee, and with thy children after hath no part nor inheritance with you. thee for ever, when thou doeft that which 13 Take heed to thy felf that thou offer is good and right in the light of the LORD not thy burnt-offerings in every place thy God. that thou feeft. 14 But in the place which the LORD fall chufe in one of thy tribes, there thou thalt offer thy barnt-offerings, and there thou lhalt do all that I command thee. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayelt kill and eat fleth in all thy gates, whatfoever thy foul lufteth after, according to the blefling of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and as of the hart. 16 Onely ye fhall not eat the blood; ye fall pour it upon the earth as water. 29 When the LORD thy God fhall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goelt to poffefs them, and thou fucceedelt them, and dwelleft in their land: 30 Take heed to thy felf, that thou be not fhared by following them, after that they be deftroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods,faying, How did thefe nations ferve their gods: even fo will I do likewife. 31 Thou shalt not do fo unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their goals. 17 Thou mayet not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or ofthy.oyl, or the firtlings of thy herds. 32 What thing foever I command you or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows, which obferve to do it thou shalt not add chou vowelt northy free-will-offerings,or thereto, nor diminifh from it. heav-offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy God hall choofe, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maid-fervant, and theLevite that is within thy gates, and thoufhalt rejoyce before the LORD thy God in all that thou putteft thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thy felf that thou forfake not the Levite as long as thou livelt upon the earth. CHAP. XIII. Inticers to idolatry, 9 bow near Soever, 9 are to be ftoned, 12 Idolatrous cities not to be spared. F there arife among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth theea fign or a wonder. 2 And the fign or the wonder cometo pafs, whereof he spake unto thee, fay ing, Let us go after other gods (which thou haft not known) & let us ferve them: 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whither ye-love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your foul. 20 When the LORD thy God fhall enlarge thy border, as he hath promiled thee, and thoufhalt fay, I will eat defh (because thy foul longeth to eat flesh) thou mayeft eat Heth whatsoever thy foul lufteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy 4 Ye fhall walk after the LORD your God hath chofen to put his name there, be God, and fear him,and keep his commandtoo far from thee; then thou shalt kill of ments,and obey his voyce, and you fhal thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD ferve him, and cleave unto him. hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt cat in thy gates what foever thy foul lufteth after. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams fhall be put to death (because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD of dean and Deuteronomy. 2 For thou artan holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chofen thee to be a peculiar people unto himfelf, above all the nations that are upon the earth. undlean beasts. LORD your God, which brought you out make any baldnefs between your eyes for of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you the dead. out of the houfe of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in) fo fhalt thou put the evil away from the midft of thee. 69 Ifthy brother the fon ofthy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofome,orthy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods (which thou halt not known, thou, por thy fathers.) 7 Namely, of the gods of people which are round about you, nigh unto thee or far off from thee, from the one end off earth even unto the other end of the earth: 8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither fhall thine eye Pity him, neither fhalt thou fpare, neither thalt thou conceal him. 9 Butthoufhalt furely kill him; thine hand fhall be firft upon him to put him to death, & afterwards hand ofally people 10 And thoufhalt ftone him with tones, that Le die: because he hath fought to thruft thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the houfe of bondage. And all Ifrael fhall hear, and fear, and fhall do no more any fuch wickednefs as this is, among you. 12 Ifthoufhalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying, 13 Certain nien, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods (which ye have not known.) 14 Then fhalt thou enquire and make fearch, and ask diligently:and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that fuch abomination is wrought among you: 15 Thoufhalt furely fmite the inhabifants of that city with the edge of the fword, deftroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattel thereof, with the edge ofthefword. 16 Andthoufhalt gather all the fpoil of it into the midft of the ftreet thereof, and fhalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for-the LORD thy God: and it fhall be an heap for ever, it fhall not be built again. 3¶Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 Thele are the beafts which ye fhall eat: the ox, the fheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck,andy fal low-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wilde ox, and the chamois. And every beat that parteth hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud amongst the beafts: that ye fhall eat. 7. Nevertheless, thefe ye fhall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the cony; for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 Ard the fwine, because it divideth the hoof,yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye fhall not eat oftheir flesh, nor touch their dead carcafe. 