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19 And fhewing mercy unto thousands, hath heard the voice of the living God of them that love me and keep my com- fpeaking out of the midst of the fire, as mandments. we bave, and lived?

11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD will not hold ein guiltlefs that taketh his natae in vain.

12 Keep the fabbath day to fanctify it,as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee 13 Six day's thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

27 Go thon near and hear all that the LORD our God thall fay and fpeak thou unto us all that the LORD our God thall fpeak unto thee; and we will hear ir, and do it.

28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you fpake unto me; and the LORD faid unto me, I have heard 14 But the feventh day is the fabbath the voice of the words ofthis people, which of the LORD thy God in it thou fh.lt they have spoken unto thee: they have not do any work, thou, nor thy lon,, well faid all that they have spoken nor thy daughter, nor thy manfervant. 29 O that there were fuch an heart in nor thy maidfervant, nor thine ox, nor them, that they would fear me, and thine afs, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy keep ali my commandments always, that tranger that is within thy gates that it might be well with them, and with thy manfervant and thy maidservant may their children for ever!

reft as well as thou.

30 Go fay to them, Get ye into your

15 And remember that thou waft a tents again fervant in the land of Egypt, and tbar 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by the LORD thy God brought thee out me, and I will fpeak unto thee all the theace, through a mighty hand, and by a commandments, and the flatutes, and the ftretched out arm: therefore the LORD judgments, which thou shalt teach them, thy God commanded thee to keep the that they may do them in the land which fabbath day. I give them to poffels it. 16 Honour thy father and thy moth- 32 Ye shall obferve to do therefore as er. as the LORD thy God hath com- the LORD your God hath commanded manded thee, that thy days may be you ye shall not turn afide to the right prolonged, and that it may go well with hand or to the left. thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

17 Thou shalt not kill.

18 Neither halt thou commit adultery 19 Neither thalt thou steal.

20 Neither Galt thou bear falfe witnefs against thy neighbour.

33 Ye thal: walk in all the ways which the 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 shall poffefs. CHAP VI.

1 The end of the law is obedience. 3 An exhortation thereto.

21 Neither thalt thou defire thy neighbour's wife, neither balt thou covet thy NOW thele are the commandments, neighbor's houfe his field, or his man- the ftatutes, and the judgments, which fervant, or his maidfervant, his ox or his the LORD your God commanded to teach als, or any thing that is thy neighbor's you, that ye might do them in the land 221 hele words the LORD ipake un-whither ye go to poffefs it: to all your affembly in the mount, out of That thou mighteft fear the LORD the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of thy God to keep all his ftatures and his the thick darkness, with a great voice commandments, which I command thee, and he added no more. And he wrote thou, and thy for, and thy fon's fon, all them in two tables of itone and delivered the days of thy life; and that thy days them unto me. may be prolonged.

25 And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darknefs, (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 thewed us his glory and his greatnefs, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have feen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

81 Hear, therefore, O Ifrael, and obferve 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.

Hear, O Ifrael: 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.

25 Now therefore, Why should we die? 6 And these words, which I command for this great fire will confume us; if we thee this day, fhall be in thine heart: bear the voice of the LORD our God any 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thalt talk of them when thou litteft in thine house, and when

more, then we thall die.

25 For, Who is there of all fleshy that

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thou walkeft by the way, and when thou we obferve to do all thefe commandlieft down, and when thou rifeft up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a fign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

9 And thou fhalt write them upon the pofts of thy houfe, and on thy gates.

ments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

CHAP. VII.

1 All communion with the nations forbidden, for fear of idolatry, &c. WHEN the LORD thy God fhall bring 10 And it hali be, when the Load thy thee into the land whither thou goeft to God fhall have brought thee into the poffefs it, and hath caft out many nations land which he fwear unto thy fathers, before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgato Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob, tofhites, and the Amorites, and the Cagive thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildeft not,

11 And houfes full of all good things which thou filledft not, and wells digged, which thou diggedft not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedft not; when thou fhalt have eaten and be full; 12 fben beware left thou forget the 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 fhalt fwear by his name.

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

naanites, and the Perizzites and the Hivites, and the Jebulites, 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 the mercy unto them:

3 Neither halt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his fon, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy fon

4 ¶ For they will turn away thy fon from following me, that they may ferve other gods: fo will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and deftroy thee fuddenly.

