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thou haft brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.

27 Remember thy Servants, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob; look not unto the Stubbornness of this People, nor to their Wickednefs, nor to their Sin.

28 Left the Land whence thou broughteft us out, fay, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the Land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to flay them in the Wilderness.

29 Yet they are thy People, and thine Inheritance, which thou broughteft out by thy mighty Power, and by thy ftretched out Arm.

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1 GOD's Mercy in reftoring the two Tables. 12 An Exhortation to Obedience.

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T that Time the LORD faid unto me, Hew thee two Tables of Stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the Mount, and make thee an Ark of Wood.

2 And I will write on the Tables the Words that were in the firft Tables which thou brakeft, and thou fhalt put them in the Ark.

3 And I made an Ark of Shittim-wood, and hewed two Tables of Stone like unto the firft, and went up into the Mount, having the two Tables in mine Hand.

4 And he wrote on the Tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD fpake unto you in the Mount, out of the MIDST of the FIRE, in the Day of the Affembly: and the LORD gave them unto

me.

5 And I turned myself and came down from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Ark which I had made, and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

10 And I stayed in the Mount, according to the first time, forty Days and forty Nights, and the LORD hearkned unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

11 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, take thy Journey before the People that they may go in, and poffefs the Land which I fware unto their Fathers to give unto them.

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12 And now, Ifrael, 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 ferve 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.

14 Behold, the HEAVEN, and the HEAVEN Of HEAVENS is the LORD's thy God, the Earth alfo, with all that therein is.

15 Only the LORD had a Delight in thy Fathers to love them, and he chofe their Seed after them, even you above all People, as it is this Day.

* Mic. vi. 6 Wherewith fhall I come before the LORD, and bow myfelf before the HIGH GOD? fhall I come before him with Burnt offerings, with Calves of a Year old?

7 Will the LORD be pleased with Thousands of RAMS, or with ten Thousands of Rivers of Oyl? thall I give my Firft-born for my Tranfgreffion, the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul?

8 He hath fhewed thee, O Man, what is Good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Y 2 Ch on. vi. 18 Will GoD in very Deed DWELL with Men on the Earth? behold. the HEAVEN, and the HEA VEN of HEAVENS cannot contain him.

Ephef. iv. 10 He that DESCENDED IS the fame alfo that ASCENDED up far ABOVE ALL HEAVENS, that he might FILL ALL THINGS.

Pal. cxv. 16 The HEAVEN, even the HEAVENS are the LORD's: but the EARTH hath he given to the Children of Men.

16 Circumcife therefore the Forefkin of your Heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

17 For the LORD your God is GOD of Gods, and LORD of Lords, a great GOD, a MIGHTY and a TERRIBLE, which regardeth not Perfons, nor taketh Reward.

18 He doth execute the Judgment of the Fatherless and Widow, and loveth the Stranger, in giving him Food and

Raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the Stranger: for ye were Strangers in the Land of Egypt.

20 Thou fhalt FEAR the LORD thy GOD; him fhalt thou SERVE, and to him fhalt thou CLEAVE; and swear by his Name.

21 He is thy PRAISE, and he is thy GOD that hath done for thee thefe great and TERRIBLE Things which thine Eyes have feen.

22 Thy Fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten Perfons; and now the LORD thy GOD hath made thee as the Stars of Heaven for multitude.

* In this the Promije to Abraham was fulfilled.

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1 An Exhortation to Obedience. 26 A Blessing and Curfe is fet before them.

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'HEREFORE thou fhalt LOVE the LORD thy GOD, and KEEP his Charge, and his STATUTES, and his Judgments, and his CoMMANDMENTS alway.

