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Deuteronomy","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY\n\nThis Book is called DEUTERONOMY, which signifies a SECOND LAW, because\nit repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai,\nwith other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the first\nwords in the book, call it ELLE HADDEBARIM.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 1\n\nA repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the people's\nmurmuring and their punishment.\n\n1:1. These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the\nJordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, beetween\nPharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much\ngold.\n\n1:2. Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to\nCadesbarne.\n\n1:3. In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the\nmonth, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had\ncommanded him to say to them:\n\n1:4. After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in\nHesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,\n\n1:5. Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound\nthe law, and to say:\n\n1:6. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed long\nenough in this mountain:\n\n1:7. Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the\nother places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales\ntowards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites,\nand of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.\n\n1:8. Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it,\nconcerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.\n\n1:9. And I said to you at that time:\n\n1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath\nmultiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for\nmultitude.\n\n1:11. (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands,\nand bless you as he hath spoken.)\n\n1:12. I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you\nand your differences.\n\n1:13. Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such\nwhose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint\nthem your rulers.\n\n1:14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.\n\n1:15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and\nappointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over\nfifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.\n\n1:16. And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is\njust: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.\n\n1:17. There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little\nas well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person,\nbecause it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you,\nrefer it to me, and I will hear it.\n\n1:18. And I commanded you all things that you were to do.\n\n1:19. And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast\nwilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nas the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into\nCadesbarne,\n\n1:20. I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nwhich the Lord our God will give to us.\n\n1:21. See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess\nit, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any\nway discouraged.\n\n1:22. And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the\nland, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we\nshall go.\n\n1:23. And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one\nof every tribe:\n\n1:24. Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains,\ncame as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,\n\n1:25. Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought\nthem to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give\nus.\n\n1:26. And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the\nLord our God,\n\n1:27. You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and\ntherefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might\ndeliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.\n\n1:28. Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts,\nsaying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are\ngreat, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims\nthere.\n\nWalled up to the sky... A figurative expression, signifying the walls to\nbe very high.\n\n1:29. And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:\n\n1:30. The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as\nhe did in Egypt in the sight of all.\n\n1:31. And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath\ncarried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that\nyou have come, until you came to this place.\n\n1:32. And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,\n\n1:33. Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein\nyou should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire,\nand in the day by the pillar of a cloud.\n\n1:34. And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry\nand swore, and said:\n\n1:35. Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good\nland, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:\n\n1:36. Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I\nwill give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,\nbecause he hath followed the Lord.\n\n1:37. Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at,\nsince the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither\nshalt thou go in thither.\n\n1:38. But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee:\nexhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.\n\n1:39. Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away\ncaptives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and\nevil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall\npossess it.\n\n1:40. But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red\nSea.\n\n1:41. And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go\nup and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went\nready armed unto the mountain,\n\n1:42. The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I\nam not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.\n\n1:43. I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of\nthe Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.\n\n1:44. And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and\nmeeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir\nas far as Horma.\n\n1:45. And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not,\nneither would he yield to your voice.\n\n1:46. So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 2\n\nThey are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.\nTheir victory over Sehon king of Hesebon.\n\n2:1. And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth\nto the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount\nSeir a long time.\n\n2:2. And the Lord said to me:\n\n2:3. You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:\n\n2:4. And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders\nof your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will\nbe afraid of you.\n\n2:5. Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will\nnot give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread\nupon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.\n\n2:6. You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw\nwaters for money, and shall drink.\n\n2:7. The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the\nLord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast\npassed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast\nwanted nothing.\n\n2:8. And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that\ndwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber,\nwe came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.\n\n2:9. And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go\nto battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land,\nbecause I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.\n\n2:10. The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and\nstrong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,\n\n2:11. They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the\nEnacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.\n\n2:12. The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out\nand destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the\nland of his possession, which the Lord gave him.\n\n2:13. Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.\n\n2:14. And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over\nthe torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of\nthe men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord\nhad sworn:\n\n2:15. For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the\nmidst of the camp.\n\n2:16. And after all the fighting men were dead,\n\n2:17. The Lord spoke to me, saying:\n\n2:18. Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:\n\n2:19. And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon,\ntake heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I\nwill not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have\ngiven it to the children of Lot for a possession.\n\n2:20. It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in\nit, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,\n\n2:21. A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims\nwhom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in\ntheir stead,\n\n2:22. As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in\nSeir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which\nthey possess to this day.\n\n2:23. The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were\nexpelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed\nthem and dwelt in their stead.\n\n2:24. Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into\nthy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess\nhis land and make war against him.\n\n2:25. This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the\nnations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name\nthey may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.\n\n2:26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the\nking of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:\n\n2:27. We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we\nwill not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.\n\n2:28. Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money\nand so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,\n\n2:29. As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the\nMoabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the\nland which the Lord our God will give us.\n\n2:30. And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the\nLord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might\nbe delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.\n\nHardened, etc... That is, in punishment of his past sins he left him to\nhis own stubborn and perverse disposition, which drew him to his ruin.\nSee the note on Ex. 7.3.\n\n2:31. And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee\nSehon and his land, begin to possess it.\n\n2:32. And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at\nJasa.\n\n2:33. And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his\nsons and all his people.\n\n2:34. And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants\nof them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:\n\n2:35. Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them:\nand the spoils of the cities, which we took:\n\n2:36. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town\nthat is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village\nor city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:\n\n2:37. Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached\nnot: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the\nmountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 3\n\nThe victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of\nManasses receive their possession on the other side of Jordan.\n\n3:1. Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of\nBasan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.\n\n3:2. And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into\nthy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as\nthou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.\n\n3:3. So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of\nBasan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,\n\n3:4. Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that\nescaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in\nBasan.\n\n3:5. All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and\nbars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.\n\n3:6. And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of\nHesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:\n\n3:7. But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.\n\n3:8. And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings\nof the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon\nunto the mount Hermon,\n\n3:9. Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:\n\n3:10. All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of\nGalaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og\nin Basan.\n\n3:11. For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His\nbed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon,\nbeing nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of\na man's hand.\n\n3:12. And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon\nthe bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave\nthe cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.\n\n3:13. And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the\nkingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob:\nand all Basan is called the Land of giants.\n\n3:14. Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto\nthe borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own\nname, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present\nday.\n\n3:15. To Machir also I gave Galaad.\n\n3:16. And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as\nfar as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even unto\nthe torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:\n\n3:17. And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders\nof Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to\nthe foot of mount Phasga eastward.\n\n3:18. And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth\nyou this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your\nbrethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.\n\n3:19. Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have\nmuch cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered\nto you.\n\n3:20. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to\nyou: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the\nJordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have\ngiven you.\n\n3:21. I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen\nwhat the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to\nall the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.\n\n3:22. Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.\n\n3:23. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:\n\n3:24. Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness,\nand most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or\nearth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.\n\n3:25. I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land\nbeyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.\n\n3:26. And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not,\nbut said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.\n\n3:27. Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the\nwest, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold\nit, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.\n\n3:28. Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go\nbefore this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt\nsee.\n\n3:29. And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 4\n\nMoses exhorteth the people to keep God's commandments: particularly to\nfly idolatry. Appointeth three cities of refuge, on that side of the\nJordan.\n\n4:1. And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I\nteach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst\npossess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.\n\n4:2. You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall\nyou take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which\nI command you.\n\n4:3. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor,\nhow he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.\n\n4:4. But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this\npresent day.\n\n4:5. You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord\nmy God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you\nshall possess:\n\n4:6. And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is\nyour wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all\nthese precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a\ngreat nation.\n\n4:7. Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh\nthem, as our God is present to all our petitions.\n\n4:8. For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies,\nand just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day\nbefore our eyes?\n\n4:9. Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the\nwords that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all\nthe days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy\ngrandsons,\n\n4:10. From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in\nHoreb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto\nme, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time\nthat they live on the earth, and may teach their children.\n\n4:11. And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto\nheaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.\n\n4:12. And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard\nthe voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.\n\n4:13. And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and\nthe ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.\n\n4:14. And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the\nceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall\npossess.\n\n4:15. Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in\nthe day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the\nfire:\n\n4:16. Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven\nsimilitude, or image of male or female,\n\n4:17. The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of\nbirds, that fly under heaven,\n\n4:18. Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that\nabide in the waters under the earth:\n\n4:19. Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and\nthe moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou\nadore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of\nall the nations, that are under heaven.\n\n4:20. But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron\nfurnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this\npresent day.\n\n4:21. And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I\nshould not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land,\nwhich he will give you.\n\n4:22. Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you\nshall pass, and possess the goodly land.\n\n4:23. Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God,\nwhich he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of\nthose things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:\n\n4:24. Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.\n\n4:25. If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and\nbeing deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil\nbefore the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:\n\n4:26. I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall\nquickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the\nJordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the\nLord will destroy you,\n\n4:27. And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few\namong the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.\n\n4:28. And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands:\nwood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.\n\n4:29. And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find\nhim: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction\nof thy soul.\n\n4:30. After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time\nthou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.\n\n4:31. Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave\nthee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he\nswore to thy fathers.\n\n4:32. Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the\nday that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the\nother end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath\nbeen known at any time,\n\n4:33. That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the\nmidst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:\n\n4:34. If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of\nthe midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a\nstrong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to\nall the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy\neyes.\n\n4:35. That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no\nother besides him.\n\n4:36. From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach\nthee.  And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou\ndidst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,\n\n4:37. Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And\nhe brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,\n\n4:38. To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than\nthou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a\npossession, as thou seest at this present day.\n\n4:39. Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he\nis God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.\n\n4:40. Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it\nmay be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst\nremain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n4:41. Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east\nside,\n\n4:42. That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour\nunwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he\nmight escape to some one of these cities:\n\n4:43. Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the\ntribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and\nGolan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.\n\n4:44. This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,\n\n4:45. And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which\nhe spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,\n\n4:46. Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor,\nin the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom\nMoses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt,\n\n4:47. Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two\nkings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising\nof the sun:\n\n4:48. From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,\nunto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,\n\n4:49. All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of\nthe wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 5\n\nThe ten commandments are repeated and explained.\n\n5:1. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the\nceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn\nthem, and fulfil them in work.\n\n5:2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.\n\n5:3. He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now\npresent and living.\n\n5:4. He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.\n\n5:5. I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that time,\nto shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up into the\nmountain, and he said:\n\n5:6. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage.\n\n5:7. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.\n\n5:8. Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness of\nany things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath,\nor that abide in the waters under the earth.\n\n5:9. Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am\nthe Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers\nupon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that\nhate me,\n\n5:10. And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and\nkeep my commandments.\n\n5:11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he\nshall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.\n\n5:12. Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy\nGod hath commanded thee.\n\n5:13. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.\n\n5:14. The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the\nLord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor\nthy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor\nthy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy\ngates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as\nthyself.\n\n5:15. Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God\nbrought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out\narm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the\nsabbath day.\n\n5:16. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded\nthee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in\nthe land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n5:17. Thou shalt not kill.\n\n5:18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.\n\n5:19. And thou shalt not steal.\n\n5:20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.\n\n5:21. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house, nor his\nfield, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass,\nnor any thing that is his.\n\n5:22. These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the\nmountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness,\nwith a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables\nof stone, which he delivered unto me.\n\n5:23. But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the\ndarkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the\ntribes and the elders, and you said:\n\n5:24. Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his\ngreatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and\nhave proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.\n\n5:25. Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great\nfire comsume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more,\nwe shall die.\n\n5:26. What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living\nGod, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be\nable to live?\n\n5:27. Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God\nshall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will\ndo them.\n\n5:28. And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the\nvoice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have\nspoken all things well.\n\n5:29. Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep\nall my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with\ntheir children for ever?\n\n5:30. Go and say to them: Return into your tents.\n\n5:31. But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my\ncommandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach them,\nthat they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a\npossession.\n\n5:32. Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded\nyou: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.\n\n5:33. But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath\ncommanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days\nmay be long in the land of your possession.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 6\n\nAn exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.\n\n6:1. These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the\nLord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do\nthem in the land into which you pass over to possess it:\n\n6:2. That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his\ncommandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy\ngrandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.\n\n6:3. Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath\ncommanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly\nmultiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land\nflowing with milk and honey.\n\n6:4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.\n\n6:5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy\nwhole soul, and with thy whole strength.\n\n6:6. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy\nheart:\n\n6:7. And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate\nupon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and\nrising.\n\n6:8. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be\nand shall move between thy eyes.\n\n6:9. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy\nhouse.\n\n6:10. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nfor which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall\nhave given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,\n\n6:11. Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which\nthou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not\nplant,\n\n6:12. And thou shalt have eaten and be full:\n\n6:13. Take heed deligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee\nout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear\nthe Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his\nname.\n\n6:14. You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that\nare round about you:\n\n6:15. Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee:\nlest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee,\nand take thee away from the face of the earth.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in\nthe place of temptation.\n\n6:17. Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and\nceremonies which he hath commanded thee.\n\n6:18. And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord,\nthat it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the\ngoodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,\n\n6:19. That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath\nspoken.\n\n6:20. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these\ntestimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath\ncommanded us?\n\n6:21. Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the\nLord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n6:22. And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt\nagainst Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,\n\n6:23. And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and\ngive us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.\n\n6:24. And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and\nshould fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days\nof our life, as it is at this day.\n\n6:25. And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts\nbefore the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 7\n\nNo league nor fellowship to be made with the Chanaanites: God promiseth\nhis people his blessing and assistance, if they keep his comandments.\n\n7:1. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which\nthou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations\nbefore thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the\nChanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven\nnations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:\n\n7:2. And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt\nutterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew\nmercy to them:\n\n7:3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give\nthy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:\n\n7:4. For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may\nrather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled,\nand will quickly destroy thee.\n\n7:5. But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and\nbreak their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven\nthings.\n\n7:6. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy\nGod hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are\nupon the earth.\n\n7:7. Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined\nunto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:\n\n7:8. But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which\nhe swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand,\nand redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao\nthe king of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and\nfaithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and\nto them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:\n\n7:10. And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them,\nwithout further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.\n\n7:11. Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I\ncommand thee this day to do.\n\n7:12. If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them,\nthe Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy\nwhich he swore to thy fathers:\n\n7:13. And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit\nof thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy\noil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which\nhe swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.\n\n7:14. Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren\namong you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.\n\n7:15. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous\ninfirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee,\nbut upon thy enemies.\n\n7:16. Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will\ndeliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve\ntheir gods, lest they be thy ruin.\n\n7:17. If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall\nI be able to destroy them?\n\n7:18. Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to\nall the Egyptians,\n\n7:19. The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and\nwonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the\nLord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom\nthou fearest.\n\n7:20. Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until\nhe destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide\nthemselves.\n\n7:21. Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst\nof thee, a God mighty and terrible:\n\n7:22. He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little\nand by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest\nperhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.\n\n7:23. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall\nslay them until they be utterly destroyed.\n\n7:24. And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt\ndestroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist\nthee, until thou destroy them.\n\n7:25. Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not\ncovet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou\ntake to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an\nabomination to the Lord thy God.\n\nGraven things... Idols, so called by contempt.\n\n7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house,\nlest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and\nshalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an\nanathema.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 8\n\nThe people is put in mind of God's dealings with them, to the end that\nthey may love him and serve him.\n\n8:1. All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care\nto observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may\npossess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.\n\n8:2. And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God\nhath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee\nand to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart\nmight be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.\n\n8:3. He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food,\nwhich neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone\ndoth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.\n\nNot in bread alone, etc... That is, that God is able to make food of\nwhat he pleases for the support of man.\n\n8:4. Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for\nage, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,\n\n8:5. That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up\nhis son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.\n\n8:6. That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways, and fear him.\n\n8:7. For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks\nand of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills\ndeep rivers break out:\n\n8:8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and\npomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.\n\n8:9. Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy\nabundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills\nare dug mines of brass:\n\n8:10. That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord\nthy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.\n\n8:11. Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy\nGod, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I\ncommand thee this day:\n\n8:12. Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly\nhouses, and dwelt in them,\n\n8:13. And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of\ngold and of silver, and of all things,\n\n8:14. Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God,\nwho brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:\n\n8:15. And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein\nthere was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the\ndipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the\nhardest rock,\n\nThe Dipsas... A serpent whose bite causeth a violent thirst; from whence\nit has its name, for in Greek dipsa signifies thirst.\n\n8:16. And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew\nnot. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had\nmercy on thee,\n\n8:17. Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the\nstrength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.\n\n8:18. But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength,\nthat he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy\nfathers, as this present day sheweth.\n\n8:19. But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and\nserve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly\nperish.\n\n8:20. As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall\nyou also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your\nGod.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 9\n\nLest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are\nput in mind of their manifold rebellions and other sins, for which they\nshould have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:1. Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess\nnations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled\nup to the sky,\n\n9:2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast\nseen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.\n\n9:3. Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself\nwill pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy\nand extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he\nhath spoken to thee.\n\n9:4. Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed\nthem in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess\nthis land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.\n\n9:5. For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart\nthat thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done\nwickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might\naaccomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham,\nIsaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:6. Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent\nland in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked\npeople.\n\n9:7. Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to\nwrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto\nthis place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.\n\n9:8. For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and\nwould have destroyed thee,\n\n9:9. When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the\ntables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in\nthe mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking\nwater.\n\n9:10. And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger\nof God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount\nfrom the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.\n\n9:11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave\nme the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,\n\n9:12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy\npeople, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the\nway that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten\nidol.\n\n9:13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is\nstiffnecked:\n\n9:14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from\nunder heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger\nthan this.\n\n9:15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two\ntables of the covenant with both hands,\n\n9:16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had\nmade to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way,\nwhich he had shewn you:\n\n9:17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.\n\n9:18. And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights\nneither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you\nhad committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:\n\n9:19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved\nagainst you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this\ntime also.\n\n9:20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have\ndestroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.\n\n9:21. And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took,\nand burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as\nsmall as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the\nmountain.\n\n9:22. At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the\ngraves of lust you provoked the Lord:\n\n9:23. And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess\nthe land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the\nLord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his\nvoice:\n\n9:24. But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.\n\n9:25. And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in\nwhich I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had\nthreatened:\n\n9:26. And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy\ninheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast\nbrought out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n9:27. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the\nstubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:\n\n9:28. Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast\nbrought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he\npromised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he\nmight kill them in the wilderness,\n\n9:29. Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out\nby thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 10\n\nGod giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear\nand serve the Lord.\n\n10:1. At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone\nlike the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make\nan ark of wood,\n\n10:2. And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which\nthou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.\n\n10:3. And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables of\nstone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my\nhands.\n\n10:4. And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before,\nthe ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst\nof the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.\n\n10:5. And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into\nthe ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the\nLord commanded me.\n\n10:6. And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the\nchildren of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and\nEleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.\n\nMosera... By mount Hor, for there Aaron died, Num. 20. This and the\nfollowing verses seem to be inserted by way of parenthesis.\n\n10:7. From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed,\nand camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.\n\n10:8. At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of\nthe covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and\nto bless in his name until this present day.\n\n10:9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren:\nbecause the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised\nhim.\n\n10:10. And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and\nthe Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.\n\n10:11. And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may\nenter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would\ngive them.\n\n10:12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but\nthat thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and\nserve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:\n\n10:13. And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which\nI command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?\n\n10:14. Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven,\nthe earth and all things that are therein.\n\n10:15. And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and\nloved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of\nall nations, as this day it is proved.\n\n10:16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your\nneck no more.\n\n10:17. Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of\nlords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor\ntaketh bribes.\n\n10:18. He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the\nstranger, and giveth him food and raiment.\n\n10:19. And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were\nstrangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n10:20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou\nshalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.\n\n10:21. He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these\ngreat and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.\n\n10:22. In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now\nthe Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 11\n\nThe love and service of God are still inculcated, with a blessing to\nthem that serve him, and threats of punishment if they forsake his law.\n\n11:1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and\nceremonies, his judgments and commmandments at all times.\n\n11:2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not\nthe chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong\nhand, and stretched out arm,\n\n11:3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king\nPharao, and to all his land,\n\n11:4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and\nchariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued\nyou, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:\n\n11:5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, til you came to\nthis place:\n\n11:6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of\nRuben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their\nhouseholds and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the\nmidst of Israel.\n\n11:7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath\ndone,\n\n11:8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this\nday, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,\n\n11:9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to\nyour fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and\nhoney.\n\n11:10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land\nof Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown,\nwaters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.\n\n11:11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.\n\n11:12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it\nfrom the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.\n\n11:13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day,\nthat you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and\nwith all your soul:\n\n11:14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain,\nthat you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,\n\n11:15. And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you\nmay eat and be filled.\n\n11:16. Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from\nthe Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:\n\n11:17. And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not\ndown, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the\nexcellent land, which the Lord will give you.\n\n11:18. Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a\nsign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.\n\n11:19. Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest\nin thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down\nand risest up.\n\n11:20. Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:\n\n11:21. That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in\nthe land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as\nlong as the heaven hangeth over the earth.\n\n11:22. For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do\nthem, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto\nhim,\n\n11:23. The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you\nshall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.\n\n11:24. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours.\nFrom the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto\nthe western sea shall be your borders.\n\n11:25. None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the\ndread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he\nhath spoken to you.\n\n11:26. Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:\n\n11:27. A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,\nwhich I command you this day:\n\n11:28. A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God,\nbut revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange\ngods which you know not.\n\n11:29. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nwhither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount\nGarizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:\n\nPut the blessing, et... See Deut. 27.12, etc. and Josue 8.33, etc.\n\n11:30. Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the\nsetting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the\nplain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that\nreacheth and entereth far.\n\n11:31. For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which\nthe Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.\n\n11:32. See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which\nI shall set this day before you.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 12\n\nAll idolatry must be extirpated: sacrifices, tithes, and firstfruits\nmust be offered in one only place: all eating of blood is prohibited.\n\n12:1. These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the\nland, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess\nit all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.\n\n12:2. Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall\npossess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under\nevery shady tree:\n\n12:3. Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their\ngroves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names\nout of those places.\n\n12:4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God:\n\n12:5. But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall\nchoose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in\nit:\n\n12:6. And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the\ntithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the\nfirstborn of your herds and your sheep.\n\n12:7. And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you\nshall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and\nyour houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.\n\n12:8. You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man\nthat which seemeth good to himself.\n\n12:9. For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the\npossession, which the Lord your God will give you.\n\n12:10. You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which\nthe Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies\nround about: and may dwell without any fear,\n\n12:11. In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name\nmay be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command\nyou, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your\nhands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow\nto the Lord.\n\n12:12. There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons\nand your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite\nthat dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession\namong you.\n\n12:13. Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou\nshalt see:\n\n12:14. But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes\nshalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.\n\n12:15. But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight\nthee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which\nhe hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to\nsay, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and\nwithout blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt\nthou eat it:\n\n12:16. Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out\nupon the earth as water.\n\n12:17. Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy\nwine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any\nthing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the\nfirstfruits of thy hands:\n\n12:18. But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place\nwhich the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter,\nand thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy\ncities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God\nin all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n12:19. Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou\nlivest in the land.\n\n12:20 When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath\nspoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:\n\n12:21. And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of\nthy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it\npleaseth thee.\n\n12:22. Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them:\nboth the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.\n\n12:23. Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood\nis for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the\nflesh:\n\n12:24. But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,\n\n12:25. That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when\nthou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.