not A go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about 15 you, (for the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you,) " lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 see refs. Ex. 20. 5. "ch. 7. 4; 11. 17. Mt. 4. 7; I.k. 4. 12. P Ex. 17. 2-7; Num. 20. 3. 4; 21. 4, 5; 1 Cor. 10, 9. Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, P as ye tempted him in Massah. Ye 17 shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his 18 testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. And thou shalt 9 ch. 11. 13, 22; Ex. 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 19 sware unto thy fathers, 'to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 15. 26; P. 119. 4. F.x. 23.28-30; Num. Ex. 12 26; 13. 14. refs. Ex. 20. 2. 3 19; 13 3 ch.4. 34; Ex. 7 to 12; 14; Pa. 135. 9. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath 21 commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bond-see men in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: | Ex. 92 and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon 23 Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto ! 24 our fathers. And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, a to fear the "ver. 2. LORD our God, ' for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at 25 this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. e C Intercourse with the Canaanites forbidden. k h ch. 10. 13; Job 35. 7,8: Is. 3 10; Jer. 32. 39: Mt. 6. 33: Ro. 6. 21, 22. ch. 4. 1; 8. 1: Ps. 41. 2: T.k. 10 28. d ch. 24. 13: Le. 18.5; Pro. 12. 28; Eze. 20. 11: Lk. 10. 28, 29; Ro. 10. 3, 5; Gal. 3. 12. ch. 31. 3: Ps. 44.2,3. f Ge. 15, 18-21; Ex. 23. 23: 33. 2. 8 ch. 4. 38; 9. 1. i eh. 20 16, 17; Le. 27. 28, 29: Num. 34. 52; Jos. 6. 17; 8.21; 9. 24; 10. 28, 40; 11. 11, 12. 7 WHEN the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God 9 2 * Ex. 23, 32, 33; 34. 12, 15, 16; Jug 2.2; see ch. 20. 10, etc.; Jos. 2 14; 9. 18; Judg. 1. 24. 1 Ex. 31. 16; Jos. 23. 12: 1 Ki. 11. 2; Ezra 9. 2. ch. 6. 15. ch. 12. 2, 3; Ex. 23. 24: 34. 13. ch. 14. 2; Ex. 19. 6; Ps. 51. 5; Jer. 2. 3. P Ex. 19. 5; Am. 3. 2; 1 Pet. 2. 9. 9 Ro. 9 11-15; 1 John 3. 1. ch. 10. 22. eh. 4. 37: 10 15: Ps. 44. 3; Jer. 31. 3 #Ge. 22. 16-18: Ex. 32. 13: Pa. 105 810; 1.k. 1. 55, 72, 73 Ex. 13. 3, 14. 1 Cor. 1. 9; 10. 13; 2 Cor. 1. 18; 1 Thes 5. 24; 2 Thes. 3. 3; 2 Tim. 2. 13: Heb. 10.23; 11. 11; 1 John 1. 9. ch. 5. 10; Ex. 20. 6; Ne. 1. 5: Dan. 9. 4. eh. 32. 41; Ps. 21. 8, 9: Is. 59. 18; Nab. 1. 2 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which 1 49.7; Lam. 3. 23; keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his command10 ments to a thousand generations; and repayeth them that hate him to their face,5 to destroy them: "he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay 11 him to his face. 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, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them. that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the 13 mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of John 14. 21. thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 1 This requirement of universal obedience for justification by the Law, shows that God's favour to his people does not at all relax his claims; and suggests the necessity of another 'righteousness,' in order to man's acceptance with him. See Gal. iii. 19, 22, 24. 2 This list of nations differs from that in Gen. xv. 1921, as some of the tribes there named had probably been merged in others; whilst some, lying east of Jordan, had been already conquered. The Perizzites appear to have been dispersed over the mountains afterwards occupied a eh. 32. 35; 2 Pet. 3. 9, 10. bel 8. 1: Le. 26 3. Ps. 105. 8, 9; Lk. 1. 72, 73. ch. 28. 3-5. by the tribes of Ephraim and Judah, not dwelling in fortified cities. 3 See note at the end of the book of Joshua. 4 So in the New Testament, Christians are enjoined to marry only in the Lord' (1 Cor. vii. 39); and the general rule respecting all voluntary affinities is clearly laid down in 2 Cor. vi. 14. In marriages in which this Divine rule is violated, it is presumptuous to expect a happy result. 5 This probably means openly, so as to be noticed as a Divine judgment by themselves and others. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female 15 barren among you, or among your cattle. And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt,1 which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 773 P. 147. 19. 20. Ex. 23. 25, etc. ch. 28 27,60; Ex. 9. 14; 15. 26. ver. 2 keh. 13 8; 19. 13, 21; 25. 12. eh. 12. 30: Ex. 20. 3: 23. 33; Judg, & 27; P. 106. 36. Num. 33. 53 ch. 1. 29; 31. 6 P ch. 4. 34; 29. 3. 9 Ex. 23. 28-30; Jos. 24. 12. And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their 17 gods; for that will be 'a snare unto thee. If thou shalt say in thine heart, These 18 nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, 19 and unto all Egypt; the great temptations which thine eyes saw; and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the 20 people of whom thou art afraid. Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be 21 destroyed. