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2 And know ye this day: for I Speak not 21 That your days may be multiplic, z with your children which have not known, the days of your children, in the land whe and which have not feen the chaitifement of the LORD fware unto your fathers to give the LORD your God, his greatness, his migh- then, as the days of heaven upon the earth ty hand, and his stretched-out arm,

3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, uato 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 fea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and hore the LORD hath deftroyed them unto this day;

5 And what he did unto you in the wilder nels, until ye came into this place;

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the fons of Eliab, the fon of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth and fwal lowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the fubftance that war in their poffeffion, in the midft of all Ifrael. 7 But your eyes have feen all the great ads of the LORD which he did.

8 Therefore thall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and poffefs the land whither ye go to poffefs it;

9 And that ye may prolong your days in theland which the LORD fware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their feed a land that floweth with milk and honey.

10 For the land, whither thou goeft in to poffets it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou lowedit thy feed, and wateredit 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 beaven;

12 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.

131 And it fhall come to pals, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to ferve him with all your heart, and with all your foul,

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feafon, the first rain, and the

latter rain, that thou mayett gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

15 And I will fend grafs in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayeft eat, and be full. 16Take heed to yourfelves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other gods, and worship them ;

17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you, and he thut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit, and left ye perith quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

18 Therefore fhall ye lay up thefe my words in your heart, and in your foul, and bind them for a fign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And ye thall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, when thoulieft down, and when thou rifeftup. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the doorFoRs of thine houfe, and upon thy gates;

22 For if ye thall diligently keep all the commandments which I command you to them, to love the LORD your God, to walk all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

23 Then will the Load drive out all the nations from before you, and ye thall poli greater nations and mightier than yourselves 24 Every place whereon the foles of you: feet thall tread fhall be yours: from the dernes, and Lebanon, from the river, t river Euphrates, even unto the uttermoft fes Thall your coaft be.

25 There fhall no man be able to and be fore you: for the LORD your God thalay fear of you, and the dread of you, upon a the land that ye thall tread upon, as he hat faid unto you."

26 Behold, I fet before you this day i blening and a curfe;

27 A biefing, if ye obey the commat ments of the LORD your God, which I cam mand you this day:"

28 And a curfe, if ye will not obey commandments of the LORD your God, h turn afide out of the way which I comman you this day, to go after other gods which have not known.

2. And it thall come to pals, when th LORD thy God hath brought thee in unte land whither thou goeft to polless it, thou shalt put the bleffing upon mount Gi rizzim, and the curfe upor mount Ebal."

30 Are they not on the other tide Jordi by the way where the fun goeth down, int land of the Canaanites, which dwell in champaign over againft Gilgal, befide 1 plains of Morch?

31 For ye thall pafs over Jordan, tä to poffefs the land which the Loap yourtie giveth you, and ye shall poffefs it, and du therein.

32 And ye thall obferve to do all the tutes and judgments which I set before this day. СНАР. ХН.

1 Monuments of idolatry are to be dejārisi 16, 23 Blood forbidden.

which ye thall obferve to do in the Hefe are the ftatutes and judgme which the LORD God of thy fathersg thee to poffcfsit, all the days that ye hives on the earth.

2 Ye shall utterly deftroy all the ple wherein the nations which ye that po ferved their gods, upon the high mounti and upon the hills, and under every gi tree.

3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, break their pillars, and burn their with fire, and ye thall hew down the gra images of their gods, and destroy theran them out of that place.