\n\n12:26. But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord,\nthou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n12:27. And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the\naltar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on\nthe altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.\n\n12:28. Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may\nbe well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt\ndo what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\n12:29. When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the\nnations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess\nthem, and dwell in their land:\n\n12:30. Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy\ncoming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these\nnations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.\n\n12:31. Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they\nhave done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth,\noffering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.\n\n12:32. What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add\nany thing, nor diminish.\n\nThat only do thou, etc... They are forbid here to follow the ceremonies\nof the heathens; or to make any alterations in the divine ordinances.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 13\n\nFalse prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities destroyed.\n\n13:1. If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he\nhath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,\n\n13:2. And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us\ngo and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve\nthem:\n\n13:3. Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the\nLord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with\nall your heart, and with all your soul, or not.\n\n13:4. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,\nand hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.\n\n13:5. And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he\nspoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of\nthe land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make\nthee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou\nshalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n13:6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or\nthy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy\nown soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve\nstrange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,\n\n13:7. Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from\none end of the earth to the other,\n\n13:8. Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to\npity and conceal him,\n\n13:9. But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first\nupon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.\n\nPresently put him to death... Not by killing him by private authority,\nbut by informing the magistrate, and proceeding by order of justice.\n\n13:10. With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have\nwithdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land\nof Egypt, from the house of bondage:\n\n13:11. That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing\nlike this.\n\n13:12. If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee\nto dwell in, thou hear some say:\n\n13:13. Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have\nwithdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and\nserve strange gods which you know not:\n\nBelial... That is, without yoke. Hence the wicked, who refuse to be\nsubject to the divine law, are called in scripture the children of\nBelial.\n\n13:14. Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by\nlooking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain,\nand that this abomination hath been really committed,\n\n13:15. Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the\nedge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it,\neven the cattle.\n\n13:16. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather\ntogether in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with\nthe city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it\nbe a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.\n\n13:17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that\nthe Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on\nthee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,\n\n13:18. When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all\nhis precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is\npleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 14\n\nIn mourning for the dead they are not to follow the ways of the\nGentiles: the distinction of clean and unclean meats: ordinances\nconcerning tithes, and firstfruits.\n\n14:1. Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves,\nnor make any baldness for the dead;\n\n14:2. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose\nthee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.\n\n14:3. Eat not the things that are unclean.\n\nUnclean... See the annotations on Lev. 11.\n\n14:4. These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep,\nand the goat,\n\n14:5. The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the\nwild goat, the camelopardalus.\n\n14:6. Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the\ncud, you shall eat.\n\n14:7. But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall\nnot eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they\nchew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.\n\n14:8. The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the\ncud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their\ncarcasses you shall not touch.\n\n14:9. These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have\nfins and scales, you shall eat.\n\n14:10. Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because\nthey are unclean.\n\n14:11. All birds that are clean you shall eat.\n\n14:12. The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the\nosprey,\n\n14:13. The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their\nkind:\n\n14:14. And all of the raven's kind:\n\n14:15. And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk\naccording to its kind:\n\n14:16. The heron, and the swan, and the stork,\n\n14:17. And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,\n\n14:18. The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the\nhoup also and the bat.\n\n14:19. Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be\nunclean, and shall not be eaten.\n\n14:20. All that is clean, you shall eat.\n\n14:21. But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the\nstranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because\nthou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid\nin the milk of his dam.\n\n14:22. Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that\nthe earth bringeth forth,\n\n14:23. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he\nshall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy\ncorn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy\nsheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.\n\n14:24. But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry\nall these things thither,\n\n14:25. Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt\ncarry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n14:26. And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee,\neither of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all\nthat thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and\nshalt feast, thou and thy house:\n\n14:27. And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him\nnot, because he hath no other part in thy possession.\n\n14:28. The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things\nthat grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.\n\n14:29. And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee,\nand the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy\ngates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may\nbless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 15\n\nThe law of the seventh year of remission. The firstlings of cattle are\nto be sanctified to the Lord.\n\n15:1. In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,\n\n15:2. Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is\nowing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again,\nbecause it is the year of remission of the Lord.\n\n15:3. Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy\ncountryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.\n\n15:4. And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy\nGod may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.\n\nThere shall be no poor, etc... It is not to be understood as a promise,\nthat there should be no poor in Israel, as appears from ver. 11, where\nwe learn that God's people would never be at a loss to find objects for\ntheir charity: but it is an ordinance that all should do their best\nendeavours to prevent any of their brethren from suffering the hardships\nof poverty and want.\n\n15:5. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all\nthings that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will\nbless thee, as he hath promised.\n\n15:6. Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man.\nThou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have\ndominion over thee.\n\n15:7. If one of thy brethren that dewlleth within thy gates of thy city\nin the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou\nshalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,\n\n15:8. But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which\nthou perceivest he hath need of.\n\n15:9. Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou\nsay in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou\nturn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which\nhe asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin\nunto thee.\n\n15:10. But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing\ncraftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless\nthee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n15:11. There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation:\ntherefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother,\nthat liveth in the land.\n\n15:12. When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee,\nand hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him\ngo free:\n\n15:13. And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go\naway empty:\n\n15:14. But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy\nbarnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless\nthee.\n\n15:15. Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt,\nand the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee\nthis.\n\n15:16. But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy\nhouse, and findeth that he is well with thee:\n\n15:17. Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of\nthy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like\nmanner to thy womanservant also.\n\n15:18. Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free:\nbecause he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a\nhireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that\nthou dost.\n\n15:19. Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou\nshalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou\nshalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear\nthe firstlings of thy sheep.\n\n15:20. In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year,\nin the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.\n\n15:21. But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part\ndisfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.\n\n15:22. But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and\nthe unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.\n\n15:23. Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out\non the earth as water.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 16\n\nThe three principal solemnities to be observed: just judges to be\nappointed in every city: all occasions of idolatry to be avoided.\n\n16:1. Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring,\nthat thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this\nmonth the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.\n\n16:2. And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep,\nand of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there.\n\n16:3. Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou\neat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of\nEgypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of\nEgypt, all the days of thy life.\n\n16:4. No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither\nshall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the\nevening remain until morning.\n\n16:5. Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which\nthe Lord thy God will give thee:\n\n16:6. But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at\nthe going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.\n\n16:7. And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy\nGod shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy\ndwellings.\n\n16:8. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day,\nbecause it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.\n\n16:9. Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein\nthou didst put the sickle to the corn.\n\n16:10. And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy\nGod, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according\nto the blessing of the Lord thy God.\n\n16:11. And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,\nand thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the\nLevite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless,\nand the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God\nshall choose, that his name may dwell there:\n\n16:12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and\nthou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.\n\n16:13. Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven\ndays, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the\nwinepress.\n\n16:14. And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son,\nand thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also\nand the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy\ngates.\n\n16:15. Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the\nplace which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will belss thee\nin all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in\njoy.\n\n16:16. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord\nthy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened\nbread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one\nshall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:\n\n16:17. But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to\nthe blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.\n\n16:18. Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which\nthe Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge\nthe people with just judgment,\n\n16:19. And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor\ngifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the\njust.\n\n16:20. Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou\nmayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.\n\n16:21. Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the\nLord thy God:\n\n16:22. Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which\nthings the Lord thy God hateth.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 17\n\nVictims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain.\nControversies are to be decided by the high priest and council, whose\nsentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is\nto receive the law of God at the priest's hands.\n\n17:1. Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox,\nwherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n17:2. When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which\nthe Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight\nof the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,\n\n17:3. So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and\nthe moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:\n\nThe host of heaven... That is, the stars.\n\n17:4. And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired\ndiligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is\ncommitted in Israel:\n\n17:5. Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed\nthat most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be\nstoned.\n\n17:6. By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be\nslain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against\nhim.\n\n17:7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him,\nand afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take\naway the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n17:8. If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful\nmatter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and\nleprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do\nvary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose.\n\nIf thou perceive, etc... Here we see what authority God was pleased to\ngive to the church guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without\nappeal, all controversies relating to the law; promising that they\nshould not err therein; and surely he has not done less for the church\nguides of the New Testament.\n\n17:9. And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to\nthe judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and\nthey shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.\n\n17:10. And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the\nplace, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,\n\n17:11. According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence:\nneither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.\n\n17:12. But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of\nthe priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the\ndecree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the\nevil from Israel:\n\n17:13. And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards\nswell with pride.\n\n17:14. When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me,\nas all nations have that are round about:\n\n17:15. Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the\nnumber of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation\nking, that is not thy brother.