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is 22 among you, a mighty God and terrible. And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at 23 once, lest the beast of the field increase upon thee. "But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee [before thy face], and shall destroy them with a 24 mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there ch. 9. 14:25 19:23. shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou 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 unto thee, lest thou be 26 snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed 3 thing. 8 Obedience enforced by the remembrance of God's benefits, and the fatal consequences of apostasy. Num, 11, 20; 14 9, Jos. 10. 24, 25, 42: 20: Ex. 17. 14; P. a ver. 5; ch. 12 3; Jos. 7. 1, 21. d eh. 17. 1. ch. 13. 17; Le. 27. 28; Jos. 6. 17, 18; 7. 1; I. 30. 22. 6.1-3. ch. 7. 18. ch. 1.3.33; 27: 2 5: P. 136. 16; Am. 2.10 ch. 13 3; Ge. 22 1; Ex. 15 25; 16 4: 2 Chr. 32. 31; PL 81. 7; 1 Pet. 1. 7. * 2 Chr. 32. 31; Jer. 17. 9, 10; John 2. 25. ALL the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe toch, 4, 1; 5 32, 33; do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the 2 LORD sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble4 thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou 3 wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 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 words that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD. 162,3, 4 doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot 5 swell, these forty years. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a 6 man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 16. 4. 12, 14, 35; Ps. 78. 23-23. "Ps. 104. 29; Mt. 4. 4: J.k. 4. 4; John & 7. 49-51. eh. 29, 5; Ne. 9. 21. P2 Sam. 7. 14; Ps. 88. 32; Pro, 3, 12; Heb. 12.5-11; Rev. 3. 12. 9 ch. 5. 33. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of ch. 11. 10-12. 8 water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, 9 and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt 1 Egypt is peculiarly subject to plague, ophthalmia, and elephantiasis. 2 Though the destruction of the Canaanites was designed by God to be gradual, it was greatly delayed by the unbelief of the people. See Judg. i., ii., etc. God's promises are fulfilled according to our faith.' 3 Solemnly devoted to destruction. 4 Thus the arrangement which provided for the removal of one unbelieving generation afforded salutary discipline to the next. 5 This means, everything which God may appoint for the purpose. So it is used by our Lord (Matt. iv. 4). 6 Some commentators of learning and piety suppose this not to have been a miracle; and refer to Isa. xlviii. 21, as a proof that such a statement is not necessarily to be taken absolutely. And it is certainly true that the garments of the common people, being almost entirely woollen, might have been furnished, in great measure, by their own flocks. Yet the close connection in which this fact is placed, both here and at ch. xxix. 5, with the gift of the manna, and the notice of it in Neh. ix. 9— 25, in the enumeration of the miraculous deliverances and gifts of that period, make it appear more likely that in this, too, there was a similar supernatural interposition. At the same time it is important to avoid, not only the Rabbinical traditions about the growth of the clothes keeping pace with that of the wearers, but also all minute specification of matters which are so briefly recorded; and to remember that the ordinary conduct of God's providence affords as real and often as striking evidences of his power and care, as miracles. 7 Though Palestine is at present far from being a productive country, it still retains numerous traces of high cultivation and great fruitfulness. Water is here mentioned, as it is the prime requisite to fertility; and its peculiar distribution is specified, as being very different from that of Egypt, which depended upon one great river. The 'depths' are probably the lakes, or subterranean reservoirs, which, in countries of limestone formation, feed the streams. not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.1 10 'When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God 11 for the good land which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the a LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his 12 statutes, which I command thee this day: "lest when thou hast eaten and art 13 full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein: and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast 14 is multiplied; 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 house of bondage; 15 who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought 16 thee forth water out of the rock of flint; who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he 17 might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; and thou say in thine 18 heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 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 sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 119 A eb. 33 25; 1 Chr. 22. 14; Job 28. 2. see refs. ch. 6. 11, 12. ch. 28. 17; 32. 15; Pro. 30. 9; Hos. 13.6. ch. 17. 20; 2 Chr. 32. 25; 1 Cor. 4. 7. y Ps. 106. 21. ch. 1. 19; Is. 63. 12 -14; Jer. 2. 6. a Num. 21. 6; Hos. 13. 5. b Ex. 17, 6; Num. 20. 11; Ps. 78. 15; 114.8. ever. 3; Ex. 16. 15. d ver. 2. Jer. 24. 5, 6; Heb. 12. 10, 11. fch. 9. 4; 1 Cor. 4. 7. 