All communion with the nations is forbidden. ages, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. DEUTERONOMY, VII. with three, and that thou mayest B. C. 1451. go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy y Nu.33.52, fathers; 19 Toy cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee 4 in time to come, saying, What z mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son. We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD shewed signs a and wonders, great and 5 sore, 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 sware unto our fathers. 53. 4 to morrow. z Ex. 13. 14. a Ex.VII- 5 evil. b ver.2. c ch.10.13. d Ps.41.2. e ch.24.13. (CHAP. 7.) 21. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear bc Nu.33.52. the LORD our God, for c our good d Ezra 9.1,2. always, that he might preserve d 1 statues, or us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, e if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath com-e manded us. CHAPTER VII. pillars. ch.14.2. Ex. 19.6. f 1Pet.2.9. g ch.10.22. 73. WHEN the LORD thy God shall h Ge.22.16,17 bring thee into the land Luke 1.72, whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out a many nations i Ex. 12.41,42 before thee, the b Hittites, and the k Ex.13.3,14. Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 20.2. l Is.49.7. m 2Th.3.3. Ne.1.5. 6 For thou art an holy e people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special fpeople unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest g of all people; 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the h oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house k of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, m which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations; 10 And n 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 o to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will 1Cor. 10.13. also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of 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. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people there p shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. Dan.9.4. 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly c destroy them, thou shalt n ch.32.35. nake no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Is.59.18. 3 Neither shalt thou make d mar-2 because. nages with them; thy daughter o ch.28.1,&c. thou shalt not give unto his son, Le.26.3,&c. nor his daughter shalt thou také p Ex-23.26, unto thy son. &c. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases q 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 deliver thee; thine r eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare s unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, An exhortation DEUTERONOMY, VIII. These nations are more than 1; B. C. 1451. how can I dispossess them? v ch.4.34. 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of t ch.31.6. them; but shalt well remember uu Ps. 105.5. what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 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 theez out: so w shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet x among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty y God and terrible. w Jos.3.10. Ex.23.28. y ch.10.17. 3 pluck off. Ex.23.29,30 before thy face. a Jos. 10.24,42 12.1. b ch.25.19. c ch.11.25. Is.54.17. d Ex.32.20. 1Ch.14.12. e Jos.7.1.21. 22 And the LORD thy God will 3f Ju.8.27. put out those nations before thee g Eze. 14.7. by z little and little: thou mayesth Jos.6.17,18. not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. (CHAP. 8.) a Ps.119.6. 23 But the LORD thy God shall b ch.5.32,33. deliver them 4 unto thee, and shall c ch.2.7. destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 29.5. Am.2.10. 24 And he shall deliver their ad Ps. 136. 16. kings into thine hand, and thou e Job 33.17. shalt destroy their name from b under heaven: there shall c nog 2Ch.32.31. f Ex. 16.4. man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their h Ex. 16.15. gods shall ye burn d with fire: thou i Mat.4.4. shalt not desire e the silver or gold k Ps. 104.27that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be f snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither g 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 h thing. CHAPTER VIII. An exhortation to obedience in regard of God's dealing with them. ALL a the commandments which 29. Ne.9.21. m Pr.3.12. He. 12.5,6. Re.3. 19. n 18a. 12.24. of olive tree of oil. o ch,33.25. p 1Cor.10.31. I command thee this day shall r Pr.30.9. bye observe to do, that ye may s Je.2.6. live, and multiply, and go in and t Nu.21.6. possess the land which the LORD u Hos, 13.5. sware unto your fathers. v Nu.20.11. Ps.78. 15, 16. 114.8. 1 Cor. 10.4. w ver.3. x ver.2. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty c years in the wilderness, d to humble thee, e and to prove f thee, to know g what was in thine heart, whether thou y La.3.26-33. wouldest keep his commandments, z ch.9.4. or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suf He.12 10,11 ICor.4.7. to obedience. |fered thee to hunger, and fed thee with h manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that a man doth not live by bread only, but by every word k that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thyraiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. heart, that, as m a man chasteneth 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine 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 n 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 1 of oil-olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack and thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, o and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 When thou hast eaten p and which he hath given thee. art full, then thou shalt bless q the LORD thy God for the good land 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest r when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget s the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, t and scorpions, and u drought; where there was no water: who brough thee forth water v out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, w which thy fathers knew not, that a he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to y do thee good at thy latter end: 17 And thou say in thine heart, z My power, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten me this wealth. Moses rehearses the DEUTERONOMY, IX. Israelites' several rebellions. a Pr.10.22. Hos.2.8. 18 But thou shalt remember the B. C. 1451. LORD thy God: for it is he a that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 19 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, Ib testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so c shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. HE CHAPTER IX. b ch.4.26. 30.18. c 2Ch.36.16, 17. Da.9.11, 12, (CHAP. 9.) a Jos.4.19. b Nu.13.2833. c ch.31.3-6. Jos.3.11. d ch.7.24. Moses dissuadeth them from the opi-e Ex.23.31. nion of their own righteousness. EAR, O Israel: Thou art to pass a over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater b 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 be-i Ge.12.7. fore the children of Anak? h Tit.3.5. 