The curses for disobedience. CHAPTER XXVIII. B. C. & 11. 16. B. C. 1451. mJe. 4. 9. 10. and thou shalt not be beneath; 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 10. Je. 8. u Le. 26. o Job 31. 8. Je. 12. 10. 2. 3, P Job 31. The curses for disobedience. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and "astonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt "grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: Pthou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell there in: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 1. 13. mon as ch.20. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when a Sa. 14. shall not thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, a vexation, and brebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 6. Mal.22. Heb. 20. Zec. return to b Ps. 80. r Ps. 119. 16. Is. 30. 82. 17. & 51. 20. 15. & 66. ver. 51. Le.26.16. Je. 5. 17. 22 The LORD shall smite theed Le. 26. with a consumption, and with a 16. fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burn-Or, ing, and with the sword, and with "blasting, and with mildew: and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23 And fthy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ver. 27. x2 Ki. 17. 4,6. & 14. 25.7, 11.2 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another peo and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them be no might in thine hand. all the day long: and there shall all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up: 33 The fruit of thy land, and and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD shall "smite thee in the kuees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot foot unto the top of thy head. be healed, from the sole of thy 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neitherthouuor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an Je.16. 13. astonishment, a proverb, "and a 21Ki9. 7, by-word, among all nations whi8. Je. 24. ther the LORD shall lead thee. Zec.8.13. out into the field, and shalt ga9.& 25. 9. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed a Ps. 44. ther but little in: for the lo 20. 19. Ych.4. 28. cust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil: for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but † thou shalt not enjoy them: for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within 197 thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: fhe shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. The curses for disobedience. wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate wo man among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, aver. 54. "her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, tHeb. hIs. 8. 18. birth. 15. 47 iBecause thou servedst not Je.28.14. &6,22,23. 57 And toward her tyoung one that cometh out from between herfeet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemyshall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name THE LORD THY GOD; JEx. 6. 3 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sickness, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 49 The LORD shall bring a na-Lu.19.43. tion against thee from far, from Je. 48. the end of the earth, "as swift 40. & 49. as the eagle flieth, a nation 22. La. 4. whose tongue thou shalt not 19. Ez. 17. ch. 7.15. 61 Also every sickness, and tunderstand; 3, 12.Ho. 50 A nation tof fierce counte-8. L. nance, which shall not regard tHeb. the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: hear. tHeb. 51 And he shall Peat the fruit strong of tHeb. P ver.33. 52 And he shall besiege thee 18.1.7. & in all thy gates, until thy high 62. 8. wherein thou trustedst, through-1,2,4 and fenced walls come down, 42 Ki. 25. out all thy land: and he shall besiegethee in alithy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 10. tHeb. 9. deh.30. 9. 24. g ver. 36. every plague which is not writ 65 And hamong these nations shalt thou find uo ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shan give thee there a trembling heart, hAm.9.4. and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit r Le. 26. Le. 26. of thine own body, the flesh of 29.2Ki, 6, 33. ch. 4. thy sons and of thy daughters 28,29. Je. 27,28. Ne. which the LORD thy God hath 19.9. La...Je.16. given thee, in the siege and in 220. & 4.13. the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 51 So that the man that is ten-belly. der among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward. the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in. the siege and in the straitness All are presented before the Lord CHAPTER XXIX. thou shalt fear, and "for the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see. ch.28. 9. B. C. 1451. B.C. 1451. shall bring ver. 34. "Je. 44.7. Ho. 8. 13. & 9. 3. ch. 17. 16. 68 And the LORD thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you. CHAPTER XXIX. Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the memory of the works they have seen, I. 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant. 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himself in his wickedness. 29 Secret things belong unto God. THESE are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides "the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 27 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, bYe have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of all his servants, and unto all his Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto Jand; 3The greattemptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: fyour clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. PEx. 6. 7. Ge.17.7. He 8.7. to enter into his covenant the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day. to-day for a people unto himself. 13 That he may "establish thee and that he may be unto thee a God, Pas he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to isaac. and to Jacob. Je. 31. 14 Neither with you only 'do I 31, 32,33. make this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 8. See Ac. 2. 39. 1 Co. 7. 14. + Heb. dungy gods. 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their fidols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them :) 18 Lest there should be among tch.11.16. you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD "Ac.8.23. our God, to go and serve the gods He.12.15. of these nations, lest there 19 And it come to pass, when should be among you a root that bearethfgall and wormwood; Fut herb. Or, a poison 1Heb. rush. Nu. 15. 