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in their poffeflion in the midst of allIfrael. 7 But your eyes have feen all the great acts of the LORD, which he did.

8 Therefore thall ye keep all the commandments which command you this day, that ye may be ftrong, and go in and poffefs the land whither ye go to poffefs it: 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD fware unto your 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 poffel's it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou fowedit thy feed, and wateredit it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

But the land whither ye go to poffefs , is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.

13 And it fhall come topafs, if you shall hearkendiligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to ferve him with all your heart and with all your foul;

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feafon, the firft rain and the latter rain that thou mayeft gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oyl.

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your feet fhall tread, fhall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanen, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermoft fea, fhall your coaft be.

25 There fhall no man be able to ftand before you: for the LORD your God fhall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye fhall tread upon, as he hath faid unto you.

26 Behold, I fet before you this day a bleffing and a curfe:

27 A blefling, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which 1 command you this day:

28 And a 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 thall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, that thou shalt put the blefling upon mount Gerizim, and the curfe upon mount Ebal.

30 Are they not on the other fide Jordan, by the way where the fun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the champian over against Gilgal, befide the plains of Moreh?

3 For ye fhall pafs over Jordan, to go in to poffefs the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye fhall poffefs it and dwell therein,

32 And ye shall obferve to do all the ftatutes and judgments which I fet before you this day.

15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayeft eat and be full. 16 Take heed to your felves, that your heart be not deceived: and ye turn afde, and ferve other gods, and worship them: 1 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you, and 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.

184 Therefore fhall ye lay up thefe my words in your heart and in your foul, and bind them for a fign, upon your hand, that they may be as frontlels between your eyes. 19 And ye fhall teach them your childrin, fpeaking of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up.

20 And thou fhalt write them upon the door-pofts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

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.

22 For if ye fhall diligently keep all these 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.

13 Then will the LORD drive out all thele nations, from before you, and ye thall poffefs greater nations, and mightier than your felves.

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CHAP. XII.
Monuments of idolatry to be deftroyed. 5
The place ofGods Service to be kept. 16, 23
Blood is forbidden.

Twe are the ftatutes and judgments
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 live upon the earth.

2 Ye thall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations, which ye shall poffefs ferved their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree.

3 And ye fhall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you thall hew down the graven images of their gods, and deftroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do fo unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place which the LORD your God thall choofe out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, even unto his habitation fhall ye feek, and thither thou halt come:

6 And thither ye fhall bring your burntofferings, and your facrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firftlings of your herds, and of your flocks.

7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, ye and

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Chap. XIII. your houtholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee.

8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatfoever is right in his own eyes.

For ye are not as yet come to the reft, 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 inhert, and when he giveth you reft from all your enemies round about fo that ye dwell in fafety;

Then there fhall be a place which the LORD your God fhall choose to caufe his Name to dwell there, thither fhall ye bring all that I command you, your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, & the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye fhall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your fons, and your daughters, and your men-fervants, & your maid-fervants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath Do part nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to thy felf that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou feeft.

14 But in the place which the LORD fhallchoofein one of thy tribes, there thou fhalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

15 Notwithstanding, thou mayeft kill and eat felh in all thy gates, whatfoever thy foul lufteth after, according to the blefling of the LORD thy God which he bath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and as of the bart.

16 Only ye fhall not eat the blood; ye fhall pour it upon the earth as water.

174 Thou mayeft not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oyl, or the firftlings of thy herds, or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows, which thou vowelt, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand:

18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice 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 liveft upon the earth.

20 When the LORD thy God fhall enlarge thy border as he hath promiled thee, and thou shalt fay, I will eat Beth because thy foui longeth to eat flesh )thou mayeit eat flesh whatfoever thy foul lufteth after. 21 if the place which the LORD thy God hath chofen to put his Name there, be too far from thee; then thou fhalt ki of thy herd, and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy foul lufteth after.

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22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, fo thou fhalt eat them: the unclean and the clean fhall eat of them alike.

23 Only be fure that thou eat not the blood for the blood is the life, and thou mayeft not eat the life with the flesh, 24 Thou shalt not eat it ; thou Thalt 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 thon fhalt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD.

26 Only thy holy things which thou haft, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD fhall choose:

27 And thou fhalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and the blood of thy facrifices fhall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou fhalt eat the flesh.

28 Obferve and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doeft that which is good and right in the fight of the LORD thy God.

299 When the LORD thy God fhall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goeft to poffefs them, and thou fucceed them, and dwellett in their land.

30 Take heed to thy felf that thou be not fnared 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 gods.

32 What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou fhalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

CAA P. XIII.