9¶Thefe ye fhall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and fcales fhallye eat: 10And whatfoever hath not fins & fcales ye may not eat: it is unclean unto you. 11 Ofall clean birds ye fhall eat. 12 But thefe are they of which ye fhall not eat: the eagle, and the offifrage, and the ofpray 13 And theglede, and the kite, and the 14 And every raven after his kind, the 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, is 18 And the ftork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat, 19 And every creeping thing that flieth; unclean unto you:they fhal not be eaten 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye fhall not eat of any thing that dieth of it felf: thou fhalt give it unto the ftranger that is in thy gates, that he may 17 And there fhall cleave nought of the eat it, or thou mayeft fell it unto an alien: curled thing to thine hand: that the LORD for thou art an holy people unto the LORD may turn from the fiercenelle of his an- thy God. Thou shalt not feeth a kid in his ger, and fhew thee mercy, and have com- mothers milk. Paffion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath fworn unto thy fathers; CHAP. XIV. 22 Thou shalt truely tithe all the increate of thy feed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 18 When thoufhalt hearken to the voice thy Chap.xv.xvi. The year of releafe. Of leading. thy God fhall choofe to fet his name there, unto him: becaufe that for this thing the whený LORD thy God hath bleffed thee: LORD thy God fhall blefs thee in all thy 25 Then fhalt thou turn it into money, works, and in all that thou puttelt thine and bind up the mony in thine hand, and hand unto. fhalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe. 26 And thou fhalt beftow that money for whatsoever thy foul lufteth after, for oxen, or for theep, or for wine, or for ftrong drink, or for whatfoever thy foul defireth: and thou fhalt eat there before the LORD thy God, 8thou shalt rejoyce, thou and thine houthold. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou fhalt not forfake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou fhalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the fame year, and fhall lay it up within thy gates. 11 For the poor fhall never cease out of the land: therefore 1 command thee, faying, Thoufhalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land. 12 And if thy brother an Hebrew man or an Hebrew woman, be fold unto thee, and ferve thee fix years; them in feventh year thou fhalt let him go free froni thee. 13 And when thou fendeft him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thoufhaltfurnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-prefs, of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath bleifed thee, thou fhalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou walf a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 29 And the Levite,(because he hath no Fart nor inheritance with thee) and the tranger, and the fatherlefs, & the widow, which are within thy gates, fhall come and fhall eat and be fatisfied; that the LORD thy God may blefs thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doeft. I CHAP. XV. 16 And it shall be if he fay unto thee, will not go away from thee;(because he loveth thee and thine houfe, because heis 1 The Seventh year a year of release to the well with thee), poor. 7 It must be not let of lending or gi-17 Then thou shalt take an awl,& thru ving. 12 The Hebrewfervant. it through his ear unto the door, and he At the end of every leven years thou fhalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditoury lendeth ought unto his neighbour,fhal releafeit,he fhal not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother, be caufe it is called the LORDS releale. 3 Of a forreiner thou mayeit exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand fhall releafe: 4Save when there fhall be no poor among you: for the LORD fhall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy Godgiveth thee for an inheritanceto poffel's it: 5 Onely if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,to obferve to do all thefe commandments which 1 command thee this day. shall be thy fervant for ever: and allonto thy maid-fervant thou fhalt do likewife. 18 It fhall not feem hard unto thee when thou fendelt him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired fervant to thee, in feving the fix years: and the LORD thy God fhall blefs thee in all that thou doelt. 19 Allthe firftling males that come of thy herd, and of thy flock, thou fhalt fanctifie unto the LORD thy God; thou fhalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor fhear firstling of thy fheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year, in place which the LORD fhall chufe, thou and thy houthold. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill 6 For the LORD thy God bleffeth thee, blemish,thou shalt not facrifice it unto the as he promifed thee, and thou shalt lend LORD thy God. unto many nations, but thou shalt not bor- 22 Thoufhalt eat it within thy gates: row; and thou fhalt reign over many na- the unclean and clean perfon fhall eat it. tions, but they fhall not reign over thee. alike, as the roe-buck, and as the heart. 7 If there be among you a poor man 23 Onely thou shalt not eat the blood of one of thy brethren, within any of thy thereof thou shalt pour it upon the gates,in thy land which the LORD thy Godground as water. Biveth thee, thou fhalt not harden thy heart, nor fhut thine hand from thy poort brother: 8 But tho fhalt open thine hand wide unto him, and hatt furely lend him fufect CHAP. XVI. The feast of the paleover, 9 of weeke, 23 of tabernacles. 18 of judges and ja fice. 21 Groves and images forbidden. the pass-over unto the LORD thy Blerve the moneth of Abib, and keep ent for his need in that which he wasteth. 9. Beware that there be not a thought in God: for in the moneth of Abib the LORD thy wicked heart laying, The feventh yearthy God brought thee forth out of Egypt the year of releafe is at hand and thine eyeby night. be evil against thy poor brother, and Thou shalt therefore facrifice the pafs thou givet him nought, and he cry unto fover unto the LORD thy God, of the LORD against thee,& it be fin unto thee. flock and the herd, in the place which the 10 Thou shalt furely give him, & thine LORD fhall chufe to place his name there. heart shall not be grieved whenthou giveft 3 Thoufhalt eat to leavened bread with G3 |