every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 2 A people great and tall, the children of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of before the children of Anak? LORD thy God is he which goeth over before 3 Understand therefore this day, that the 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the command-them, and he shall bring them down before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy ments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and ways, and to fear hin. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee in- unto thee. destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said to a good land; a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of the LORD thy God hath cast them out from valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; before thee, saying, For my righteousness the and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil-olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which Coinmand thee this day: 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. rightness of thine heart, dost thou go to pos5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the upsess their land; but for the wickedness of these out from before thee, and that he may pernations the LORD thy God doth drive them form the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand there fore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff necked people. 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in 71 Remember, and forget not, how thou 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks mul- the wilderness; from the day that thou didst tiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multi-depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye plied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; came unto this place, ye have been rebel 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thoulious against the LORD. forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the wrath, so that the LORD) was angry with you, 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to house of bondage; to have destroyed you. 15 Who led thee through that great and 9 When I was gone up into the mount, to terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ser-receive the tables of stone, even the tables of pents, and scorpions, and drought, where the covenant which the LORD made with here was no water; who brought thee forth you, then I abode in the mount forty days water out of the rock of flint; and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two might humble thee, and that he might prove tables of stone, written with the finger of thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; God: and on them was written according 17 And thou say in thine heart, My pow-to all the words which the LORD spake with er, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten you in the mount, out of the midst of the me this wealth. fire, in the day of the assembly. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty God; for it is he that giveth thee power to days and forty nights, that the LORD gave get wealth, that he may establish his cove-me the two tables of stone, even the tables of nant, which he sware unto thy fathers, as it the covenant. is this day. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the thee down quickly from hence; for thy LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, people which thou hast brought forth out of and serve them, and worship them, I testify Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are against you this day, that ye shall surely quickly turned aside out of the way which perish. I commanded them; they have made thein 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 20 As the nations which the LORD de-a molten image. stroyeth before your face. so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX. TEAR, O Israel; thou art to pass over tions greater and mightier than thyself, cities great, and fenced up to heaven; 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them. and blot out their name from under heaven; of anation greater than they. 15 So I turned, and came down from the DEUTERONOMY. movint, and the mount burned with fire; and first, and come up unto me into the mount, 17 And I took the two tables, and cast 4 And he wrote on the tables, according them out of my two hands, and brake them to the first writing, the ten commandments, before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as which the LORD spake unto you in the at the first, forty days and forty nights: Imount, out of the midst of the fire in the day did neither eat bread nor drink water, be-of the assembly: and the LORD gave them cause of all your sins which ye sinned, in do- unto me. ing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 5 And I turned nyself. and came down from the nount, and put the tables in the 19 (For I was afraid of the anger and hot ark which I had made; and there they be, displeasure wherewith the LORD was wroth as the LORD commanded me. 6 And the children of Israel took their against you to destroy you.) But the LORD journey from Beeroth of the children of nearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which stead. ve had made, and burnt it with fire, and 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gud stamped it, and ground it very small, even un-godah; and from Gudgodah to Jothatlı, a til it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust land of rivers of waters. thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberali, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 3 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inher itance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 12¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD said. O LORD God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou hast re-tay God require of thee, but to fear the LORD deemed through thy greatness, which thou thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love hast brought forth out of Egypt with a migh-him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. ty band. 13 To keep the commandments of the 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not unto the stub- LORD, and his statutes, which I command bornness of this people, nor to their wicked-thee this day for thy good? ness, nor to their sin; 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power, and by thy stretched-out arin. CHAP. X. 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heavenof heavens, is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fa thers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no mere stiff-necked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and LORD of lords, a great God, mighty and a terrible, which regardeth no At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew persons, nor taketh reward. thee wo tables of stone like unto 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stran-| 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain, and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat, and be full. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart that hath done for thee these great and ter-be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve rible things which thine eyes have seen. other gods, and worship them; 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with 17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled threescore and ten persons; and now the against you, and he shut up the heaven, that LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars there be no rain, and that the land yield not of heaven for multitude. her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall these CHAP. XI. THEREFORE thou shalt love the LORD Tdy God, and keep his charge, and his words in your heart, and in your soul, and 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not 19 And ye shall teach them your children, 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abi-greater nations and mightier than yourselves. ram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: 24 Every place whereon the soles of your how the earth opened her mouth, and swal-feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wiilowed them up, and their households, and derness, and Lebanon, from the river, the their tents, and all the substance that was river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, in their possession, in the midst of all Israel. shall your coast be. 