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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 5: Deuteronomy
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 5***
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+from etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
+
+This Book is called DEUTERONOMY, which signifies a SECOND LAW, because
+it repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai,
+with other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the first
+words in the book, call it ELLE HADDEBARIM.
+
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 1
+
+A repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the people's
+murmuring and their punishment.
+
+1:1. These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the
+Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, beetween
+Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much
+gold.
+
+1:2. Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to
+Cadesbarne.
+
+1:3. In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the
+month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had
+commanded him to say to them:
+
+1:4. After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in
+Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,
+
+1:5. Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound
+the law, and to say:
+
+1:6. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed long
+enough in this mountain:
+
+1:7. Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the
+other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales
+towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites,
+and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.
+
+1:8. Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it,
+concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and
+Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.
+
+1:9. And I said to you at that time:
+
+1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath
+multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for
+multitude.
+
+1:11. (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands,
+and bless you as he hath spoken.)
+
+1:12. I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you
+and your differences.
+
+1:13. Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such
+whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint
+them your rulers.
+
+1:14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
+
+1:15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and
+appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over
+fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.
+
+1:16. And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is
+just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.
+
+1:17. There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little
+as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person,
+because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you,
+refer it to me, and I will hear it.
+
+1:18. And I commanded you all things that you were to do.
+
+1:19. And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast
+wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite,
+as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into
+Cadesbarne,
+
+1:20. I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite,
+which the Lord our God will give to us.
+
+1:21. See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess
+it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any
+way discouraged.
+
+1:22. And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the
+land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we
+shall go.
+
+1:23. And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one
+of every tribe:
+
+1:24. Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains,
+came as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,
+
+1:25. Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought
+them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give
+us.
+
+1:26. And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the
+Lord our God,
+
+1:27. You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and
+therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might
+deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.
+
+1:28. Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts,
+saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are
+great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims
+there.
+
+Walled up to the sky... A figurative expression, signifying the walls to
+be very high.
+
+1:29. And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:
+
+1:30. The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as
+he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
+
+1:31. And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath
+carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that
+you have come, until you came to this place.
+
+1:32. And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,
+
+1:33. Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein
+you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire,
+and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.
+
+1:34. And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry
+and swore, and said:
+
+1:35. Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good
+land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:
+
+1:36. Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I
+will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
+because he hath followed the Lord.
+
+1:37. Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at,
+since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither
+shalt thou go in thither.
+
+1:38. But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee:
+exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.
+
+1:39. Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away
+captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and
+evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall
+possess it.
+
+1:40. But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red
+Sea.
+
+1:41. And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go
+up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went
+ready armed unto the mountain,
+
+1:42. The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I
+am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
+
+1:43. I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of
+the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.
+
+1:44. And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and
+meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir
+as far as Horma.
+
+1:45. And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not,
+neither would he yield to your voice.
+
+1:46. So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 2
+
+They are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.
+Their victory over Sehon king of Hesebon.
+
+2:1. And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth
+to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount
+Seir a long time.
+
+2:2. And the Lord said to me:
+
+2:3. You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
+
+2:4. And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders
+of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will
+be afraid of you.
+
+2:5. Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will
+not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread
+upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
+
+2:6. You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw
+waters for money, and shall drink.
+
+2:7. The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the
+Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast
+passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast
+wanted nothing.
+
+2:8. And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that
+dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber,
+we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.
+
+2:9. And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go
+to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land,
+because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.
+
+2:10. The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and
+strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
+
+2:11. They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the
+Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
+
+2:12. The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out
+and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the
+land of his possession, which the Lord gave him.
+
+2:13. Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.
+
+2:14. And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over
+the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of
+the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord
+had sworn:
+
+2:15. For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the
+midst of the camp.
+
+2:16. And after all the fighting men were dead,
+
+2:17. The Lord spoke to me, saying:
+
+2:18. Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:
+
+2:19. And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon,
+take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I
+will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have
+given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
+
+2:20. It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in
+it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
+
+2:21. A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims
+whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in
+their stead,
+
+2:22. As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in
+Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which
+they possess to this day.
+
+2:23. The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were
+expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed
+them and dwelt in their stead.
+
+2:24. Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into
+thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess
+his land and make war against him.
+
+2:25. This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the
+nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name
+they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.
+
+2:26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the
+king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:
+
+2:27. We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we
+will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
+
+2:28. Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money
+and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,
+
+2:29. As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the
+Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the
+land which the Lord our God will give us.
+
+2:30. And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the
+Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might
+be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.
+
+Hardened, etc... That is, in punishment of his past sins he left him to
+his own stubborn and perverse disposition, which drew him to his ruin.
+See the note on Ex. 7.3.
+
+2:31. And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee
+Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.
+
+2:32. And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at
+Jasa.
+
+2:33. And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his
+sons and all his people.
+
+2:34. And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants
+of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:
+
+2:35. Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them:
+and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
+
+2:36. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town
+that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village
+or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
+
+2:37. Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached
+not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the
+mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 3
+
+The victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of
+Manasses receive their possession on the other side of Jordan.
+
+3:1. Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of
+Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.
+
+3:2. And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into
+thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as
+thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.
+
+3:3. So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of
+Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,
+
+3:4. Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that
+escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in
+Basan.
+
+3:5. All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and
+bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.
+
+3:6. And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of
+Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
+
+3:7. But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.
+
+3:8. And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings
+of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon
+unto the mount Hermon,
+
+3:9. Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:
+
+3:10. All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of
+Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og
+in Basan.
+
+3:11. For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His
+bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon,
+being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of
+a man's hand.
+
+3:12. And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon
+the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave
+the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.
+
+3:13. And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the
+kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob:
+and all Basan is called the Land of giants.
+
+3:14. Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto
+the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own
+name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present
+day.
+
+3:15. To Machir also I gave Galaad.
+
+3:16. And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as
+far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even unto
+the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:
+
+3:17. And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders
+of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to
+the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
+
+3:18. And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth
+you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your
+brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.
+
+3:19. Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have
+much cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered
+to you.
+
+3:20. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to
+you: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the
+Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have
+given you.
+
+3:21. I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen
+what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to
+all the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.
+
+3:22. Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.
+
+3:23. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:
+
+3:24. Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness,
+and most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or
+earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.
+
+3:25. I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land
+beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.
+
+3:26. And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not,
+but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.
+
+3:27. Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the
+west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold
+it, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.
+
+3:28. Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go
+before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt
+see.
+
+3:29. And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 4
+
+Moses exhorteth the people to keep God's commandments: particularly to
+fly idolatry. Appointeth three cities of refuge, on that side of the
+Jordan.
+
+4:1. And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I
+teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst
+possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.
+
+4:2. You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall
+you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which
+I command you.
+
+4:3. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor,
+how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.
+
+4:4. But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this
+present day.
+
+4:5. You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord
+my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you
+shall possess:
+
+4:6. And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is
+your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all
+these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a
+great nation.
+
+4:7. Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh
+them, as our God is present to all our petitions.
+
+4:8. For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies,
+and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day
+before our eyes?
+
+4:9. Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the
+words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all
+the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy
+grandsons,
+
+4:10. From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in
+Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto
+me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time
+that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.
+
+4:11. And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto
+heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.
+
+4:12. And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard
+the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.
+
+4:13. And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and
+the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.
+
+4:14. And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the
+ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall
+possess.
+
+4:15. Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in
+the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the
+fire:
+
+4:16. Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven
+similitude, or image of male or female,
+
+4:17. The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of
+birds, that fly under heaven,
+
+4:18. Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that
+abide in the waters under the earth:
+
+4:19. Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and
+the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou
+adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of
+all the nations, that are under heaven.