39. Ec.11. John 8. 2. 11, 12. SeeEx. the 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 mine heart, to 20 The LORD will not spare add drunkenness to thirst:" 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. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the 7 And when ye came unto this 23, 24, 33. Ez.14.7. tribes of Israel according to all place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: ch. 2. 32. & 3.1. i Nu. 32. 33, ch. 3. 12, 13. 8 the curses of the covenant that Ps.74. 1. fare written in this book of the Ez.23.25. aps. 79.5. law: bch.9. 14. cMat. 24. 8 And we took their land, and 9 kKeep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may Iprosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your eiders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, dand salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, "like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: Wherefore hath the LORD done 24 Even all nations shall say, thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant 199 Mercy promised to the penitent. DEUTERONOMY. The commandment is manifest of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: B. C. 1451. 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not t gi-Or, ven unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD brooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into 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 children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. who had not gi ven to them any portion. † Heb. divided. Da9.11, 13, 14 B. C. 1451. kch. 28. 63. Je.32. 41. hl Ki. 14. 118.45.19. 15.2Ch.7. 20.Ps.52. mRo. 10. 5.Pr.2.22. 6, &c. ND it shall come to pass, a Le. 26. A when all these things are 40. come upon thee,the blessing and bch. 28. the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt d return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and fgather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. ech. 4.29, 30, 1KI.8. 47, 48. dNe. 1.9. Is. 55. 7. La. 3. 40. Joel 2.12, 13. nv. 1, 19. ch. 11.26. Ps. 106. 45.& 126. 1,4.Je.29. 14. La. 3. 22, 32. Ps.147.2. Uch. 4.26. Je. 32.37.& 8. 19. Ez.34.13. & 36. 24. 5 ch. 28. 64. Ne. 1. 9. 6 And the LORD thy God will h ch. 10. circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 16. Je. 32.39. Ez.11.19. & 36. 26. 9 And the LORD thy God will ich.28.11. make thee plenteous in every Pch.4. 26. & 31. 28. 9 ver. 15. Ps. 27.1. & 66. 9. John 11. 25. work of thine hand,in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fa thers: 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11 T For this commandment which I command thee this day, lit is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Whoshall 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, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 T See, "I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his stat utes, and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heartturn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whith er thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 PI call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that 91 have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him(for he is thy life, and the length of thy days) that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. CHAPTER XXXI. Moses encourageth the people, 1. 7 He encourageth Joshua. 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests to read it in the seventh year to the people. 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua. 19 Moses encourageth the people. CHAPTER XXXI. and a song to testify against the people. 24 Moses delivereth the book of the law to the Levites to keep. 28 He maketh a protestation to the elders. went these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I "am an hundred and twenty yearsold this day; I can no more bgo out and comein: also the LORD hath said unto me, "Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, dhe will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee,and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon, and to Oz, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. B. C. B. C. 1451. b Nu. 27. 5. Ex. 7. 7. 7. c Nu. 20. 12. & 27. dEx 33.9. 27. dch. 9.3. 28. Nu. 27. 21. ch. 3. 2 fch. 3. 21. † Heb. 24, 33. 17. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face,that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of a good i Jos. 10. courage, kfear not, nor be afraid 25. 1 Ch. of them: for the LORD thy God, the it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 71 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. 8 And the LORD, "he it is that doth go before thee; "he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. 9 T And Moses wrote this law, and delivered itunto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the "year of release, 'in the feast of tabernacles, Ex. 34. 8 ch. 32. 6, 13. hJu.2.20. i2 Ch. 15. 2. kch. 32. 22. 13. Their future apostacy foretold, fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 14 T And the LORD said unto Moses, b Behold, thy days ap proach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congre. gation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 16 T And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt tsleep with thy fathers, and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and h break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and i will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall t befall them, so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? 18 And "I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the Ex. 13. children of Israel: put it in their 21, 22. & mouths, that this song may be 33.14. ch. o ver. 26. a witness for me against the children of Israel. 9.3. P.Jos.1.5, 9.1 Ch.28. 20. 9 ver. 25. ver. 17. P ch 32. Ch.15.12, 15. Ne. 25,26. Ho 15. 13.6. 9. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, Pand waxen fat; "then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my Covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, 'when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify fagainst them as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 T Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23" And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be 13 And that their children ch. 11.2. Jos. 1.6. strong and of a good courage: which have not known any Ps. 78.6, thing, "may hear, and learn to 7. for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I 201 |