up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of ftone. 5. And the LORD defcended in the cloud, and ftood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 5. Defcended: Was revealed, lays the Chaldee: i. e. He manifested himself in the Cloud. And pro claimed the name: Or, He called upon the name, and then these words referr to Mofes, who, upon God's glorious manifestation of himself, called upon God. This agrees well with the Hebrew Text (Vid. Gen. 12. 8.) and is followed by the Vulgar Latin. 6. And the LORD 6. And the LORD paffed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, mercifull and gracious, long-fuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, claimed: i. e. And the Lord proclaimed, ch. 33.19. " paffed by, &c. That is, He caused his Divine Prefence to pals by, as the Chaldee hath it. And pro 7. Will by no means clear: Or,Will not utterly cut off.For fo the Hebrew word is obferved fometimes to fignifie,and is by our En chil-glish rendred to that fenfe, Zech.5.3, Jer. 7. Keeping mercy for thoufands, forgiving iniquity and tranfgreffion and fin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; vifiting the ini. quity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's dren unto the third and to the fourth generation. 46. 28. in the Margent. Befides, when Mofes deprecates God's difpleasure, he makes ufe of these words, Nam. 14. 18. [More Nevoch. p. 1.c.54] Vifiting, &c. ch. 20.5. Deut. 5.9. Jer. 32, 18. 8. And Mofes made haft, and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshipped.· 9. And he faid, If now I have found grace in thy fight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go amongst us, (for it is a stiff-necked 9. If now, &G Mofes is now enhe doth upon this couraged to pray as proclaiming the Mer cy people) and pardon our iniquity and our fin, and take us for thine inberitance. cy and Goodness of God. My Lord: The Chaldee underftands it of the She cinah, or Divine Prefence. 10. And he faid, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, fuch as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people amongst which thou art, shall fee the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 10. I make: Deut. 5;.2. A terrible thing: Such as fpeaks the Majefty and is terrible in his doing Power of God, who toward the children of men, Pl. 66, 5. . II. Obferve thou that which I command thee this day? Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12. Take heed to thy felf, left thou make a covenant with the in, habitants of the land whither thou goeft, left it be for a fnare in the midst of thee. 13. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. 14. For thou fbalt worship no other God: for the LORD, whofe name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15. Left thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do facrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his facrifice, 12. Take heed: Ch. 23. 32. Deut. 7. 2. 13. Images: Heb. Statues. 14. Jealous: Ch, 20.5. 15. Go a whoring: Idolatry is a spiritual Whoredom, P. 73. 27. He that loves Creature instead of the Creator is guilty and honours the of of it, Jam. 4. 4. And thou eat of his facrifice: And fo have Communion with an Idol, Ňum. 25. 2. Pf. 106. 28, Ezek. 18.6. 22.9. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 2.20. 16. And thou take of their 16. Their daugh daughters unto thy fons, and their ters: 1 King. 11.2. daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a who ring after their gods. 17. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 17. No molten: They are fpecially warned against mol ten Gods, they having tranfgreffed fo lately in the molten Calf, ch. 32.4. 18. Unleavened: Ch. 13.4. 18. The feast of unleavened bread fhalt thou keep: Seven days Ch. 23.15. Month: Shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou cameft out from Egypt. 19. All that openeth the matrix is mine: and every firftling among thy cattel, whether ox or Sheep, that is male. 19. All: Ch. 224 29. Ezek. 44.30. 20. Lamb: Or, 20. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and Kid. Empty Ch if thou redeem him not, then halt 23.15. thou break his neck. All the firft-born of thy fons thou Shalt redeem: and none fhall appear before me empty. 21. Six days thou shalt work, but on the feventh day thou shalt reft in earing-time and in harvest thou shalt reft. : 22. And thou shalt obferve the feaft of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harveft, and the feast of in gathering at the year's end. 21. Six: Ch. 23' 12. Deut. 5.12. Luk 13. 14. 22. And: Ch. 23 16. Tearsend: Heb. Revolution of the year, 23. Thrice 23. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Ifrael. 24 For I will caft out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man defire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God, thrice in the year. 25. Thou shalt not offer the bloud of my facrifice with leaven, neither fhall the facrifice of the feaft of pallover be left unto the morning. 26. The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the boufe of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mother's milk. 27. And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Write thou these words; for after the tenor of these words 1 have made a covenant with thee and with Ifrael. 25. Thon, &c; Ch. 23. 18. 26. Kid: Ch. 23. 19. Deut. 14. 21. 27. Write thou these words: Deut. 4 13. i. e. Do thou write them in a Book apart: The ten Com mandments onely were written in the two Tables, and they were written by God (v.1. Dent. 10.2.4.) 28. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; be did neither eat bread, nor drink water: and he wrote apon the tables the words of the ten commandments. covenant, the 29. And it came to pass when Mofes came down from mount Sinai (with the two tables of teftimony in Mofes's hand, when he came down from the mount) that 28. And he: Ch. 24. 18. Deut. 9. 9. And he wrote: Not Mofes but God. See v. 27. Commandments: Heb. Words. 29. Shone: Was glorious, fays the Greek, which renwith what we read dring agrees well 2 Cor.3.7. While he talked Mofes wift not that the skin of his face fhone, while he talked with bim. shine, viz. from his converse with 30. And when Aaron and all the children of Ifrael faw Mofes, bebold, the skin of his face fhone, and they were afraid to come nigh bim. him: talked with 31. And Mofes called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Mofes talked with them. 32. And afterward all the children of Ifrael came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD bad fpoken with him in mount Sinai. 33. And till Mofes had done Speaking with them, he put a veil on bis face. 33. He put: Or, He had put: Viz during the time that he fpake with them. A veil: 2 Cor. 3. 13, 14. 34. But when Mofes went in before the LORD to speak with bim, he took the veil off, untill he came out and spake unto the children be was commanded. 35. And the children of Ifrael faw the face of Mofes, that the skin of Mofes's face fhone: and Mofes put the veil upon his face again, antill he went in to speak with bim. 34. He took the veil off: 2 Cor. 3. 16. came out. And he of Ifrael, that which 35. With him? That is, With God, as appears from v 34. СНАР. |