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Relating to the Edomites,

CHAP. II. the Moabites, and the Ammonites.

children, because he hath wholly followed these forty years the LORD thy God hath the LORD.

37 Also the LORD was angry with me, for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

been with thee: thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned standeth before thee, he shall go in thither, and passed by the way of the wilderness Encourage him: for he shall cause Israel of Moab.

to inherit it.

9 And the LORD said unto me, Dis-. 39 Moreover, your little ones, which ye tress not the Moabites, neither contend said should be a prey, and your children, with them in battle: for I will not give which in that day had no knowledge be- thee of their land for a possession; between good and evil, they shall go in thi- cause I have given Är unto the children of ther, and unto them will I give it, and they Lot for a possession.

shall possess it.

10 (The Emims dwelt therein in times 40 But as for you, turn you, and take past, a people great, and many, and tall as your journey into the wilderness by the the Anakims; way of the Red sea.

11 Which also were accounted giants,

41 Then ye answered and said unto me, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call We have sinned against the LORD, we will them Emims.

go up and fight, according to all that the 12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beLORD Our God commanded us. And when fore-time, but the children of Esau sucye had girded on every man his weapons ceeded them, when they had destroyed of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. them from before them, and dwelt in their 42 And the LORD said unto me, Say stead; as Israel did unto the land of his posunto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I session, which the LORD gave unto them.) am not among you; lest ye be smitten be- 13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over fore your enemies. the brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered.

43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the com- 14 And the space in which we came from mandment of the LORD, and went pre-Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over sumptuously up into the hill. the brook Zered, was thirty and eight 44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in years; until all the generation of the men that mountain, came out against you, and of war were wasted out from among the chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you host, as the LORD sware unto them. in Seir, even unto Hormah.

45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, of war were consumed and dead from according unto the days that ye abode there. among the people,

CHAP. II.

17 That the LORD spake unto me,

HEN we turned, and took our journey saying,

THEN

into the wilderness by the way of the 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and the coast of Moab, this day: we compassed mount Seir many days. 19 And when thou comest nigh over 2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying, against the children of Ammon, distress 3 Ye have compassed this mountain long them not, nor meddle with them: for I will enough: turn you northward. not give thee of the land of the children of

4 And command thou the people, say-Ammon any possession; because I have ing, Ye are to pass through the coast of given it unto the children of Lot for a posyour brethren the children of Esau, which session.

dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of 20 (That also was accounted a land of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; therefore: and the Ammonites call them Zamzum

5 Meddle not with them; for I will not mims; give you of their land, no, not so much as 21 A people great, and many, and tall a foot-breadth; because I have given mount as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed Seir unto Esau for a possession. them before them; and they succeeded 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, them, and dwelt in their stead: that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy wa- 22 As he did to the children of Esau, ter of them for money, that ye may drink. which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee the Horims from before them; and they in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead thy walking through this great wilderness: leven unto this day:

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23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hagerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

Of Og king of Bashan. 2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not; for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at

24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have Heshbon. given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, 3 So the LORD our God delivered into King of Heshbon, and his land: begin to our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and possess it, and contend with him in battle. all his people and we smote him until 25 This day will I begin to put the dread none was left to him remaining. of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;

4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the re gion of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many.

6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

8 And we took at that time out of the 29 (As the children of Esau which dwell hand of the two kings of the Amorites the In Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in land that was on this side Jordan, from Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his Cons, and all his people.

34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city; we left none to remain:

9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og inBashan

11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the re35 Only the cattle we took for a prey gion of Argob, with all Bashan, which was anto ourselves, and the soil of the cities called the land of giants. which we took. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the 36 From Aroer which is by the brink of country of Argob, unto the coasts of Gethe river of Arnon, and from the city that shuri, and Maachathi; and called them by the river, even unto Gilead, there after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, was not one city too strong for us: the unto this day. LORD our God delivered all unto us:

15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 37 Only unto the land of the children 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the ci- the river Arnon,half the valley, and the ties in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever border, even unto the river Jabbok, which the LORD our God forbade us. is the border of the children of Ammon:

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CHAP. III.

HEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.

18 And I commanded you at that time,

The prayer of Moses.

CHAP. IV.

An exhortation to obedience. saying, The LORD your God hath given 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD you this land to possess it; ye shall pass your God, are alive every one of you this over armed before your brethren the chil- day.

dren of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes, 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and judgments, even as the LORD my God and your cattle, (for I know that ye have commanded me, that ye should do so in much cattle,) shall abide in your cities the land whither ye go to possess it. which I have given you; 6 Keep therefore and do them: for

20 Until the LORD have given rest unto this is your wisdom and your understandyour brethren, as well as unto you, and ing in the sight of the nations, which shall until they also possess the land which the hear all these statutes, and say, Surely LORD your God hath given them beyond this great nation is a wise and understandJordan: and then shall ye return every ing people.

man unto his possession which I have 7 For what nation is there so great, who given you. hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD 21 And I commanded Joshua at that our God is in all things that we call upon time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all him for? that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

23 ¶ And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and 24 O Lord Gop, thou hast begun to lest they depart from thy heart all the shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, mighty hand: for what God is there in and thy sons' sons:

heaven or in earth, that can do according 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest to thy works, and according to thy might? before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the LORD said unto me, Gather me the the good land that is beyond Jordan, that people together, and I will make them goodly mountain, and Lebano hear my words, that they may learn to fear 26 But the LORD was wroth with me me all the days that they shall live upon for your sakes, and would not heare: the earth, and that they may teach their and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice children. thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 11 And ye came near and stood under 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, the mountain; and the mountain burned and lift up thine eyes westward, and north- with fire unto the midst of heaven, with ward, and southward, and eastward, and darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of not go over this Jordan. the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice 28 But charge Joshua, and encou-of the words, but saw no similitude; only rage him, and strengthen him: for he shall ye heard a voice.

go over before this people, and he shall 13 And he declared unto you his covecause them to inherit the land which thou nant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

shalt see.

