Blessings for obedience. DEUTERONOMY, XXVIII. Curses for disobedience. 2 And all these blessings shall B. C.1451. come on thee, and overtake c thee, if d thou shalt hearken unto the c ver. 15,45. voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessede shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the ƒ fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. d iTi 4.8. e Ge.39.5. Ps. 128. 1-4. fch.7.13. 1 serve to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed y shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. or, dough, 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy or, knead-body, and the fruit of thy land, the 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and ing increase of thy kine, and the flocks thy 1 store. troughs. of thy sheep. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when gg Ps. 121.8. thou comes in, and blessed shalt h 25a.22.38 thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine hi enemies that rise up against thee to be smiten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee i before thee seven ways. 2 41. Jos.8.22. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee 2 Chr. 14.9-Cursing, vexation, z and rebuke, a in all that thou settest thine hand unto 5 for to do, b until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 2Th.3.3. or, barns. 8 The LORD shall command & the Ps.87.5. blessing upon thee in thy 2 storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto: and he shall m Ex.19.5,6. bless thee in the land which then Mal.3.12. LORD thy God giveth thee. o Da.9.18,19. 9 The LORD shall establish p ch.11.25. thee an holy people unto himself, 1Ch.14.17. as he hath swornm unto thee, if q Pr. 10.12. thou shalt keep the command- 3 or, for good. ments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 4 belly. Joel 2.23. 10 And all people n of the earth s ch. 15.6. shall see that thou art called o byt Is.9.14,15. the name of the LORD; and they u ch.5.32. shall be afraid p of thee. v Is.30.21. w Le.26.14, 4 &c. 11 And g the LORD shall make thee plenteous 3 in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the x Lam.2.17. LORD Sware unto thy fathers to y Mal.2.2. give thee. z Is.28.19. a Is.30.17. 5 which thou 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasures, the heaven to give the rain unto r thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lends unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. wouldest b 1Sa. 14.20. Zec. 14.13. c Jer.24.10. d Am.4.9. 13 And the LORD shall make sor,drought. thee the head, t and not the tail; e Jer. 14.1-6. and thou shalt be above only, and ƒ ver.7. thou shalt not be beneath; if that Job 18.15 thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which g ch.32.30. I command thee this day, to ob-for a reserve and to do them: 14 And u thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to v the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 T But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not w hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to ob 21 The LORD shall make thec pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with thed sword, and with 6 blasting, and with mildew: and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23 Ande thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, f until thou be destroyed. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten g before thine enemies : thou shalt go out one way against them, and fee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed h into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcasei shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the k 21.emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. moving. Jer. 15.4. ¿ Ps.79.2. Jer. 7.33. Ex.9.9.11. 1 Jer.4.9. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and / astonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt grope m at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. Curses for disobedience. thou shalt not lend to him. he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. DEUTERONOMY, XXVIII. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, | B. C. 1451. and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build o an house, n Jer.8.10. and thou shalt not dwell thereino Am.5.11. thou shalt plant a vineyard, and Mi.6.15. shalt not gather the grapes 8 profane, or, thereof. 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not 9 be restored to thee thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 32 Thy sons p and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and failt with longing for them all the day long and there shall be no might in thine hand. 33 The fruit g of thy land, and all thy labours shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. use it as meat, as return. Jer.5.17. r Is.1.6. s 2Ch.36.6,17. t Ps.44.14. v Joel 1.4. w Am.7.1,2. x 2Ki.24.14. 11 or, possess. Y z ver. 12, 13. 36 The LORD shall brings thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers haved known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and at byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. a ver. 15. ¿ 2Ki. 17.20. 45 Moreover, all these curses a shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till b thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thec : 46 And they shall be upon thee for a signc and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because d thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance e of all things; 48 Therefore ƒ shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger,g and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron h upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 The LORD shall bring a i nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, ask swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not 12 understand; 50 A nation 13 of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of Ne.9.35-37. thy cattle, and the fruit of thy e ch.32.15. land, until thou be destroyed: f2Chr.12.8.which also shall not leave thee Jer.5.19. either corn, wine, or oil, or the inEze. 17.3,7, crease of thy kine, or flocks of thy 12. sheep, until he have destroyed thee. g La.5.2-6. 38 Thou shalt carry muchu seed h Jer.28.14. out into the field, and shalt gather i Jer.5.15. but little in: for the locust shall 6.22,23. consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes for the worms w shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but 10 thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust 11 consume. 43 They stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down · very low. 44 Hez shall lend to thee, and k Lam.4.19. 12 hear. 7 2Ch.36.17. m 2Ki.25.1-4. 4.10. 14 belly. p Mi.7.5. 52 And he shall besiege m thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land and he shall besiege thee in land which the LORD thy God all thy gates throughout all thy hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat n the fruit of thine own 14 body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall o be evil toward his brother, and toward thep wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave : 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath Curses for disobedience. DEUTERONOMY, XXIX. Exhortations to obedience. 56 The tender and delicate wo-q Is.49.15. man among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, t Ps. 111.9. u Ex.6.2,3. Ps. $3.18. Ps.50.7. Is.41.10. 57 And toward her 15 young one that cometh out from between her v Ex.20.2. feet, and toward her children q which she shall bear: for she shall eatr them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. w Dan.9. 12. 2 ch.7.15. 16 cause to 58 If thou wilt not observe to do ascend. all the words of this law that are y Ne.7.4. written in this book, that thou Is. 1.9. mayest fear this gloriouss and fearful t name, THE u LORD Ne.9.23. z THY ✔ GOD; a ch.30.9. Jer.32.41. 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, w and the plagues of thy seed, even great b Pr.1.26. plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases a of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Is. 1.24. c Jer. 16. 