\n\n17:16. And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to\nhimself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the\nnumber of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to\nreturn no more the same way.\n\n17:17. He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor\nimmense sums of silver and gold.\n\n17:18. But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall\ncopy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the\ncopy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,\n\n17:19. And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of\nhis life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words\nand ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;\n\n17:20. And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren,\nnor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign\na long time over Israel.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 18\n\nThe Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish\nabominations are to be avoided. The great PROPHET CHRIST is promised.\nFalse prophets must be slain.\n\n18:1. The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall\nhave no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall\neat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,\n\n18:2. And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their\nbrethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to\nthem.\n\n18:3. This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that\noffer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give\nto the priest the shoulder and the breast:\n\n18:4. The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of\nthe wool from the shearing of their sheep.\n\n18:5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand\nand to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.\n\n18:6. If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel,\nin which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which\nthe Lord shall choose,\n\n18:7. He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his\nbrethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.\n\n18:8. He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do:\nbesides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his\nfathers.\n\n18:9. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those\nnations.\n\n18:10. Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate\nhis son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that\nconsulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there\nbe any wizard,\n\n18:11. Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or\nfortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.\n\n18:12. For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these\nabominations he will destroy them at thy coming.\n\n18:13. Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.\n\n18:14. These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to\nsoothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord\nthy God.\n\n18:15. The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation\nand of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:\n\n18:16. As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly\nwas gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of\nthe Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire,\nlest I die.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.\n\n18:18. I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren\nlike to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak\nto them all that I shall command him.\n\n18:19. And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my\nname, I will be the revenger.\n\n18:20. But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in\nmy name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of\nstrange gods, shall be slain.\n\n18:21. And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word\nthat the Lord hath not spoken?\n\n18:22. Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet\nforetelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that\nthing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the\npride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 19\n\nThe cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false witnesses must be\npunished.\n\n19:1. When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he\nwill deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the\ncities and houses thereof:\n\n19:2. Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land,\nwhich the Lord will give thee in possession,\n\n19:3. Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole\nprovince of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to\nflee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.\n\n19:4. This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to\nbe saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to\nhave had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:\n\n19:5. But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting\ndown the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping\nfrom the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one\nof the cities aforesaid, and live:\n\n19:6. Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed\non by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too\nlong, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because\nhe is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.\n\n19:7. Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal\ndistance one from another.\n\n19:8. And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he\nswore to the fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised\nthem,\n\n19:9. (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I\ncommand thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his\nways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt\ndouble the number of the three cities aforesaid:\n\n19:10. That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land\nwhich the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of\nblood.\n\n19:11. But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life,\nand rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities\naforesaid,\n\n19:12. The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the\nplace of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of\nhim whose blood was shed, and he shall die.\n\n19:13. Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of\ninnocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.\n\n19:14. Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which\nthy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.\n\n19:15. One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin\nor wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word\nshall stand.\n\n19:16. If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of\ntransgression,\n\n19:17. Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before\nthe Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in\nthose days.\n\n19:18. And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that\nthe false witness hath told a lie against his brother:\n\n19:19. They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and\nthou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:\n\n19:20. That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.\n\n19:21. Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for\neye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 20\n\nLaws relating to war.\n\n20:1. If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and\nchariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou\nshalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought\nthee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n20:2. And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before\nthe army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:\n\n20:3. Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let\nnot your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye\nthem not:\n\n20:4. Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight\nfor you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.\n\n20:5. And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing\nof the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath\nnot dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the\nbattle, and another man dedicate it.\n\n20:6. What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as\nyet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and\nreturn to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute\nhis office.\n\n20:7. What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her?\nlet him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another\nman take her.\n\n20:8. After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and shall\nspeak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint\nhearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts of\nhis brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear.\n\n20:9. And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and have\nmade an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to fight.\n\n20:10. If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt\nfirst offer it peace.\n\n20:11. If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people\nthat are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.\n\n20:12. But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against\nthee, thou shalt besiege it.\n\n20:13. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou\nshalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the\nsword,\n\n20:14. Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are\nin the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou\nshalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee.\n\n20:15. So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from\nthee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in\npossession.\n\n20:16. But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer\nnone at all to live:\n\n20:17. But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the\nHethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the\nHevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:\n\n20:18. Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have\ndone to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.\n\n20:19. When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed it\nwith bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may be\neaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes:\nfor it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of\nthem that fight against thee.\n\n20:20. But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and\nfit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the\ncity, which fighteth against thee.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 21\n\nThe expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest son\nmust not be deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. A\nstubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet,\nhe must be taken down the same day and buried.\n\n21:1. When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty\nof the murder,\n\n21:2. Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the\nplace where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:\n\n21:3. And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be\nnearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not\ndrawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,\n\n21:4. And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never\nwas ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the\nheifer:\n\n21:5. And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God\nhath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by\ntheir word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or\nunclean should be judged.\n\n21:6. And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and\nshall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,\n\n21:7. And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes\nsee it.\n\n21:8. Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord,\nand lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people\nIsrael. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:\n\n21:9. And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed,\nwhen thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.\n\n21:10. If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God\ndeliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,\n\n21:11. And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and\nlovest her, and wilt have her to wife,\n\n21:12. Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her\nhair, and pare her nails,\n\n21:13. And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall\nremain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and\nafter that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she\nshall be thy wife.\n\n21:14. But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go\nfree, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might\nbecause thou hast humbled her.\n\n21:15. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and\nthey have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the\nfirstborn,\n\n21:16. And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not\nmake the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son\nof the hated.\n\n21:17. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,\nand shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the\nfirst of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.\n\n21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the\ncommandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth\nobedience:\n\n21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city,\nand to the gate of judgment,\n\n21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn,\nhe slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling,\nand to debauchery and banquetings:\n\n21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that\nyou may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel\nhearing it may be afraid.\n\n21:22. When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished\nwith death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:\n\n21:23. His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the\nsame day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou\nshalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in\npossession.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 22\n\nHumanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the\nother. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof\nof a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of\nhim that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.\n\n22:1. Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his\nsheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.\n\n22:2. And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt\nbring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother\nseek them, and receive them.\n\n22:3. Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment,\nand with every thing that is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou find\nit, neglect it not as pertaining to another.\n\n22:4. If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the\nway, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.\n\n22:5. A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a\nman use woman's apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable\nbefore God.\n\n22:6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree,\nor on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs:\nthou shalt not take her with her young:\n\nThou shalt not take, etc. This was to shew them to exercise a certain\nmercy even to irrational creatures; and by that means to train them up\nto a horror of cruelty; and to the exercise of humanity and mutual\ncharity one to another.\n\n22:7. But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught:\nthat it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.\n\n22:8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to\nthe roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be\nguilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.\n\nBattlement... This precaution was necessary, because all their houses\nhad flat tops, and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon\nthem.\n\n22:9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the\nseed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified\ntogether.\n\n22:10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.\n\n22:11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen\ntogether.\n\n22:12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy\ncloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.\n\n22:13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,\n\n22:14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very\nill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I\nfound her not a virgin:\n\n22:15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them\nthe tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the\ngate:\n\n22:16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to\nwife: and because he hateth her,\n\n22:17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found\nnot thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my\ndaughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the\nancients of the city:\n\n22:18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,\n\n22:19. Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he\nshall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill\nname a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put\nher away all the days of his life.\n\n22:20. But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not\nfound in the damsel:\n\n22:21. They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and\nthe men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because\nshe hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her\nfather's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of\nthee.\n\n22:22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that\nis to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away\nthe evil out of Israel.\n\n22:23. If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one\nfind her in the city, and lie with her,\n\n22:24. Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they\nshall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the\ncity: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou\nshalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n22:25. But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and\ntaking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:\n\n22:26. The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death:\nfor as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so\nalso did the damsel suffer:\n\n22:27. She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to\nhelp her.