A dissuasive

Josh. 23. 11.

"Isai. 40. 18.

Exod. 32. 7.

& ver. 9.

I ver. 16. Exod. 20. 4, 5.

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12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: "ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude ; 't only ye heard a voice.

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

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16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and 'make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath || divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

against idolatry.

37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with Exod. 13. 3, his mighty power out of Egypt;

1 ch. 10. 15.

9, 14.

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38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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41 ¶ Then Moses' severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

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43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

46 On this side Jordan, " in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

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The ten commandments.

your ears this day, that ye may learn Before them, and † keep, and do them.

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2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

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4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

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CHRIST 1451.

+ Heb. keep to do them.

1491. Exod. 19. 5. ch. 4. 23. See Matt. 13. 17.

Hebr. 8. 9. Exod. 19. 9, 19. & 20. 22. ch. 4. 33, 36. & 34. 10.

Gal. 3. 19.

5 (I stood between the LORD and Exod. 20.21. you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

6 T'I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of † bondage.

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7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

8 h Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

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Exod. 19.16. & 20. 18. & 24. 2.

f Exod. 20. 2, &c. Lev. 26. 1. ch. 6. 4. Ps. 81. 10. Heb. servants.

Exod. 20. 3.

10 And shewing mercy unto thou- Jer. 32. 18. sands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

1 Exod. 20. 7. Lev. 19. 12 Matt. 5. 33.

13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do Exod. 23.12. all thy work :

14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

& 35. 2. Ezek. 20.12.

° Gen. 2 2. Exod. 16.29, 30.

Hebr. 4. 4.

P ch. 15, 15. & 16. 12. & 24. 18, 22.

4 ch. 4. 34, 37.

Moses deputed to receive the law.

Before CHRIST 1451.

Exod. 20, 12.
Lev. 19. 3.
ch. 27. 16.

Eph. 6. 2, 3.
Col. 3, 20.

⚫ch. 4. 40.

16 T Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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17 Thou shalt not kill.

30 Go say to them, Get you into your ch. 4. 40. tents again.

31 But as for thee, stand thou here m and I will speak unto thee all

by me,

20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

22 ¶ These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And a he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we † hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God. speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

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27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and

in Gal. 3. 19.

n ch. 17. 20. & 28. 14. Josh. 1. 7. & 23. 6.

Prov. 4. 27. • ch. 10. 12. Ps. 119. 6. Jer. 7. 23. Luke 1.6. P ch. 4. 40.

NOW these are the commandments, ch. 41. &

the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye † go to possess it: t

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2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

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3 ¶ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, d as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

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4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

7 And thou shalt † teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8' And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

31. & 12. 1.

+ Heb. pass

over.

5.

b Exod. 20.20. ch. 10. 12,13, Ps. 111. 10. & 128, 1. Eccles. 12.

13.

ech. 4. 40. Prov. 3. 1, 2.

d Gen. 15. 5. & 22. 17.

• Exod. 3. 8.

f Isai. 42. 8. Mark 12. 29, 32.

John 17. 3. 1 Cor. 8. 4, 6. 8 ch. 10. 12. Matt. 22. 37. Mark 12. 30. Luke 10. 27.

h 2 Kings 23.

25.

i ch. 11. 18. & 32, 46, Ps. 37. 31. & 40. 8. & 119. 11, 98. Prov. 3. 3. Isai. 51. 7. * ch. 4. 9. & 11. 19. Ps. 78. 4,5,6. Eph. 6. 4.

+ Heb. whet, or, sharpen.

1 Exod. 13. 9, 16.

ch. 11. 18. Prov, 3. 3. & 6. 21. & 7. 3.

Numb. 33. 52, 53.

e Exod. 13.14. +Heb. to mor

row.

d Exod. 3. 19.

& 13. 3. Exod. 7.& 8.

& 9, & 10, & 11. & 12. Ps. 135. 9. + Heb. evil.

11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of + bondage.

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13 Thou shalt P fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

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14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

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15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) "lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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16 ¶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in

Massah.

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17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

18 And thou a shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

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19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

20 And when thy son asketh thee † in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt d with a mighty hand:

22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and † sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houshold, before our eyes:

23 And he brought us out from thence,

All communion with

the nations is forbidden.

Before CHRIST 1451.

Isai. 49. 7.

1 Cor. 1. 9. &

10. 13.

2 Cor. 1. 18. 1Thess.5.24.

2 Thess. 3. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 13.

Hebr. 11.11.
1 John 1. 9.

Exod. 20. 6.
ch. 5. 10.
Neh. 1. 5.
Dan. 9. 4.
Isai. 59. 18.
Nah. 1. 2

1 ch. 32. 35.

"Lev. 26. 3. ch. 28. 1. + Heb. be.

cause.

* Ps. 105. 8,9. Luke 1. 55, 72, 73.

John 14. 21.

'ch. 28. 4.

mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

10 And 'repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: the will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, † if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

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14 Thou shalt be blessed above all Exod. 23.26, people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

&c.

An exhortation to obedience.

CHAPTER VIII.

An exhortation to obedience in regard of God's dealing with them.

the commandments which I com

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Judg. 8. 27. Zeph. 1. 3. " ch. 17. 1.

* Lev. 27. 28. ch. 13. 17. Josh. 6. 17, 18. & 7. 1.

ALLand thee this day shall ye observe ch. 4. 1. 5.

to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers.

2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments,

or no.

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32, 33. & 6. 1, 2, 3.

b ch. 1. 3. & 2. 7. & 29. 5. Ps. 136. 16. Amos 2. 10. Exod. 16. 4. ch. 13. 3.

d 2 Chron, 32. 31. John 2. 25.

3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and 'fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread Ps. 104. 29. only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

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4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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5 Thou shalt also consider in thine

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Matt. 4. 4.

Luke 4.4.

h ch. 29. 5. Neh. 9. 21. 12 Sam. 7. 14. Ps. 89. 32. Prov. 3. 12. Hebr.12.5,6. Rev. 3. 19.