+
+4:20. But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron
+furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this
+present day.
+
+4:21. And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I
+should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land,
+which he will give you.
+
+4:22. Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you
+shall pass, and possess the goodly land.
+
+4:23. Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God,
+which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of
+those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:
+
+4:24. Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
+
+4:25. If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and
+being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil
+before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:
+
+4:26. I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall
+quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the
+Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the
+Lord will destroy you,
+
+4:27. And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few
+among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.
+
+4:28. And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands:
+wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
+
+4:29. And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find
+him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction
+of thy soul.
+
+4:30. After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time
+thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.
+
+4:31. Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave
+thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he
+swore to thy fathers.
+
+4:32. Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the
+day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the
+other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath
+been known at any time,
+
+4:33. That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the
+midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:
+
+4:34. If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of
+the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a
+strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to
+all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy
+eyes.
+
+4:35. That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no
+other besides him.
+
+4:36. From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach
+thee.  And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou
+didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,
+
+4:37. Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And
+he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,
+
+4:38. To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than
+thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a
+possession, as thou seest at this present day.
+
+4:39. Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he
+is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.
+
+4:40. Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it
+may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst
+remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
+
+4:41. Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east
+side,
+
+4:42. That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour
+unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he
+might escape to some one of these cities:
+
+4:43. Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the
+tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and
+Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.
+
+4:44. This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,
+
+4:45. And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which
+he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
+
+4:46. Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor,
+in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom
+Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt,
+
+4:47. Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two
+kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising
+of the sun:
+
+4:48. From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,
+unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,
+
+4:49. All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of
+the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 5
+
+The ten commandments are repeated and explained.
+
+5:1. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the
+ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn
+them, and fulfil them in work.
+
+5:2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
+
+5:3. He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now
+present and living.
+
+5:4. He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.
+
+5:5. I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that time,
+to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up into the
+mountain, and he said:
+
+5:6. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
+out of the house of bondage.
+
+5:7. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.
+
+5:8. Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness of
+any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath,
+or that abide in the waters under the earth.
+
+5:9. Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am
+the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
+upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that
+hate me,
+
+5:10. And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and
+keep my commandments.
+
+5:11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he
+shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.
+
+5:12. Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy
+God hath commanded thee.
+
+5:13. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
+
+5:14. The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the
+Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor
+thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor
+thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy
+gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as
+thyself.
+
+5:15. Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God
+brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out
+arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the
+sabbath day.
+
+5:16. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded
+thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in
+the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
+
+5:17. Thou shalt not kill.
+
+5:18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
+
+5:19. And thou shalt not steal.
+
+5:20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
+
+5:21. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house, nor his
+field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass,
+nor any thing that is his.
+
+5:22. These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the
+mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness,
+with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables
+of stone, which he delivered unto me.
+
+5:23. But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the
+darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the
+tribes and the elders, and you said:
+
+5:24. Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his
+greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and
+have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.
+
+5:25. Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great
+fire comsume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more,
+we shall die.
+
+5:26. What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living
+God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be
+able to live?
+
+5:27. Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God
+shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will
+do them.
+
+5:28. And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the
+voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have
+spoken all things well.
+
+5:29. Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep
+all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with
+their children for ever?
+
+5:30. Go and say to them: Return into your tents.
+
+5:31. But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my
+commandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach them,
+that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a
+possession.
+
+5:32. Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded
+you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
+
+5:33. But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath
+commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days
+may be long in the land of your possession.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 6
+
+An exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.
+
+6:1. These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the
+Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do
+them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:
+
+6:2. That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his
+commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy
+grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.
+
+6:3. Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath
+commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly
+multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land
+flowing with milk and honey.
+
+6:4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
+
+6:5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy
+whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
+
+6:6. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy
+heart:
+
+6:7. And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate
+upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and
+rising.
+
+6:8. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be
+and shall move between thy eyes.
+
+6:9. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy
+house.
+
+6:10. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,
+for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall
+have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,
+
+6:11. Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which
+thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not
+plant,
+
+6:12. And thou shalt have eaten and be full:
+
+6:13. Take heed deligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee
+out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear
+the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his
+name.
+
+6:14. You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that
+are round about you:
+
+6:15. Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee:
+lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee,
+and take thee away from the face of the earth.
+
+6:16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in
+the place of temptation.
+
+6:17. Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and
+ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
+
+6:18. And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord,
+that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the
+goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,
+
+6:19. That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath
+spoken.
+
+6:20. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these
+testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath
+commanded us?
+
+6:21. Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the
+Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
+
+6:22. And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt
+against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,
+
+6:23. And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and
+give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.
+
+6:24. And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and
+should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days
+of our life, as it is at this day.
+
+6:25. And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts
+before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 7
+
+No league nor fellowship to be made with the Chanaanites: God promiseth
+his people his blessing and assistance, if they keep his comandments.
+
+7:1. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which
+thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations
+before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the
+Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven
+nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:
+
+7:2. And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt
+utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew
+mercy to them:
+
+7:3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give
+thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
+
+7:4. For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may
+rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled,
+and will quickly destroy thee.
+
+7:5. But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and
+break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
+things.
+
+7:6. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy
+God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are
+upon the earth.
+
+7:7. Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined
+unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:
+
+7:8. But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which
+he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand,
+and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao
+the king of Egypt.
+
+7:9. And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and
+faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and
+to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:
+
+7:10. And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them,
+without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
+
+7:11. Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I
+command thee this day to do.
+
+7:12. If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them,
+the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy
+which he swore to thy fathers:
+
+7:13. And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit
+of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy
+oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which
+he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.
+
+7:14. Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren
+among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.
+
+7:15. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous
+infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee,
+but upon thy enemies.
+
+7:16. Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will
+deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve
+their gods, lest they be thy ruin.
+
+7:17. If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall
+I be able to destroy them?
+
+7:18. Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to
+all the Egyptians,
+
+7:19. The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and
+wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the
+Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom
+thou fearest.
+
+7:20. Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until
+he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide
+themselves.
+
+7:21. Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst
+of thee, a God mighty and terrible:
+
+7:22. He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little
+and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest
+perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.
+
+7:23. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall
+slay them until they be utterly destroyed.
+
+7:24. And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt
+destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist
+thee, until thou destroy them.
+
+7:25. Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not
+covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou
+take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an
+abomination to the Lord thy God.
+
+Graven things... Idols, so called by contempt.
+
+7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house,
+lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and
+shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an
+anathema.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 8
+
+The people is put in mind of God's dealings with them, to the end that
+they may love him and serve him.
+
+8:1. All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care
+to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may
+possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.
+
+8:2. And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God
+hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee
+and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart
+might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.
+
+8:3. He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food,
+which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone
+doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
+
+Not in bread alone, etc... That is, that God is able to make food of
+what he pleases for the support of man.
+
+8:4. Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for
+age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,
+
+8:5. That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up
+his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.
+
+8:6. That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and
+walk in his ways, and fear him.
+
+8:7. For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks
+and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills
+deep rivers break out:
+
+8:8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and
+pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.
+
+8:9. Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy
+abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills
+are dug mines of brass:
+
+8:10. That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord
+thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.
+
+8:11. Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy
+God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I
+command thee this day:
+
+8:12. Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly
+houses, and dwelt in them,
+
+8:13. And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of
+gold and of silver, and of all things,
+
+8:14. Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God,
+who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
+
+8:15. And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein
+there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the
+dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the
+hardest rock,
+
+The Dipsas... A serpent whose bite causeth a violent thirst; from whence
+it has its name, for in Greek dipsa signifies thirst.