\n\n22:28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and\ntaking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:\n\n22:29. He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty\nsicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled\nher: he may not put her away all the days of his life.\n\n22:30. No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 23\n\nWho may and who may not enter into the church: uncleanness to be\navoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows,\nand eating other men's grapes and corn.\n\n23:1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut\noff, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.\n\nEunuch... By these are meant, in the spiritual sense, such as are barren\nin good works. Ibid. Into the church... That is, into the assembly or\ncongregation of Israel, so as to have the privilege of an Israelite, or\nto be capable of any place or office among the people of God.\n\n23:2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not\nenter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.\n\n23:3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation\nshall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:\n\n23:4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way,\nwhen you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam,\nthe son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.\n\n23:5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his\ncursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.\n\n23:6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their\nprosperity all the days of thy life for ever.\n\n23:7. Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor\nthe Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.\n\n23:8. They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter\ninto the church of the Lord.\n\n23:9. When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep\nthyself from every evil thing.\n\n23:10. If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by\nnight, he shall go forth out of the camp,\n\n23:11. And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the\nevening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.\n\n23:12. Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go\nfor the necessities of nature,\n\n23:13. Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou\nshalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt\ncover\n\n23:14. That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in\nthe midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to\nthee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein,\nlest he go away from thee.\n\nNo uncleanness... This caution against suffering any filth in the camp,\nwas to teach them to fly the filth of sin, which driveth God away from\nthe soul.\n\n23:15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to\nthee.\n\n23:16. He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and\nshall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.\n\n23:17. There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor\nwhoremonger among the sons of Israel.\n\n23:18. Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a\ndog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast\nvowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.\n\n23:19. Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor\nany other thing:\n\n23:20. But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he\nwanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy\nworks in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\nTo the stranger... This was a dispensation granted by God to his people,\nwho being the Lord of all things, can give a right and title to one upon\nthe goods of another. Otherwise the scripture everywhere condemns usury,\nas contrary to the law of God, and a crying sin. See Ex. 22.25; Lev.\n25.36, 37; 2 Esd. 5.7; Ps. 14.5; Ezech. 18.8, 13, etc.\n\n23:21. When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not\ndelay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou\ndelay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.\n\n23:22. If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be without sin.\n\n23:23. But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe,\nand shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken\nwith thy own will and with thy own mouth.\n\n23:24. Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many\ngrapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:\n\n23:25. If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the ears, and\nrub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 24\n\nDivorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the newly married must not go\nto war: of men stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers' hire, of\njustice, and of charity to the poor.\n\n24:1. If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his\neyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall\ngive it in her hand, and send her out of his house.\n\n24:2. And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,\n\n24:3. And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and\nhath sent her out of his house or is dead:\n\n24:4. The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is\ndefiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy\nland to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.\n\n24:5. When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war,\nneither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free\nat home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.\n\n24:6. Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge:\nfor he hath pledged his life to thee.\n\n24:7. If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of\nIsrael, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death,\nand thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n24:8. Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy,\nbut thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall\nteach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it\ncarefully.\n\n24:9. Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you\ncame out of Egypt.\n\n24:10. When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth\nthee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:\n\n24:11. But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what\nhe hath.\n\n24:12. But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that\nnight,\n\n24:13. But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down\nof the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and\nthou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.\n\n24:14. Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor,\nwhether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the\nland, and is within thy gates:\n\n24:15. But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day,\nbefore the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it\nmaintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be\nreputed to thee for a sin.\n\n24:16. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the\nchildren for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,\n\n24:17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the\nfatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a\npledge.\n\n24:18. Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God\ndelivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.\n\n24:19. When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and\nleft a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt\nsuffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away:\nthat the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.\n\n24:20. If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt\nnot return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave\nit for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:21. If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather\nthe clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the\nfatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:22. Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I\ncommand thee to do this thing.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 25\n\nStripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to be muzzled. Of raising\nseed to the brother. Of the immodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of\ndestroying the Amalecites.\n\n25:1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the\njudges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive\nto be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of\nwickedness.\n\n25:2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall\nlay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them.  According\nto the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:\n\n25:3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother\ndepart shamefully torn before thy eyes.\n\n25:4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the\nfloor.\n\nNot muzzle, etc... St. Paul understands this of the spiritual labourer\nin the church of God, who is not to be denied his maintenance. 1 Cor.\n9.8, 9, 10.\n\n25:5. When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without\nchildren, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his\nbrother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:\n\n25:6. And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name,\nthat his name be not abolished out of Israel.\n\n25:7. But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth\nto him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the\nancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his\nbrother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.\n\n25:8. And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask\nhim. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:\n\n25:9. The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take\noff his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it\nbe done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:\n\n25:10. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.\n\n25:11. If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against\nthe other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of\nthe hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the\nsecrets,\n\n25:12. Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any\npity in her regard.\n\n25:13. Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a\nless:\n\n25:14. Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.\n\n25:15. Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be\nequal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which\nthe Lord thy God shall give thee.\n\n25:16. For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he\nhateth all injustice.\n\n25:17. Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out\nof Egypt:\n\nAmalec... This order for destroying the Amalecites, in the mystical\nsense, sheweth how hateful they are to God, and what punishments they\nare to look for from his justice, who attack and discourage his servants\nwhen they are but just come out, as it were, of the Egypt of this wicked\nworld and being yet weak and fainthearted, are but beginning their\njourney to the land of promise.\n\n25:18. How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down,\nbeing weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared\nnot God.\n\n25:19. Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall\nhave subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath\npromised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou\nforget it not.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 26\n\nThe form of words with which the firstfruits and tithes are to be\noffered. God's covenant.\n\n26:1. And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:\n\n26:2. Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a\nbasket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,\nthat his name may be invocated there:\n\n26:3. And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and\nsay to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come\ninto the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it\nus.\n\n26:4. And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before\nthe altar of the Lord thy God:\n\n26:5. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The\nSyrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there\nin a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of\nan infinite multitude.\n\nThe Syrian... Laban. See Gen. 27.\n\n26:6. And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us\nmost grievous burdens:\n\n26:7. And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and\nlooked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:\n\n26:8. And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched\nout arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:\n\n26:9. And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with\nmilk and honey.\n\n26:10. And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the\nLord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord\nthy God, adoring the Lord thy God.\n\n26:11. And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy\nGod hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the\nstranger that is with thee.\n\n26:12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the\nthird year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the\nstanger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat\nwithin thy gates, and be filled:\n\n26:13. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I\nhave taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given\nit to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the\nwidow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy\ncommandments nor forgotten thy precepts.\n\n26:14. I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for\nany uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed\nthe voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast\ncommanded me.\n\n26:15. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and\nbless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou\ndidst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n26:16. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these\ncommandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy\nheart, and with all thy soul.\n\n26:17. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in\nhis ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey\nhis command.\n\n26:18. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar\npeople, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:\n\n26:19. And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created,\nto his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people\nof the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 27\n\nThe commandments must be written on stones: and an altar erected, and\nsacrifices offered. The observers of the commandments are to be blessed,\nand the transgressors cursed.\n\n27:1. And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people,\nsaying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.\n\n27:2. And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the\nLord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt\nplaster them over with plaster,\n\n27:3. That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou\nart passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land which\nthe Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as\nhe swore to thy fathers.\n\n27:4. Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones\nwhich I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster\nthem with plaster:\n\n27:5. And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones\nwhich iron hath not touched,\n\n27:6. And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer\nupon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:\n\n27:7. And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n27:8. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law\nplainly and clearly.\n\n27:9. And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel:\nAttend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the\nLord thy God:\n\n27:10. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices\nwhich I command thee.\n\n27:11. And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:\n\n27:12. These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when\nyou are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and\nBenjamin.\n\n27:13. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben,\nGad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.\n\n27:14. And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel\nwith a loud voice:\n\n27:15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the\nabomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall\nput it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.\n\n27:16. Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all\nthe people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:18. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the\nfatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth\nhis bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:21. Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall\nsay: Amen.\n\n27:22. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his\nfather, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:24. Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:25. Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:26. Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and\nfulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 28\n\nMany blessings are promised to observers of God's commandments: and\ncurses threatened to transgressors.\n\n28:1. Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I\ncommand thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all\nthe nations that are on the earth.\n\n28:2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee:\nyet so if thou hear his precepts.\n\nAll these blessings, etc... In the Old Testament, God promised temporal\nblessings to the keepers of his law, heaven not being opened as yet; and\nthat gross and sensual people being more moved with present and sensible\nthings. But in the New Testament the goods that are promised us are\nspiritual and eternal; and temporal evils are turned into blessings.\n\n28:3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.\n\n28:4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the\nfolds of thy sheep.