:Asd the Lor D spake onto me, say : J'e hays compassed tliis mountain eje-uu^h; turn you northward. Jj, Ye ar< to pals through the coast of rær brethren the children of Esau, •aicfc cveil -n Seir; and they (hall be •inidoiyou: take ye good heed unto jarriths therefore: 5Meddle not with them: for I will act give you of their land, no, not so e«a a* a foot breadth; because I have e-ea mount Seir unto Esau/«r a poskfioe. i Ye Sail buy meat of them for moa*j, nut ye may eat; and ye (hall also raj water of them for money, that ye KjcrinJc. 7 For the Lo« D thy God hath blessed tieein lilthe works of thy hands he kaowrththy walking through thi6 great wiMeraeS: these forty years the Lord tyGoHatk been with thee; thou hast kdai nothing. i And wlien we passed by from our tata-en the children of Esau, which "dt in Seir, through the way of the pn from Elath, and from Ezion-ga»r, we turned and passed by the way *• tie wilderness of Moab. 5 % And the Lo R D said unto me, DindsaottheMoahiteB, neither contend wA them in battle: for I will not give 'toot their land for a poslession; beesife I have given Ar unto the chil"Wof lot for a possession. io rheEmims dwelt therein in rimes P3*, > people great and many, and tall atkAnakims; •i Which also were accounted giants, ^tMAjiaWms; but the Moabites call l*m Emims. "The Horims also dwelt in Seir be« time: but the children of Esau weteded them when they had def°y« them from before them, and TMw m their stead; as Israel did unto J* and <rf b18 possession, which the w*o gave unto them. i*i Now rise up, fata" 7, and get you w" the brook Zered: and we went Wtr the brook Zered. i* And the space in which we came :roa Kade(h-barnea," until we were Zf.oyer the brook Zered, Vjoj thiity r'eiJBtyears; until all the generation ft" men of war were wasted out from '^ the host, as the Lord sware """■"nhem. •5 For indeed the hand of the Lo R D ??*pjnit them, to destroy them from y i Chap. ii. 'former thingt. among the host, until they were conlumcd. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the Lord spake unto me, laying, 18 «ff Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: lo And ivhen thou comelt nigh over against the children of Ammon, diltress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee ot' the land of the children of Ammon any postillion; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. Jo ( shut also was accounted a land of giants; giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 2i A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: *i As he did to the children of Esau which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them, and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 23 And the Avims, which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor,' destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24 f Rife ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnom behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite kins of Helhbon, and his land t begin to pollcls it, and contend with him in battle. 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 shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 26 And I sent messengers out of thewilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Helhbon, with words of peace, faying, 27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go a long by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only 1 will pass through on my feet 5 29 (As the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I fcall pass over Jordan,into the land which th« L01 )RD our God giveth us. 30 But DEUTERONOMY Sihtn discomfited. Og destroyed. ,, 30 But Sihon king of Helhbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lo R D thy God hardened iiis spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him irito thy hand, snappeareth this day. 31 And the Lord laid unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his Jaud before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayelt inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourlelves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. . 3<j From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and./hw» the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lo R D our God delivered all unto us: 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou earnest not, nor untoany place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, uor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us. CHAP. III. 1 Oj'Og king of Bajhan. 13 Moses p shyer to enter into the land. 26 He is permitted to fee it. THEN we turned, and went up the way to Balhan: and Og the king of Balhan came out against us, he and all h;s people to battle at Edrei. IT And the Lord said unto me, Fear tirax not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou (halt do unto him as thou didit unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Helhbon. 3 So the Lo R n our God delivered info our hands Og also the king of Bafhan, and all his people: and we ariose him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Aj-gob, the kingdom of Og in Bam an. $ All these cities 'were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside uncalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Helhbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to oursel ve< 8 And we took at that time out of th hand of the two kings of the Amorite the land that -was on this side Jordan from the river of Arnon unto moun Hermonj 9 {Which Hermon the Sidonians ca Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir; 10 All. the cities of the plain, and al Gilead, and all Basoan, unto Salcha_ and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of O in Balhan. 11 For only Og king of Balhan re mained of the remnant of giants; be hold, his bedstead •was a bedstead o iron: is it not in Rabbah of the chil dren of Ammon? nine cubits <was tli length thereof, and four cubits th breadth of it, after the cubit of a man, 12 And this land -which we possessed a that time, from Aroer, which is by th river Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof, gave I unto th Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Ba fnan, being the kingdom of ©g, gave ', unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all th region of Argob, with all Bafhan, whit. 1 was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son qf Manasseh took al the coAitry of Argob, unto the coast of Gelhuri, an.d Maachathi; and callei them after his own name, Bafhan-ha voth-jair, unto this day. