An exhortation to obedience CHẠP. XI. sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

by promises and threatenings. 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which 11 But the land, whither ye go to pos- I command you this day; sess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the drinketh water of the rain of heaven: commandments of the LORD your God, but 12 A land which the LORD thy God turn aside out of the way which I comcareth for the eyes of the LORD thy God mand you this day, to go after other gods are always upon it, from the beginning of which ye have not known. the year even unto the end of the year. 13¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

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

30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

15 And I will send grass in thy fields for 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. in to possess the land which the LORD your 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, dwell therein. and serve other gods, and worship them; 32 And ye shall observe to do all the sta17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled tutes and judgments which I set before you against you, and he shut up the heaven, this day. that there be no rain, and that the land vield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quick-which ye shall observe to do in the THESE are the statutes and judgments ly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

CHAP. XII.

land which the LORD God of thy fathers 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my giveth thee to possess it, all the days that words in your heart and in your soul, and ye live upon the earth.

bind them for a sign upon your hand, that 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, they may be as frontlets between your eyes. wherein the nations which ye shall possess 19 And ye shall teach them your chil-served their gods, upon the high mountains, dren, speaking of them when thou sittest and upon the hills, and under every green in thine house, and when thou walkest by tree: the way, when thou liest down, and when 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, thou risest up. and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

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

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

4 ¶ Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

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

22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God,| 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntto walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto offerings, and your sacrifices, and your him; tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, nations from before you, and ye shall pos- and the firstlings of your herds, and of your sess greater nations and mightier than your-flocks:

selves.

7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD

24 Every place whereon the soles of your your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye feet shall tread shall be yours: from the put your hand unto, ye and your housewilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the holds, wherein the LORD thy God hath river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost blessed thee. sea shall your coast be.

8 Ye shall not do after all the things that 25 There shall no man be able to stand we do here this day, every man whatsoever before you: for the LORD your God shall is right in his own eyes.

lay the fear of you, and the dread of you 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, and to the inheritance which the LORD your as he hath said unto you. God giveth you.

26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God

Blood is forbidden.

DEUTERONOMY.

Enticers to idolatry giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth blood: for the blood is the life; and thou you rest from all your enemies round about, mayest not eat the life with the flesh. so that ye dwell in safety: 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring well with thee, and with thy children after all that I command you; your burnt-offer- thee, when thou shalt do that which is right ings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and in the sight of the LORD.

the heave-offering of your hand, and all 26 Only thy holy things which thou your choice vows which he vow unto the hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and LORD: go unto the place which the LORD shall

12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD choose: your God, ye, and your sons, and your 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerdaughters, and your men-servants, and ings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar your maid-servants, and the Levite that is of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy within your gates; forasmuch as he hath sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar no part nor inheritance with you. of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat

13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer the flesh. not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest:

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well 14 But in the place which the LORD shall with thee, and with thy children after thee choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt for ever, when thou doest that which is good offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou and right in the sight of the LORD thy shalt do all that 1 command thee.

God.

15¶ Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever off the nations from before thee, whither thy soul lusteth after, according to the bless-thou goest to possess them, and thou sucing of the LORD thy God which he hath ceedest them, and dwellest in their land; given thee: the unclean and the clean may 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and as of the

hart.

16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or thy God; for every abomination to the of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which LORD which he hateth have they done unto thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, or their gods; for even their sons and their heave-offering of thine hand: daughters they have burnt in the fire to their

18 But thou must eat them before the gods. LORD thy God in the place which the 32 What thing soever I command you, LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, nor diminish from it. and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

ter.

CHAP. XIII.

teamer of dreams, and giveth thee a F there arise among you a prophet, or a

sign or a wonder,

2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast 20 ¶ When the LORD thy God shall en- not known, and let us serve them; large thy border, as he hath promised thee, 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest for the LORD your God proveth you, to eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth af- know whether ye love the LORD your Godwith all your heart and with all your soul. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, hath chosen to put his name there be too and fear him, and keep his commandments, far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath and cleave unto him. given thee, as I have commanded thee, and 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy dreams, shall be put to death; because he soul lusteth after. hath spoken to turn you away from the 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is LORD your God, which brought you out of eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out and the clean shall eat of them alike. of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the of the way which the LORD thy God com

CHAP. XIV.

