sent you from Kadesh-barnea, | tables of stone like unto the saying, Go up and possess the first, and went up into the land which I have given you; mount, having the two tables then ye rebelled against the in mine hand. commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly and the LORD gave them unto me. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty 5 And I turned myself and nights, as I fell down at the came down from the mount, first; because the LORD had and put the tables in the ark said he would destroy you. which I had made; and there 26 I prayed therefore unto they be, as the LORD comthe LORD, and said, O Lordmanded me. GOD, destroy not thy people 10 And I stayed in the and thine inheritance, which mount according to the first thou hast redeemed through time, forty days and forty thy greatness, which thou hast nights; and the LORD hearkbrought forth out of Egypt ened unto me at that time also, with a mighty hand. and the LORD would not destroy thee. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin. CHAP. X. AT 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 3 And I made an ark of 14 Behold, the heaven and shittim wood, and hewed two the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth | fore also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and 27 A blessing if ye obey the ten persons; and now the LORD commandments of the LORD thy God hath made thee as your God, which I command the stars of heaven for multi-you this day: tude. CHAP. XI. 18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 22 ¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him: 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from be 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. CHAP. XII. 32 What thing soever I command you observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAP. XIV. 2 For thou art an holy peoand the LORD hath chosen thee ple unto the LORD thy God, to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. CHAP. XVI. OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: shalt surely rejoice. for in the month of Abib the thine hands, therefore thou LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 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. 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. CHAP. XVII. 2 ¶ If there be found among you, within any of the gates which the LORD thy God 9 Seven weeks shalt thou giveth thee, man or woman, number unto thee: begin to that hath wrought wickedness number the seven weeks from in the sight of the LORD thy such time as thou beginnest to God, in transgressing his coveput the sickle to the corn. nant, 10 And thou shalt keep the 3 And hath gone and served feast of weeks unto the LORD other gods, and worshipped thy God, with a tribute of a them, either the sun, or moon, freewill offering of thine hand, or any of the host of heaven, which thou shalt give unto the which I have not commanded; LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, 13 Thou shalt observe it be true, and the thing certhe feast of tabernacles seven tain, that such abomination days, after that thou hast is wrought in Israel: gathered in thy corn and thy wine: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, 15 Seven days shalt thou which have committed that keep a solemn feast unto the wicked thing, unto thy gates, LORD thy God in the place even that man or that woman, which the LORD shall choose: and shalt stone them with because the LORD thy God stones, till they die. shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more hands of all the people. So presumptuously. thou shalt put the evil away 14 When thou art come from among you. unto the land which the LORD 8 If there arise a matter thy God giveth thee, and shall too hard for thee in judgment, possess it, and shalt dwell therebetween blood and blood, be-in, and shalt say, I will set a tween plea and plea, and be- king over me, like as all the tween stroke and stroke, being nations that are about me; matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days 12 And the man that will do in his kingdom, he, and his presumptuously, and will not children, in the midst of Ishearken unto the priest that rael. CHAP. XVIII. 15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Pro phet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken ;* 16 According to all that thou *It is certain that the Prophet here spoken of, is no other than our Lord Jesus Christ, because this prophecy is applied to him by St. Peter. (Acts iii. 22.) But the reader should observe how this appears from the prophecy itself, “The Lord thy God," says Moses," will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me." Now Christ resembled Moses so as no other prophet ever did, in his mighty miracles, in his holding direct intercourse with God "face to face, even apparently, and not in dark speeches," visions or dreams, like other prophets, (see Numbers xii. 8, and Deut. xxxiv. 10,) and in his performing the offices of prophet, priest, lawgiver, "leader and commander unto the people." But there is another office in which Moses strongly resembled Christ, namely, that of mediator. In this office we have seen that he often obtained pardon for the people by his intercession. Not that we are to imagine that Moses, like Christ, had in himself any power or merits to make peace with God for the people, (for no human being ever received pardon, as the Scripture plainly teaches, but through the true and effectual Mediator Christ,) but still it pleased God to grant that pardon to the people of Israel upon the prayers of Moses, just as he granted it at other times, upon the sacrificing of bullocks and goats, but as these bullocks and goats resembled Christ as a sacrifice, so Moses resembled him as Mediator. In this office we have seen that at mount Sinai he alone went near to God, and received the law, which the people received from him; and afterwards he was the mediator in the confirming of that solemn covenant between God and the people, (Exodus xxiv.) Now it is this office of Christ which seems chiefly pointed at in this prophecy. "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee-like unto me. According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, |