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commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

4 But ye who adhered to the LORD your God, are alive every one of you this day.

5 Behold, I have taught you statutes, and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding

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any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

19 And lest thou shouldst lift up thy eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath 3 divided to all nations under the whole heaven.

20 But the LORD hath taken you, and Num. 25. 4, brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not enter that good land which

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in the sight of the nations, which will Ex. 19. 18. the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inhear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

7 For what nation is there so great, which hath God so nigh to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

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?

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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 to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your 1 Heb. heart. God, which he made with you, and make

a voice.

9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldst for- 2 Heb. save get the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons' sons:

10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

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11 And ye came near and stood under 3 or, the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the 1 midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; 2 only ye heard a voice.

13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he c. 9. 3. wrote them upon two tables of stone.

⚫ 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.

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15 Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; 4 Heb. have 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and found thee. make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, 'the likeness of

you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

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

25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land to which ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.

27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things 4 have come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice;

31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he swore to them.

32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

33 Did ever people hear the voice of

God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

34 Or hath God essayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an out-stretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 To thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none besides him.

36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardst his words from the midst of the fire.

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

38 To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else.

40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

41 T Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, towards the sunrising;

42 That the slayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbor unawares, and when he had not hated him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

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

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CHAP. V. 1 The covenant in Horeb. 6 The ten commandments. 27 At the people's request Moses receiveth the law from God.

ND Moses called all Israel, and said

and judgments which I speak in your Josh. 20. 8. and keep, and do them. cars this day, that ye may learn them,

Num. 21. c. 1. 4.

24.

g Num. 21. 33.

c. 3.3.

h c. 3. 17.

to do them.

2 a The LORD our God made a covenant with 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 on the mount, from the midst of the fire,

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

6 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of 2 bondage.

7 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

8 Thou shalt not make for thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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

10 d And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

11 Thou shalt not take the name of on the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after 2 Heb. they came forth from Egypt,

servants.

46 On the east side of Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who Ex. 34. 7. dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel ƒ smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:

47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of Jordan, towards the sunrising;

12 Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

13 Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:

14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stran ger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may

rest as well as thou.

15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that d Jer. 32. 18. the LORD thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and by an out-stretched arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day.

Gen. 2. 2.
Hebr. 4. 4.

16 Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded

48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, Matt. 5. 21. thee; that thy days may be prolonged,

which is Hermon,

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

and that it may be well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

17 Thou shalt not kill.

18 Neither shalt thou commit adul

tery. 19

Neither shalt thou steal.

20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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

22 These words the LORD spoke to all

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WOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whither ye 1 go to possess it:

2 That thou mayst fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the

your assembly on the mount from the Rom. 13. 9. days of thy life: and that thy days may

midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and

he added no more. And he wrote themi Rom. 7. 7. in two tables of stone, and delivered

them to me.

be prolonged.

3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath

with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:

23 And it came to pass, when ye heard Ex. 19. 19. promised thee, in the land that floweth the voice from the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

1 c. 4. 33.

5 And a thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy

24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shown us his glory and his 3 Heb. add soul, and with all thy might.

greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire: we have seen

to hear.

6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: 7 And thou shalt 2 teach them dili

this day that God doth talk with man, m Ex. 20. 19. gently to thy children, and shalt talk of and he i liveth.

25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we 3 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?

1 Heb.

them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them upon the

27 Go thou near, and hear all that pass over. posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

a c. 10. 12.

Matt. 22. 37.
Mark 12. 30.
Luke 10. 27.

the LORD our God shall say; and speak
thou to us all that the LORD our God
shall speak to thee; and we will hear it,
and do it.
28 And the LORD heard the voice of
your words, when ye spoke to me; and
the LORD said to me, I have heard the
voice of the words of this people, which c. 11. 18.
they have spoke to thee: they have well
said all that they have spoken.

29 O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

30 Go, say to them, Return to your tents again.

31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

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12 Then beware lest thou shouldst forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house

c. 8. 10. &c. of 3 bondage.

Heb. bond. men, or, servants,

d c. 10. 12.

13 Thou shalt & fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are around you;

15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the

32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as 20. & 13. 4. LORD thy God should be kindled against

the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be

Matt. 4. 7.

thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and

well with you, and that ye may prolong Ex. 17. 2. his testimonies, and his statutes, which your days in the land which ye shall possess.

he hath commanded thee.

18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD:

that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,

19 To cast out all thy enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

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20 And when thy son shall ask thee 4 Heb. 4 in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

5 Heb. evil.

21 Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were Pharoah's bondmen in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with c. 31. 3. a mighty hand:

22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and 5 distressing, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

24 And the LORD commanded us to do

all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

CHAP. VII.

1 All communion with the nations is forbid. 4 for fear of idolatry, 6 for the holiness of the people, 9 for the nature of God in his mercy and justice, 23 for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them.

WHEN the LORD thy God shall

a

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Ex. 23. 32.

& 34. 12.

Heb.
or, pillars.

statues,

26. 19.

he had sworn to your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the honse of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations:

10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, 2 if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy

God will keep to thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:

13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also c. 14. 2. & bless thy children, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore to thy fathers to give thee.

d Ex. 19. 5.
1 Pet. 2. 9.

cause.

bring thee into the land whither 2 Heb. bethou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perrizites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou

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14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the f evil diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deEx. 23. 26, liver to thee; thy eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare to thee.

17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These shalt make no covenant with them, nor Ex. 9. 14. nations are more than I, how can I disshow mercy to them:

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son.

4 T For they will turn away thy son

& 15. 26.

possess them?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;

19 The great temptations which thy

from following me, that they may serve & Ex. 23. 33. eyes saw, and the signs, and the won

other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their

ders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do to all the people of whom thou art afraid.

20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will

groves, and burn their graven images Ex. 23. 28. send the hornet among them, until they

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them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou shalt have destroyed them.

25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou shouldst be snared in it: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt

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ic. 13. 17.

a Mat. 4. 4. Luke 4. 4.

full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;

13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are increased, and all that thou hast is increased;

14 Then thy heart shall be lifted up, and thou shalt forget the LORD thy God (who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;)

15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where there was no water; d who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew

utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly Neh. 9. 21. not, that he might humble thee, and that abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

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3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

46 Thy raiment hath not become old upon thee, neither hath thy foot swelled these forty years.

5 Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive-oil, and honey;

9 A land in which 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.

he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.

17 And thou shalt say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy c. 6. 11. 12. fathers, as it is this day.

Num.20.11.

19 And it shall be, if thou shalt at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX.

Moses dissuadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rehearsing their several rebellions.

EAR, O Israel: Thou art to pass

Hver Jordan this day, or to

possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

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Num.13.28.

11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his &c. 4. 24. statutes, which I command thee this day: Hebr. 12.29. 12 Lest when thou hast eaten, and art!

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he who goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said to thee.

4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD Swore to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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