2 Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near foever 9 are to be fioned, 12 Idolatrous cities not to be Spared.

there arife among you a prophet, or a F dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a fign or a wonder,

2 And the fign or the wonder come to pafs, whereof he spake unto thee, faying, Let us go after other gods, (which thou hatt not known) and 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 provech you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your foul.

4 Ye fhall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you hall ferve him, and cleave unto him.

And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams fhall be put to death (becaufe he hath spoken to turn you away from the G& LORD

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LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you 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 midst of thee. 6 If thy brother the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods (which thou haff not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

7 Namely, of the gods of thepeoplewhich are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth,evenunto the other end of the earth) 8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither fhall thine eye pity him, neither halt thou fpare, neither halt thou conceal him.

9 But thou fhalt furely kill him thine hand fhall be firft upon him to put him to death, & afterwards hand of all people. 10 And thou fhalt ftone him with ftones, that he die because he hath fought to thruft thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of E.gypt, from the houfe of bondage.

It And all Ifrael fhall hear, and fear, and fhall do no more any fuch wickedness as this is, among you.

12 If thou fhalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying,

13 Certain men, 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 thalt thou enquire and make fearch, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be thruth,and the thing certain, that fach abomination is wrought among you:

15 Thou shalt furely fmite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the fword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the fword.

16 And thou halt gather all the fpoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and fhalt burn with fire the city, and all the fpoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it fhall be an heap for ever, it fhall not be built again.

17 And there fhall cleave nought of the eurfed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and fhew thee mercy, and have compaffion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath fworn unto thy fathers;

18 When thou fhalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his Commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

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2 For thou art an 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.

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Thou shalt not eat any abominable

4 There are the beafts which ye shall eat the ox, the fheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, andthe roc-buck, andthe fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois,

6 And every beaft that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and eheweth the cud amongst the beasts: 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 coney for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof: therefore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the fwine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flefh, nor touch their dead carcafe. 9

Thefe ye fhall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and fcales fhall ye eat.

10And what foever hath not fins & fcales, ye may sot eat: it unclean unto you. Of all 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 the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind,

15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the fwan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

18 And the ftork, and the beron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

19 And every creeping thing that flieth, is unclean unto you: they fhallnot be eaten.

20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of it felf: thou shalt give it unto the franger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayeft fell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mothers milk.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increafe of thy feed, that the field bringeth torth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which be fhall choofe to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oyl, and the firftlings of thy herbs, and of thy flocks; that thou mayeft learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, fo that thou artnot able to carry it or if the

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thy God fhall choofe to fet his Name there, when the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee: 25 Then fhalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and thait go unto the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe.

26 And thou fhalt beftow that money for what foever thy foul lufteth after, for, oxen, or for theep, or for wine, or for ftrong drink, or for what foever thy foul defireth: and thou fhalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou fhalt rejoice, thou and thine houthold.

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forfake him : for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the fame year, and fhalt lay it up within thy gates.

19 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the Itranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, fhall come, & hall eat, and be fatisfied; that the ORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doeft.

CHAP. XV.

1 The Seventh year a year of releafe to the poor. 7 It shall be no let of tending or giving. 2 The Hebrew Servant.

Tthe end of every feven years, thou

Afhalt make a releafe.

2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour, thallrelease it, he fhall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother, be cause it is called the LORDS releafe.

3 Of a foreigner thou mayeft exact it aagain: but that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand fhall release:

4 Save when therefhall 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 poffefs it:

5.Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to obferve to do all these commandments which 1 command thee this day.

6 For the LORD tay God, bleffeth thee, as he promised thee, and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow and thou shalt reign over many na tions, but they fhall not reign over thee.

7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy bretheren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor fhut thine hand from thy pour brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and fhalt furely lend him fufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, faying, The feventh year, the year ofreleafe is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givelt him nought, and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be fin unto thee.

10 Thou shalt furely give him, and thine heart fhallnot be grieved when thou givest

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unto him: becaufe that for this thing the LORD thy God fhall bless thee in afl thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

11 For the poor fhall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, faying, Thou shalt 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 ;thenin the feventh year thou th alt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou fendeft him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty :

14 Thou fhalt furnish 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 bleffed thee, thon fhalt give unto him.

15 And thou thalt remember that thon waft a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: there fore I command thee this thing to day.

16 And it fhall be if he fay unto thee, I will not go away from thee; (because he loveth thee and thine honfe, because he is well with thee)

17 Then thoufhalt take an awl, and thruit it through his ear unto the door, and he fhall be thy fervant for ever: and alfo unto thy maid- fervant thou shalt do likewife.

