Of unjust weights. Before DEUTERONOMY. The offering of the firstfruits. The law to be written on stones. DEUTERONOMY. 10 And his name shall be called in CHRIST Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 1451. p ch. 19. 13. q Lev. 19. 35, 36. Prov. 11. 1. Ez, 45. 10. Mic. 6. 11. 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, Pthine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag † divers weights, a great and a small: 14 Thou shalt not have in thine + Heb, a stone house f divers measures, a great and a small: and a stone. † Heb. an ephah and an ephah. r Ex. 20. 12. & Prov. 11. 1. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and 1 Thess. 4.6. all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. t Ex. 17. 8. u Ps. 36. 1. Prov. 16. 6. Rom. 3. 18. x1 Sam, 15.3. y Ex. 17. 14. 34. 26. Num. 18. 13. ch. 16. 10. Prov. 3. 9. b ch. 12, 5. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he "feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 The confession of him that offereth the basket of firstfruits. 12 The prayer of him that giveth his third year's tithes. 16 The covenant between God and the people. come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; a Ex. 23. 19. & 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt b go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say be 8 And ithe LORD brought us forth i Ex.12.37.51. & 13. 3,14,16. ch. 5. 15. out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and kwith great terribleness, and with k ch. 4. 34. signs, and with wonders: 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even la land that floweth with milk 1 Ex. 3. 8. and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 18. & 16. 11. 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every m ch. 12.7,12, good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the "tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast com thy commandments, Pneither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. t Ex. 6. 7. & 19. 5. ch. 7. 6. & 14. 2. & 28.9. uch. 4. 7, 8. & 28. 1. Ps. 148. 14. x Ex. 19. 6. ch. 7. 6. & 28. 9. 1 Pet. 2. 9. ▲ Josh. 4. 1. b Josh. 8. 32. cch. 11. 29. Josh. 8. 30. dEx. 20. 25. Josh, 8. 31. e ch, 26. 18. fch. 11. 29. Josh. 8. 33. Judg. 9. 7. 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be xa holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. CHAPTER XXVII. 1 The people are commanded to write the law upon stones, 5 and to build an altar of whole stones. 11 The tribes divided on Gerizim and Ebal. 14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal. AND Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be, on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath prom ised thee. 4 Therefore it shall be when ve be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: dthou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: 7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand fupon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, The curses of the law. CHRIST 1451. and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, Before and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place: kand all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 161 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark: and all the people shall say, Amen. gch. 11. 29. Josh. 8.33. + Heb. for a cursing. hch. 33. 10. Josh. 8, 33, 1 Ex. 20. 4, 23. & 34. 17. Lev. 19. 4. & 26. 1. ch. 4. 16, 23. & 5. 8. Is. 44. 9. Hos. 13. 2, k See Num. 5.22. Jer. 11. 5. 1 Cor. 14. 16. 1 F.x. 20. 12. & 21. 17. Lev. 19. 3. ch. 21. 18. mch. 19. 14. Prov. 22. 28. n Lev. 19. 14. 18" Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen. 19o Cursed be he that perverteth the Ex.22.21,22. judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen. ch. 10. 18. & 24. 17. Mal. 3. 5. 20 P Cursed be he that lieth with his plev. 18.8. & father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen. 214 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen. 20. 11. ch, 22, 30, q Lev. 18. 23. & 20. 15. 20. 17. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his Lev. 18.9. & sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his s Lev. 18. 17. mother in law: and all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, Amen. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience. 15 The curses for disobediencc. ANDoit shall to passentif thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God b will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 d Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy & 20. 14. t Ex. 20. 13. & 21. 12. 14. Lev. 24. 17. Num. 35.31. ch. 19. 11. u Ex. 23. 7, 8. ch. 10. 17. & 15. 19. Ez. 22. 12. xch. 28. 15. a Ex. 15. 26. Lev. 26. 3. Is. 55. 2. bch. 26. 19. ever. 15. Zech. 1. 6. d Ps. 128. 1.4. e Gen. 39. 5. fver. 11. Gen. 22. 17. & 49. 25. ch. 7. 13. Ps. 107. 38. Prov. 10. 22. 1 Tim. 4, 8. Or, dough, or, kneading trough. g Ps. 121. 8. h Lev. 26. 7. 8. 2 Sam. 22.38. 39, 41. Ps. 89. 23. See ver. 25. i Lev, 25, 21. Or, barns. Prov. 3. 10. k ch. 15. 10. 1 Ex. 19. 5, 6, ch. 76. & 26. 18, 19. & 29. 13. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6g 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD hshall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy || storehouses, and in all that thou ksettest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 91 The LORD shall establish thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall m Num. 6.27. see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be "afraid of thee. 2 Chr. 7. 