+
+8:16. And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew
+not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had
+mercy on thee,
+
+8:17. Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the
+strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.
+
+8:18. But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength,
+that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy
+fathers, as this present day sheweth.
+
+8:19. But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and
+serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly
+perish.
+
+8:20. As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall
+you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your
+God.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 9
+
+Lest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are
+put in mind of their manifold rebellions and other sins, for which they
+should have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to
+Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
+
+9:1. Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess
+nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled
+up to the sky,
+
+9:2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast
+seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.
+
+9:3. Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself
+will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy
+and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he
+hath spoken to thee.
+
+9:4. Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed
+them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess
+this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.
+
+9:5. For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart
+that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done
+wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might
+aaccomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham,
+Isaac, and Jacob.
+
+9:6. Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent
+land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked
+people.
+
+9:7. Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to
+wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto
+this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.
+
+9:8. For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and
+would have destroyed thee,
+
+9:9. When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the
+tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in
+the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking
+water.
+
+9:10. And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger
+of God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount
+from the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.
+
+9:11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave
+me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
+
+9:12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy
+people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the
+way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten
+idol.
+
+9:13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is
+stiffnecked:
+
+9:14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from
+under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger
+than this.
+
+9:15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two
+tables of the covenant with both hands,
+
+9:16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had
+made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way,
+which he had shewn you:
+
+9:17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.
+
+9:18. And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights
+neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you
+had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
+
+9:19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved
+against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this
+time also.
+
+9:20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have
+destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.
+
+9:21. And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took,
+and burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as
+small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the
+mountain.
+
+9:22. At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the
+graves of lust you provoked the Lord:
+
+9:23. And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess
+the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the
+Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his
+voice:
+
+9:24. But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.
+
+9:25. And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in
+which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had
+threatened:
+
+9:26. And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy
+inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast
+brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.
+
+9:27. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the
+stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:
+
+9:28. Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast
+brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he
+promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he
+might kill them in the wilderness,
+
+9:29. Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out
+by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 10
+
+God giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear
+and serve the Lord.
+
+10:1. At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone
+like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make
+an ark of wood,
+
+10:2. And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which
+thou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
+
+10:3. And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables of
+stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my
+hands.
+
+10:4. And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before,
+the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst
+of the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.
+
+10:5. And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into
+the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the
+Lord commanded me.
+
+10:6. And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the
+children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and
+Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.
+
+Mosera... By mount Hor, for there Aaron died, Num. 20. This and the
+following verses seem to be inserted by way of parenthesis.
+
+10:7. From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed,
+and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.
+
+10:8. At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of
+the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and
+to bless in his name until this present day.
+
+10:9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren:
+because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised
+him.
+
+10:10. And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and
+the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.
+
+10:11. And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may
+enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would
+give them.
+
+10:12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but
+that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and
+serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
+
+10:13. And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which
+I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?
+
+10:14. Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven,
+the earth and all things that are therein.
+
+10:15. And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and
+loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of
+all nations, as this day it is proved.
+
+10:16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your
+neck no more.
+
+10:17. Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of
+lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor
+taketh bribes.
+
+10:18. He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the
+stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
+
+10:19. And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were
+strangers in the land of Egypt.
+
+10:20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou
+shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.
+
+10:21. He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these
+great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.
+
+10:22. In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now
+the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 11
+
+The love and service of God are still inculcated, with a blessing to
+them that serve him, and threats of punishment if they forsake his law.
+
+11:1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and
+ceremonies, his judgments and commmandments at all times.
+
+11:2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not
+the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong
+hand, and stretched out arm,
+
+11:3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king
+Pharao, and to all his land,
+
+11:4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and
+chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued
+you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:
+
+11:5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, til you came to
+this place:
+
+11:6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of
+Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their
+households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the
+midst of Israel.
+
+11:7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath
+done,
+
+11:8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this
+day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,
+
+11:9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to
+your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and
+honey.
+
+11:10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land
+of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown,
+waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
+
+11:11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.
+
+11:12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it
+from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
+
+11:13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day,
+that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and
+with all your soul:
+
+11:14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain,
+that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,
+
+11:15. And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you
+may eat and be filled.
+
+11:16. Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from
+the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
+
+11:17. And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not
+down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the
+excellent land, which the Lord will give you.
+
+11:18. Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a
+sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.
+
+11:19. Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest
+in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down
+and risest up.
+
+11:20. Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:
+
+11:21. That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in
+the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as
+long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.
+
+11:22. For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do
+them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto
+him,
+
+11:23. The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you
+shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
+
+11:24. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours.
+From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto
+the western sea shall be your borders.
+
+11:25. None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the
+dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he
+hath spoken to you.
+
+11:26. Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:
+
+11:27. A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,
+which I command you this day:
+
+11:28. A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God,
+but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange
+gods which you know not.
+
+11:29. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,
+whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount
+Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
+
+Put the blessing, et... See Deut. 27.12, etc. and Josue 8.33, etc.
+
+11:30. Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the
+setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the
+plain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that
+reacheth and entereth far.
+
+11:31. For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which
+the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.
+
+11:32. See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which
+I shall set this day before you.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 12
+
+All idolatry must be extirpated: sacrifices, tithes, and firstfruits
+must be offered in one only place: all eating of blood is prohibited.
+
+12:1. These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the
+land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess
+it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.
+
+12:2. Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall
+possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under
+every shady tree:
+
+12:3. Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their
+groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names
+out of those places.
+
+12:4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God:
+
+12:5. But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall
+choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in
+it:
+
+12:6. And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the
+tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the
+firstborn of your herds and your sheep.
+
+12:7. And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you
+shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and
+your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.
+
+12:8. You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man
+that which seemeth good to himself.
+
+12:9. For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the
+possession, which the Lord your God will give you.
+
+12:10. You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which
+the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies
+round about: and may dwell without any fear,
+
+12:11. In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name
+may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command
+you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your
+hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow
+to the Lord.
+
+12:12. There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons
+and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite
+that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession
+among you.
+
+12:13. Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou
+shalt see:
+
+12:14. But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes
+shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.
+
+12:15. But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight
+thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which
+he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to
+say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and
+without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt
+thou eat it:
+
+12:16. Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out
+upon the earth as water.
+
+12:17. Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy
+wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any
+thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the
+firstfruits of thy hands:
+
+12:18. But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place
+which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter,
+and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy
+cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God
+in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.
+
+12:19. Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou
+livest in the land.
+
+12:20 When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath
+spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:
+
+12:21. And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his
+name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of
+thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it
+pleaseth thee.
+
+12:22. Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them:
+both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
+
+12:23. Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood
+is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the
+flesh:
+
+12:24. But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,
+
+12:25. That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when
+thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
+
+12:26. But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord,
+thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall
+choose:
+
+12:27. And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the
+altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on
+the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.
+
+12:28. Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may
+be well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt
+do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
+
+12:29. When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the
+nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess
+them, and dwell in their land:
+
+12:30. Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy
+coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these
+nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.
+
+12:31. Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they
+have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth,
+offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
+
+12:32. What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add
+any thing, nor diminish.
+
+That only do thou, etc... They are forbid here to follow the ceremonies
+of the heathens; or to make any alterations in the divine ordinances.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 13
+
+False prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities destroyed.
+
+13:1. If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he
+hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,
+
+13:2. And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us
+go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve
+them:
+
+13:3. Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the
+Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with
+all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.
+
+13:4. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
+and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.