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shali ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you, upon all the land that ye shall trend upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 10 For the land whither thou goest in 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, commandments of the LORD your God, but from whence ye came out, where thou sow-turn aside out of the way which I command edst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, you this day, to go after other gods, which as a garden of herbs; ye have not known. 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess 29 And it shall come to pass, when the it, is a land of hills and valleys, and driuk-LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto eth water of the rain of heaven; the land whither thou goest to possess it, that 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gefor: the eyes of the LORD thy God are al-rizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. ways upon it, from the beginning of the 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, year, even unto the end of the year. 131 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall nearken diligently unto my commandments, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and lusteth after, according to the blessing of the dwell therein. LORD thy God which he hath given thee: 32 And ye shall observe to do all the sta- the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, tutes and judgments which I set before you as of the roe-buck, and as of the hart. this day. CHAP. XII THESE 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds, or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave offering of thine hand; 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess 18 But thou must eat them before the served their gods, upen the high mountains, LORD thy God in the place which the LOR and upon the hills,and under every green tree, thy God shall choose, thou. ard thy son, and 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy break their pillars, and burn their groves maid-servant, and the Levite that is withi with fire; and ye shall new down the graven thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the images of their gods, and destroy the names LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thin of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. hands unto. 191 Take heed to thyself that thou for sake not the Levite as long as thou livest up on the earth, 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put 20% When the LORD thy God shall en his name there, eren unto his habitation large thy border, as he hath promised thre shail ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, (becaus 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-thy soul longeth to eat flesh,) thou mayes offerings, and your sacrifices and your tithes, eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. and heave-offerings of your hand, and your] 1 If the place which the LORD thy Go vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the hath chosen to put his name there be too fa firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: from thee, then thon shalt kill of thy here 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD and of thy flock, which the LORD hath gi your God; and ye shall rejoice in all that yelven thee, as I have commanded thee, ant put your hand unto, ye and your households, thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever th wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee, soul lusteth after. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there: thither shah ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the Reave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart i eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclear and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh 4 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may ge weli with thee, and with thy children afte thee, when thou shalt do that which is righ in the sight of the Lord, 26 1 Only thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unte the place which the LORD shall choose. And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacri fices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh 28 Observe and hear all these words which command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good 13 Take heed to thyself, that thou offer and right in the sight of the LORD thy God, not thy burnt-offerings in every place that 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut of thou seest. 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedes them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself, that thou be not Isnared by following diem, after that they be 15¶ Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and destroyed from before thee; and that thou eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul enquire not after their gods, saying, Hot fid these nations serve their gods? even so Let us go and serve other gods, which yo vill I do likewise. have not known; 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make God: for every abomination to the LORD search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it which he hatetl have they done unto their be truth, and the thing certain, that such gods; for even their sons and their daugh- abomination is wrought among you; ers they have burnt in the fire to their rods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it thou shalt not add thereo, nor diminish from it. CHAP. XIII. 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it there arise among you a prophet, or a into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy tiod; and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, of the LORD thy God, to keep all his com and fear him, and keep his commandments, mandments which I command thee this day, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. and cleave unto him. treams, shall be put to death; because heartall not cut yourselves, nor make any 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of CHAP. XIV. children of the LORD your God. hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of baldness between your eyes for the dead : the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of 2 For thou art an holy people unto the the house of bondage, to thrust thee out LORD thy God,and the LORD hath chosen thee of the way which the LORD thy God com- to be a peculiar people unto himself, above manded thee to walk in so shalt thou put all the nations that are upon the earth. the evil away from the midst of thee. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let as go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat The ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois. 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and off from thee, from the one end of the earth cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye even unto the other end of the earth; shall eat. 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of hearken unto him; neither shall thine eve them that chew the cud, or of thein that di pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither vide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the shalt thou conceal him; hare, and the coney, for they chew the cud, 9 But thou shalt surely kill him: thine hand but divide not the hoof; therefore they are hall be first upon him to put him to death, unclean unto you. and afterwards the hand of all the people. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean that he die; because he hath sought to thrust unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor thee away from the LORD thy God, which touch their dead carcase. brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the house of bondage. the waters: All that have fins and scales shall ye eat. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 121 thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain inen, the children of Belial. are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture, after his kind, |