The cities of refuge Chap. v. king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hefhbon, whom Mofes and the children of Ifrac fmote, atter they were come forth out of Egypt: 47 And they poffeffed his land, and the land of Og king of Bafhan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this fide Jordan, toward the fun-rifing; 48 From Aroer, which us by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sihon, which is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on this fide Jordan ealt ward, even unto the fea of the plain, under the fprings of Pifgah. CHAP. V. I The covenant in Horeb. 6 The ten commandments 22 At the peoples request MoJes receiveth the law from God. AN Nd Moles called all Ifrael, and faid unto them, Hear, O Ifrael, the ftatutes and judgments which I fpeak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The LORD 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 face to face in the mount, out of the midft of the fire, 5(Iftood between the LORD & you at ytime, to fhew you the word of the LORD for ye were afraid by reafon of the fire, and went not up into the mount) laying, 6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of Bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8Thon fhalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. 9 Thou shalt not bow down thy felf unto them nor ferve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, To And fhewing mercy unto thousands, of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain. 12 Keep the fabbath-day to fanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: on this fide Fordan. LORD thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hands and by a itretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the labbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy moth r as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, a d that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt no: kill. 18 Neither fhalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither halt thou fteal. 20 Neither fhalt thou bear falfe witne{s againit thy neighbour. 21 Neither halt thou defire thy neighbours wife, neither thalt thou covet thy neighbours houfe, his field, or his an- fervant or his maid- fervant, his ox, or his afs or any thing that is thy neighbours. 221 Thefe words the LORD ipake unto all your affembly in the mount out of the midit of the fire, of the clouds and ofthe thick darknels, with a great voice, and he added no more; and he wrote them in two tables of ttone, & delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pafs when ye heard the voice out of the midtt of the darkness (for the mountain did burn with fire) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 24 And ye faid, Behold, the LORD our God hath fhewed us his glory, & his greatnels, and we have heard his voice out of the midit of the fire: we haveleen this day that God doth talk with man & he liveth. 25 Now therefore why fhould we die ? for this great fire will confume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 16 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God, fpeaking out of the midit of the fire; (as we have) and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God fall fay; and fpeak thou unto us ally the LORD our God thall Speak unto thee, and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words when ye fpake unto me; and the LORD faid unto me. I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well faid all that they have ipoken. 29 O that there were fuch an heart in them, that they would tear me, and keep all my commandments always that itmight be well with them, and with their children for ever. 30 Go fay to them, Get you into your terits again. 31 But as for thee, ftand thou here by me, and I will (peak unto thee all the commandments, and theltaestes, and the judg ments which thou thalt teach them, that they may do them, in the land which 1 give them to poffels it. 14 But the feventh day is the fabbath of the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do any werk, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, nor thy man fervant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thine ox, nor thine als, nor any of thy cattle,nor thy stranger that is 32 Ye fhail obferve to do therefore as within y gates; that thy man-fervant & the LORD your God hath commanded thy maid-ervant ma relt as well as thou, you you fhall not turn afide to the right If And remember that thou waft a fer- hand or to the leit. vant in the land of Egypt, and that the 33 You thali walk in all the ways which the The law repeated. Deuteronomy. LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye thall poffels. CHAP. VI. 1 The end of the law is obedience. 3 And exbortation thereto. The end thereof. and good in the fight of LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft go in and poffefs the good land, which the LORD fware unto thy fathers; 19 To caft out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath (poken. 20 And when thy fon asketh thee in Now there are the Gaying, what mean the tertiftatutes, and the judgments which monies, and the ftatutes, and the judgments the LORD your God commanded to teach which the LORD our God hath commandyou, that ye might do them in the land, ed you? whither ye go to poffefs it: 2 That thou mighteft fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his ftatutes, and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy fon, and thy fons fon, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Ifrael, and oblefve to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increafe mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promifed thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear O Ifracl, the LORD our God is one LORD. 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words which I command thee this day, fhall be in thine heart. 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and fhall talk of them thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when When walkeft by the way, and when thou lieft down, and when theu rifeft up. 8 And thou fhalt bind them for a fign upon thine hand, and they fhall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the pofts of thy houfe, and on thy gates. to And it fhall be when the LORD thy God thall have brought thee into the land which he fware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildedft not; 11 And houfes full of all good things which thou filledft not, and wells digged which thou diggedit not, vineyards and olive-trees which thou plantedft not, when thou fhalt have eaten and be full; 12 Tben beware left thou forget LORD which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from the houfe of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and ferve him, and thalt fwearbyhisName, 14 Ye fhall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you. 15(For the LORD thy God is a jealous Ged among you) left anger of LORD thy God be kindled againit thee, and deitroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye ihall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted bim in Maffah. 