\n\n28:5. Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.\n\n28:6. Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.\n\n28:7. The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to\nfall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee, and\nseven ways shall they flee before thee.\n\n28:8. The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon\nall the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou\nshalt receive.\n\n28:9. The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he\nswore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways.\n\n28:10. And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the\nLord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.\n\n28:11. The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of\nthy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which\nthe Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.\n\n28:12. The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it\nmay give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy\nhands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any\none.\n\n28:13. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou\nshalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the\ncommandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep\nand do them,\n\n28:14. And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the\nleft, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.\n\n28:15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep\nand to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this\nday, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.\n\nAll these curses, etc... Thus God dealt with the transgressors of his\nlaw in the Old Testament: but now he often suffers sinners to prosper in\nthis world, rewarding them for some little good they have done, and\nreserving their punishment for the other world.\n\n28:16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.\n\n28:17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.\n\n28:18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.\n\n28:19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.\n\n28:20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke\nupon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy\nthee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast\nforsaken me.\n\n28:21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee\nout of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\n28:22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and\nwith cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with\nblasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.\n\n28:23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou\ntreadest on, of iron.\n\n28:24. The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes\ncome down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.\n\n28:25. The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst\nthou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered\nthroughout all the kingdoms of the earth.\n\n28:26. And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the\nbeasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.\n\n28:27. The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy\nbody, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so\nthat thou canst not be healed.\n\n28:28. The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.\n\n28:29. And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in\nthe dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times\nsuffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one\nto deliver thee.\n\n28:30. Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou\nbuild a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and\nnot gather the vintage thereof.\n\n28:31. May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May\nthy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy\nsheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee.\n\n28:32. May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy\neyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and\nmay there be no strength in thy hand.\n\n28:33. May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land,\nand all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be\ncrushed at all times.\n\n28:34. And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes\nshall see:\n\n28:35. May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and\nin the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top\nof the head.\n\n28:36. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have\nappointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not:\nand there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.\n\n28:37. And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people,\namong whom the Lord shall bring thee in.\n\n28:38. Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little:\nbecause the locusts shall consume all.\n\n28:39. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the\nwine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with\nworms.\n\n28:40. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be\nanointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.\n\n28:41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them:\nbecause they shall be led into captivity.\n\n28:42. The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy\nground.\n\n28:43. The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up\nover thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.\n\n28:44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall\nbe as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.\n\n28:45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and\novertake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of\nthe Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies\nwhich he commanded thee.\n\n28:46. And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed\nfor ever.\n\n28:47. Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and\ngladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:\n\n28:48. Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in\nhunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he\nshall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.\n\n28:49. The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the\nuttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose\ntongue thou canst not understand,\n\n28:50. A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients,\nnor have pity on the infant,\n\n28:51. And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy\nland: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine,\nnor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.\n\n28:52. And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall\nbe brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be\nbesieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee:\n\n28:53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy\nsons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in\nthe distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.\n\n28:54. The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his\nown brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,\n\n28:55. So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which\nhe shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want,\nwherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.\n\n28:56. The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground,\nnor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy\nher husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her\ndaughter,\n\n28:57. And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between\nher thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall\neat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress,\nwherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.\n\n28:58. If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that\nare written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name:\nthat is, The Lord thy God:\n\n28:59. The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed,\nplagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.\n\n28:60. And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt,\nwhich thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.\n\n28:61. Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and\nplagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume\nthee:\n\n28:62. And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars\nof heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord\nthy God.\n\n28:63. And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and\nmultiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to\nnought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt\ngo in to possess.\n\n28:64. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest\nparts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve\nstrange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and\nstone.\n\n28:65. Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall\nthere be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee\na fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with\npensiveness:\n\n28:66. And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt\nfear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.\n\n28:67. In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at\nevening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart,\nwherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt\nsee with thy eyes.\n\n28:68. The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way\nwhereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt\nthou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man\nshall buy you.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 29\n\nThe covenant is solemnly confirmed between God and his people. Threats\nagainst those that shall break it.\n\n29:1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses\nto make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that\ncovenant which he made with them in Horeb.\n\n29:2. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all\nthe things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao,\nand to all his servants, and to his whole land.\n\n29:3. The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty\nsigns and wonders,\n\n29:4. And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to\nsee, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.\n\nHath not given you, etc... Through your own fault and because you\nresisted his grace.\n\n29:5. He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments\nare not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.\n\n29:6. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink:\nthat you might know that I am the Lord your God.\n\n29:7. And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king\nof Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.\n\n29:8. And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben\nand Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n29:9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that\nyou may understand all that you do.\n\n29:10. You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes,\nand tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,\n\n29:11. Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with\nthee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:\n\n29:12. That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in\nthe oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.\n\n29:13. That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy\nGod as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham,\nIsaac, and Jacob.\n\n29:14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these\noaths,\n\n29:15. But with all that are present and that are absent.\n\n29:16. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have\npassed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,\n\n29:17. You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their\nidols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.\n\n29:18. Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family\nor a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God,\nto go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you\na root bringing forth gall and bitterness.\n\n29:19. And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless\nhimself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the\nnaughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,\n\nThe drunken, etc., absumat ebria sitientem... It is a proverbial\nexpression, which may either be understood, as spoken by the sinner,\nblessing, that is, flattering himself in his sins with the imagination\nof peace, and so great an abundance as may satisfy, and as it were,\nconsume all thirst and want: or it may be referred to the root of\nbitterness, spoken of before, which being drunken with sin may attract,\nand by that means consume, such as thirst after the like evils.\n\n29:20. And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy\nagainst that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all\nthe curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and\nthe Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,\n\n29:21. And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel,\naccording to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and\ncovenant:\n\n29:22. And the following generation shall say, and the children that\nshall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar,\nseeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath\nafflicted it,\n\n29:23. Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it\ncannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the\nexample of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim,\nwhich the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:\n\n29:24. And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to\nthis land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?\n\n29:25. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the\nLord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the\nland of Egypt:\n\n29:26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they\nknew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:\n\n29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to\nbring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:\n\n29:28. And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath,\nand in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land,\nas it is seen this day.\n\n29:29. Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to\nus and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this\nlaw.\n\nSecret things, etc... As much as to say, secret things belong to, and\nare known to, God alone; our business must be to observe what he has\nrevealed and manifested to us, and to direct our lives accordingly.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 30\n\nGreat mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is\nfeasible. Life and death are set before them.\n\n30:1. Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or\nthe curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched\nwith repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord\nthy God shall have scattered thee,\n\n30:2. And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command\nthee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all\nthy soul:\n\n30:3. The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will\nhave mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into\nwhich he scattered thee before.\n\n30:4. If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God\nwill fetch thee back from hence,\n\n30:5. And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which\nthy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he\nwill make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.\n\n30:6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy\nseed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with\nall thy soul, that thou mayst live.\n\n30:7. And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them\nthat hate and persecute thee.\n\n30:8. But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and\nshalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:\n\n30:9. And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy\nhands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the\nfruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord\nwill return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in\nthy fathers:\n\n30:10. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his\nprecepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to\nthe Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.\n\n30:11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee,\nnor far off from thee:\n\n30:12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go\nup to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?\n\n30:13. Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and\nsay: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may\nhear, and do that which is commanded?\n\n30:14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy\nheart, that thou mayst do it.\n\n30:15. Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and\non the other hand death and evil:\n\n30:16. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and\nkeep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in\nthe land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\n30:17. But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and\nbeing deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:\n\n30:18. I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain\nbut a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan,\nand shalt go in to possess it.\n\n30:19. I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set\nbefore you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life,\nthat both thou and thy seed may live:\n\n30:20. And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice,\nand adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that\nthou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 31\n\nMoses encourageth the people, and Josue, who is appointed to succeed\nhim. He delivereth the law to the priests. God foretelleth that the\npeople will often forsake him, and that he will punish them. He\ncommandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a constant remembrancer of the\nlaw.\n\n31:1. And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,\n\n31:2. And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old,\nI can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath\nsaid to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.