81 Sam. 2. 7; Pro. 10. 22: Hos. 2. 8. A ch. 7. 8, 12. ich. 4. 26; 30. 18. And it shall be, if thou do 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 20 shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Dan. 9. 11, 12. LORD your God. 9 Self-righteousness reproved and God's mercy exalted, by a recital of the repeated rebellions of the Hebrews. HEAR, O Israel: Thou art to 'pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and "fenced up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which 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 unto thee. 4 ch. 11. 31; Jos. 3. 16; 4. 19. ch. 4 38; 7. 1; 11.23. n ch. 1. 28. ch.2.11,12, 21; Num. 13. 22, 28, 32, 33. P ch. 1. 30: 20. 4; 31. 3: Jos. 3 11. ch. 4. 24; 1s. 27. 4; Heb. 12. 29. ch. 7. 23: 31. 3. ch. 7. 24; Ex. 23. 29 -31. tch. 8. 17; Ro. 11. 6, 20: 1 Cor. 4. 4. 7: 2 Tim. 1. 9; Tit. 3. 3-5. Ge. 15. 16; Le. 18. 24, 25. Tit. 3. 5. 'Speak not thou in thine 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 ch. 12. 31; 18. 12: 5 them out from before thee. Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine 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 sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 y Ge. 12. 7: 13 15; 15. 7; 17.8; 64; 28.13. 33. 3; 34. 9. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to 7 possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. Remember, ver. 13; Ex. 32 9; and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye 8 came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 b a eh. 31. 27: Ex. 14. 11: 16. 2; 17. 2; Num 11. 4: 14. 1-3; 16. 1 -3: 20. 2-5; 21.5; 25 2; P. 78. 8. b Ex. 32. 1-6; Ps. 106 19-21. Ex. 24. 12, 15. 1 Ki. 19. 8; Mt. 4. 2. Ex. 31. 18. When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the Ex. 24. 18: 34. 28; 10 mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: and the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with 11 you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And 16: Ex 19. 17; 20. it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me 12 the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 1 Rather, 'copper.' These metals are found in Lebanon. ? That is, shortly-within a little time; the word 'day' being often put for time: as in John viii. 56; 1 Cor. iv. 5; Rev. xvi. 14. Even to the present day, in Syria and other eastern countries, the height of the walls is regarded more than 1-17. Ex. 32. 1-20. A eh. 31. 29; Judg. 2. 17. anything else in the fortifications of a town or fortress. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, 14 behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 'let me alone, that I may destroy them, and "blot out their name from under heaven: "and I will make of thee a nation 15 mightier and greater than they. So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my 16 two hands. And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the 17 way which the LORD had commanded you. And I took the two tables, and cast 18 them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing 19 wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to 20 destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him and I prayed for Aaron 21 also the same time. And "I took your sin, (the calf which ye had made,) and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 c b í Ex. 32. 9. * ver. 6 ch. 10 16: 31. 27: 2 KL 17. IL 1 Ex. 32. 10 ch. 29. 20; P. 9.5; 109. 13. "Num. 14. 12. Ex. 32 15 Peh. 4. 11; 5. 23; Ex. 19. 18. ? Ex. 32. 19. Ex. 34. 29; Ps 106 23. Ex. 32. 10, 11. ch. 10. 10: Ex. 32 14; 33 17, Ps. 106 23. EL. 32. 20; Is. 31. 7. Num. 11. 1-5 9 Ex. 17. 7. Num. 11. 4, 34. b ch. 1 32, 33: PL d ver. 18. *see ref. Ex. 32 11, etc. Ge. 41. 57; 1 Sam. (And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the 23 LORD to wrath. 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 24 to his voice. Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.) 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down 26 at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast 27 brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to 28 their wickedness, nor to their sin: 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 29 them in the wilderness. Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which ch 4, 20; 1 Ki. & 51; thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched-out arm. 10 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou 3 brakest, and 'thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim. 25. 16, 31. wood, and "hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the 4 mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: 5 and the LORD gave them unto me. And I turned myself and 'came down from the mount, and 'put the tables in the ark which I had made; "and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 Ne. 1. 10; Ps 93.7; Is. 63. 19. i Ex. 34. 1, 2 Ex. 25. 10-15. Ex. 25. 5, 10; 37. 1. • Ex. 34. 28. eh. 4. 13 Ex. 20. 1-17. ch. 9. 10; 18. 16: Ex. 19. 17. Ex. 34 29. t Ex. 40, 20 1 Ki. 8. 9 9 Num. 33 30. And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children Num. 33. 