29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.

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CHAP. IV.

Now therefore hearken, O Israel unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth

you.

14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:) 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and I command you, neither shall ye diminish make you a graven image, the similitude aught from it, that ye may keep the com- of any figure, the likeness of male or fe mandments of the LORD your God which male,

I command you.

17 The likeness of any beast that is 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD on the earth, the likeness of any winged did because of Baal-peor: for all the men fowl that flieth in the air,

that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy 18 The likeness of any thing that creepGod hath destroyed them from among eth on the ground, the likeness of any fish at is in the waters beneath the earth:

you.

An exhortation to obedience.

DEUTERONOMY.

Three cities of refuge.

19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto and ask from the one side of heaven unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, the other, whether there hath been any and the moon, and the stars, even all the such thing as this great thing is, or hath host of heaven, shouldest be driven to wor-been heard like it?

ship them, and serve them, which the 33 Did ever people hear the voice of LORD thy God hath divided unto all na- God speaking out of the midst of the fire, tions under the whole heaven. as thou hast heard, and live? 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take brought you forth out of the iron furnace, him a nation from the midst of another naeven out of Egypt, to be unto him a peo- tion, by temptations, by signs, and by ple of inheritance, as ye are this day. wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, 21 Furthermore, the LORD was angry and by a stretched out arm, and by great with me for your sakes, and sware that I terrors, according to all that the LORD should not go over Jordan, and that I your God did for you in Egypt before your should not go in unto that good land which eyes? the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God: there is none else besides him.

36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

38 To drive out nations from before 25 When thou shalt beget children, and thee, greater and mightier than thou art, children's children,and ye shall have remain to bring thee in, to give thee their land ed long in the land, and shall corrupt your-for an inheritance, as it is this day. selves, and make a graven image, or the 39 Know therefore this day, and conlikeness of any thing, and shall do evil in sider it in thy heart, that the LORD he is the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke God in heaven above, and upon the earth him to anger; beneath: there is none else.

26 I call heaven and earth to witness 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his staagainst you this day, that ye shall soon tutes and his commandments which I comutterly perish from off the land whereun-mand thee this day, that it may go well to ye go over Jordan to possess it: ye with thee, and with thy children after shall not prolong your days upon it, but thee, and that thou mayest prolong the shall utterly be destroyed. days upon the earth, which the LORD thy 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among God giveth thee, for ever. the nations, and ye shall be left few in 41 Then Moses severed three cities number among the heathen, whither the on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising; LORD shall lead you, 42 That the slayer might flee thither, 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the which should kill his neighbour unawares, work of men's hands, wood and stone, and hated him not in times past; and that which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

smell.

29 But if from thence thou shalt seek 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if the plain country, of the Reubenites; and thou seek him with all thy heart, and with Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and all thy soul. Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

44 T And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD 45 These are the testimonies, and the thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his statutes, and the judgments, which Moses voice; spake unto the children of Israel, after 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful they came forth out of Egypt, God;) he will not forsake thee, neither 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sithy fathers, which he sware unto them. hon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at 32 For ask now of the days that are Heshbon, whom Moses and the children past, which were before thee, since the of Israel smote, after they were come forth day that God created man upon the earth,

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The ten commandments.

CHAP. V. Moses receives the law from God. 47 And they possessed his land, and the 15 And remember that thou wast a serland of Og king of Bashan, two kings of vant in the land of Egypt, and that the the Amorites, which were on this side LORD thy God brought thee out thence Jordan, toward the sun-rising; through a mighty hand and by a stretched 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank out arm: therefore the LORD thy God of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day. which is Hermon,

49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

CHAP. V.

ND Moses called all Israel, and said

A unto them, Hear, O Israel, the sta tutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

2 The LORD our God made a covenant eith us in Horeb.

3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire,

5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount,)| saying,

16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill.

18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount,out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone,and delivered them unto me. 23 And. it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,

6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory, and his 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven greatness, and we have heard his voice out image, or any likeness of any thing that of the midst of the fire: we have seen as in heaven above, or that is in the earth this day that God doth talk with man, and beneath, or that is in the waters beneath he liveth. the earth:

9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

25 Now therefore why should we die! for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

26 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my com- 27 ¶ Go thou near, and hear all that the mandments. LORD our God shall say: and speak thou 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the unto us all that the LORD our God shall LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

do it.

28 And the LORD heard the voice of 12 Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, your words, when ye spake unto me; and as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. the LORD said unto me, I have heard the 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do voice of the words of this people, which all thy work; they have spoken unto thee: they have 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath well said all that they have spoken. of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not 29 O that there were such a heart in do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy them, that they would fear me, and keep daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy all my commandments always, that it maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, might be well with them, and with their nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger children for ever! that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as tents again. well as thou.

30 Go say to them, Get you into your

31 But as for thee, stand thou here by

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