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An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY.

God covenants with Israel.

thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine us this day before the LORD our God, and eyes which thou shalt see. also with him that is not here with us this 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into day: Egypt again with ships, by the way 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt in the land of Egypt; and how we came see it no more again: and there ye shall through the nations which ye passed by; be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you.

CHAP. XXIX.

17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) 18 Lest there should be among you

THESE are cd loses heart turneth away this day from the LORD

HESE are the words of the covenant man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose

to make with the children of Israel in the our God, to go and serve the gods of these land of Moab, besides the covenant which nations; lest there should be among you a he made with them in Horeb. root that beareth gall and wormwood;

2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israe!, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto l'haraoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

4 Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

5 And I have led you forty years in the 21 And the LORD shall separate him wilderness: your clothes are not waxen unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel acold upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen cording to all the curses of the covenant old upon thy foot. that are written in this book of the law: 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither 22 So that the generation to come of have ye drunk wine or strong drink that your children that shall rise up after you, ye might know that I am the LORD your and the stranger that shall come from a far God. land, shall say, when they see the plagues 7 And when ye came unto this place, of that land, and the sicknesses which the Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the LORD hath laid upon it; king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is 8 And we took their land, and gave it not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass growfor an inheritance unto the Reubenites, eth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Manasseh. which the LORD overthrew in his anger

9 Keep therefore the words of this co- and in his wrath: venant, and do them, that ye may prosper 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherein all that ye do. fore hath the LORD done thus unto this land! 10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before what meaneth the heat of this great anger? the LORD your God; your captains of 25 Then men shall say, Because they your tribes, your elders, and your officers, have forsaken the covenant of the LORD with all the men of Israel, God of their fathers, which he made with 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy them when he brought them forth out of stranger that is in thy camp, from the the land of Egypt: hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they 12 That thou shouldest enter into co- knew not, and whom he had not given unto venant with the LORD thy God, and into them:

water:

his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh 27 And the anger of the LORD was with thee this day: kindled against this land, to bring upon it 13 That he may establish thee to-day all the curses that are written in this book: for a people unto himself, and that he may 28 And the LORD rooted them out of be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, their land in anger and in wrath, and in and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to great indignation, and cast them into Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15 But with him that standeth here with

another land, as it is this day.

29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our chil

Mercy promised the penitent. CHAP. XXX, XXXI.

The people encouraged.

dren for ever, that we may do all the in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou words of this law.

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CHAP. XXX.

mayest do it.

15 ¶ See, I have set before thee this ND it shall come to pass, when all day life and good, and death and evil; these things are come upon thee, the 16 In that I command thee this day to blessing and the curse, which I have set love the LORD thy God, to walk in his before thee, and thou shalt call them to ways, and to keep his commandments, and mind among all the nations whither the his statutes, and his judgments, that thou LORD thy God hath driven thee, mayest live and multiply: and the LORD

2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy thy God shall bless thee in the land God, and shalt obey his voice according to whither thou goest to possess it.

all that I command thee this day, thou 17 But if thy heart turn away, so that and thy children, with all thy heart, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn with all thy soul; away, and worship other gods, and serve

18 I denounce unto you this day, that

3 That then the LORD thy God will them; turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

4 If any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will be fetch thee:

prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, 20 That thou mayest love the LORD and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thy God, and that thou mayest obey his thee good, and multiply thee above thy voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto fathers. him (for he is thy life, and the length of 6 And the LORD thy God will circum- thy days) that thou mayest dwell in the cise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, land which the LORD sware unto thy fato love the LORD thy God with all thy thers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, heart, and with all thy soul, that thou to give them. mayest live.

CHAP. XXXI.

7 And the LORD thy God will put all AND Moses went and spake these

these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

unto all Israel.

2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can 8 And thou shalt return and obey the no more go out and come in: also the voice of the LORD, and do all his com- LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not mandments which I command thee this day. go over this Jordan.

9 And the LORD thy God will make thee 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over plenteous in every work of thy hand, in before thee, and he will destroy these nathe fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of tions from before thee, and thou shalt posthy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for sess them: and Joshua he shall go over good: for the LORD will again rejoice over before thee, as the LORD bath said. thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom of the LORD thy God, to keep his com- he destroyed.

mandments and his statutes which are 5 And the LORD shall give them up bewritten in this book of the law, and if thou fore your face, that ye may do unto them turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy according unto all the commandments heart and with all thy soul. which I have commanded you.

11 For this commandment which I 6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear command thee this day, it is not hidden not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD from thee, neither is it far off. thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, 12 It is not in heaven, that thou should- he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. est say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee,

7¶ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

& And the LORD, he it is that doth go

God's charge to Joshua.

DEUTERONOMY. He testifies against the people.

before thee; he will be with thee, he will unto other gods, and serve them, and not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear provoke me, and break my covenant. not, neither be dismayed. 21 And it shall come to pass, when

9 And Moses wrote this law, and de- many evils and troubles are befallen them, livered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that this song shall testify against them as which bare the ark of the covenant of the a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. of the mouths of their seed: for I know 10 And Moses commanded them, say-their imagination which they go about, ing, At the end of every seven years, in even now, before I have brought them the solemnity of the year of release, in into the land which I sware. 22 T Moses therefore wrote this song

the feast of tabernacles,

11 When all Israel is come to appear the same day, and taught it the children before the LORD thy God in the place of Israel.

which he shall choose, thou shalt read this 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun law before all Israel in their hearing. a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good 12 Gather the people together, men, courage: for thou shalt bring the children and women, and children, and thy stran- of Israel into the land which I sware unto ger that is within thy gates, that they may them: and I will be with thee. hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

13 And that their children which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

24 ¶ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

25 That Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

ter my death?