31. of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar 7 his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 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 9 bless 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 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 11 not destroy thee. And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 1 Vers. 6 and 7 appear to be misplaced; as they interrupt the narrative, and do not quite harmonize with Numb. xxxiii. But they are found in all the ancient versions, though somewhat altered in the Samaritan, so a Num. 33 32 33 & Ex. 28. 1: 29. 1; eh. 21. 5: Le. 9. 22; ch. 18 1, 2; Num. 18. 20-24; Eze. 44 28. ch. 9. 18, 25; Ex. 34. A eh. 9 19: Fr. 32. 14, 33, 34; 33 17. i Ex. 3. 34; 33 1. as to agree with the other account. The Arabic (which is comparatively modern) begins thus: And I obtained favour for Aaron, so that he lived till the children of Israel,' ete. 2 That is, 'Whilst you were at Horeb.' See refs. 12 9 a Exhortations and persuasives to obedience. AND now, Israel, 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 13 LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy 14 good? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, 15the earth also, with all that therein is. Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all 16 people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and 17 be no more "stiffnecked. For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor 18 taketh reward: he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and 19 loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the 20 stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, & and swear by 21 his name. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, 'that hath done for thee these 22 great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath 11 made thee 'as the stars of heaven for multitude. Therefore thou shalt " love the LORD thy God, and "keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 0 1 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his 3 greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched-out arm, and his miracles, and his acts, which he did, in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, 4 and unto all his land; and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued 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; and 6 what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of 7 all Israel: but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8Therefore shall 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 9 it; 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. a d b Mic. 6. 8; 1 John 53. ch, 6, 2, 13, Ps. 128. 1. P see refs. ch. 6 21. 5; Ps. 24. 1. Jos. 22. 22: 1 Chr. 16 25, 26; Ps. 136. 2; Dan. 2. 47; 11. 36. P. 136. 3; Rev. 17. 14; 19 16. Ne.. 32. ach. 7. 21. 62 Chr. 19. 7: Job 34. 19: Mk. 12. 14; Ac. 10. 34 R. 2. 11: Gal. 2. 6; Eph. 6. 9; Co. 3. 25; 1 Pet. 1. 17. Ps. 68. 5: 146. 9; Jer. 49. 11; Hos. 14. 3. d Le. 19. 33, 34. A Ex. 15 2; Ps. 22. 3; ich. 4. 32-35; 1 Sam. k Ge. 46 27; Ex. 1.5; ch. 1. 10; 29, 62; Ge. "Le. & 35; Zech. 3. 7. P ch. 5. 24. 9 ch. 7. 19. ch. 4. 31: Ps. 78. 12, 13; 135. 9. Ex. 11. 27. 28; 15. 9, 10: Ps. 106. 11. #Ps 78. 14-29. Num. 16. 1, 31-33; 27. 3; Ps. 106. 17. ch. 5 3: 7. 19. ch. M. 10, 11. Jos. 1. 6,7: Is. 40.31. ach. 4. 40; 5. 16. 6. 2; Ps. 34. 12-14; Pro. 3. 2, 16: 10. 27. beh. f 18; 9. 5. © Ex. 3. 8. d Zech. 14. 18. * ch. 8. 7-9. 1.9.3 Ezra 5. 5; Ps. 33. 18; Jer. 24. 6. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with 11 thy foot, as a garden of herbs: but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a 12 land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes 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 & diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve 14 him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest Jo2 21; Jam. 57. 15 gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send [give] grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest "eat and be full. Ps. 104. 14. ch. 611; Joel 2. 19. "ch. 4. 9, 23; 29. 18; Job 31. 27; Is. 44.20. ch. 8. 19; 30. 17. 4 ch. 28. 23, 21; 1 Ki. 8. 35: 2 Chr. 6. 26; 7. 13; Am. 4. 7; Hag. 1. 10, 11. 16 1 The remembrance of past sufferings from the hand of man, instead of exciting revenge or misanthropy, ought to produce a tender sympathy with all the distressed. 2 All of them had seen some, and some of them had seen all of these things. 3 Watering with the foot' may mean either by the trend-wheels which are still used in that country to raise water, or by the runnels which conveyed water from reservoirs through the gardens, and which were opened or closed by moving the earth with the foot. Egypt is dependent upon this artificial irrigation, in connection with the periodical overflowing of the Nile. eh. 4. 26; 8. 19, 20; 30. 18; Jos. 23. 13, 15, 16 4 The rainy season in Palestine begins in autumn, when the land is prepared for sowing; and it ends about March, when the grain is swelling before it ripens. The rain is most copious at the former and latter part of the season, though it falls occasionally through the intervening winter months; but there is rarely any during the summer. Upon the regular recurrence of these rains the fertility of the country depends. The form of the promise shows that, whatever be the second causes of prosperity, all are alike dependent upon the blessing of God, and subject to his control. Comp. Gen. xli. 30, 54, with 1 Kings xvii. 1, etc. |