+
+13:5. And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he
+spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of
+the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make
+thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou
+shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
+
+13:6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or
+thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy
+own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve
+strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,
+
+13:7. Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from
+one end of the earth to the other,
+
+13:8. Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to
+pity and conceal him,
+
+13:9. But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first
+upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
+
+Presently put him to death... Not by killing him by private authority,
+but by informing the magistrate, and proceeding by order of justice.
+
+13:10. With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have
+withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land
+of Egypt, from the house of bondage:
+
+13:11. That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing
+like this.
+
+13:12. If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee
+to dwell in, thou hear some say:
+
+13:13. Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have
+withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and
+serve strange gods which you know not:
+
+Belial... That is, without yoke. Hence the wicked, who refuse to be
+subject to the divine law, are called in scripture the children of
+Belial.
+
+13:14. Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by
+looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain,
+and that this abomination hath been really committed,
+
+13:15. Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the
+edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it,
+even the cattle.
+
+13:16. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather
+together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with
+the city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it
+be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.
+
+13:17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that
+the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on
+thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,
+
+13:18. When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all
+his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is
+pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 14
+
+In mourning for the dead they are not to follow the ways of the
+Gentiles: the distinction of clean and unclean meats: ordinances
+concerning tithes, and firstfruits.
+
+14:1. Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves,
+nor make any baldness for the dead;
+
+14:2. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose
+thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.
+
+14:3. Eat not the things that are unclean.
+
+Unclean... See the annotations on Lev. 11.
+
+14:4. These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep,
+and the goat,
+
+14:5. The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the
+wild goat, the camelopardalus.
+
+14:6. Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the
+cud, you shall eat.
+
+14:7. But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall
+not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they
+chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
+
+14:8. The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the
+cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their
+carcasses you shall not touch.
+
+14:9. These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have
+fins and scales, you shall eat.
+
+14:10. Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because
+they are unclean.
+
+14:11. All birds that are clean you shall eat.
+
+14:12. The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the
+osprey,
+
+14:13. The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their
+kind:
+
+14:14. And all of the raven's kind:
+
+14:15. And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk
+according to its kind:
+
+14:16. The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
+
+14:17. And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
+
+14:18. The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the
+houp also and the bat.
+
+14:19. Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be
+unclean, and shall not be eaten.
+
+14:20. All that is clean, you shall eat.
+
+14:21. But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the
+stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because
+thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid
+in the milk of his dam.
+
+14:22. Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that
+the earth bringeth forth,
+
+14:23. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he
+shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy
+corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy
+sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.
+
+14:24. But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall
+choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry
+all these things thither,
+
+14:25. Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt
+carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall
+choose:
+
+14:26. And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee,
+either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all
+that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and
+shalt feast, thou and thy house:
+
+14:27. And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him
+not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
+
+14:28. The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things
+that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.
+
+14:29. And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee,
+and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy
+gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may
+bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 15
+
+The law of the seventh year of remission. The firstlings of cattle are
+to be sanctified to the Lord.
+
+15:1. In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,
+
+15:2. Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is
+owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again,
+because it is the year of remission of the Lord.
+
+15:3. Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy
+countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.
+
+15:4. And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy
+God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.
+
+There shall be no poor, etc... It is not to be understood as a promise,
+that there should be no poor in Israel, as appears from ver. 11, where
+we learn that God's people would never be at a loss to find objects for
+their charity: but it is an ordinance that all should do their best
+endeavours to prevent any of their brethren from suffering the hardships
+of poverty and want.
+
+15:5. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all
+things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will
+bless thee, as he hath promised.
+
+15:6. Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man.
+Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have
+dominion over thee.
+
+15:7. If one of thy brethren that dewlleth within thy gates of thy city
+in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou
+shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,
+
+15:8. But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which
+thou perceivest he hath need of.
+
+15:9. Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou
+say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou
+turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which
+he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin
+unto thee.
+
+15:10. But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing
+craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless
+thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.
+
+15:11. There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation:
+therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother,
+that liveth in the land.
+
+15:12. When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee,
+and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him
+go free:
+
+15:13. And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go
+away empty:
+
+15:14. But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy
+barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless
+thee.
+
+15:15. Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt,
+and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee
+this.
+
+15:16. But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy
+house, and findeth that he is well with thee:
+
+15:17. Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of
+thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like
+manner to thy womanservant also.
+
+15:18. Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free:
+because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a
+hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that
+thou dost.
+
+15:19. Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou
+shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou
+shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear
+the firstlings of thy sheep.
+
+15:20. In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year,
+in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.
+
+15:21. But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part
+disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.
+
+15:22. But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and
+the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.
+
+15:23. Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out
+on the earth as water.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 16
+
+The three principal solemnities to be observed: just judges to be
+appointed in every city: all occasions of idolatry to be avoided.
+
+16:1. Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring,
+that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this
+month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.
+
+16:2. And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep,
+and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his
+name may dwell there.
+
+16:3. Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou
+eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of
+Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of
+Egypt, all the days of thy life.
+
+16:4. No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither
+shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the
+evening remain until morning.
+
+16:5. Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which
+the Lord thy God will give thee:
+
+16:6. But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his
+name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at
+the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.
+
+16:7. And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy
+God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy
+dwellings.
+
+16:8. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day,
+because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.
+
+16:9. Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein
+thou didst put the sickle to the corn.
+
+16:10. And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy
+God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according
+to the blessing of the Lord thy God.
+
+16:11. And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,
+and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
+Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless,
+and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God
+shall choose, that his name may dwell there:
+
+16:12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and
+thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.
+
+16:13. Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven
+days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the
+winepress.
+
+16:14. And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son,
+and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also
+and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy
+gates.
+
+16:15. Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the
+place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will belss thee
+in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in
+joy.
+
+16:16. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord
+thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened
+bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one
+shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:
+
+16:17. But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to
+the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.
+
+16:18. Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which
+the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge
+the people with just judgment,
+
+16:19. And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor
+gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the
+just.
+
+16:20. Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou
+mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
+
+16:21. Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the
+Lord thy God:
+
+16:22. Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which
+things the Lord thy God hateth.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 17
+
+Victims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain.
+Controversies are to be decided by the high priest and council, whose
+sentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is
+to receive the law of God at the priest's hands.
+
+17:1. Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox,
+wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to
+the Lord thy God.
+
+17:2. When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which
+the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight
+of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,
+
+17:3. So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and
+the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:
+
+The host of heaven... That is, the stars.
+
+17:4. And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired
+diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is
+committed in Israel:
+
+17:5. Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed
+that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be
+stoned.
+
+17:6. By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be
+slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against
+him.
+
+17:7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him,
+and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take
+away the evil out of the midst of thee.
+
+17:8. If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful
+matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and
+leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do
+vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall
+choose.
+
+If thou perceive, etc... Here we see what authority God was pleased to
+give to the church guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without
+appeal, all controversies relating to the law; promising that they
+should not err therein; and surely he has not done less for the church
+guides of the New Testament.
+
+17:9. And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to
+the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and
+they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.
+
+17:10. And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the
+place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,
+
+17:11. According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence:
+neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.
+
+17:12. But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of
+the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the
+decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the
+evil from Israel:
+
+17:13. And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards
+swell with pride.
+
+17:14. When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will
+give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me,
+as all nations have that are round about:
+
+17:15. Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the
+number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation
+king, that is not thy brother.
+
+17:16. And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to
+himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the
+number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to
+return no more the same way.
+
+17:17. He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor
+immense sums of silver and gold.