\n\n31:3. The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy\nall these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this\nJosue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n31:4. And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings\nof the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.\n\n31:5. Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you,\nyou shall do in like manner to them as I have commmanded you.\n\n31:6. Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at\ntheir sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not\nleave thee nor forsake thee.\n\n31:7. And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land\nwhich the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt\ndivide it by lot.\n\n31:8. And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he\nwill not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.\n\n31:9. And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons\nof Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the\nancients of Israel.\n\n31:10. And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of\nremission, in the feast of tabernacles,\n\n31:11. When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the Lord\nthy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the\nwords of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.\n\n31:12. And the people being all assembled together, both men and women,\nchildren and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may\nlearn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of\nthis law:\n\n31:13. That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and\nfear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither\nyou are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n31:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are\nnigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that\nI may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the\ntabernacle of the testimony:\n\n31:15. And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood\nin the entry of the tabernacle.\n\n31:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy\nfathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange\ngods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake\nme, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,\n\n31:17. And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I\nwill forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be\ndevoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall\nsay in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these\nevils have found me.\n\n31:18. But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils\nwhich they have done, because they have followed strange gods.\n\n31:19. Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of\nIsrael: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this\nsong may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.\n\n31:20. For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their\nfathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and\nare full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve\nthem: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.\n\n31:21. And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them,\nthis canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall\ntake away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and\nwhat they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the\nland which I have promised them.\n\n31:22. Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children\nof Israel.\n\n31:23. And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel\ninto the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:24. Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a\nvolume, and finished it:\n\n31:25. He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord, saying:\n\n31:26. Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant\nof the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.\n\n31:27. For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet\nliving, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against\nthe Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?\n\n31:28. Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors,\nand I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and\nearth to witness against them.\n\n31:29. For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will\nquickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils\nshall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the\nsight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.\n\n31:30. Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of\nIsrael, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 32\n\nA canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up\ninto a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not\nenter into it.\n\n32:1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to\nthe words of my mouth.\n\n32:2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the\ndew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.\n\n32:3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence\nto our God.\n\n32:4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God\nis faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.\n\n32:5. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in\ntheir filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.\n\n32:6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and\nsenseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and\nmade thee, and created thee?\n\n32:7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy\nfather, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.\n\n32:8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons\nof Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of\nthe children of Israel.\n\n32:9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his\ninheritance.\n\n32:10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast\nwilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the\napple of his eye.\n\n32:11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,\nhe spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his\nshoulders.\n\n32:12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with\nhim.\n\n32:13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the\nfields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the\nhardest stone,\n\n32:14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs,\nand of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of\nwheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.\n\n32:15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and\ngross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.\n\n32:16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger,\nwith their abominations.\n\n32:17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew\nnot: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.\n\n32:18. Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten\nthe Lord that created thee.\n\n32:19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and\ndaughters provoked him.\n\n32:20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider\nwhat their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and\nunfaithful children.\n\n32:21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have\nangered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which\nis no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.\n\n32:22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest\nhell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the\nfoundations of the mountains.\n\n32:23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.\n\n32:24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them\nwith a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with\nthe fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.\n\n32:25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both\nthe young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.\n\n32:26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease\nfrom among men.\n\n32:27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps\ntheir enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not\nthe Lord, hath done all these things.\n\n32:28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.\n\n32:29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide\nfor their last end.\n\n32:30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten\nthousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had\nshut them up?\n\n32:31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are\njudges.\n\n32:32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of\nGomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most\nbitter.\n\n32:33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which\nis incurable.\n\n32:34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my\ntreasures?\n\n32:35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their\nfoot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes\nhaste to come.\n\n32:36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his\nservants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who\nwere shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.\n\n32:37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?\n\n32:38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their\ndrink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your\ndistress.\n\n32:39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I\nwill kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and\nthere is none that can deliver out of my hand.\n\n32:40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for\never.\n\n32:41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold\non judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that\nhate me.\n\n32:42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour\nflesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head\nof the enemies.\n\n32:43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of\nhis servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be\nmerciful to the land of his people.\n\n32:44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the\nears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.\n\n32:45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.\n\n32:46. And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I\ntestify to you this day: which you shall command your children to\nobserve and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:\n\n32:47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should\nlive in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the\nland whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n32:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:\n\n32:49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,)\nunto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and\nsee the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel\nto possess, and die thou in the mountain.\n\n32:50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy\npeople, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his\npeople:\n\n32:51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of\nIsrael, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin:\nand you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.\n\n32:52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 33\n\nMoses before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:1. This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the\nchildren of Israel, before his death.\n\n33:2. And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to\nus: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of\nsaints. In his right hand a fiery law.\n\n33:3. He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they\nthat approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.\n\n33:4. Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of\nJacob.\n\n33:5. He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people,\nbeing assembled with the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:6. Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.\n\n33:7. This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and\nbring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he\nshall be his helper against his enemies.\n\n33:8. To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy\nholy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the\nwaters of contradiction:\n\nHoly man... Aaron and his successors in the priesthood.\n\n33:9. Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you;\nand to his bretheren: I know you not: and their own children they have\nnot known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,\n\nWho hath said, etc... It is the duty of the priestly tribe to prefer\nGod's honour and service before all considerations of flesh and blood:\nin such manner as to behave as strangers to their nearest akin, when\nthese would withdraw them from the business of their calling.\n\n33:10. Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put\nincense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.\n\n33:11. Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands.\nStrike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.\n\n33:12. And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell\nconfidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day\nlong, and between his shoulders shall be rest.\n\nShall dwell, etc... This seems to allude to the temple being built in\nthe confines of the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n33:13. To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land,\nof the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth\nbeneath.\n\n33:14. Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.\n\n33:15. Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the\neverlasting hills:\n\n33:16. And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The\nblessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph,\nand upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.\n\nThe Nazarite... See the note on Gen. 49.26.\n\n33:17. His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the\nhorns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the\nends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the\nthousands of Manasses.\n\n33:18. And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and\nIssachar in thy tabernacles.\n\n33:19. They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they\nsacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance\nof the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.\n\n33:20. And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested\nas a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.\n\n33:21. And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was\nlaid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of\nthe Lord, and his judgment with Israel.\n\nHe saw, etc... The pre-eminence of the tribe of Gad, to which this\nalludeth, was their having the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders;\nthough the particular place was not known.\n\n33:22. To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow\nplentifully from Basan.\n\n33:23. And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and\nshall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and\nthe south.\n\nThe sea... The lake of Genesareth.\n\n33:24. To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him\nbe acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.\n\n33:25. His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so\nalso shall thy old age be.\n\n33:26. There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is\nmounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds\nrun hither and thither.\n\n33:27. His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms:\nhe shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou\nbrought to nought.\n\nUnderneath are the everlasting arms... Though the dwelling of God be\nabove in heaven, his arms are always stretched out to help us here\nbelow.\n\n33:28. Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a\nland of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.\n\n33:29. Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art\nsaved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory:\nthy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 34\n\nMoses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to go into it. He\ndieth at the age of 120 years. God burieth his body secretly, and all\nIsrael mourn for him thirty days. Josue, replenished (by imposition of\nMoses's hands) with the spirit of God, succeedeth. But Moses, for his\nspecial familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles, is\ncommended above all other prophets.\n\n34:1. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the\ntop of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land\nof Galaad as far as Dan.\n\n34:2. And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all\nthe land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,\n\n34:3. And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho the\ncity of palm trees as far as Segor.\n\n34:4. And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou hast\nseen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.\n\n34:5. And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab,\nby the commandment of the Lord:\n\nDied there... This last chapter of Deuteronomy, inwhich the death of\nMoses is related, was written by Josue, or by some of the prophets.\n\n34:6. And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against\nPhogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.\n\nHe buried him, viz... by the ministry of angels, and would have the\nplace of his burial to be unknown, lest the Israelites, who were so\nprone to idolatry, might worship him with divine honours.\n\n34:7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was\nnot dim, neither were his teeth moved.\n\n34:8. And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab\nthirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses\nwere ended.\n\n34:9. And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom,\nbecause Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel\nobeyed him, and did as the Lord comanded Moses.\n\n34:10. And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses, whom\nthe Lord knew face to face,\n\n34:11. In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the\nland of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land,\n\n34:12. And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses did\nbefore all Israel.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":30126}