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and un to the Gadites I gave from Gilead eve: unto the river Arnon half the valley and the border, even unto the river Jab bok, -which is the border of the childrei of Ammon; 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and th coast thereof, from Chhinereth evei unto the sea of the plain, even the sal sea, under Astidoth-pisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at tha time, saying, The Lor D your God hat given you this land to possess it: ye ihal pass over armed before your brethrei the children of Israel, all that are mee for the war. i9Butyourwive6,!ndyourlittl«onei and your cattle (for I know that ye hav much cattle,) (hall abide in your citie which I have given you; 20 Until the Lor D have given rest un to your brethren, as well as unto yov ana until they also possess the land whic the Lord your God hath given theT beyond Jordan: and then (hall ye re turn every man unto hjs possession whic I have given you. • 1 An mists exlerietk the sAad I commanded Joshua at that tir, —nag, Tl.ine eyes have seen all te tix Lo ft D your God hath done un eurie two kings: so shall the Lor D <fc S3ta ill the kingdoms whither thou « Ve (hall not fe*r them: for the La p 7>>ur God he (hall fight for you. sjf And I besought the Lord at that sæ, taring, Ho Lord God, thou hast begun to &r» tky servant thy greatness, and thy nighty hand: for what God is there in karrn or ia earth, that can do accordsf to thy works, and according to thy s^ht? 15 I pray thee, let me go over, and fe the £Ood land that is beyond Jordan, tail goodly mmint.iin, and Lebanon. aS * But the Lor D was wroth with tss for year fakes, and would not hear Tut: and the Lor n laid unto me, Let it sn£ce tiiee: speak no more unto me ot :ais nutter. 1? Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, aud lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and east»ird, and behold it with thine eyes: for thsw ihilt not go over this Jordan. iS Bat charge Joshua, and encourage tin, and strengthen him: for he (hail go Ckzt before this people, and he (hall emfe them to inherit the land which tioi ihalt fee. r-. So we abode in the valley over agin£ Beth-peor. CHAP. IV. 1 An exhiTtation to obedience. 41 Moses afpeixteth the three cities of refuge on thsjide Jordan. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the nJgtracnts which I teach you, for to £0 them, that ye may live, and go in and p>ifefs the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 1 Ye (hall not add unto the word which I command you, neither (hall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep tae commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 5 Your eyes have ieen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lo R D my God hath destroyed fhem from inong you. 4 kut ye that did cleave unto the Loso your God are alive every one of yw> this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes adjudgements, even as the Lord my ty cwmnanut-u me, that ye should do Chap. ir. people to obedience. so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for thi» is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which (hall hear all these statutes, and (ay. Surely this great nation is a wife and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, at the Lord our God u in all things that we call upon him/err" 8 And what nation is there fa s^reat, that hath statutes and .judgements fa righteous as all this law, which I i«t before you this day! 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lelt thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and. lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy lift; but teach them thy sous, and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodeft before the Lord thy God in Hoicb.whca the Lor n laid unto me. Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they (hall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11 And ye came near, and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with (ire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, aud thick darknels. 12 And the Lo R D (bake unto you out of the midst of the Are; ye heard the voice of the words, but law no similitude; only_y* heard % voice. 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgements, that ye might do them in, the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;.for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord (pake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any filh that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto Antxhorjatitnto obedience. DEUTERONOMY Tie tithes «/refuge* unto heaven, and when thou .feest the tun, aiid the moon, and the stars, e-ven all the host of heaven, ihouldcst be driveil to worship tliem, and serve them, which- the Lo R r> thy God hath divided lintoaii nations under the wholeheaven. 20 But the Lo R D hath taken you, and broughtyou forth out of tlie iron furnace, e-ven owt of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, psyeare this day. ai Furthermore the Lo " D was angry with me for your fakes, and fware that Ifhouldnot go over Jordan., and that I lhould not go in unto that good land which tlie Lord thy God giveth thee Jpr an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land, I must mot go over Jordan: but ye (hall go over, and pofleii that good land. . a3 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing which the Lo R D thy jpod hath forbidden thee. 24 For the Lo R D thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. -<; When thou (halt beget children, and children's children, and ye (hall have remained long in the land, and (hall corrupt yourplmes, and make a graven rmige, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the fight of the Lord thy God to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye (hall soon utterly perisli from off the land vvhereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it: ye (hall not prolongjwr days upon it, but (hall utterly be destroyed. 