+
+17:18. But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall
+copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the
+copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,
+
+17:19. And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of
+his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words
+and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;
+
+17:20. And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren,
+nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign
+a long time over Israel.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 18
+
+The Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish
+abominations are to be avoided. The great PROPHET CHRIST is promised.
+False prophets must be slain.
+
+18:1. The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall
+have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall
+eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,
+
+18:2. And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their
+brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to
+them.
+
+18:3. This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that
+offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give
+to the priest the shoulder and the breast:
+
+18:4. The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of
+the wool from the shearing of their sheep.
+
+18:5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand
+and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
+
+18:6. If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel,
+in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which
+the Lord shall choose,
+
+18:7. He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his
+brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.
+
+18:8. He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do:
+besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his
+fathers.
+
+18:9. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give
+thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those
+nations.
+
+18:10. Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate
+his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that
+consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there
+be any wizard,
+
+18:11. Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or
+fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
+
+18:12. For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these
+abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
+
+18:13. Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.
+
+18:14. These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to
+soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord
+thy God.
+
+18:15. The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation
+and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:
+
+18:16. As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly
+was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of
+the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire,
+lest I die.
+
+18:17. And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.
+
+18:18. I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren
+like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak
+to them all that I shall command him.
+
+18:19. And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my
+name, I will be the revenger.
+
+18:20. But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in
+my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of
+strange gods, shall be slain.
+
+18:21. And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word
+that the Lord hath not spoken?
+
+18:22. Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet
+foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that
+thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the
+pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 19
+
+The cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false witnesses must be
+punished.
+
+19:1. When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he
+will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the
+cities and houses thereof:
+
+19:2. Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land,
+which the Lord will give thee in possession,
+
+19:3. Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole
+province of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to
+flee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.
+
+19:4. This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to
+be saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to
+have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:
+
+19:5. But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting
+down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping
+from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one
+of the cities aforesaid, and live:
+
+19:6. Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed
+on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too
+long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because
+he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.
+
+19:7. Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal
+distance one from another.
+
+19:8. And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he
+swore to the fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised
+them,
+
+19:9. (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I
+command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his
+ways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt
+double the number of the three cities aforesaid:
+
+19:10. That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land
+which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of
+blood.
+
+19:11. But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life,
+and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities
+aforesaid,
+
+19:12. The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the
+place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of
+him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.
+
+19:13. Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of
+innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.
+
+19:14. Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which
+thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will
+give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.
+
+19:15. One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin
+or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word
+shall stand.
+
+19:16. If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of
+transgression,
+
+19:17. Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before
+the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in
+those days.
+
+19:18. And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that
+the false witness hath told a lie against his brother:
+
+19:19. They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and
+thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:
+
+19:20. That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.
+
+19:21. Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for
+eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 20
+
+Laws relating to war.
+
+20:1. If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and
+chariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou
+shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought
+thee out of the land of Egypt.
+
+20:2. And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before
+the army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:
+
+20:3. Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let
+not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye
+them not:
+
+20:4. Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight
+for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.
+
+20:5. And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing
+of the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath
+not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
+battle, and another man dedicate it.
+
+20:6. What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as
+yet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and
+return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute
+his office.
+
+20:7. What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her?
+let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another
+man take her.
+
+20:8. After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and shall
+speak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint
+hearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts of
+his brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear.
+
+20:9. And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and have
+made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to fight.
+
+20:10. If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt
+first offer it peace.
+
+20:11. If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people
+that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.
+
+20:12. But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against
+thee, thou shalt besiege it.
+
+20:13. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou
+shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the
+sword,
+
+20:14. Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are
+in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou
+shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give
+thee.
+
+20:15. So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from
+thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in
+possession.
+
+20:16. But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer
+none at all to live:
+
+20:17. But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the
+Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the
+Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
+
+20:18. Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have
+done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.
+
+20:19. When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed it
+with bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may be
+eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes:
+for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of
+them that fight against thee.
+
+20:20. But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and
+fit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the
+city, which fighteth against thee.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 21
+
+The expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest son
+must not be deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. A
+stubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet,
+he must be taken down the same day and buried.
+
+21:1. When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will
+give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty
+of the murder,
+
+21:2. Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the
+place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:
+
+21:3. And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be
+nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not
+drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,
+
+21:4. And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never
+was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the
+heifer:
+
+21:5. And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God
+hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by
+their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or
+unclean should be judged.
+
+21:6. And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and
+shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,
+
+21:7. And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes
+see it.
+
+21:8. Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord,
+and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people
+Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:
+
+21:9. And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed,
+when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.
+
+21:10. If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God
+deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,
+
+21:11. And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and
+lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,
+
+21:12. Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her
+hair, and pare her nails,
+
+21:13. And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall
+remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and
+after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she
+shall be thy wife.
+
+21:14. But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go
+free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might
+because thou hast humbled her.
+
+21:15. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and
+they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the
+firstborn,
+
+21:16. And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not
+make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son
+of the hated.
+
+21:17. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,
+and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the
+first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.
+
+21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the
+commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth
+obedience:
+
+21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city,
+and to the gate of judgment,
+
+21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn,
+he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling,
+and to debauchery and banquetings:
+
+21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that
+you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel
+hearing it may be afraid.
+
+21:22. When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished
+with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:
+
+21:23. His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the
+same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou
+shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in
+possession.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 22
+
+Humanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the
+other. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof
+of a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of
+him that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.
+
+22:1. Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his
+sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.
+
+22:2. And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt
+bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother
+seek them, and receive them.
+
+22:3. Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment,
+and with every thing that is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou find
+it, neglect it not as pertaining to another.
+
+22:4. If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the
+way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.
+
+22:5. A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a
+man use woman's apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable
+before God.
+
+22:6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree,
+or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs:
+thou shalt not take her with her young:
+
+Thou shalt not take, etc. This was to shew them to exercise a certain
+mercy even to irrational creatures; and by that means to train them up
+to a horror of cruelty; and to the exercise of humanity and mutual
+charity one to another.
+
+22:7. But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught:
+that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.
+
+22:8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to
+the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be
+guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.
+
+Battlement... This precaution was necessary, because all their houses
+had flat tops, and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon
+them.
+
+22:9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the
+seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified
+together.
+
+22:10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
+
+22:11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen
+together.
+
+22:12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy
+cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.
+
+22:13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
+
+22:14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very
+ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I
+found her not a virgin:
+
+22:15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them
+the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the
+gate:
+
+22:16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to
+wife: and because he hateth her,
+
+22:17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found
+not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my
+daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the
+ancients of the city:
+
+22:18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,
+
+22:19. Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he
+shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill
+name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put
+her away all the days of his life.
+
+22:20. But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not
+found in the damsel:
+
+22:21. They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and
+the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because
+she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her
+father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of
+thee.
+
+22:22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that
+is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away
+the evil out of Israel.
+
+22:23. If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one
+find her in the city, and lie with her,
+
+22:24. Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they
+shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the
+city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou
+shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.
+
+22:25. But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and
+taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:
+
+22:26. The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death:
+for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so
+also did the damsel suffer:
+
+22:27. She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to
+help her.
+
+22:28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and
+taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:
+
+22:29. He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty
+sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled
+her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
+
+22:30. No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 23
+
+Who may and who may not enter into the church: uncleanness to be
+avoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows,
+and eating other men's grapes and corn.
+
+23:1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut
+off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
+
+Eunuch... By these are meant, in the spiritual sense, such as are barren
+in good works. Ibid. Into the church... That is, into the assembly or
+congregation of Israel, so as to have the privilege of an Israelite, or
+to be capable of any place or office among the people of God.