5 But thus fhall ye dea! with them: ye hall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

15. (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you left the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled again thee, and deftroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your 6 For thou art an holy people unto the God, as ye tempted bim in Maflah. LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath 17 Ye hall diligently keep the com-chofen thee to be a fpecial people unto mandments of the LORD your God, and himfelf, above all people that are upon his teftimonies, and his ftatutes, which he the face of the earth. hath commanded thee

18 And thou hast do that which is right and good in the fight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft go in and poffeis the good land. which the LORD fwear unto thy fathers; 19 To caft out ail thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

20 And when thy fon afketh thee in time to come faying, What mean the teftimonies, and the ftatutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

7 The LORD did not fet his love upon you, nor choofe you, becaufe ye were more in number than any people;' for ye were the feweft of all people:

8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had fworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the houfe of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know, therefore, that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which 21 Then thou fhalt fay unto thy fon, keepeth covenant and mercy with them We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; that love him and keep his commandand the LORD brought us out of Egypt|ments, to a thousand generations. with a mighty hand.

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10 And repayeth them that hate him to 22 And the LORD fhewed figns and their face, to destroy them he will not wonders, great and fore, upon Egypt, be flack to him that hateth him, he will upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houfe-repay him to his face. hold, 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 fall be our righteoufnefs, if

11 hou fhalt therefore keep the commandments, and the ftatutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do thein.

Wherefore it fhall come to país,if ye hearken to thefe judgments, and keep,and do them, that the LORD thy God thall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he fware unto thy fathers:

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Chap. viii. 13 And he will love thee, and blefs, thee, and multiply thee he will alfo 1 An exhortation to obedieree in regard blefs the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of God's dealing with them. of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and ALL the commandments which I comthine oil, the increafe of thy kine, and mand thee this day. fhall ye obferve to the flocks of thy fheep, in the land which do, that ye may live, and inultiply, and he fware unto thy fathers to give thee go in and poffefs the land which the 14 Thou shalt be bleffed above all peo-LORD fware unto your fathers. ple: there fhall not be male or female bar. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way ren among you, or among your cattle. which the LORD thy God led thee thefe 13 And the LORD will take away from forty years in the wilderness to humble thee all fickness, and will put none of the thee, and to prove thee, to know what svil difeafes of gypt, which thou know-was thine heart, whether thou wouldest eft, upon thee; but will lay them upon keep his commandments, or no all them that hate thee. 16 And thou fhalt confume all the peo- thee to hunger, and fed thee with manple which the LORD thy God fhall deliver na, which thou kneweft not, neither did thee: thine eye fhall have no pity upon thy fathers know; that he might make them: neither fhalt thou ferve their gods: thee know that man doth not live by. for that will be a fnare unto thee. bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live

17 If thou shalt fay in thine heart, Thefe nations are more than I; How can I difpoffefs them?

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18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them but thalt 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 fhall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid

20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will fend the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themfelves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and ter ible.

22 And the LORD thy God will put out thofe nations before thee by little and little thou mayeft not confine them at once, left the beafts of the field increase upon thee.

23 But the LORD thy God fhall deliver them unto thee, and shall deftroy them with a mighty deftruction, until they be deftroyed.

S And he humbled thee, and fuffered

4 hy raiment waxed not old upon, thee, neither did thy foot swell, thefe forty years

5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chafteneth his fon, fo the LORD thy God chalieneth thee.

6 Therefore thou fhalt 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 fpring out of valleys and hills;

8 A land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive and honey;

9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without fcarcenefs, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whofe ftones are iron, and out of whofe hills thou mayeft dig brafs.

10 When thou haft eaten and art full, then thou shalt blefs the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his ftatutes, which I command thee this day: 24 And he hall deliver their kings 12 Left when thou haft eaten and art into thine hand, and thou fhalt deftroy full, and haft built goodly houfes, and their name from under heaven: there, dwelt therein;

fhall no man be able to ftand before thee, 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks until thou have deftroyed them. multiply, and thy filver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou haft is multiplied:

25 The graven images of their gods fhall ye burn with fire thou fhalt not defire the filver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, left thou be inared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

14 Then thine heart 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 ;

25 Neither halt thou bring an abomi- 15 Who led thee through that great and nation into thine houfe, left thou be a terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery curled thing like it but thou fhalt ut- ferpents, and fcorpions, and drought, terly deteft it, and thou shalt utterly ab-where there was no water; who brought horit; for it is a curfed thing. thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

16 Who fed thee in the wildernefs | with manna,which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy Tatter end;

17 And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth

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18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God for is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may eltablish his covenant which he fware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it thall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods and ferve them, and wormip them, I teftity againft you this day that ye hall furely perith.

20 As the nations which the LoaD deftroyeth before your face, fo thall ye perish becaufe ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX.

