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* fhall not be AFRAID of the FACE of MAN, for the JUDGMENT IS GOD's and the Caufe that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

18 And I commanded you at that Time all the Things which ye fhould do.

19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and TERRIBLE WILDERNESS.

20 And I faid unto you, Ye are come unto the Mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give

unto us.

21 Behold, the LORD thy GOD hath fet the Land before thee go up and poffefs it, as the LORD GOD of thy Fathers hath faid unto thee; FEAR NOT, neither be difcouraged.

GLORY, with RESPECT OF PERSONS. 8 If ye fulfil the ROYAL LAW, according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thyfelf, ye do well.

9 But if ye have RESPECT to PERsons, ye COMMIT SIN, and are convinced of the Law as Tranfgreffors.

Heavens, and look upon the Earth *Ifa. li. 6 Lift up your Eyes to the beneath for the HEAVENS fhall VANISH away like Smoak, and the EARTH hall wax old like a Garment, and

they that dwell therein fhall DIE in like manner: but my SALVATION shall be for EVER, and my RIGHTEOUSNESS

fhall not be ABOLISHED.

12 I, even I am he that COMFORTETH you who art thou, that thou fhouldeft BE AFRAID of a Man that fhall die, and of the Son of Man

which shall be made as Grafs.

Jer. xxii. 3 Thus faith the LORD, EXECUTE ye JUDGMENT and RIGHTE OUSNESS, and deliver the SPOILED Out

of the Hand of the OPPRESSOR: and do no WRONG, do no VIOLENCE to the STRANGER, the FATHERLESS, not the WIDOW, neither shed innocent Blood.

4 For if ye do this Thing indeed, then fhall there enter in by the Gates of this Houfe, Kings fitting upon the Throne of David.

S But if ye will not hear these Words, I fwear by myfelf, faith the LORD, that this House fhall become a DESOLATION.

22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and faid, We will fend Men before us, and they shall search us out the Land, and bring us word again by what Way we must go up, and into what Cities we shall come.

23 And the Saying pleafed me well: and I took twelve Men of you, one of a Tribe.

24 And they turned and went up into the Mountain, and came unto the Valley of Efhcol, and fearched it out.

25 And they took of the Fruit of the Land in their Hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and faid, It is a GooD Land, which the LORD our GOD doth GIVE US.

26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go up, but REBELLED against the Commandment of the LORD your GOD.

27 And ye MURMURED in your Tents, and faid, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the

Land

Land of Egypt, to deliver us into the Hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28 Whither shall we go up? our Brethren have discouraged our Heart, faying, The People is GREATER and TALLER than we, the CITIES are great and WALLED up to HEAVEN, and moreover we have feen the Sons of the ANAKIMS there.

29 Then I faid unto you, DREAD NOT, neither be AFRAID of them.

30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he fhall FIGHT for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your Eyes.

31 And in the Wildernefs, where thou haft feen how that the LORD thy GOD BARE thee as a Man doth BEAR his SON, in all the Way that ye went, until ye came into this Place.

32 Yet in this Thing ye did not BELIEVE the LORD your God,

33 Who went in the Way before you to fearch you out a Place to pitch your Tents in, in FIRE by NIGHT to fhew you by what way you should go, and in a CLOUD by DAY.

34 And the LORD heard the Voice of your Words, and was wroth, faying,

35 Surely there fhall not ONE of thefe Men, of this evil Generation fee that good Land which I fware to give unto your Fathers ;

36 Save Caleb, he fhall fee it, and to him will I give the Land that he hath troden upon, and to his Children, because he hath WHOLLY FOLLOWED the LORD.

37 Alfo the LORD was angry with me for your SAKES, faying, Thou alfo fhalt NOT GO in thither.

38 But JOSHUA, which ftandeth before thee, he fhall go in thither. ENCOURAGE him: for he fhall caufe ISRAEL to INHERIT it.

39 Moreover, your Little ones, which ye faid fhould be a Prey, and your CHILDREN which in that Day had no Knowledge between Good and Evil, they fhall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they fhall POSSESS it.

40 But as for you, TURN ye, and take your Journey into the WILDERNESS, by the Way of the Red Sea.

41 Then ye answered and faid unto me, We have finned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to

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all that the LORD our GoD commanded us. And when ye had girded on every Man his Weapons of War, ye were ready to go up into the Hill.

42 And the LORD faid unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight, for I AM NOT AMONG YOU; left fmitten before your Enemies.

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43 So I fpake unto you, and ye would not HEAR, but REBELLED against the Commandment of the LORD, and Went PRESUMPTUOUSLY up into the Hill.