18 It fhall not feem hard unto thee when thou fendeft him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired fervant to thee, in ferving thee fix years and the LORD thy God hall bless thee in all that thou doeft.

19 ¶ All the firftling males that come of thy herd, and of thy flock, thou shalt fanctify unto the LORD thy God, thou fhalt do no work with the firftling of thy bullock,nor fhear the firstling of thy fheep.

20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year, in the place which LORD fhall chufe, thou and thy houthold.

21 And if there be any, blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or bave any ill blemish, thou shalt not facrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean perfon hall eat it alike, as the roe buck, and as the hart." 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof : thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

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Of tabernacles 18 Of judges and justice.
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there the month of Abib, and keep

paffover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

2Thou fhalt therefore facrifice the paffover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the ORD hall chufe to place his Name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with jt :

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A kings duty: it: feven days fhalt thou eat unleavened cording to the bleffing of the LORD thy bread therewith, even the bread of afflicti- God which he hath given thee. on: (for thou cameft forth out of the land 18 Judges and officers fhalt thou make of Egypt in hafte ) that thoumayeftremem- thee in all thy gates which the LORD thy ber the day when thou cameft forch out of God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life, and they fhall judge the people with juft 4 And there fhall be no leavened bread judgment. feen with thee in all thy coafts feven days, neither fhall there any thing of the flesh which thou facrificedit the first dayat even, rema in all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayeft not facrifice the paffover within any of thy Gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe to place hisNamein, there thou shalt facrifice the pallover at even, at the going down of the fun, at the feafon that thou cameft forth out of Egypt.

19 Thou shalt not wreft judgment, thou halt not refpect perfons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert y words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether juft fhalt thou follow, that thou mayeft live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

7 And thou shalt roaft and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe and thou fhalt turn in the morn-1 ing, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou halt eat unleavened bread, and on the feventh day shall be a fo lemn affembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

9 Seven weeks fhalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the feven weeks from fuch time as thou beginneft to put the fickle to the corn.

10 And thou fhalt keep thefeaft of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a free-will-off ring of thine band, which thou fhaltgive unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blef

fed thee.

22 Neither fhalt thou fet thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII.

Things facrificed must be found. 2 Idolators to be fain. 14 The ellection, 16 and duty of a king

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Hou shalt not facrifice unto the LORD thy Godany bullock, or theep, wherein is blemith, or any evil favouredness 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 woman that hath wrought wickedness in fight of the LORD thy God, in tranfgreffing, his covenant,

3 And hath gone and ferved other gods, and worthipped them, either the fun, or moon, or any of the hot of heaven, which I have not commanded;

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy fon, and thy 4 And it be told thee, and thou haft daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy heard of it, and enquired diligently, and maid fervant, and the Levite that is with- behold, it be true, and the thing certain, in thy gates, and the ftranger, and the fa- that fuch abomination is wrought inlfrael: therlef's, and the widow, that are among 5 Then fhalt thou bring forth that man you, in the place which the LORD thy or that woman (which have committed God hath chofen to place his name there. that wicked thing) unto thy gates, even 12 And thou fhalt remember that thou that man or that woman, and fhall ftone walt a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt them with ftones, till they die. oferve and do thefe ftatutes.

13 Thou shalt obferve the feaft of tabernacles feven days, after that thou haft gathered in thy corn and thy wine.

14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feaft, thou, and thy lon, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid- Tervant, & the Levite, the ftranger, andthe fatherlets, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days fhalt thou keep a folemn feaft unto the LORD thy God, in the Place which the LORD fhall choofe: be caufe the LORD thy God fhall blefs thee in all thy increafe, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt furely rejoice.

16 Three times in a year fhall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God, in the place which he fhall choofe in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feaft of weeks, and in the feaft of tabernacles: and they fhall not appear before the LORD empty.

17 Every man fball give as he is able, ac

6 At the mouth of two witneffes, or three witneffes, shall he that is worthy of death, be put to death; but at the mouth of one witnefs he fhall notbe put to death.

The hands of the witneffes fhall be firft upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people: fo thou hall put the evil away from among you.

8 If there arife a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between ftroke and ftroke, being matters of controverfey within thy gates: then fhalt thou arife, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God fhall choose;

9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that thall be in those days, and enquire; and they hall thew thee the fentence of judgment.

10 And thou shalt do according to the fentence which they of that place (which, the LORD fhall choofe) fhall fhew thee, and thou fhait obferve to do according to all that they inform thee:

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