1 Mofes diffuadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rebears ing their jeveral rebellions.

HEAR, O Ifrael: Thou art to país over Jordan this day, to go in to poffels 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 hast heard jay, Who can itand 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 hall deftroy them, and he hall bring them down before thy face: fo halt thou drive them out, and deftroy them quickly, as the LORD hath faid unto thee.

rebearfed by Mofes.

8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, fo that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of ftone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water.

10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of ftone, written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lo D ipake with you in the mount, out of the midft of the fire, in the day of the aflembly.

11 And it came to pafs at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, 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 them. jelves; they are quickly turned afide out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

13. Furthermore, the LORD fpake unto me, faying, I have feen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy then, 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.

16 Andi looked, and, behold, ye had linned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after turned aide quickly out of the way which that the LORD thy God hath caft them the LORD had commanded you. out from before thee, faying, for my 17 And I took the two tables, and caft righteoufnefs the LORD hath brought me them out of my two hands, and brake in to poffefs this land but for the wick-them before your eyes.

edness of thefe nations the LORD doth 18 And I fell down before the LORD, drive them out from before thee. as at the firft forty days and forty

5 Not for thy righteoufnels, or for nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink the uprightness of thine heart doft thou water, because of all your fins which ye go to poffefs their land; but for the wick-finned, in doing wickedly in the fight of edness of thefe nations the LORD thy God the LORD, to provoke him to anger. doth drive them out from before thee, 19 For I was afraid of the anger and and that he may perform the word which hot difpleafure, wherewith the LORD was the LORD fware unto thy fathers Abra-wroth against you to deftroy you. But ham, Ifaac, and Jacob. the LORD hearkened unto me at that time alfo.

6 Understand therefore that the LoD thy God giveth thee not this good land to! pollels it for thy righteouinets; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

7 Remember, and forget not, how thou! provokedft the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didft depart out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lox.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have deftroyed him and prayed for Aaron alto the fame time.

21 And I took your tin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and itamped it, and ground it very fmali,even until it was as fmall as duft and I caft the duft thereof into the brook, that defcended out of the mount.

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22 And at Taberah, and at Maffah, 7 From thence they journeyed unto and at Kibrotlihattaavah, ye provoked Gudgodah; and from Gadgodah to Jotthe LORD to wrath. bath, a land of rivers of waters. 28 Likewife, when the LORD fent you 8 At that time the LORD feparated the from Kadehbarnea, faying, Go up and tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covepoffefs the land which I have given you;nant of the LORD, to ftand before the then ye rebelled against the commandment LORD to minifter unto him, and to blefs of the LORD your God, and ye believed in his name, unto this day.

him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

24 Ye have been rebellious again the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights,as I fell down] at the fir; becaufe the LORD had faid he would destroy you.

26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and faid, Ổ LORD God, deftroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy greatness, which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Remember thy fervants, Abraham, Maac, and Jacob; look not unto the ftubbornnels 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 promised them, and becaule he hated them, he hath brought them out to flay them in the wilderneís.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor in heritance with his brethren, the LORD his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promifed him.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not destroy thee

11 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, take tby journey before the people, that they may go in and poffefs the land, which I fware unto their fathers to give unto them.

12 And now, Ifracl, 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?

29 Yet they are thy people and thine 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven inheritance which thou broughtest out of heavens, is the LORD's thy God, the by thy mighty power and by thy stretch-jearth at, with all that therein is. ed out asm.

CHAP. X.. 1 God's mercy in reftoring the two tables. 12 An exbortation to obedience A that time the LORD faid unto me, Hew thee two tables of ftone like unto the firt, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2nd I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which brakeft, and thou shalt put them in

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54. I made an ark of thittim wood, aud hewed two tables of tone like unto the fir", and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chole their feed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

18 Circumcife therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth nor perlons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherle fs 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 shalt fear the LORD thy God; 4 And he wrote on the tables, accord- him fhalt thou ferve, and to him fhale ing to the firft writing, the ten com-thou cleave, and fwear by his name. mandments, which the LORD fpake unto 21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God, you in the mount, out of the midst of the that hath done for thee thefe great and terfire, in the day of the adembly: and the rible things which thine eyes have feen. LORD gave them unto me.

5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and there they be, as the LORD cominanded me.

6 And the children of lfrael took their journey from Beeroth of the children of jaakan to Mofera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his fon miniftered in the priest's office in his Acad.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threefcore and ten perions; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the ftars of heaven for multitude. CHAP. XI.

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An exhortation to obedience. 26 AblefTHEREFORE thou shalt love the fing and a curfe is fet before them. LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his ftatutes, and his judgments, and his Loommandments, aiway.

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