+
+23:2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not
+enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
+
+23:3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation
+shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
+
+23:4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way,
+when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam,
+the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
+
+23:5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his
+cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
+
+23:6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their
+prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
+
+23:7. Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor
+the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
+
+23:8. They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter
+into the church of the Lord.
+
+23:9. When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep
+thyself from every evil thing.
+
+23:10. If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by
+night, he shall go forth out of the camp,
+
+23:11. And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the
+evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.
+
+23:12. Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go
+for the necessities of nature,
+
+23:13. Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou
+shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt
+cover
+
+23:14. That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in
+the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to
+thee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein,
+lest he go away from thee.
+
+No uncleanness... This caution against suffering any filth in the camp,
+was to teach them to fly the filth of sin, which driveth God away from
+the soul.
+
+23:15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to
+thee.
+
+23:16. He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and
+shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.
+
+23:17. There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor
+whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
+
+23:18. Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a
+dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast
+vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
+
+23:19. Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor
+any other thing:
+
+23:20. But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he
+wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy
+works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
+
+To the stranger... This was a dispensation granted by God to his people,
+who being the Lord of all things, can give a right and title to one upon
+the goods of another. Otherwise the scripture everywhere condemns usury,
+as contrary to the law of God, and a crying sin. See Ex. 22.25; Lev.
+25.36, 37; 2 Esd. 5.7; Ps. 14.5; Ezech. 18.8, 13, etc.
+
+23:21. When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not
+delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou
+delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.
+
+23:22. If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be without sin.
+
+23:23. But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe,
+and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken
+with thy own will and with thy own mouth.
+
+23:24. Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many
+grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:
+
+23:25. If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the ears, and
+rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 24
+
+Divorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the newly married must not go
+to war: of men stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers' hire, of
+justice, and of charity to the poor.
+
+24:1. If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his
+eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall
+give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
+
+24:2. And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,
+
+24:3. And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and
+hath sent her out of his house or is dead:
+
+24:4. The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is
+defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy
+land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.
+
+24:5. When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war,
+neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free
+at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
+
+24:6. Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge:
+for he hath pledged his life to thee.
+
+24:7. If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of
+Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death,
+and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.
+
+24:8. Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy,
+but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall
+teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it
+carefully.
+
+24:9. Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you
+came out of Egypt.
+
+24:10. When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth
+thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:
+
+24:11. But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what
+he hath.
+
+24:12. But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that
+night,
+
+24:13. But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down
+of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and
+thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.
+
+24:14. Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor,
+whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the
+land, and is within thy gates:
+
+24:15. But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day,
+before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it
+maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be
+reputed to thee for a sin.
+
+24:16. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the
+children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,
+
+24:17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the
+fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a
+pledge.
+
+24:18. Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God
+delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.
+
+24:19. When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and
+left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt
+suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away:
+that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
+
+24:20. If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt
+not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave
+it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.
+
+24:21. If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather
+the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the
+fatherless, and the widow.
+
+24:22. Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I
+command thee to do this thing.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 25
+
+Stripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to be muzzled. Of raising
+seed to the brother. Of the immodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of
+destroying the Amalecites.
+
+25:1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the
+judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive
+to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of
+wickedness.
+
+25:2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall
+lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them.  According
+to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
+
+25:3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother
+depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
+
+25:4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the
+floor.
+
+Not muzzle, etc... St. Paul understands this of the spiritual labourer
+in the church of God, who is not to be denied his maintenance. 1 Cor.
+9.8, 9, 10.
+
+25:5. When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without
+children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his
+brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:
+
+25:6. And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name,
+that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
+
+25:7. But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth
+to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the
+ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his
+brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.
+
+25:8. And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask
+him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
+
+25:9. The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take
+off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it
+be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:
+
+25:10. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.
+
+25:11. If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against
+the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of
+the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the
+secrets,
+
+25:12. Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any
+pity in her regard.
+
+25:13. Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a
+less:
+
+25:14. Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.
+
+25:15. Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be
+equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which
+the Lord thy God shall give thee.
+
+25:16. For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he
+hateth all injustice.
+
+25:17. Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out
+of Egypt:
+
+Amalec... This order for destroying the Amalecites, in the mystical
+sense, sheweth how hateful they are to God, and what punishments they
+are to look for from his justice, who attack and discourage his servants
+when they are but just come out, as it were, of the Egypt of this wicked
+world and being yet weak and fainthearted, are but beginning their
+journey to the land of promise.
+
+25:18. How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down,
+being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared
+not God.
+
+25:19. Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall
+have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath
+promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou
+forget it not.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 26
+
+The form of words with which the firstfruits and tithes are to be
+offered. God's covenant.
+
+26:1. And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will
+give thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:
+
+26:2. Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a
+basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,
+that his name may be invocated there:
+
+26:3. And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and
+say to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come
+into the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it
+us.
+
+26:4. And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before
+the altar of the Lord thy God:
+
+26:5. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The
+Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there
+in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of
+an infinite multitude.
+
+The Syrian... Laban. See Gen. 27.
+
+26:6. And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us
+most grievous burdens:
+
+26:7. And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and
+looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:
+
+26:8. And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched
+out arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:
+
+26:9. And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with
+milk and honey.
+
+26:10. And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the
+Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord
+thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.
+
+26:11. And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy
+God hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the
+stranger that is with thee.
+
+26:12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the
+third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the
+stanger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat
+within thy gates, and be filled:
+
+26:13. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I
+have taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given
+it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the
+widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy
+commandments nor forgotten thy precepts.
+
+26:14. I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for
+any uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed
+the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast
+commanded me.
+
+26:15. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and
+bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou
+didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
+
+26:16. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these
+commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul.
+
+26:17. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in
+his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey
+his command.
+
+26:18. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar
+people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:
+
+26:19. And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created,
+to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people
+of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 27
+
+The commandments must be written on stones: and an altar erected, and
+sacrifices offered. The observers of the commandments are to be blessed,
+and the transgressors cursed.
+
+27:1. And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people,
+saying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.
+
+27:2. And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the
+Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt
+plaster them over with plaster,
+
+27:3. That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou
+art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land which
+the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as
+he swore to thy fathers.
+
+27:4. Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones
+which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster
+them with plaster:
+
+27:5. And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones
+which iron hath not touched,
+
+27:6. And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer
+upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:
+
+27:7. And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before
+the Lord thy God.
+
+27:8. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
+plainly and clearly.
+
+27:9. And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel:
+Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the
+Lord thy God:
+
+27:10. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices
+which I command thee.
+
+27:11. And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:
+
+27:12. These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when
+you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and
+Benjamin.
+
+27:13. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben,
+Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.
+
+27:14. And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel
+with a loud voice:
+
+27:15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the
+abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall
+put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.
+
+27:16. Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all
+the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the
+people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:18. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and
+all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the
+fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth
+his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:21. Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall
+say: Amen.
+
+27:22. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
+father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the
+people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:24. Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the
+people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:25. Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and
+all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+27:26. Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and
+fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 28
+
+Many blessings are promised to observers of God's commandments: and
+curses threatened to transgressors.
+
+28:1. Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I
+command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all
+the nations that are on the earth.
+
+28:2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee:
+yet so if thou hear his precepts.
+
+All these blessings, etc... In the Old Testament, God promised temporal
+blessings to the keepers of his law, heaven not being opened as yet; and
+that gross and sensual people being more moved with present and sensible
+things. But in the New Testament the goods that are promised us are
+spiritual and eternal; and temporal evils are turned into blessings.
+
+28:3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.
+
+28:4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy
+ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the
+folds of thy sheep.
+
+28:5. Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.