44 And the Amorites which dwelt in that Mountain, came out against you, and chafed you as Bees do, and deftroyed you.

45 And ye returned and wEPT before the LORD; but the LORD would not HEARKEN to your Voice, nor give ear

unto you.

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1 The Story is continued, that they were not to meddle with the Edomites, 9 Nor with the Moabites, 17 nor with the Ammonites: 24 But Sihon the Amorite was fubdued by them.

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.THEN wet, by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD fpake unto me: and we compaffed Mount Seir many Days.

HEN we turned, and took our Journey into the

2 And the LORD fpake unto me, faying,

3 Ye have compaffed this Mountain long enough: turn you North-ward.

4 And command thou the People, faying, Ye are to pafs through the Coaft of your Brethren the Children of Efau, and they fhall be afraid of you.

5 MEDDLE not with them; for I will not give you of their Land.

13 Now rife up, faid f, and get you over the Brook Zered and we went over the Brook Zered.

14 And the Space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the Brook Zered, was THIRTY and EIGHT Years; until ALL the GENERATION of the Men of War were WASTED out from among the Hoft, as the LORD fware unto them.

15 For indeed the HAND of the LORD was AGAINST them,

them, to DESTROY them from among the Hoft, until they were confumed.

16 So it came to pafs, when ALL the MEN of War were CONSUMED, and dead from among the People,

17 That the LORD fpake unto me, faying,

18 Thou art to pafs over through Ar, the Coaft of Moab, this Day.

19 And when thou comeft nigh over againft the Children of Ammon, diftrefs them not, nor MEDDLE with them for I will not give thee of the Land of the Children of Ammon, any Poffeffion, because I have given it unto the Children of Lor for a Poffeffion.

20 (That alfo was accounted a Land of Giants, Giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims,

21 A People great and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD deftroyed them before them, and they fucceeded them, and dwelt in their flead:

22 As he did to the Children of Efau which dwelt in Seir, when he deftroyed the Horims from before them, and they fucceeded them, and dwelt in their stead.)

24 Rife ye up, take your Journey, and pafs over the River Arnon: behold, I have given into thy Hand Sihon the Amorite King of Hefhbon, and his Land.

25 This Day will I begin to put the DREAD of thee, and the FEAR of thee upon the NATIONS that are under the whole Heaven, who fhall hear Report of thee, and fhall TREMBLE, and be in Anguifh because of thee.

26 And I fent Meffengers out of the Wilderness of Ke demoth, unto Sihon King of Hefhbon, with Words of Peace.

30 But Sihon would not let us pafs by him for the LORD thy GOD hardened his Spirit, and made his Heart OBSTINATE, that he might deliver him into thy Hand. 32 Then Sihon came out against us.

33 And the LORD our GOD delivered him before us, and we fmote him, and all his People.

34 And we took all his Cities at that Time,

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Og King of Bahan. 3 Mofes's Prayer to enter into the Land: 36 He is permitted to fee tt.

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HEN we turned, and went up the Way to Bafhan and Og the King of Bafhan came out against us to Battle at Edrei.

2 And the LORD faid unto me, FEAR him NOT: for I will deliver him, and all his People, and his Land into thy Hand.

4 And we took all his Cities at that Time.

5 All these Cities were FENCED with HIGH WALLS, Gates, and Bars, befides unwalled Towns a great many.

8 And we took at that Time out of the Hand of the two Kings of the Amorites, the Land that was on this fide Jordan, from the River of Arnon unto Mount Hermon :

11 For only Og King of Bafhan remained of the Remnant of GIANTS; his Beadftead was of Iron: nine Cubits was the Length thereof, and four Cubits the Breadth of it.

21 And I commanded Joshua at that Time, faying, Thine Eyes have feen all that the LORD your God hath done unto thefe two Kings: fo fhall the LORD do unto all the Kingdoms whither thou paffeft.

22 Ye fhall not FEAR them for the LORD your God he fhall FIGHT for you.

at that Time, faying,

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People, to my Law: incline your
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23 And I befought the LORD 24 b O LORD GOD, thou haft begun to fhew 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 fee the good Land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly Mountain, and Leba

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2 I will open my Mouth in a PARABLE: I will utter dark Sayings of old:

3 Which we have heard and known, and our Fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their Children, fhewing to the Generation to come, the PRAISES of the LORD; and his STRENGTH. and his WONDER

FUL WORKS that he hath done

s For he established a Teftimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in

Ifrael, which he commanded our Fa thers that they fhould MAKE them KNow to their Children.

might know them, even the Children which thould be born: who should aile and declare them to their Children.

6 That the Generation to come

7 That they might set their HOPE in GOD, and NOT FORGET the WORKS of GOD; but KEEP his COMMAND

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