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creafe, and in all the works judge the people with juft of thine hands, therefore thou judgment. halt furely rejoice.

15 Three times in a year fhall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he fhall choofe; in the feaft of unleavened bread, and in the feaft of weeks, and in the feaft of tabernacles: and they fhall not appear before the Lord empty:

17 Every man fhall give as he is able, according to the bleffing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

19 Thou shalt not wreft judgment; thou fhalt not refpect perfons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether juft fhalt thou follow, that thou mayeft live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou fhalt make thee.

18 Judges and officers fhalt thou make thee in all 22 Neither fhalt thou fet thy gates which the Lord thy thee up any image; which God giveth thee throughout the Lord thy God hateth, thy tribes and they fhall;

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From the Book of JUDGE S.

CHAP. V.

THEN fang Deborah, and Barak the fon of Abinoam, on that day, faying,

2 Praife ye the Lord for the avenging of Ifrael, when the people willingly offered themselves.

3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even 1, will fing unto the Lord; I will fing praife to the Lord

God of Ifrael.

4 Lord, when thou went eft out of Seir, when thou marchedft out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds alfo dropped water.

5 The mountains melted from before the Lord: even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Ifrael.

6 In the days of Shamgar the fon of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied,

unoccupied, and the travel- the people: the Lord made lers walked through by-me have dominion over the mighty.

ways.

7 The inhabitants of the villages ceafed, they ceafed in Ifrael, until that I Deborah arofe, that I arofe a mother in Ifrael.

8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a fhield or fpear feen among forty thousand in Ifrael?

9 My heart is toward the governors of Ifrael that offered themselves willingly among the people. Blefs ye the Lord.

io Speak ye that ride on white affes, ye that fit in judgment, and walk by the

way.

11 They that are delivered from the noife of archers in the places of drawing water; there fhall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Ifrael: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.

14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin among thy people: out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

15 And the princes of Iffachar were with Deborah; even Iffachar, and alfo Barak: he was fent on foot into the valley. For the divifions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

16 Why abodeft thou among the fheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks for the divifions of Reuben there were great fearchings of heart,

17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in fhips? Afher continued on the fea-fhore, and abode in his breaches.

18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the 12 Awake, awake, De-death in the high places of borah awake, awake, utter the field. a fong: arife, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou fon of Abinoam.

13 Then he made him that remaineth have domipion over the nobles among

19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no gain of money.

20 They fought from

heaven:

heaven: the ftars in their fell down dead, courfes fought against Si- 28 The mother of Sifera looked out at a window,

fera.

21 The river of Kifhon and cried through the latfwept them away, that an- tice, Why is his chariot fa cient river, the river Ki-long in coming? why tarry fhon: O my foul, thou haft the wheels of his chariot ?

trodden down ftrength.

22 Then were the horfehoofs broken by the means of the pranfings, the pranfings of their mighty ones. 23 Curfe ye Meroz, faid the angel of the Lord, curfe ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

24 Bleffed above women fhall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blefled fhall fhe be above women in the tent.

25 He asked water, and The gave him milk; fhe brought forth butter in a lordly difh.

26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer: and with the hammer fhe mote Sifera; fhe fmote off his head, when fhe had pierced and ftricken through his temples.

27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he

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29 Her wife ladies anfwered her, yea, fhe returncd anfwer to herself,

30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey, to every man a damfel or two? to Sifera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divefs colours of needlework, of divers colours of needle-work on both fides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

31 So let all thine enemies perifh, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the fun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had reft forty years.

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CHAP. XIII.

ND the children of Ifrael did evil again in the fight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philiftines forty years.

2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whofe name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

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3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou fhalt conceive, and bear a fon.

4 Now therefore, beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor ftrong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

5 For lo, thou fhalt conceive, and bear a fon; and no razor fhall come on his head: for the child fhall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb and he fhall begin to deliver Ifrael out of the hand of the Philistines.

God which thou didft fend, come again unto us, and teach us what we fhall do unto the child that shall be born.

9 And God hearkened unto the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman, as the fat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

10 And the woman made hafte, and ran, and fhewed her husband, and faid unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

II And Manoah arofe, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and faid unto him, Art thou the man that fpakeft unto the woman? And he faid, I am.

6 Then the woman came and told her husband, faying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible but I asked him not whence he was, nei- | How ther told he me his name.

7 But he faid unto me, Behold, thou fhalt conceive, and bear a fon; and now drink no wine, nor ftrong drink, neither eat any unclean thing for the chiid fhall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

8 Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and faid, my Lord, let the man of

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12 And Manoah faid, Now let thy words come to pass: fhall we order the child? and bow fhall we do unto him?

13 And the angel of the Lord faid unto Manoah, Of all that I faid unto the woman let her beware.

14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or ftrong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her, let her obferve.

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And Manoah faid | Manoah and to his wife. unto the angel of the Lord, Then Manoah knew that he I pray thee, let us detain was an angel of the Lord. thee until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

16 And the angel of the Lord faid unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou muft offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.

17 And Manoah faid unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy fayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

18 And the angel of the Lord faid unto him, Why afkeft thou thus after my name, feeing it is fecret?

19 So Manoah took a kid, with a meat-offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord. And the angel did wonderoufly, and Manoah and his wife looked on. 20 For it came to pafs, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord afcended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

21 But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to

22 And Manoah faid unto his wife, We fhall furely die, because we have seen God.

23 But his wife faid unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering, at our hands, neither would he have fhewed us all these things, nor would, as at this time, have told us fuch things as these.

24 And the woman bare a fon, and called his name Samfon. And the child grew, and the Lord bleffed him.

25 And the fpirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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