Mofes exhorteth to obedience. Deuteronomy. Spring out of valleys and hills,

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of oyl-olive, and hony,

9 A land wherein thou fhalt eat bread without fearcenefs, thou shalt not lack any thing in it, a land whofe ftones are iron, and out of whofe hills thou mayft dig brafs.

10 When thou haft eaten and art full, then thou shalt blefs 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 ftatutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Left when thou haft eaten and art full, and haft built goodly houfes, and dwelt therein;

13. And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy filver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou haft is multiplied:

14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God (which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the houfe of bondage;

15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ferpents, and corpions, and drought, where:here was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of Alint;

16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end)

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

18 But thou shalt remember the LORD shy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may eftablifh his covenant which he fware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it fhall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other Gods, and ferve them, and worship them, I teftifie against you this day, that ye shall furely perifh.

20 As the nations which the LORD deftroyeth before your face, fo fhall ye perifh: because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

CHAP. IX.

Mofes diffwadeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rehearsing their feveral rebellions

He rehearseth their

HEar, Ifrael: Thou art to pafs over Jordan this day, to go in to poffefs nations greater and mightier than thy felf, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knoweft, and of whom thou haft heard fay, Who can ftand before the children of Anak!

3 Understand therefore this day that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee as a confuming fire: he fhall deftroy them, and he fhall bring them down before thy face: fo fhalt thou drive them out, and deftroy them quickly, as the LORD hath faid unto thee.

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

5 Not for thy righteoufnefs, or for the uprightnefs of thine heart doft thou go to poffefs their land: but for the wickednefs of these nations, the LORD thy God doth drive them out from be fore thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD fware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to poffefs it, for thy righteousness; for thou art a ftiff-necked people.

7 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedft the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didft depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, fo that the LORD was angry with you, to have destroyed you.

9 When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of ftone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread, nor drink water:

10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of ftone written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD fpake with you in the mount, out of the midft of fire, in the day of the affembly.

11. And it came to pass at the end of forty

8 At that time the LORD feparated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the Covenant of the LORD, to ftand before the LORD to minifter unto him, and to blefs in his name, unto this day.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

10 And I ftayed in the mount according to the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkned unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not deftroy thee.

11 And the LORD faid unto me. Arife, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in, and poffefs the land which I fware unto their fathers to give unto them.

12 And now Ifrael, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul,

13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day for thy good?

14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the LORDS thy God, the earth alfo with all that therein is.

15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chofe their feed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day..

16 Circumcife therefore the fore-skin of your heart, and be no more ftiff necked.

17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regard eth not perfons, nor taketh reward.

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and lovech the ftranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the ftranger: for ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou fhalt fear the LORD thy God; him fhalt thou ferve, and to him halt thou cleave, and fwear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God that hath done for thee thefe great and terrible things which thine eyes have feen.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threefcore and ten perfons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the ftars of heaven for multitude.

An exhortation to obedience.

CHAP. XI.

1 An exhortation to obedience. 26 A bleffing and a curfe is set before them.

thy God, and keep his charge, and his ftatutes, and his judgments, and his commandments alway.

2 And know you this day: for I fpeak not with your children which have not known, and which have not feen the chaftifement of the LORD your God, his greatnefs, his mighty hand, and his ftretched out arm,

3 And his miracles, and his a&ts which he did in the midft of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land,

4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horfes, and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red fea to overflow them as they purfued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day,

5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place, 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the fons of Eliab, the fon of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth and fwallowed them up, and their houtholds, and their tents, and all the fubftance that was in their poffeffion in the midst of all Ifrael.

7 But your eyes have feen all the great acts of the LORD, which he did.

8 Therefore fhall ye keep all the com mandments which I command you this day, that ye may be ftrong, and go in and poffefs the land. whither you go to poffefs it:

9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their feed, a land that floweth with milk and hony,

10 For the land whither thou goeft in to poffefs it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou fowedft thy feed, and wateredft it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

11 But the land whither ye go to pof fefs it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven ::

12 A land which the LORD thy God cateth for the eyes the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.

13 And it fhall come to pass, if you fhall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God,

and

Blefings and curfings.

Chap. xi, xit.

Idolatry to be destroyed.

and to ferve him with all your heart mandments of the LORD your God and with all your foul; which I command you this day:

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feafon, the firft rain and the latter rain, that thou mayft gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oyl.

15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields, for thy cattle, that thou mayft eat and be full.

16 Take heed to your felves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other gods, and worship them:

28 And a curfe, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn afide out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

29 And it fhall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, that thou fhalt put the blefling upon mount Gerizim, and the curfe upon mount Ebal.

30 Are they not on the other fide Jor17 And then the LORDS wrath be kind- dan, by the way where the fun goeth led against you, and he fhut up the hea-down, in the land of the Ganaanites, ven that there be no rain, and that the which dwell in the champian over aland yield not her fruit, and left ye pe- gainft Gilgal, befide the plains of Morch? rifh quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

18 Therefore fhall ye lay up thefe my words in your heart and in your foul, and bind them for a fign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between

your eyes.

19 And ye fhall teach them your children, fpeaking of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up,

20 And thou fhalt write them upon the door-pofts of thine houfe, and upon thy gates:

21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

22 For if ye fhall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleaveunto him;

23 Then will the LORD drive out all thefe nations from before you, and ye fhall poffefs greater nations, and mightier than your felves.

31 For ye fhall pafs over Jordan to go in to poffefs the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye fhall poffefs it, and dwell therein.

32 And ye fhall obferve to do all the ftatutes and judgments which I fet be fore you this day.

CHAP. XII.

Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed. 5 The place of Gods fervice to be kept. 16, 23 Blood forbidden.

Thich the hall obferve to do in Hele are the ftatutes and judgments the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to poffefs it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

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2 Ye fhall utterly deftroy all the places wherein the nations which fhall poffefs ferved their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green-tree.

3 And you fhall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you fhall hew down the graven images of their gods, and de ftroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye fhall not do fo unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place which the LORD 24 Every place whereon the foles of your God fhall choose out of all your your feet hall tread, fhall be yours: tribes, to put his name there, even unto from the wilderness, and Lebanon, his habitation fhall ye feek, and chifrom the river the river Euphrates, ether thou shalt come: ven unto the uttermoft sea, fhall your coaft be.

25 There fhall no man be able to ftand before you for the LORD your God hall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye fhall tread upon, as he hath faid unto you. 26 Behold, I fet before you this day bleffing and a curfe:

27 A bleffing, if ye obey the com

6 And thither ye fhall bring your burnt-offerings, and your facrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firftlings of your herds, and of your flocks.

7 And there ye fhall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto, ye and your houfholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee. 8

Deuteronomy.