27 And tlie Lo R D (hall scatter you among the nations, and ye (hall be left few in number among-the heathen, whither the Lo R D (hail lead you. . 28 And there ye (hall serve gods, the work of men's hand, wood and stone, which neither fee, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. • ■ 29 But is from thence thou (halt seek the Lo R D thy God, thou (halt find him, tf thou seek l\i;n with all thy heart and with ail thy soul. , jo When tho.u art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, t<v?n in the latter days, if thou turn to she Lor D thy God, and (halt be obedient unto his voici; • 3 1 (For the Lo K. r thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither deslrov thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he fware unto 3» For ask now of the day? that ar past, which were before thee, since th day that God created man upon th earth, and afi from the one side of hea ven unto the other, whether there hat been any such thing as this great thin is, or hath been heard like it i 33 Did ever people hear the voice o God speaking out of the midst of tlv fire, as thou hath beard, and live? 34. Or hath God assayed to go, an.i taJt him a nation from the midst of anas he nation, by temptations, by signs, and t>; wonders, and by war, and by a might; hand, and by a stretched out arm, ant by great terrors, according to all tha the Lord your God did for you ii Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was (hewed, that thov mightest know that the Lo R D he is God there is none else beside him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee tc hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he (hewed the^ his great fire, and thou heardest hia words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seedatter them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive out nations from befor* thee, greater and mightier than thoy art, to bring thee in, to give thee their, landyif an inheritance, as it is this day, . -39 Know therefore this day, and con. sider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou (halt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go. well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thydayt upon the earth, which the Lor D thy God giveth thee for ever. 41 «J Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, toward the fun rising; * 42, That the slayer might flee thither, which mould kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and 1hat fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in tlie plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Baslian, of the Manaslites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgements, which Moles spake unto the children of Israel, j aster they came forth, out of Egypt, I 46 On 41 On this side Jordan, in the valley etcapiinst Beth-peor, In the land of Gcc sing of the Amoi ites, who dwelt rfieibon, whom Moses and the chil cra of Ilrael smote, after they were cant firth out of Egypt: *;Aad they posse lied his land, arid the til as Og king of Baflian, two kings cftt-e Amorites, which -were on this side Jordan toward the fun rising; *i From Aroer, which is by the bank rf the river Arnon, even unto mount ixt, which is Hennon, 45 And all the plain on this side Jor<!as eastward, even unto the lea of the stein, under the springs of Piigah. CHAP. V. 1 Tie csvenaxi in H&reb. 6 The ten eommrrJmenti. 11 At the people's request Mtfei recei-vetfi the lazvfrom God. AND Moses called all Israel, and said U2tt> them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes znd judgements which I speak in TD3r ears this day, that ye may learn tiea, and keep, and do them. 1 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 Toe Lo R. D made not this covenant *ith our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. + The Lo R D talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the sire, 5 (I stoodhetween the Lord and you it that rime, to (hew you the word of the Lor. 0 : for ye were afraid by reason of the firs, and went not up into the mount j) laying, 6 4 lam the Lord thy God, -which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods tefort me. t Thou shalt not make thee any graWb image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou slialt not bow down thyself «nto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vi si tia^ the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth^gr"*ratea of them that hate me, &ads «f them thatTove me, and keep my tommandmen ts. 11 Thou slialt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the 2<0(D will not hold him guiltless that talfta his name in vainly Ktep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lor D thy God hath commaadoj thee. 13 Six days thou slialt labour, and do all thy work: 14. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ihalt not do any work, thou, nor thy /on; nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, itor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and thai the Lord thy God brought thee out .thence through a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mo. ther, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee j that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which die Lord thy God giveth thee. 17 shou slialt not kill. 18 Neither slialt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither slialt thou steal. 20 Neither slialt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 Neither slialt thou detire thy neighbour's wife, neither Ihalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. ■ 22 «J These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the tire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard thevoice out of themidstof thedarkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye laid, Behold, the Lo R D our God hath stiewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: vie have 10 And shewing mercy unto thou- seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 45 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us. iif we h»ar the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we sliall die. 26 For who is there of all flesli thtt hath heard tha voice of the living tJod, speaking |