Blessing and curse proposed. DEUTERONOMY, XII. · Idols must be destroyed. 28 And a curse, d if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside e out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other d 2Ki. 17. 10, gods, which ye have not known. Jer.3.6. 11. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath 2 break brought thee in unto the land down. whither thou goest to possess it, e Nu.33.52. that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount. Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh ? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. Ju.2.2. 2Chr.31.1. ƒ1Ki. 15.13. g ver.31. hver.11. 2Chr.7.12. i Lev. 17.3,4. k ch.14.22-26, I ver.12,18. ch.16.11-15. 26.11. Lev.23.40, 32 And ye shall observeg to do all the statutes and judgments m Ju. 17.6. which I set before you this day. CHAPTER XII. 2 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed. 16, 23 Blood is forbidden. T HESE a are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all b the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy c all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served 21.25: n Heb.4.9. o Jos.3.17. Jos: 18.1. of your q ver.7. ch.14.29. Lev. 17.2-5. their gods, upon the high moun tains, d and upon the hills, and un der every green tree: 3 And ye shall 2 overthrow e their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves ƒ with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Yeg shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thitheri ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, k and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every m man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not n as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, o and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety: 11 Then there shall be a place p which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all 3 your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: 12 And ye shall rejoice q before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates: forasmuch as he hath nor part nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in everys place that thou seest: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there t thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou Blood is forbidden. Of idolatry. offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altari of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. DEUTERONOMY, XIII. shalt do all that I command thee. | B. C. 1451. 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, u ch.14.26. whatsoever thy u soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee the v unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; w ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. ver.22. y 1Cor. 10.31. Ex.34.24. 4 all thy days. 17 Thou mayest not eat within a 1Chr.4.10. thy gates the tithe of thy corn, orb Ge.23.14. of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill of ferings, or heave offering of thine hand: c ver. 15, 16. d Lev. 17.11, e ch.4.40. 18 But thou must cat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thyh daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in ally that thou puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take z heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite 5 as long as thou livest upon the earth. 20 TWhen the LORD thy God shall enlarge a thy horder, as he hath b promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, (because thy soul longeth to eat flesh,) thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee. then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22 Even c as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be 5 sure that thou eat not the blood: ford the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; thate it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when f thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy g things which thou hast, and thy vows, h thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt I 14. Ex. 15.26. IKI.11.38. 28 Observe k and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. 29 T When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared 7 by following m them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve 1Sa.1.21,24 their gods? even so will I do likewise. Nu.5.9,10. i Le.1.5,9,13. 17.11. k Ex.34.11. I ch.19.1. 6 inheritest, after them. 38. 31 Thoun shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination 8 to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for o even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What p thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thoug shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAPTER XIII. 1 Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near soever, 10 are to be stoned to death, etc. TE F there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer a of dreams, and giveth thee a sign b or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come c to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth d you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walke after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice,f and ye shall serve him, and cleave g unto him. 5 And h that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to 1 turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you 13 Enticers to idolatry DEUTERONOMY, XIV. are to be stoned. out of the house of bondage, to B. C. 1451. | from the fierceness of his anger, thrust thee out of the way which and shew thee mercy, and have compassion w upon thee, and mul1Cor.5.13.tiply a thee, as he hath sworn y unto thy fathers; the LORD thy God commanded i ch. 17.7. thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife k of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent m unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to 1Sam.20.17. keepz all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand n shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with 4 or, devoted. stones, that he die; because het ch.7.26. hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of 2 bondage. 11 Ando all Israel shall hear, and~~~~~~ fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. • Ex.20.6. 12 T If thou shalt hear p say in w Lam.3.32. one of thy cities, which the LORD Eze.37.26. thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, y Ge.22.17. 13 Certain men, 3 the children of z Ps. 119.6. Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn a the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; b and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomina-c tion is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite the in- d 1Pet.2.9. habitants of that city with the edge e Eze.4.14. of the sword, destroying rit utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning. 3 What may be eaten. 7E are the children a of the Y LORD your God: ye shall not cut b yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead: 2 For thou art an holy c people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiard people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 T Thou shalt not eat e any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall cat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the 1 pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth ƒ the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch a their dead carcase. g 9 T These h ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins 14. and scales ye may not eat: it is 1Cur.10.28. unclean unto you. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy g Lev. 11.26, God: and s it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these i are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, 27.and the vulture after his kind, 17 And there shall cleave nought of the 4 cursed thing t to thine Lev.11.13. hand: that the LORD may turn ul 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the nighthawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, Of tithes. DEUTERONOMY, XV. Of the year of release. 16 The little owl, and the great | B. C. 1451. in all the work of thine hand which owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-k Lev. 17.15. eagle, and the cormorant, thou doest. 22.8.1 18 And the stork, and the heron Eze.4.14. after her kind, and the lapwing, | 7 ver.2. and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth t of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thoum shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithen all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And o thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlingsp of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. m Ex.23.19. n ch. 12.6, 17. Lev.27.30. Nu.18.21. Ne.10.37. o ch. 12.5,&c. pch.15.19,20. g ch.12.21. ȧ asketh of 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or ifg the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy (CHAP. 15.) God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God a Ex.23.10, hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 11. Le.25.2-4. 1 master of the lending of his hand ch.23.20. b 2 or, to the end that &c. 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul there be. lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, c ch.28.1-8, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul 2 desireth: ch.28.12,44. and thour shalt eat there before e 1Jno.3.17. the LORD thy God, and thou shalt f Lev.25.35 rejoice, s thou, and thine household, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him for he t hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 29 And the Levite, (because v he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that m the LORD thy God may bless thee Ps.41. 1,2. Pr.11.25. 22.9. Heb. 13.18. Mat. 26.11. CHAPTER XV. The seventh year a year of release for the poor: 7 it must be no let of lending or giving. Ta the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every 1 creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's re 42 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for c the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend d unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 7 T If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou e shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother; 8 But fthou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a 3 thought in thy 4 wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye g be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry h unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin i unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved k when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 711 For the poor m shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. Of a Hebrew servant. n Ex.21.2. Acts 20.35. to place his name there. 3 Thou e shalt eat no leavened! bread with it: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste;) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 12 T And if n thy brother, an He-[ B. C. 1451. | placed which the LORD shall choose brew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not o Ps.68.10. let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him libe-P Pr.10.22. rally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith o the LORD thy God hath p blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember as ver. 10. that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 16 And it shall be, ifr he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, (because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee ;) 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear untó the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard s unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. q ch.5.15. r Ex.21.5,6. t Ex. 13.2. u ch. 12.5,6, d ch.15.20. 19 T All the firstling t males that e Ex. 13.6,7. come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD f Ex. 12.10. 34.25. thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, or, kill. nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. Ex. 12.6-9. 20 Thou u shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the 2Ch 35.13. place which the LORD shall choose, i 2Ki.23.23. thou and thy household. Jno.2.13,23. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the w unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. CHAPTER XVI. 1 The feast of the passover, 9 of weeks, 13 of tabernacles. BSERVE a the month of Abib, 11.55. k Lev.23.8. I Ex.23.16. Acts 2.1. sufficiency m ver. 17. 1Cor. 16.2. n ch.12.7,12, 18. o ch.15.15. p Lev.23.34. 4 floor, and 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither ƒ shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not 1 sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover g at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast h and eat it in the place i which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a 2 solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven / weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with 3 a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according m as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And n thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And o thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles p seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy 4 corn LORD thy God: for in the month of of the c flock and the herd, in the 14 And thou shalt rejoice q in thy |