ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which| we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites, I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the 37 Only unto the land of the children of coast thereof, from Chinnereth, even unto Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. the mountains, nor into whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us. THEN CHAP. III. we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD said unto me. Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people and we smote him, until none was left to him remaining. : 4 And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars, besides unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshibon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time, out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, the and that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon ; 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle.(for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which have given you, 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. 21 And 1 commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. 23¶ And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 240 LORD God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Si-your sakes, and wou.d not bear me; and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak rion, and the Amorites call it Sherir ;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gi-no more unto me of this matter. lead, and all Bashan,unto Salehah and Edrei,! cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan : 27 Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of and southward, and eastward, and behold it the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over was a bedstead of iron: is it not in Rabbath this Jordan." of the children of Aminou? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt ser. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. CHAP. IV. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes, and unto the judgments, 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the which I teach you, for to do them, that ye half-tribe of Manassel; all the region of may live,and go in and possess the land which Argob, with all Bushan, which was called the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, unto the coasts of Geshuri and Matchathi, and called them after his own name, Bashan lavoth-jair, unto this day, 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the com mandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did hath divided unto all nations under the whole because of Baal-peor: for all the men that heaven. followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day me for your sakes, and sware that I should 21 Furthermore, the LORD was angry with not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; ye for 6 Keep therefore, and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the 22 But I must die in this land, I must not sight of the nations, which shall hear all these go over Jordan: but ye shall go over and statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is possess that good land. a wise and understanding people. 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest 7 For what nation is there so great, who get the covenant of the LORD your God, hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our which he made with you, and make you a God is in all things that we call upon him graven image, or the likeness of any thing, for? which the LORD thy God hatl: forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as ail this law, which I set before you this day? 25 When thou shalt beget children, and 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy children's children, and ye shall have remainsoul diligently, lest thou forget the things ed long in the land, and shall corrupt yourwhich thine eyes have seen, and lest they de-selves, and make a graven image, or the likeart from thy heart all the days of thy life;ness of any thing, and shall do evil in the but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons: sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest be- to anger; fore the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against LORD said unto me, Gather me the people you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish together, and I will make them hear iny from off the land whereunto ye go over Jorwords, that they may learn to fear me all the dan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days that they shall live upon the earth, and days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. that they may teach their children. 27 And the LORD shail scatter you among 11 And ye came near, and stood under the the nations, and ye shall be left few in num mountain; and the mountain burned with ber among the heathen, whither the LORD fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, shall lead clouds, and thick darkness. you. 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of of men's hands, wood and stone, which neithe midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of ther see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. the words, but saw no similitude; only ye 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the heard a voice. LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy which he commanded you to perform, even soul. ten commandments; and he wrote them 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all upon two tables of stone. these things are come upon thee, even in the 14 And the LORD commanded me at latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, that time to teach you statutes and judg- and shalt be obedient unto his voice, ments, that ye might do them in the iand 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful whither ye go over to possess it. God,) he will not forsake thee, neither de15 Take ye therefore good heed unto your-stroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy selves, (or ye saw no manner of similitude fatliers, which he sware unto them. on the day that the LORD spake unto you in 32 For ask now of the days that are past, Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) 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 Bieth 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: which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and as from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or bath been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the tire, as thou last heard, and live? 34 Or lath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a the moon, and the stars, even all the host of stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, acheaven, shouldøst be driven to worship them, cording to all that the LORD your God did and serve them, which the LORD thy God for you in Egypt before your eyes? 4 The LORD talked with you face to " 25 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at there is none else besides him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his that time, to shew you the word of the LORD voice that he might instruct thee; and upon for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and earth: he shewed thee his great fire; and thou went not up into the mount,) saying, 6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, there-thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house fore he chose their seed after thein, and of bondage. brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven 38 To drive out nations from before thee, greier and mightier than thou art, to bring image, or any likeness of any thing that is in thee in, to give thee their land for an inhe-heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: ritance, 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. 41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising; 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, 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them the 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. 