Exhortation to obedience.

DEUTERONOMY, XI.

Promised rewards. skin of your heart, y and be no B. C. 1451. you this day, that ye may be strong, more stiff-necked.

and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it:

17 For the LORD your God is z God of gods. and Lord a of lords, a great God, a mighty, b and a terrible, which c regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

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. 10 For the land whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where c thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

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

19.16.

18 Hed doth execute the judg-a Rev.17.14.
ment of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the stranger, in giving b Ne.9.32.
him food and raiment.

c 2Chr. 19.7.
Job 34.19.
Ep.6.9.

d Ps.68.5.

19 Love e ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, ƒ and swear g by his name.

y Jer.4.4.
Ro.2.28,29.
z Jos.22.22.
Dan.2.47.

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

22 Thy fathers went down into i Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

e Lev. 19.33.

f Acts 11.23.

g Is.45.23.

h Jer. 17.14.
i Ge.46.27.

(CHAP. 11.)
a ch.8.5.

b Ex. 14.23

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1 An exhortation to obedience.
A blessing and a curse is set before
them.

or, living
substance
which fol-
lowed

them.

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THEREFORE thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which c Zec. 14.18. have not known, and which have 3 seeketh. not seen the chastisement a of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched- je ver.22. ch.6.17. f ch. 10.12.

d 1Ki.9.3.

g Lev.26.4.

h Joel 2.23.
Jam.5.7.

2 was at
their feet.

out arm,

3 And his miracles and his acts, which he did in the midst 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 horses, and to i Ps. 104.14. their chariots; how he made the Hos.2.21,22. waterb of the Red sea to overflow 4 give. them as they pursued after you,k Joel 2.19. and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

1 Jos.23.11-16

5 And what he did unto you in m ch.29.18. the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

Jer.4.18.

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed P ch.6.6-9. Pr.3.1. them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the 1 substance 9 Pr.3.3. that 2 was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

r ch.4.9,10.

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

Pr.4.10.
Ps.89.29.

9.11.

8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command

n ch.6.15.

o 1Ki.8.35.
2Chr.7.13.

12 A land which the LORD thy God 3 careth for: the eyesd of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligentlye unto my commandments which I command you this day, to f love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 That g I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the h first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

15 And I will 4 send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat k and be full.

16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart m be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

17 And then the LORD's wrath n be kindled against you and he shut o up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

18 Therefore shall ye lay upp these my words in your heart and in your soul, and q bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

19 Andr ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

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

Blessing and curse proposed. DEUTERONOMY, XII. 22 For if ye shall diligently B. C. 1451. keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, u ch.10.20. to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave u unto him;

30.20. v ch.9.5. Ps.78.55.

w Jos.1.3.

23 Then will the LORD drive v out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater Ge. 15.18. nations and mightier than yourselves.

Nu.34.3.

y ch.7.24.

z Jos.2.9.24.

24 Every place whereon w the soles of your feet shall tread shall be your's: from the z wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. 25 There y shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear z of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said a unto you. 26 ¶ Behold, Ib set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 A blessing, c if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day;

1 or, inherit.

28 And a curse, d if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside e out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other d 2Ki.17.10, gods, which ye have not known. 11.

29 And it shall come to pass, Jer.3.6. when the LORD thy God hath 2 break brought thee in unto the land down. whither thou goest to possess it, e Nu.33.52. that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Ju.2.2. 2Chr.31.1. f 1 Ki. 15.13.

g ver.31.

30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, 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?

h ver.11.
2Chr.7.12.
Ps.78.68.

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 dwell therein.

a Ex.23.27.

b ch.30.1.
15,19.
c ch.28.2-13.
d ch.28.15-

68.

e 1Sa, 12.21.

f ch.27.12, 13.

Jos.8.33.

g ch.12.32.

(CHAP. 12.)

a ch.6.1.

b ch.4.10.

c Ex.34.13.

Z ver. 12,18.
ch.16.11-15.
26.11.

Lev.23.40.

32 And ye shall observeg to do all the statutes and judgments m Ju.17.6. which I set before you this day. CHAPTER XII.

21.25. n Heb.4.9.

2 Monuments of idolatry are to be de- o Jos.3.17. stroyed. 16, 23 Blood is forbid-p Jos. 18.1.

den.

IKI.8.29.

Idols must be destroyed.

their gods, upon the high mountains, d and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

T

vows.

THESE a are the statutes and 3 the choice judgments which ye shall obof your serve to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all b the days. that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy c alls Lev. 17.2-5. the places wherein the nations tver.11. which ye shall possess served,

q ver.7.

r ch.14.29.

3 And ye shall 2 overthrow e their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

4 Yeg shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

5 But unto the place h which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

i Lev. 17.3,4.choose to cause
k ch.14.22-26.

6 And thitheri ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, k and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the first lings of your herds, and of your flecks:

7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God. and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every m man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

9 For ye are not n as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth

you.

10 But when ye go over Jordan, o 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 placep which the LORD your God shall his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all 3 your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

12 And ye shall rejoice q before the your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates: forasmuch as he hath nor part nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every s place that thou seest:

14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there t thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife k of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, high unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

8 Thou shalt not consent m unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt

thou conceal him;

9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand n shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of 2 bond

k ch.28.54.
Mi.7.5.

16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God and s it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

are to be stoned.

from the fierceness of his anger and shew thee mercy, and have compassion w upon thee, and multiply r thee, as he hath sworu y unto thy fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to 1Sam.20.17. keepz all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

m Pr.1.10.

n ch.17.7.

2 bondmen.

o ch.19.20.

p Jos.22.11.

3

or, naugh

ty men,
Ju. 19.22.
1Ki.21.10,

14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; b and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomina-c tion is wrought among you;

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying r it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

13.

Jude 19.

r Ex.22.20.

Jos.6.17-24. s Jos.8.26.

Jer.49.2.

4 or, devoted.

t ch.7.26.
Jos.6.18.
7.1.
Jos.7.26.
Ps.78.38.

age.

11 And o all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

y Ge.22.17.

12 If thou shalt hear p say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, 3 the children of z Ps. 119.6. Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn q the in- (CHAP. 14.) habitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

a

v Ex.20.6.

w Lam.3.32.
x Eze.37.26.

Jer.3.19.

Rom. 8. 16.
9.8,26.
Gal.3.26.

Lev. 19.28.

Jer. 16.6.

Lev.20.26.

d 1Pet.2.9.

e Eze.4.14.

Acts 10.12,

14. 1 Cor. 10.28.

1 dishon, or,
bison.

f Lev. 11.3,4.

Ps.34.14.

g Lev.11.26,
27.

h Lev. 11.9.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the 4 cursed thing t to thine i Lev.11.13. hand: that the LORD may turn u

CHAPTER XIV.

1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning. 3 What may be eaten.

the a of the

LORD your God: ye shall not cut b yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead:

2 For thou art an holy c people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiard people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the

earth.

3

Thou shalt not eat e any abominable thing.

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the 1 pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth f the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall

eat.

7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the concy: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch g their dead carcase.

9 T These h ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

10 And whatsoever hath not fius and scales ye may not eat it is unclean unto you.

11 Of all clean birds ye shall

eat.

12 But these i are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the nighthawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,