+
+28:6. Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.
+
+28:7. The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to
+fall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee, and
+seven ways shall they flee before thee.
+
+28:8. The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon
+all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou
+shalt receive.
+
+28:9. The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he
+swore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and
+walk in his ways.
+
+28:10. And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the
+Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.
+
+28:11. The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of
+thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which
+the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.
+
+28:12. The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it
+may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy
+hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any
+one.
+
+28:13. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou
+shalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the
+commandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep
+and do them,
+
+28:14. And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the
+left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
+
+28:15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep
+and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this
+day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
+
+All these curses, etc... Thus God dealt with the transgressors of his
+law in the Old Testament: but now he often suffers sinners to prosper in
+this world, rewarding them for some little good they have done, and
+reserving their punishment for the other world.
+
+28:16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.
+
+28:17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.
+
+28:18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy
+ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
+
+28:19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.
+
+28:20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke
+upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy
+thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast
+forsaken me.
+
+28:21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee
+out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
+
+28:22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and
+with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with
+blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.
+
+28:23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou
+treadest on, of iron.
+
+28:24. The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes
+come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.
+
+28:25. The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst
+thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered
+throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
+
+28:26. And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the
+beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.
+
+28:27. The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy
+body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so
+that thou canst not be healed.
+
+28:28. The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.
+
+28:29. And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in
+the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times
+suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one
+to deliver thee.
+
+28:30. Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou
+build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and
+not gather the vintage thereof.
+
+28:31. May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May
+thy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy
+sheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee.
+
+28:32. May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy
+eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and
+may there be no strength in thy hand.
+
+28:33. May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land,
+and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be
+crushed at all times.
+
+28:34. And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes
+shall see:
+
+28:35. May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and
+in the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top
+of the head.
+
+28:36. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have
+appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not:
+and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.
+
+28:37. And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people,
+among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
+
+28:38. Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little:
+because the locusts shall consume all.
+
+28:39. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the
+wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with
+worms.
+
+28:40. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be
+anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.
+
+28:41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them:
+because they shall be led into captivity.
+
+28:42. The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy
+ground.
+
+28:43. The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up
+over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.
+
+28:44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall
+be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
+
+28:45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and
+overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of
+the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies
+which he commanded thee.
+
+28:46. And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed
+for ever.
+
+28:47. Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and
+gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
+
+28:48. Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in
+hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he
+shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.
+
+28:49. The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the
+uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose
+tongue thou canst not understand,
+
+28:50. A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients,
+nor have pity on the infant,
+
+28:51. And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy
+land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine,
+nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.
+
+28:52. And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall
+be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be
+besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will
+give thee:
+
+28:53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy
+sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in
+the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.
+
+28:54. The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his
+own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,
+
+28:55. So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which
+he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want,
+wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.
+
+28:56. The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground,
+nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy
+her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her
+daughter,
+
+28:57. And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between
+her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall
+eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress,
+wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.
+
+28:58. If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that
+are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name:
+that is, The Lord thy God:
+
+28:59. The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed,
+plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.
+
+28:60. And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt,
+which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.
+
+28:61. Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and
+plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume
+thee:
+
+28:62. And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars
+of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord
+thy God.
+
+28:63. And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and
+multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to
+nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt
+go in to possess.
+
+28:64. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest
+parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve
+strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and
+stone.
+
+28:65. Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall
+there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee
+a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with
+pensiveness:
+
+28:66. And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt
+fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.
+
+28:67. In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at
+evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart,
+wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt
+see with thy eyes.
+
+28:68. The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way
+whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt
+thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man
+shall buy you.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 29
+
+The covenant is solemnly confirmed between God and his people. Threats
+against those that shall break it.
+
+29:1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses
+to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that
+covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
+
+29:2. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all
+the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao,
+and to all his servants, and to his whole land.
+
+29:3. The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty
+signs and wonders,
+
+29:4. And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to
+see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.
+
+Hath not given you, etc... Through your own fault and because you
+resisted his grace.
+
+29:5. He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments
+are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.
+
+29:6. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink:
+that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
+
+29:7. And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king
+of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.
+
+29:8. And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben
+and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.
+
+29:9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that
+you may understand all that you do.
+
+29:10. You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes,
+and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,
+
+29:11. Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with
+thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
+
+29:12. That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in
+the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.
+
+29:13. That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy
+God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham,
+Isaac, and Jacob.
+
+29:14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these
+oaths,
+
+29:15. But with all that are present and that are absent.
+
+29:16. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have
+passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,
+
+29:17. You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their
+idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
+
+29:18. Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family
+or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God,
+to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you
+a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
+
+29:19. And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless
+himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the
+naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,
+
+The drunken, etc., absumat ebria sitientem... It is a proverbial
+expression, which may either be understood, as spoken by the sinner,
+blessing, that is, flattering himself in his sins with the imagination
+of peace, and so great an abundance as may satisfy, and as it were,
+consume all thirst and want: or it may be referred to the root of
+bitterness, spoken of before, which being drunken with sin may attract,
+and by that means consume, such as thirst after the like evils.
+
+29:20. And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy
+against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all
+the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and
+the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,
+
+29:21. And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel,
+according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and
+covenant:
+
+29:22. And the following generation shall say, and the children that
+shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar,
+seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath
+afflicted it,
+
+29:23. Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it
+cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the
+example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim,
+which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
+
+29:24. And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to
+this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
+
+29:25. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the
+Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the
+land of Egypt:
+
+29:26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they
+knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
+
+29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to
+bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:
+
+29:28. And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath,
+and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land,
+as it is seen this day.
+
+29:29. Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to
+us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this
+law.
+
+Secret things, etc... As much as to say, secret things belong to, and
+are known to, God alone; our business must be to observe what he has
+revealed and manifested to us, and to direct our lives accordingly.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 30
+
+Great mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is
+feasible. Life and death are set before them.
+
+30:1. Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or
+the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched
+with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord
+thy God shall have scattered thee,
+
+30:2. And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command
+thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all
+thy soul:
+
+30:3. The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will
+have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into
+which he scattered thee before.
+
+30:4. If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God
+will fetch thee back from hence,
+
+30:5. And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which
+thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he
+will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.
+
+30:6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy
+seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with
+all thy soul, that thou mayst live.
+
+30:7. And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them
+that hate and persecute thee.
+
+30:8. But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and
+shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:
+
+30:9. And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy
+hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the
+fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord
+will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in
+thy fathers:
+
+30:10. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his
+precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to
+the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
+
+30:11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee,
+nor far off from thee:
+
+30:12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go
+up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?
+
+30:13. Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and
+say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may
+hear, and do that which is commanded?
+
+30:14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy
+heart, that thou mayst do it.
+
+30:15. Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and
+on the other hand death and evil:
+
+30:16. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and
+keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in
+the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
+
+30:17. But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and
+being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:
+
+30:18. I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain
+but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan,
+and shalt go in to possess it.
+
+30:19. I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set
+before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life,
+that both thou and thy seed may live:
+
+30:20. And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice,
+and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that
+thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers
+Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 31
+
+Moses encourageth the people, and Josue, who is appointed to succeed
+him. He delivereth the law to the priests. God foretelleth that the
+people will often forsake him, and that he will punish them. He
+commandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a constant remembrancer of the
+law.
+
+31:1. And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,
+
+31:2. And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old,
+I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath
+said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.
+
+31:3. The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy
+all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this
+Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
+
+31:4. And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings
+of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.
+
+31:5. Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you,
+you shall do in like manner to them as I have commmanded you.