17.8. 25. 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy a Ex.32.10God to wrath in the wilderness: from n the day that thou didst de-b Lu.12.4,5. part out of the land of Egypt, until c Ex.33.17. ye came unto this place, ye have Ps.106.23. been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also o in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so 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 stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then Ip abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water. 10 And the q 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 you in the r mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the Covenant.s 12 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 t turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore,the LORD spake u unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked v people : 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot w out their name from under heaven: and 1 will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So y I turned, and came down from the mount, and z the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 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 way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I a 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 wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 (For I was afraid b of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you.) But c the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. Rehearsal of rebellions. Exhortation to obedience. up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. DEUTERONOMY, X. 20 And the LORD was very angry | B. C. 1451. with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the d Ex.32.20. same time. 21 And d I took your sin, e 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. e Js.31.7. f Nu.11.1-4. g Ex.17.7. h Nu.11.34. i Nu.XIII. XIV. k Ps.78.22. 106,24,25. 7 ch.31.27. 22 And at Taberah, ƒ and at gm ver. 18. Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah,n Ex.32.11, h ye provoked the LORD to wrath. &c. 23 Likewise when i the LORD o IKI.8.51. sent you from Kadesh-barnea, say-P Ps.78.8. ing, Go up and possess the land 9 Pr.21.12. which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and k ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious 7 against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 7 Mi.7.18. s Ex.6.6-8. t Nu.14.16. u ver.26. Ne.1.10. Ps. 100.3. (CHAP. 10.) a Ex.34. 1,&c. 25 Thus m I fell down before the b Ex.25.10. LORD forty days and forty nights, as Heb.9.4. I fell down at the first; because the c Ex.37.1. LORD had said he would destroy you. d Ex.34.28. 26 I prayed n therefore unto the words. LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, de-e Ex. 20.1-17. stroy not thy people, and o thine f 1K1.8.9. inheritance, which thou hast re-g Nu.33.31deemed through thy greatness, 38. which thou hast brought forth outh Nu.3.6-9. of Egypt with a mighty hand. i Nu.4. 15. 27 Remember thy servants, Abra-k Ps. 135.2. ham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness p of this people, nor to their wickedness, q nor to their sin r ch.18.5. 2Chr.29.11. Rom. 12.7. m ch.21.5. Nu.6.23. n Nu. 18.20, 24. 28 Lest the land s whence thou broughtest us out say, Because t the LORD was not able to bring Eze.44.28. them into the land which he pro- 2 or, former mised them, and because he hated days. them. he hath brought them out too Ex.32.14. slay them in the wilderness. 3 go in, 29 Yet u they are thy people and journey. thine inheritance, which thou P Mi.6.8. broughtest out by thy mighty q ch.6.13. power, and by thy stretched-out Ps.34.9. r ch.5.33. s ch.6.5. 11.13. 30.16,20. Ps. 18.1. 145.20. Mat.22.37. of stone like unto the first, and t Job 36.11. come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark b of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakedst, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of c shittimwood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went Zep.3.9. Rom. 1.9. He. 12.28. u ch.6.24. v Ps.115.16. w Ps. 148.4. x Ge. 14. 19. Ps.24.1. 50.12. 4 And he wrote d on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten 1 commandments, which e the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and f there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And g the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 At that time h the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand k before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless m in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore n 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 2 first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened o unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, 3 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. 12 T And now, Israel, what p doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear g the LORD thy God, tor walk in all his ways, and to loves him, and tot serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for u thy good? 14 Behold, the v heaven and the heaven of w heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth x also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight of thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the fore Exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY, XI. skin of your heart, y and be no B. C. 1451. more stiff-necked. 17 For the LORD your God is zy Jer.4.4. 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: Ro.2.28,29. z Jos.22.22. Dan.2.47. 19.16. 18 Hed doth execute the judg-a Rev. 17.14. ment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 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. 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. b Ne.9.32. c 2Chr. 19.7. d Ps.68.5. h Jer. 17.14. 22 Thy fathers went down into i Egypt with threescore and ten (CHAP. 11.) persons; and now the LORD thy a ch.8.5. God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. b Ex. 14.23 31. or, living Promised rewards. you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it: 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: 12 A land which the LORD thy God 3 careth for: the eyes d 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 e unto my commandments which I command you this day, tof 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, their feet. and thy wine, and thine oil. 2 was at 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-e ver.22. d 1Ki.9.3. ch.6.17. f ch. 10.12. Lev.26.4. Jam.5.7. 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 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; 4 give. Jer.4.18. o 1Ki.8.35. 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 2 ch.6.6-9. them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the 1 substance q Pr.3.3. that 2 was in their possession, inr ch.4.9,10. the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command Pr.3.1. Pr.4.10. 9.11. Ps.89.29. 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. |