26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, of the LORD your God, that it may be Behold, thy days approach that thou must there for a witness against thee. die: call Joshua, and present yourselves 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy in the tabernacle of the congregation, that stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive I may give him a charge. And Moses and with you this day, ye have been rebellious Joshua went and presented themselves in against the LORD; and how much more afthe tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the ta- 28 Gather unto me all the elders of bernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the your tribes, and your officers, that I may pillar of the cloud stood over the door of speak these words in their ears, and call the tabernacle. heaven and earth to record against them. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Be- 29 For I know that after my death ye hold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn and this people will rise up, and go a aside from the way which I have commandwhoring after the gods of the strangers of ed you; and evil will befall you in the the land, whither they go to be among latter days; because ye will do evil in the them, and will forsake me, and break my sight of the LORD, to provoke him to ancovenant which I have made with them. ger through the work of your hands.

CHAP. XXXII.

17 Then my anger shall be kindled 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all against them in that day, and I will for- the congregation of Israel the words of sake them, and I will hide my face from this song until they were ended. them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God of my mouth. is not among us?

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IVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, 18 And I will surely hide my face in my speech shall distil as the dew, as the that day for all the evils which they shall small rain upon the tender herb, and as have wrought, in that they are turned unto the showers upon the grass:

other gods.

3 Because I will publish the name of 19 Now therefore write ye this song for the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our you, and teach it the children of Israel: put God.

it in their mouths, that this song may be a 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: witness forme against the children of Israel. for all his ways are judgment: a God of 20 For when I shall have brought them truth and without iniquity, just and right into the land which I sware unto their fa- is he.

thers, that floweth with milk and honey; 5 They have corrupted themselves, their and they shall have eaten and filled them-spot is not the spot of his children: they are selves, and waxen fat; then will they turn a perverse and crooked generation.

Moses' song of God's

CHAP. XXXII.

mercy and judgment. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O fool- shall consume the earth with her increase, ish people and unwise? is not he thy father and set on fire the foundations of the mounthat hath bought thee? hath he not made tains. thee, and established thee?

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I 7 Remember the days of old, consi- will spend mine arrows upon them. der the years of many generations: ask 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and thy father, and he will shew thee; thy el-devoured with burning heat, and with bitders, and they will tell thee. ter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;

12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck boney out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, their Rock had sold them, and the LORD with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of had shut them up?

Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure even our enemies themselves being judges: blood of the grape. 32 For their vine is of the vine of So15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and dom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are thick, thou art covered with fatness; then bitter: he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants. when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 20 And he said, I will hide my face 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifrom them, I will see what their end shall fices, and drank the wine of their drinkbe: for they are a very froward generation, offerings? let them rise up and help you, children in whom is no faith. and be your protection.

21 They have moved me to jealousy 39 See now that 1, even I am he, and with that which is not God; they have pro- there is no god with me: I kill, and I make voked me to anger with their vanities: and alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is I will move them to jealousy with those there any that can deliver out of my hand. which are not a people; I will provoke 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and them to anger with a foolish nation. say, I live for ever.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, 41 If whet my glittering sword, and and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will

The majesty of God.

DEUTERONOMY.

render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

The twelve tribes blessed. 7 ¶ And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Ju42 I will make mine arrows drunk with dah, and bring him unto his people: let blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; his hands be sufficient for him, and be thou and that with the blood of the slain and of a help to him from his enemies. the captives from the beginning of revenges 8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thum upon the enemy. mim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him, neither did 44 And Moses came and spake all he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew the words of this song in the ears of the his own children: for they have observed people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun. thy word, and kept thy covenant. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

47 For it is not a vain thing for you: because it is your life; and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whitherye goover Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that self-same day, saying,

10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

12 ¶ And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

49 Get thee up into this mountain Aba- 13 ¶ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of rim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land the LORD be his land, for the precious of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and things of heaven, for the dew, and for the behold the land of Canaan which I give deep that coucheth beneath.

unto the children of Israel for a possession: 14 And for the precious fruits brought 50 And die in the mount whither thou forth by the sun, and for the precious goest up, and be gathered unto thy peo-things put forth by the moon.

ple; as Aaron thy brother died in mount 15 And for the chief things of the anHor, and was gathered unto his people: cient mountains, and for the precious things

51 Because ye trespassed against me of the lasting hills. among the children of Israel at the waters 16 And for the precious things of the of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of earth and fulness thereof, and for the good Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the midst of the children of Israel. blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. CHAP. XXXIII.

AND this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns

of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

18 T And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Issachar, in thy tents.

2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 19 They shall call the people unto the 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices saints are in thy hand: and they sat down of righteousness: for they shall suck of the at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

words.

4 Moses commanded us a law; even the 20 ¶ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, 5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when and teareth the arm with the crown of the the heads of the people and the tribes of head. Israel were gathered together.

21 And he provided the first part for

6 ¶ Let Reuben live, and not die; and himself, because there, in a portion of the let not his men be few. lawgiver, was he seated: and he came

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