12 Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour and do all 42 That the slayer might fiee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares and hated hin not in times past; and that, fleeing unto thy work; one of these citics, he might live: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do plain country of the Reubenites; and Ra-any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughmoth in Gilead of the Gadites; and Golanter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid ser vant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of in Bashan of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy before the children of Israel: gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid45 These are the testimonies and the sta-servant may rest as well as thou. 15 And remember that theu wast a servant rutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy forth out of Egypt; God brought thee oat thence though a migh 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley overty hand, and by a stretched out arm: there. against Beth-peor, in the land of Silon king fore the LORD thy God commanded thee to of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, keep the sabbath-day. whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, after they were come forth out of Egypt: as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; 47 And they possessed his land, and the that thy days may be prolonged, and that it land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the may go well with thee, in the land which the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan, Lon thy God giveth thee. toward the sun-rising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mcunt Silion, which is Hermon. 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah CHAP. V. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his AND Moses called all Israel, and said un-maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing These words the LORD spake unto all to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and that is thy neighbour's. Judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and your assembly in the mount, out of the midst do them. of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick 2 The LORD our God made a covenant darkness, with a great voice; and he added 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. no more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone. and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (fog the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye 6 And these words, which I command thes came near unto me, even all the heads of this day, shall be in thine heart. your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory, and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 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? 27Go 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 Oh that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. CHAP. VI. NOW these are the commandments, 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; 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. 3 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great ard goodly cities, which thou buildedst not; 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not; and wells digged, when 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. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, ard serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you, 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. 16 ¶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. 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 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; 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 bond-men in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a migh ty hand. That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes, and his com- 22And the LORD shewed signs and wonderr, mandments, which I command thee; thou, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon l'haraoh, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of and upon all his household, before our eyes. 23 And he brought us out from thence, that thy life,and that thy days may be prolonged, 3 Hear therefore, Ŏ Israel, and observe he might bring us in, to give us the land to do it; that it may be well with thee, and which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hatli promised thee, in all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, the land that floweth with milk and honey. for our good always, that he might preserve 4 Hear, O Israel; The LORD our God is us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God jobserve to do all these commandments before with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and the LORD our (iod, as he hath commanded with all thy might. DEUTERONOMY. 15 And the LORD will take away from CHAP. VII. WHEN the LORD thy God shall bring thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases Egypt, which thou knowest W 16 And thou shalt consume all the people the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Je-which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; husites, seven nations greater and mightier thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that wil than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deli-be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These ver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make nations are more than I, how can I disposses no covenant with them, nor shew mercy un-them? to them: 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with shalt well remember what the LORD thy God them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt: 19 The great temptations which thine eyes his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unsaw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the to thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, following me, that they may serve other whereby the Lord thy God brought thee gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kin-out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all aled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. the people of whom thou art afraid. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send shall destroy their altars, and break down the hornet among them, until they that are their images, and cut down their groves, and left, and hide themselves from thee, be de burn their graven images with fire. stroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them, 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath for the LORD thy God is among you, a chosen thee to be a special people unto him-mighty God and terrible. self, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, thou mayest not consume them at once, lest norchoose you,because ye were more in num-the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver ber than any people; (for ye were the fewest them unto thee, and shall destroy them with fo of all people ;) 8 But because the LORD loved you, and a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed, f 21 And he shall deliver their kings into because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their brought you out with a mighty hand, and name from under heaven: there shall no redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and merey with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations; ter 251 The graven Images of their gods shal 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the command-cursed thing. CHAP. VIII. LL the commandments which I com day ye observe to 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in them, that the LORD thy God shall keep un-and possess the land which the LORD sware to thee the covenant and the mercy which he unto your fathers. sware unto thy fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, which the LORD thy God ied thee these forand multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit ty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy and to prove thee, to know what was in thine corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the in-heart, whether thou wouldest keep his com crease of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, manchments, or no. in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thec. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thes to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: tho knewest not, neither did thy fathers there shall not be male or female barren know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by j among you, or among your cattle. 142 1 |