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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. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 5 *** + +********** This file should be named 8305.txt or 8305.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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