thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

serve other gods; so will the anger thy sheep, in the land which he of the LORD be kindled against sware unto thy fathers to give you, and destroy thee suddenly. d5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. b 6 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

t 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; (for ye were the fewest of all people ;)

b 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

t 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations;

w 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

b 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

p 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: nei ther shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them, but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt:

b 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and ter

rible.

d 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. b 12 Wherefore it shall come to b 22 And the LORD thy God will pass, if ye hearken to these judg-put out those nations before thee by ments, and keep and do them, that little and little thou mayest not the LORD thy God shall keep unto consume them at once, lest the thee the covenant and the mercy beasts of the field increase upon which he sware unto thy fathers: thee.

13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of

r 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt de

stroy their name from under heaven: depths that spring out of valleys and there shall no man be able to stand hills; before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil-olive and honey;

9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

p25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring and 10 When thou hast eaten and art abomination into thy house, lest thou full, then thou shalt bless the LORD be a cursed thing like it: but thou thy God for the good land which he shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt hath given thee. utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

CHAP. VIII.

LL the commandments which

p 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judg ments, and his statutes, which 1

ALL the this day command thee this day.

shall ye observe to do, that ye may
live, and multiply, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD
sware unto your fathers.
d 2 And thou shalt remember all
the way which the LORD thy God
led thee these forty years in the wil-
derness, to humble thee, and to prove
thee, to know what was in thy heart,
whether thou wouldest keep his com-
mandments, or no.

12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

p 14 Then thy heart be lifted_up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

b 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed theeb 15 Who led thee through that with manna, which thou knewest great and terrible wilderness, wherenot, neither did thy fathers know; in were fiery serpents, and scorpions, that he might make thee know that and drought, where there was no wa man doth not live by bread only, but ter; who brought thee forth water by every word that proceedeth out out of the rock of flint; of the mouth of the LORD, doth man b 16 Who fed thee in the wilderlive. ness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

m 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

b 5 Thou shalt also consider in thy 17 And thou say in thy heart, My heart, that as a man chasteneth his power, and the might of my hand, son, so the LORD thy God chasten-hath gotten me this wealth. eth thee.

d 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

d 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he sware unto thy fathers, as

b7 For the LORD thy God bring-it is this day. eth thee into a good land; a land w 19 And it shall be, if thou do at of brooks of water, of fountains, and all forget the LORD thy God, and

CHAPTER IX.

walk after other gods, and serve out of the land of Egypt, until ye
them, and worship them, I testify came unto this place, ye have been
against you this day, that ye shall rebellious against the LORD.
surely perish.

20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

g

CHAP. IX.

HEAR, O Israel; thou art to

pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great, and fenced up to heaven;

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak?

f 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the
LORD to wrath, so that the LORD
was angry with you, to have de-
stroyed you.

m 9 When I was gone up into the
mount, to receive the tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant which

the LORD made with you, then I

abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

f 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God: and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.

r 3 Understand therefore this day, 11 And it came to pass, at the that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a con-end of forty days and forty nights, suming fire he shall destroy them, that the LORD gave me the two taand he shall bring them down before bles of stone, even the tables of the thy face so shalt thou drive them covenant. out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. p 4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

t 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. c 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

f 15 So I turned, and came down from the mount, and the mount burnc 6 Understand therefore, that the ed with fire; and the two tables of LORD thy God giveth thee not this the covenant were in my two hands. good land to possess it for thy right-f 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye eousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.

f¶ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst depart

had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two tables, and 227

28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out, say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

cast them out of my two hands, and
brake them before your eyes.
m 18 And I fell down before the
LORD, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights: I did neither eat bread
nor drink water, because of all your
sins which ye sinned, in doing wick-
edly in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.

29 Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest 19 (For I was afraid of the anger out by thy mighty power, and by thy and hot displeasure wherewith the stretched-out arm. LORD was wroth against you to

CHAP. X.

destroy you.) But the LORD heark-AT that time the LORD said

ened unto me at that time

unto me, Hew thee two tad 20 And the LORD was very an-bles of stone like unto the first, and gry with Aaron to have destroyed come up unto me into the mount, and him and I prayed for Aaron also inake thee an ark of wood. the same time.

f21 And I took your sin, the calf
which ye had made, and burnt it
with fire, and stamped it, and ground
it very small, even until it was as
small as dust and I cast the dust
thereof into the brook that descended
out of the mount.

g 22 And at Taberah, and at Mas-
sah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye
provoked the LORD to wrath.
g 23 Likewise when the LORD sent
you from Kadesh-barnea, saying,
Go up and possess the land which I
have given you; then ye rebelled
against the commandment of the
LORD your God, and ye believed
him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
c 24 Ye have been rebellious against
the LORD from the day that I knew

you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. f 3 And I made an ark of shittimwood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand."

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

5 And I turned myself, and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD com manded me.

g 6 ¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was bu ried; and Eleazar his son ministerd 26 I prayed therefore unto the ed in the priest's office in his stead. LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, de- g 7 From thence they journeyed stroy not thy people, and thine in-unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgoheritance, which thou hast redeem-dah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of ed through thy greatness, which waters.

thou hast brought forth out of Egypt f 8 At that time the LORD sepawith a mighty hand. rated the tribe of Levi, to bear the 27 Remember thy servants, Abra-ark of the covenant of the LORD, to ham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not unto stand before the LORD to minister the stubbornness of this people, nor unto him, and to bless in his name, to their wickedness, nor to their sin; unto this day.