4 Ye shall not do fo unto the Los God..

5 But onto the place which the your God thall choofe out of all your to put his name there, even unto los tation thall ye feck, and thither th

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171 Thou mayeit not eat within thy gates The the of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy of, or the firitlings of thy herds, or of the Bock, or any of thy vows which theu , nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave16 But thou must eat them before the LORD God in the place which the LORD thy God hall choole, thou, and thy fon, and daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy -ferrant, and the Levite that is within pite; and thou fhalt rejoice before the athy God in all that thou putteft thine Andy unto.

to Take heed to thy felfthat thou forfake not de Levite as long as thou liveft upon the earth. 21 When the LORD thy God thall enthy border, as he hath promifed thee, thou thalt fay, I will eat Beth, (becaufé ad longeth to eat fleib,) thou mayett th, whatfoever thy foul lutteth after. at the place which the LORD thy God hofen to put his naine there, be too from thee, then thou fhalt kill of thy

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6 But at the place which the LORD thy God thall choofe to place his name in, there thou shalt facrifice the paffover at even, at the going down of the fun, at the feason that thou camelt forth out of Egypt.

o end thou that taft Bid eat it In the place which the LORD thy God thall choofe: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou fhalteat unleavened bread, and on the feventh day shall be a folemn af sembly to the LORD thy God, thou shalt do no work therein.

91 Seven weeks fhalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the feven weeks from fuch time as thou beginnett to put the fickle to the corn.

10 And thou shalt keep the feaft of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of thine hand, which thou halt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee:

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid fervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chofen to place

his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond-man in Egypt: and thou inalt oblerve and do thefe ftatutes.

139 Thou shalt obferve the feaft of tabernacles feven days, after that thou haft gashered in thy corn and thy wine.

14 And thou fhalt rejoice in thy feaft, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite, the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are within thy gates,

15 Seven days fhalt thou keep a folemn feat unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thall choofe: because the LORD thy God fhall blefs thee in all thy increafe, and in all the works of thine hands; therefore thou shalt furely rejoice.

16 Three times in a year thall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choofe; in the feaft of unleavened bread, and in the feaft of weeks, and in the feaft of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty.

17 Every man hall give as he is able, according to the bleffing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

18 Judges and officers fhalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: and they fhall judge the people with juft judgment.

19 Thou shalt not wreft judgment; thou fhalt not refpect perfons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether juft fhalt thou follow, that thou mayet live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

22 Neither thalt thou fet thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth.

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CHAP. XVII.

Things facrificed must be found. 2 idolaters must be flain. 14 The eledion, 16 and duty of a king.

Hou shalt not facrifice unto the Loss

thy God any bullock or sheep whee in is bleraith, or any evil-favourednek: for that is an abomination unto the Long thy God.

21 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORDthy Godgie eth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the fight of the LORD thyGol in tranfgreffing his covenant,

3 And hath gone and ferved other gods, and worshipped them, either the fun, or moon, or any of the holt of heaven, which i have not commanded;

4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that fuch abomination is wrought in Ifrael:

5 Then thalt thou bring forth that man, or that woman, which have committed wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that or that woman, and thalt flone them with tones till they die.

6 At the mouth of two witneffes, or three witneffes, fhall he that is worthy of death de put to death; but at the mouth of one wh nefs he thall not be put to death.

7 The hands of the witneffes thall be frit upon him to put him to death, and after ward the hands of all the people: fo thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blos between plca and plea, and between frok and ftroke, being mattersof controversy with in thy gates; then thalt thou arife, and get thee up into the place which the Load thy God fhall choofe:

9 And thou shalt come unto the pricils the Levites, and unto the judge that thall be in thofe days, and enquire; and they shall few thee the fentence of judgment.

10 And thou shalt do according to the fe tence which they of that place which the LORD thall choofe fhall fhew thee; and the fhalt obferveto do according to all that they Inform thee:

11 According to the fentence of the lave which they fhall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they thall tell thee," thou thalt do: thou fhalt not decline from the fentence which they fhall thew thee, the right hand nor to the left.

12 And the man that will do prefumpto ously, and will not hearken unto the prie that flandeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man thal: die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Ifrael.

13 And all the people fhall hear, and fear, and do no more prefumptuously.

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thalt poffefs it, and thalt dwell therein, and fhalt fay, I win fet a king over me, like at all the nations that are about me:

15 Thou shalt in any wife fet him king over thee, whom the Load thy God shall chooter one from among thy brethren thalt thou let

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