17 Youthalidiligently keepthe commandments of the LORD your God, & his teftimonies, and his ftatutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right 21 Then thou fhalt fay unto thy fon, we were Pharaohs bond-men in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 And the LORD fhewed figns and wonders, great and fore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houfhold, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he fware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all thefe ftatutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preferve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it fhall be our righteousness, if we obferve to do all thefe commandments before the LORD our Gad, as he hath commanded us, CHAP. VII. 1 All communion with the nations is forbidden, 4 for fear of idolatry. fhall bring W thee into the land whither thou proc to poffefs it, and hath caft out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgafhites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and Perizzites, & the Hivites, & the Jeubufites, feven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God fhall deliver them before thee: thou shalt fmite them, and utterly deftroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor fhew mercy unto them: 3 Neither fhalt thou make marriages with them, thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his fon, nor his daughter fhalt thou take unto thy fon. 4 For they will turn away thy for from following me, that they may ferve other gods: fo will the angerof the Lord be kindled against you, and deftroy thee fuddenly. 5 But thus thall ye deal with them: ye fhall deftroy their altars, and break dowa their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chofen thee to be a fpecial people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not fet bis love upon you, nor chofe you. becaufe ye were more in number than any people (for ye were the feweit of all people, ) 8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had worn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand Gods mercy and justice. Chap. viii. hand, and redeemed you out of the houfe of bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore 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 thoufand generations; to And repayeth them that hate him, to their face, to destroy them: he will not be flack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, & ftatutes and judgements, which I command thee this day to do them. 12 11 Wherefore it fhall come to pals, if ye hearken to thefe judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD thy God fhall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he fware unto thy fathers. 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will allo blefs the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oyl, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy theep, in the land which he fware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be bleffed above all people: there thall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all fickness, and will put none of the evil difeafes of Egypt (which thou knoweft) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt confume all the people which the LORD thy God fhall deliver thee thine eves fhall have no pity upon them: neither fhalt thou ferve their gods, for that will be a inare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt fay in thine heart, Thefe nations are more than I, how can I difpoffefs them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but fhall well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 The great temptations which thine eyes faw, and the figns, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the ftretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; fo ihall & LORD thy God do unto all people of whom thou art afraid. 10 Moreover the LORD thy God will fend the hornet among them, untill they that are left and have hid themfelves from thee be deftroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 22 And the LORD thy God thal! put out thofe nations before thee by little and little: thou mayelt not confume them at once, lelt the beafts ofthe field increafe up on thee, 23 But the LORD thy God fhall deliver them unto thee, and fhall deftroy them with a mighty deftruction, untill they be defiroyed. 24 Andh e fhall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou fhalt dettroy their Game from under heaven: there fhall Do An exhortation. man be able to ftand before thee, natil thou hast deitro:ed them. 25 The graven images of their gods thall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not delire the filver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, left thou be foared there n: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither halt thou bring an abomination into thy houfe, left thou be a curfed thing like it but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a curfed thing. CHAP. VIII. 1 An exbortation to obedience in regard of Gods dealing with them. ALL the commandments which I command thee this day, shall ye obferve to do, that ye may live, and multiply, & go in and poffefs the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers. 2 And thou ibalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee there fourty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whither thou wouldelt keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and fuffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna (which thou kneweft not, neither did thy fathers know) that he might make thee know, that man doth not live by 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 iwell there fourty years. 5 Thou fhak alfo confider in thine heart, that as a man chaftneth his fon, fo the LORD thy God chaitreth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of oyl-olive, and honey, 9 A land wherein the halt eat bread without fearcenels, thou shalt not lack any thing in it, a land whofe ftones are iron, & our of whofe hills thou mayeft dig bra s. 10 When thou haft eaten and art full, then theu fhalt blefs the LORD thy God, for good land which he hath given thee. ti Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 12 Lelt when thou hast eaten and art full, and haft built goodly houses, and dwelt therein: 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and they silver& thy gold is multiplied, and ally thon haft is multiplied: 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and fhou forget the LORD thy God which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the houfe of bondage; is. Who led thee through that great and tcr Ifraels rebellions Deuteronomy. are rebearfed. terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery fer- 9 When I was gone up into the mount, pents, and (corpions, and drought, where to receive the tables of ttone, even the tathere was no water; who brought thee bles of the covenant which the LORD forth water out of the rock of flint. made with you, then I abode in the mount 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with forty days and forty nights, I neither did manna, which thy fathers knew not, y he eat bread nor drink water: might humble thee,& that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end) 17 And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his Covenant which he fware 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 ferve them, and worship them, I teftify against you this day, that ye thall furely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD deftroyeth before your face, fo fhall ye perifh: because you would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX. I Mofes difadetb them from the opinion of their own righteousness; by rebearing their Several rebellions. H Jordan this day, to go in to poffefs Ear, O Ifrael: thou art to pals over nations greater and mightier than thy felf, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knoweft, and of whom thou haft heard fay, Who can ftand before the children of Anak. 