And it shall be, on the day when ye shall als over Jordan unto the land which the Lons thy God giveth thee, that thou thalt fet eup great stones, and platter them with planer And then thalt write upon them all the werds of this law, when thou art paffed over; tur thou mayett go in unto the land which the Loan thy God giveth thee, a land that foeth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promifed thee. 4 Therefore it fhall be, when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye fall fet up thefe ftones, which command you this day, in mount E bal, and thou thalt platter them with plaiter. And there bait thou build an altar unto the Laso thy God, an altar of ftones: thou thalt not lift up any iron fool upon them. Thou hast build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole tones; and thou (halt of fer burnt-oderings thereon unto the LORD thy God: And thou that offer peace-offerings, and that ext there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. And thou fhalt write upon the ftones all the words of this law very plainly. 21 And Mofes, and the priests the Levites, pake unto all Ifrael, faying, Take heed, and Marken, Olirael; This day thou art become the people of the Losp thy God. The thalt, therefore, obey the voice of de Laas thy God, and do his command mes and his ftatutes, which I command thee this day. Lame day, faying, Thefe hall tand upon mount Gerizim And there thall ftand upon mount Ebal cafe: Reuben, Gad, and Ather, and ZeDan, and Naphtali a The Logo fhall open unto thee his good treature, the he iven to give the rain unto thy land in his feafon, and to blefs all the work of thine hand: and thou thalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail: and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath: ifthat thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to obferve and to do them: 14 And thou thalt not go afide from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 But it fhall come to pafs, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to obferve to do all his commandments, and his ftatutes, which I command thee this day, that all thefe curfes fhall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16 Curfed halt thou be in the city, and curfed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Curfed fhall be thy basket and thy ftore. 18 Curfed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy fheep. 19 Curfed half thou be when thou comeft in, and curfed fhalt thou be when thou goeit out. zo The LORD shall fend upon thee curfing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou setteft thine hand unto for to do, until thou be de#troyed, and until thon perish quickly; becaufe of the wickednefs of thy doings, whereby thou hatt sorfaken me. 21 The LORD thall make the peftilence cleave unto thee, until he have confumed thee from off the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it. 22 The LORD fhall fmite thee with a confamption, and with a fever, and with an inBlammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the fword, and with blafting, and with mildew: and they fhall pursue thee until thou perith. 23 And the heaven that is over thy head thall be brafs, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD fhall make the rain of thy land powder and dutt: from heaven fhall it come down upon thee, until thou be dotroyed. 25 The LORD fhall caufe thee to be fmitLen before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way againfi them, and flee feven ways before them; and fhalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcafe fhall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man thall fray them away. 27 The LORD will fmite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the fcab, and with the itch, whereof thou Cantt not be healed. 28 The LORD thall fmite thee with madnels, and blindness, and aftonithment of 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and andt man thall lie with her: thou thalt build houfe, and thou shalt not dwell therein fhalt plant a vineyard, and thalt not the grapes thereof. 31 Thine ox fhall be fain before thing and thou shalt not cat thereof; thine af be violently taken away from before thy and shall not be reftored to thee: thy shall be given unto thine enemies, and thalt have none to rescue them. 32 Thy fons and thy daughters shal given unto another people, and thine thall look, and fail with longing for them the day long and there shall be no might thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy bours, thall a nation which thou knowed eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed a crushed alway: 34 So that thou fhalt be mad, for the figh of thine eyes which thou thalt fee. 35 The LORD fhall fmite thee in the kne and in the legs, with a fore botch that not be healed, from the fole of thy foot the top of thy head. 36 The LORD fhall bring thee, and thy which thou shalt fet over thee, unta tion which neither thou nor thy fathers ha known; and there shalt thou ferve other god wood and flone. 37 And thou shalt become an aftonishmen a proverb, and a by-word, among all nation whither the LORD thall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much feed out int the field, and thalt gather but little isla the locust thall confume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dret them; but fhalt neither drink of the wit nor gather the grapes: for the worms fhail them. 40 Thou fhalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coafts, but thou shalt not anoint y felf with the oil: for thine olive fhall call i fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget fons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them: for they thi go into captivity. 42 All thy trees, and fruit of thy land, thall the locuit confume. 43 The ftranger that is within thee fall get up above thee very high; and thow that come down very low. 44 He thall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him: he fhall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee, and thall purine thee, and over take thee, till thou be deftroyed; becaufe thou hearkenedit not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his flatutes, which he commanded ther. 46 And they shall be upon thee for a fign. and for a wonder, and upon thy feed for ev 47 Because thou fervedit not the LOR thy God with joyfulness, and with gladni of heart, for the abundance of all things 48 Therefore fhalt thou ferve thine ene mies, which the Loan fhall fend against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in naked nefs, and in want of all things: and he thall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until ha have destroyed thec. 49 The Laxa hall bring a nation against The thall eat the fruit of thy cattle, it of thy land, until thou be dehich alfe thall not leave thee either Cor oil, or the increale of thy cks of thy theep, until he have ot thre And be thall befiege thee in all thy Filthy high and fenced walls come wherein thou truftedit, throughout all land and he fhall befiege thee in all tes throughout all thy land which the Ban thy God hath given thee. 11 And thou fhalt eat the fruit of thine hody, the flesh of thy fons and of thy , (which the LORD thy God hath thee, in the fiege, and in the ftraitnels with thine enemies thall diftrefs thee: 1 that the man that is tender among and very delicate, his eyes fhall be evil and his brother, and to eyes the wife of im, and toward the remnant of his area which he thall leave: that he will not give to any of them feh of his children whom he thall afe he hath nothing left him in the and in the traitnefs wherewith thine infall diftrefs thee in all thy gates. Thetender and delicate woman among 70, which would not adventure to fet the ber foot upon the ground for delicateand tenderness, her eye thall be evil tod the hofband of her bolom, and toward , and toward her daughter, And toward her young one that cometh from between ber feet, and toward her ure which the hall bear: for the thall them for want of all things fecretly in the and traitnefs, wherewith thine enemy dress thee in thy gates. If thou wilt not obferve to do all the nd of this law, that are written in this that thou mayeft fear this glorious and Safal name. THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues derful, and the plagues of thy feed, even Pat plagues, and of long continuance, and ficknetics, and of long continuance. Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the difcafes of Egypt, which thou waft afraid d and they shall cleave unto thee: 61 Allo every ficknefs, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, will the Lozo bring upon thee, until the be deftroyed. And ye thall be left few in number, shers ye were as the Hars of heaven for altitude, becaufe thou wouldeft not obey voice of the LORD thy God. 6 And it than come to pats, that, as the Las rejiced over you to do you good, and tomutiply yon; to the LORD will rejoice wer you to destroy you, and to bring you to dt and ye thall be plucked from off the Land whither thou goelt to poffefs it. Anal the Loan thall fcatter thee among prople, from the one end of the earth 14 Neither with you only do I make this Covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye paffed by; 17 And ye have feen their abominations, and their idols, wood and ttone, filver and gold, which were among them ;) 18 Left there thould be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whole heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and ferve the gods of these nations: left there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood: 19 And it come to pafs, when he heareth the words of this curfe, that he blefs himself in his heart, faying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkennefs to thirft: 20 The LORD will not (pare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealouty hall fmoke again that man, and all the curfes that are written in this book thalllie upon him, and the LORD fhall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD fhall feparate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Ifrael, according to all the curfes of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children, that shall rife up after you, and the ftranger that thall come from a far land, fhall say, when they fee the plagues of that land, and the fickneffes, which the LORD hath laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimftone, and falt, and burning, that it is not fown, nor heareth, nor any grafs groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the LORD over threw in his anger, and in his wrath; 24 Even all nations thall fay, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men thall fay, Because they have forfaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt. 26 For they went and ferved other gods, and worthipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curfes that are written in this book: 18 And the LORD rooted them out of their Jand in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 29 The fecret things belong unto the LORD our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that que may do all the words of this law. 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ХХХ. 1 Great mercies promifed unto the penitent. 11 things are conte upon thee, the bleffing and the curfes which I have fet before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all and thalt obey his voice, according to all that thy captivity, and have compaffion upon thee 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn nations whither the LORD thy God hath feat and will return, and gather thee from all the tered thee. outinult parts of heaven, from thence will the 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee. into the land which thy fathers paleiled, thine heart, and the heart of thy feed, curfes upon thine enemies, and on them that of the LORD, and do all his commandments, 8 And thou thalt return and obey the voice which I command thee this day. plenteous in every work of thine hand, in 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou fhalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his command ments and his ftatutes, which are written this book of the law, and if thou turn ur ta the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul. mand thee this day, it is not hidden from 11 For this commandment, which I come thee, neither is it far off: fay, Who fhall go up for us to heaven and 12 It is not in heaven, that thou thouldeft bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the fea, that thon us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear fhouldett fay, Who thall go over the tea for it, and do it? thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou may life and good, and death and evil; the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and thou wilt not hear, but thalt be drawn away, 17 But if thine heart turn away, fo that and worship other gods, and ferve them ? 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye fall furely perith, and that ye whither And he faid unto them, I am an hundred the twenty years old this day; I can no argo out and come in: aHo the LORD har Laid unto me, Thou shalt not go over thin Jordan 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over bethee, and he will deftroy thefe nations fum before thee, and thou shalt poffefs them: joua, he fail go over before thee, as the Loap bath faid. 4And the LORD thall do unto them as he to Shen and to Og, kings of the Amoits, and to the land of them whom he deBroyed. And the LORD fhall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them accordg unto all the commandments which I have Commanded you. Bering, and of a good courage, fear not, be afraid of them for the LORD thy God, that doth go with thee; he will not fal thee, nor forfake thee. 21 And Mofes called unto Joshua, and faid to him in the fight of all lirael, Be ftrong, and of a good courage for thou must go with this peuple unto the land which the to hath fworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt caufe them to inherit it. And the LORD, he it is that doth go bethee; he will be with thee, he will not thee, neither forlake thee: fear not, neiber be dismayed. And Mofes wrote this law, and deliTeted it unto the pricts the fons of Levi, ich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lp, and unto all the elders of Ifrael. To And Mofes commanded them, faying, the end of every feven years, in the foity of the year of releafe, in the feait of hemacies When all Krael is come to appear before Low thy God, in the place which he thall , thoughralt read this law before all d in their hearing, Gather she people together, men, and to, and clifilter, and thy ftranger that in the gates, that they may hear, and may learn, and fear the LORD your and cherve to do all the words of this And at their children, which have ow any thing, may hear, and learn for the Loan your God, as long as ye |