13. 50.17. Eze. 11. 16, 17. d Am.9.4. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will thee Job 7.4. LORD 16 bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. f Hos.8.13. 9.3. g ch.17.16. (CHAP. 29.) a ch.5.2,3. 62 And ye shall be left few y in number, whereas ye were as the z stars of heaven for multitude; hecause thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to b Ex.8.12. do you a good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over c ch.4.34. you to destroy b you and to bring d Is.6.9,10. you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter c thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And d among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee: and thou shalt 63.17. Jno.8.43. e ch.8.4. Ex.16.35. 25. 1Cor.9.25. k Nu.21.23. |fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning e thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egyptƒ again with ships, by the way whereof I spake g unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. THES CHAPTER XXIX. 2 An exhortation to obedience. 29 Secret things belong unto God. HESE are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made a with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did b before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land ; 3 The great temptations c which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart d to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes e are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, g neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon h the king of Heshbon, and Óg the king of Bashan, camé out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 9 Keepi therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye'stand this day all k of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer 2 of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: God's covenant DEUTERONOMY, XXX. with Israel. 12 That thou shouldest 1 enter | B. C. 1451. | 24 Even all nations shall say, into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, m which pass. the LORD thy God maketh with m Ne.10.29. thee this day: n ch.28.9. o Ex.6.7. p Ge. 17.7. 13 That he may establish n thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said o unto thee, Ge.26.3,4. and as he hath sworn unto thyr Ge.28.13fathers, to Abraham,p to Isaac, g and to Jacob.r 15. poisonful • Acts 2.39. 14 Neither with you only do Idungy gods make this covenant and this oath; 3 rosh, or, a 15 Buts 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 passed by;" 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their 2 idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them :) t Acts 8.23. u Heb. 12.15. 4 or, stub- 5 the drunk en to the v Is.30.1. Wherefore d hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken 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 served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and 8 whom he had not 9 given unto them: 27 Ande the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rootedƒ them out of their land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret g things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed h belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. CHAPTER XXX. 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant. 15 Life and death are set before them. 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to Ps.79.5. go and serve the gods of these na-y ch.9.14. tions; lest there should be among Eze. 14.7,S. you a root that beareth 3 gallt and z Mat.24.51. wormwood; 2 6 is written. AND it shall come to pass, when these things are come upon wherewith thee, the blessing and the curse, the LORD which I have set before thee, and hath made thou shalt call them to mind a it sick. among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the 4 imagination of mine heart, to add 5 drunkenness v to thirst: a Jer. 17.6. b Ps. 107.34. Jer.22.8,9. or, who had not given to them any portion. 21 And the LORD shall separate z him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that 6 are written 9 divided. in this book of the law: e Da. 9.11-14. 22 So that the generation to come ƒ 1Ki. 14. 15. of your children that shall rise upg Jer.23.18. after you, and the stranger that Da.2.22,28, shall come from a far land, shall 1Cor.2.16. say, when they see the plagues of h Ps.78.2-7. that land, and the sicknesses 7 which the LORD hath laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land there 2Ti.3.16. 1Jno.1.9. of is brimstone, and salt, a and burn-a 1Ki.8.47,48. 2 And shalt return b unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and c gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 Ifd any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine ene The command manifest. DEUTERONOMY, XXXI. Moses encourages Joshua. mies, e and on them that hate thee, | B. C. 1451. which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey é Is. 14.1-27. the voice of the LORD, and do all Ob.10. his commandments which I com-ƒ ch.28.11. mand thee this day. g Zep.3.17. h Is.55.2,3. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in 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 againg rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken ħ unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn k unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It m is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 T See, In have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil: i Cor.7.19. k ver.2. La.3.40,41. Eze.33.11, &c. Ps. 147.19. Is.45.19. m Ro. 10.6, ver. 1, 19. ch.11.26. o Mat.22.37, 38. P Jno.14.21. s ch.4.26. t ch.32.1. Is. 1.2. v Ps. 27.1. (CHAP. 31.) Ex.7.7. b ch.3.27. Nu.20.12. c ch.9.3. Ps.44.2,3. d Nu.27.18 21. 16 In that I command thee this day to love o the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keepp his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the lande Nu.21.24, whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart a turn away, fch.7.2,18. so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt & Jos. 10.25. be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 Ir denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 33. 1Ch.22.13. h ch.20.4. Is. 43.1-5. i Jos. 1.5. Heb, 13.5. Jos. 1.6. the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. CHAPTER XXXI. 1 Moses encourageth the people, and Joshua. 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests. 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua. AND Moses went, and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am a an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in also the LORD hath said b unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he c will go over before thee, and he will deStroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath d said. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he dide to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give ƒ them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 Beg strong and of a good courage,h fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, hei will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7 T And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Bek strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, he l it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will m not fail thee, neither forsake thec: fear not, neither be dismayed. 9 T And Moses wrote this law, and delivered n it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of o release, in the feast p of taber22. nacles, 19 Is call heaven t and earth u to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore m ver.6. choose life, that both thou and thy n ver.25,26. seed may live: o ch.15.Í. p 11 When all Israel is come tog appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, 20 That thou mayest love the Lev.23.34. thou shalt r read this law before all Jos.8.34. q ch.16.16. 2Ki.23.2. LORD thy God, and that thou may- Israel in their hearing. 12 Gathers the people together men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they |