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee as a confuming fire: he fhall deftroy them, and he hall bring them down before thy face: fo fhalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath faid unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath caft them out from before thee, faying, For my righteoufnels the LORD hath brought me in to poffefs this land: but for the wickedness of thele nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteoufnefs, or for the uprightness of thine heart doit thou go to poffefs their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD fware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jac ob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to poffefs it, for thy righteoufnefs; for thou art a itiff-necked people. 7 Remember,and forget not how thou provokedit the LORD thy God to wrath in the wildernets: from the day that thon did't depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, fotthat the LORD was angry with you, to have destroyed you. To And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of ftone written with the finger of God, and on then was written according to all the words which the LORD ipake with you in the mount, out of the midft of fire, in the day of the affembly. TI And it came to pais at the end of forty days and torty nights,, that the Lord gave me the two tables of itone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: they are quickly turned afide out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore, the LORD spake unto me, faying, I have feen this people, and behold, it is a ftiff-necked people. 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 15 And I looked, and behold, ye had finned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned afide quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and caft them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the firft, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, becaufe of all your fins which ye finned, In doing wickedly in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 (For I was afraid of the anger, and hot difpleafure wherewith the LORD was wroth againit you to destroy you, ) But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time, alfo. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have deftroyed him and I prayed for Aaron alfo at the fame time. 21 And I took your fin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and ftamped it, and ground it very fmall, even until it was as finall as duft: and 1 caft the duft thereof into the brook that defcended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah and at Maffah; and at Kibroth-hataavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewife when the LORD fent you from Kadeih-barnea, faying, Go up and poffefs the land which I have given you: then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 You The tables renewed. Chap. X, xi. 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD, from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD fourty days, and fourty nights, as I fell down at the firft: because the LORD had faid he would deftroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and faid, O LORD God, deftroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy greatnefs, which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt, with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy fervants, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob; look not unto the ftubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, cor 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 promifed them, and because he hated them, he bath 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 am. CHAP. X. 1 Gods mercy in restoring the two tables. 12 An exhortation to obedience. An exhortation. 11 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife; take thy journey before the people, that they may go in, and poffefs the land which I fware unto their fathers to give unt them. 12 And now, Ifrael, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to ferve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaver of heavens, is the LORDS thy God, the earth alfo with all that therein is. 15 Only 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 gods, and LORD of lords, a great God; a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not perfons, nor taketh reward. 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the firan A He then tables of flone like unto 5 Love ye therefore the franget two 19 ftranger: fez ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt. the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I willwriteon the tablesthe words that were in the fift tables which thou brakeft, and thou fhalt put them in theark. 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 firft writting, 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 me. are them unto 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. 6 And the children of Ifrael took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan, to Mofera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his fon miniftred in the priests office in his ftead. 7 From thence they journied unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 At that time the LORD feparated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to ftand before the LORD to minifter unto him, and to blefs in his Name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promifed him. o And I ftayed in the mount, according to the first time, fourty days and fourty nights, and the LORD hearkned unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not defroy thee. 20 Thou fhaft fear the LORD thy God: him thalt thou ferve, and to him fhalt thos cleave, and fwear by his Name. 21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God that hath done for thee thefe great and ter rible 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. CHAP. XI. An exhortation to obedience. 26A blessing and a curfeisfet before them. Herefore thou food, od hat love the LORD bis ftatutes, and his judgments, and his commandments alway.. 2 And know you this day: for I speak not with your children, which have not known, and which have not feen the chaftifement of the LORD your God, his greatness, bis mighty hand, and his ftretched out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaok the king of Egypt, and unto all his land, 4 And what he did unto the army of E gypt unto their horfes, and to their cha riots, how he made the water of the Redfea to overflow them as they purfued after you, and bow the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day, 5. And what he did unto you in the wildernefs, until ye came into this place, 6 And what he did unte Dathan and Ab ram, the fons of Eliab, the fon of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, & fwa lowed them up, and their houfholds, and their tents, and all the fubftance that was |