2 And know you this Day: for I fpeak not with your Children which have not known, and which have not SEEN the Chastisement of the LORD your God, his GREATNESS, his MIGHTY Hand, and his ftretched out Arm,

3 And his MIRACLES, and his Acts which he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt, and unto all his Land,

4 And what he did unto the ARMY of Egypt, unto their Horfes, and to their Chariots, how he made the Water of the RED SEA to overflow them as they purfued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this Day,

5 And what he did unto you in the Wilderness, until ye came into this Place,

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram; how the Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up.

7 But your Eyes have feen all the great ACTS of the LORD which he did.

8 Therefore fhall ye KEEP all the COMMANDMENTS which I command you this Day, that ye may be strong, and go in and poffefs the Land whither you go to poffefs it:

9 And that ye may prolong your Days in the Land which the LORD fware unto your Fathers to give unto them, and to their Seed.

10 For the Land whither thou goeft in to poffefs it, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou fowedit thy Seed, and wateredft it with thy Foot, as a Garden of Herbs:

11 But the Land whither ye go to poffefs it, is a Land of Hills and Valleys, and drinketh Water of the Rain of Heaven:

12 A Land which the LORD thy GOD CARETH for: the Eyes of the LORD thy GOD are always upon it, from the Beginning of the Year, even unto the End of the Year.

13 And it fhall come to pafs, if you fhall hearken dili

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gently 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 due Season, the first Rain, and the latter Rain, that thou mayeft gather in thy Corn, and thy Wine, and thine Oyl.

15 And I will fend Grafs in thy Fields, for thy Cattel, that thou mayeft eat and be

full.

16 Take heed to yourfelves, that your HEART be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other Gods, and worship them :

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Joel ii. 21 Fear not, O Land, be glad and rejoyce: for the LORD will do great Things.

22 Be not afraid, ye Beafts of the

Field; for the Paftures of the Wil-
dernefs do fpring, for the Tree bear-
Vine do yield their Strength.
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Jer. xvii. 9 The HEART IS DECEIT-
FUL above all things, and DESPERATE-

LY WICKED, who can know it?

10 I the LORD SEARCH the HEART, I try the Reins, even to give every Man according to his Ways, and according to the Fruit of his Doings.

1 Kings xvii. 1 And Elijah faid unto Ahab, As the LORD GOD of Ifrael liveth, before whom I ftand, there fhall not be Dew nor RAIN there Years, but according to my WORD.

17 And then the LORD's Wrath be kindled against you, and he fhut up the Heaven that there be no Rain, and that the Land yield not her Fruit, and left ye perifh quickly from off the good Land which the LORD giveth you.

18 Therefore fhall 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 fhall TEACH them your CHILDREN; SPEAK

ING of them when thou SITTEST in thine House, and when thou WALKEST by the Way, when thou LIEST down, and when thou RISEST up.

zo And thou fhalt write them upon the Door-pofts of thine Houfe, and upon thy Gates :

21 That your Days may be multiplied, and the Days of your Children, in the Land which the LORD fware unto your Fathers to give them, as the DAYS of HEAVEN upon the Earth.

22 For if ye fhall 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

23 Then will the LORD drive out all these Nations from before you, and ye fhall poffefs greater Nations, and mightier than yourselves.

24* Every Place whereon the Soles of your Feet shall tread, fhall be yours: from the Wilderness, and Lebanon, from the River, the River Euphrates, even unto the uttermoft Sea, fhall your Coaft be.

25 There shall no Man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God fhall lay the Fear of you, and the Dread of you upon all the Land that ye fhall tread upon, as he hath faid unto you.

26 Behold, I fet before you this Day a BLESSING and a CURSE:

27 A BLESSING, if ye OBEY the COMMANDMENTS of the LORD your God which I command you this Day.

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.

29 And it fhall come to pafs, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the Land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, that thou fhalt put the Bleffing upon Mount Gerizim, and the Curfe upon Mount Ebal.

CHAP. XIII.

Enticers to Idolatry, 6 how near foever, 9 are to be stoned to Death. 12 Idolatrous Cities are not to be spared.

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This was fulfilled in the Time of Solomon.

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