Tithes of divine service. manded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put 2 For thou art an holy people unto the the evil away from the midst of thee. LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen

6¶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of above all the nations that are upon the thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine earth. own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast thing. not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

4 These are the beasts which ye shall 7 Namely, of the gods of the people eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, which are round about you, nigh unto thee, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the or far off from thee, from the one end of the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pyearth even unto the other end of the earth; garg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois. 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor 6 And every beast that parteth the hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shalt thou conceal him: ye shall eat.

14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabit- and the cuckow, and the hawk after his ants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that may turn from the fierceness of his anger, dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the and shew thee mercy, and have compassion stranger that is in thy gates, that he may upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: sworn unto thy fathers; for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Of the year of release;"

DEUTERONOMY.

and of an Hebrew servant.

that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy 9 Beware that there be not a thought in God alway. thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year,

24 ¶ And if the way be too long for thee, the year of release, is at hand; and thine so that thou art not able to carry it; or if eye be evil against thy poor brother, and the place be too far from thee, which the thou givest him nought; and he cry unto LORD thy God shall choose to set his name the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

thee: 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, thine heart shall not be grieved when thou and bind up the money in thine hand, and givest unto him: because that for this thing shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy God shall choose: works, and in all that thou puttest thine 26 And thou shalt bestow that money hand unto. for whatsoever thy coul lusteth after, for 11 For the poor shall never cease out of oxen, or for sneep, or for wine, or for strong the land: therefore I command thee, saydrink, or for whatsoever thy soul desirething, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and in thy land,

thine household.

12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew 27 And the Levite that is within thy man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto gates; thou shalt not forsake him for he thee, and serve thee six years; then in the hath no part nor inheritance with thee. seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out ́ part nor inheritance with thee,) and the of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the which are within thy gates, shall come, and LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD give unto him. thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

CHAP. XV.

Ashalt make a release.

T the end of every seven years thou

15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.

16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

2 And this is the manner of the release: I Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and because it is called the LORD's release. thrust it through his ear unto the door, and 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it he shall be thy servant for ever. And also again: but that which is thine with thy unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likebrother thine hand shall release:

wise.

4 Save when there shall be no poor 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when among you; for the LORD shall greatly thou sendest him away free from thee: for bless thee in the land which the LORD thy he hath been worth a double hired servant God giveth thee for an inheritance to pos- to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that

sess it:

5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto thou doest. the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe 19 All the firstling males that come of to do all these commandments which I thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanccommand thee this day. tify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do

6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as no work with the firstling of thy bullock, he promised thee: and thou shalt lend un-nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD and thou shalt reign over many nations, but thy God year by year in the place which hey shall not reign over thee. the LORD shall choose, thou and thy house

7 If there be among you a poor man hold. of one of thy brethren within any of thy 21 And if there be any blemish therein, gates in thy land which the LORD thy God as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor LORD thy God.

brother: 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide the unclean and the clean person shall eat unto him, and shalt surely lend him suffi- it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. cient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood

thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground the Levite, the

as water.

CHAP. XVI.

OBSERVE the month of Abib, and

keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Idolaters must be slain.

stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates:

15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the pass- therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. over unto the LORD thy God, of the flock 16 Three times in a year shall all thy and the herd, in the place which the LORD males appear before the LORD thy God in shall choose to place his name there. the place which he shall choose; in the

empty

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; and they shall not appear before the LORD for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remem- 17 Every man shall give as he is able, ber the day when thou camest forth out of according to the blessing of the LORD thy the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. God which he hath given thee. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judg

ment.

19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 ¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII.

HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD

Tthy God tuny bullock, or sheep, where

9¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks in is blemish, or any evil favouredness: from such time as thou beginnest to put the for that is an abomination unto the LORD sickle to the corn. thy God.

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10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks 2 ¶ If there be found among you, within unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a any of thy gates which the LORD thy God freewill-offering of thine hand, which thou giveth thee, man or woman that hath shalt give unto the LORD thy God, ac-wrought wickedness in the sight of the cording as the LORD thy God hath blessed LORD thy God, in transgressing his covethee: nant,

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the 3 And hath gone and served other gods, LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy and worshipped them, either the sun, or daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy moon, or any of the host of heaven, which maid-servant, and the Levite that is within I have not commanded;

thy gates, and the stranger, and the father- 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard less, and the widow, that are among you, of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, in the place which the LORD thy God hath it be true, and the thing certain, that such chosen to place his name there. abomination is wrought in Israel.:

12 And thou shalt remember that thou 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt or that woman, which have committed that observe and do these statutes. wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and be put to death; but at the mouth of one thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and witness he shall not be put to death.