+
+31:6. Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at
+their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not
+leave thee nor forsake thee.
+
+31:7. And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take
+courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land
+which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt
+divide it by lot.
+
+31:8. And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he
+will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
+
+31:9. And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons
+of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the
+ancients of Israel.
+
+31:10. And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of
+remission, in the feast of tabernacles,
+
+31:11. When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the Lord
+thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the
+words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.
+
+31:12. And the people being all assembled together, both men and women,
+children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may
+learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of
+this law:
+
+31:13. That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and
+fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither
+you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
+
+31:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are
+nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that
+I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the
+tabernacle of the testimony:
+
+31:15. And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood
+in the entry of the tabernacle.
+
+31:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy
+fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange
+gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake
+me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,
+
+31:17. And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I
+will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be
+devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall
+say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these
+evils have found me.
+
+31:18. But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils
+which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.
+
+31:19. Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of
+Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this
+song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.
+
+31:20. For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their
+fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and
+are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve
+them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.
+
+31:21. And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them,
+this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall
+take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and
+what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the
+land which I have promised them.
+
+31:22. Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children
+of Israel.
+
+31:23. And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take
+courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel
+into the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.
+
+31:24. Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a
+volume, and finished it:
+
+31:25. He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of
+the Lord, saying:
+
+31:26. Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant
+of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.
+
+31:27. For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet
+living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against
+the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?
+
+31:28. Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors,
+and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and
+earth to witness against them.
+
+31:29. For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will
+quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils
+shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the
+sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.
+
+31:30. Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of
+Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 32
+
+A canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up
+into a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not
+enter into it.
+
+32:1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to
+the words of my mouth.
+
+32:2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the
+dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
+
+32:3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence
+to our God.
+
+32:4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God
+is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
+
+32:5. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in
+their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
+
+32:6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and
+senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and
+made thee, and created thee?
+
+32:7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy
+father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
+
+32:8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons
+of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of
+the children of Israel.
+
+32:9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his
+inheritance.
+
+32:10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast
+wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the
+apple of his eye.
+
+32:11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,
+he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his
+shoulders.
+
+32:12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with
+him.
+
+32:13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the
+fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the
+hardest stone,
+
+32:14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs,
+and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of
+wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
+
+32:15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and
+gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
+
+32:16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger,
+with their abominations.
+
+32:17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew
+not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
+
+32:18. Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten
+the Lord that created thee.
+
+32:19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and
+daughters provoked him.
+
+32:20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider
+what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and
+unfaithful children.
+
+32:21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have
+angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which
+is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
+
+32:22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest
+hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the
+foundations of the mountains.
+
+32:23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
+
+32:24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them
+with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with
+the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
+
+32:25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both
+the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
+
+32:26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease
+from among men.
+
+32:27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps
+their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not
+the Lord, hath done all these things.
+
+32:28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
+
+32:29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide
+for their last end.
+
+32:30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten
+thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had
+shut them up?
+
+32:31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are
+judges.
+
+32:32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of
+Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most
+bitter.
+
+32:33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which
+is incurable.
+
+32:34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my
+treasures?
+
+32:35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their
+foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes
+haste to come.
+
+32:36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his
+servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who
+were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
+
+32:37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
+
+32:38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their
+drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your
+distress.
+
+32:39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I
+will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and
+there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
+
+32:40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for
+ever.
+
+32:41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold
+on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that
+hate me.
+
+32:42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
+flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head
+of the enemies.
+
+32:43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of
+his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be
+merciful to the land of his people.
+
+32:44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the
+ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.
+
+32:45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
+
+32:46. And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I
+testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to
+observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:
+
+32:47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should
+live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the
+land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
+
+32:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
+
+32:49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,)
+unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and
+see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel
+to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
+
+32:50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy
+people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his
+people:
+
+32:51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of
+Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin:
+and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.
+
+32:52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the
+children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 33
+
+Moses before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel.
+
+33:1. This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the
+children of Israel, before his death.
+
+33:2. And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to
+us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of
+saints. In his right hand a fiery law.
+
+33:3. He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they
+that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.
+
+33:4. Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of
+Jacob.
+
+33:5. He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people,
+being assembled with the tribes of Israel.
+
+33:6. Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.
+
+33:7. This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and
+bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he
+shall be his helper against his enemies.
+
+33:8. To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy
+holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the
+waters of contradiction:
+
+Holy man... Aaron and his successors in the priesthood.
+
+33:9. Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you;
+and to his bretheren: I know you not: and their own children they have
+not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,
+
+Who hath said, etc... It is the duty of the priestly tribe to prefer
+God's honour and service before all considerations of flesh and blood:
+in such manner as to behave as strangers to their nearest akin, when
+these would withdraw them from the business of their calling.
+
+33:10. Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put
+incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.
+
+33:11. Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands.
+Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.
+
+33:12. And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell
+confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day
+long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.
+
+Shall dwell, etc... This seems to allude to the temple being built in
+the confines of the tribe of Benjamin.
+
+33:13. To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land,
+of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth
+beneath.
+
+33:14. Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.
+
+33:15. Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the
+everlasting hills:
+
+33:16. And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The
+blessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph,
+and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
+
+The Nazarite... See the note on Gen. 49.26.
+
+33:17. His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the
+horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the
+ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the
+thousands of Manasses.
+
+33:18. And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and
+Issachar in thy tabernacles.
+
+33:19. They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they
+sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance
+of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.
+
+33:20. And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested
+as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.
+
+33:21. And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was
+laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of
+the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.
+
+He saw, etc... The pre-eminence of the tribe of Gad, to which this
+alludeth, was their having the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders;
+though the particular place was not known.
+
+33:22. To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow
+plentifully from Basan.
+
+33:23. And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and
+shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and
+the south.
+
+The sea... The lake of Genesareth.
+
+33:24. To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him
+be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
+
+33:25. His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so
+also shall thy old age be.
+
+33:26. There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is
+mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds
+run hither and thither.
+
+33:27. His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms:
+he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou
+brought to nought.
+
+Underneath are the everlasting arms... Though the dwelling of God be
+above in heaven, his arms are always stretched out to help us here
+below.
+
+33:28. Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a
+land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.
+
+33:29. Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art
+saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory:
+thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.
+
+Deuteronomy Chapter 34
+
+Moses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to go into it. He
+dieth at the age of 120 years. God burieth his body secretly, and all
+Israel mourn for him thirty days. Josue, replenished (by imposition of
+Moses's hands) with the spirit of God, succeedeth. But Moses, for his
+special familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles, is
+commended above all other prophets.
+
+34:1. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the
+top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land
+of Galaad as far as Dan.
+
+34:2. And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all
+the land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,
+
+34:3. And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho the
+city of palm trees as far as Segor.
+
+34:4. And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to
+Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou hast
+seen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.
+
+34:5. And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab,
+by the commandment of the Lord:
+
+Died there... This last chapter of Deuteronomy, inwhich the death of
+Moses is related, was written by Josue, or by some of the prophets.
+
+34:6. And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against
+Phogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.
+
+He buried him, viz... by the ministry of angels, and would have the
+place of his burial to be unknown, lest the Israelites, who were so
+prone to idolatry, might worship him with divine honours.
+
+34:7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was
+not dim, neither were his teeth moved.
+
+34:8. And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab
+thirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses
+were ended.
+
+34:9. And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom,
+because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel
+obeyed him, and did as the Lord comanded Moses.
+
+34:10. And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses, whom
+the Lord knew face to face,
+
+34:11. In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the
+land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land,
+
+34:12. And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses did
+before all Israel.
+
+
+
+
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