14. Js. 63 19. Dan 9.18,19. nch 11.25. over. 4. ch. 20. 9. Prov. 10, 22. Or, for good. † Heb. belly. p Lev. 26. 4. ch. 11. 14. q ch. 14. 29. rch, 15.6. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous || 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 LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee $ Is. 9. 14, 15. $the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: tch. 5. 32. & 11. 16. u Lev. 26. 14. Lam 2. 17. Dan.9 11,13. Mal, 2. 2. x ver. 2. y ver. 3, &c. 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command d thee this day, The curses for disobedience. cursing, vexation, and brebuke, in Before all that thou settest thine hand unto CHRIST for to do, until thou be destroyed, 1451. and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. z Mal. 2. 2. al Sam. 14.20. Zech. 14. 13. 21 The LORD shall make the pesti- P. 80. 16. lence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. Is. 30. 17. & 51. 20. & 66, 15. † Heb. which thou wouldest do. Jer. 24. 10. 22 The d LORD shall smite smite thee with 23 And thy heaven that is over thy 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. d Lev. 26. 16. Or, drought. e Amos 4.9. fLev. 26. 19. g ver. 7. Lev. 26. 17, 37. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and bshalt be removed into all the king-hJer. 15. 4. & doms of the earth. 26 And thy carcass 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 kthe botch of Egypt, and with 1 the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and mastonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt "grope at noonday, 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. 30 "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: Pthou shalt build a house, and thou shalt thou shalt plant not dwell therein: to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other 15 But it shall come to pass, "if 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 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 The curses Before DEUTERONOMY. 34 So that thou shalt be mad for CHRIST the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 1451. t ver. 67. u ver. 27. 2 Kin. 17. 4. 6. & 24. 12, 14. & 25. 7. 11. 2 Chr. 33. 11. & 36.6, 20. y ch. 4. 28. ver. 64. Jer. 16. 13. 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. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an as z1 Kings 9.7. tonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 8. Jer. 24. 9. & 25.9. Zech. 8. 13. Ps. 44. 14. 3Mic. 6. 15. Mag. 1. 6. c Joel 1. 4. + Heb. they shall not be thine. d Lam. 1. 5. Or, possess. e ver. 12. fver. 13. Lam. 1. 5. g ver. 15. h Is. 8. 18. Ez. 14. 8. 38 b Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms 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 thou shalt not enjoy them; for d they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust || consume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: fhe shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till 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 thee. 47 i Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, k for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49m The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flicth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not + understand; 50 A nation † of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person 2 Chr. 36.17. of the old, nor shew favour to the Ecc. 8 1. Dan. 8. 23. Is. 47. 6. young: for disobedience. Before 51 And he shall Peat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, un- CHRIST til thou be destroyed which also 1451. shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege 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 all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, teh. 13.6. 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 nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman 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 to ward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her 1 young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear u ver. 51. + Heb. afterbirth. x Gen. 49. 10. 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues" wonderful, and the plagues z Dan. 9. 12. of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which ach. 7. 15. thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD † bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; be Heb cause to ascend. bch. 4. 27. ech 10.22. Neh. 9. 23. cause thou wouldest not obey the CHRIST voice of the LORD thy God. 1451. d ch. 30.9. Jer 32.41. e Prov. 1. 26. Is 1.24. f Lev. 26 33. ch. 4. 27, 28. Neh. 1.8. Jer 16. 13. g ver. 36. h Amos 9.4. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD drejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; So the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and 8 there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And hamong these nations shalt thou find no case, neither shall the i Lev. 26. 36. sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and k Lev. 26. 16. k sorrow of mind: 1 Job 7. 4. m ver. 31. n Jer. 43. 7. Hoa, 8. 13. & 9. 3. o ch. 17. 16. a ch. 5. 2, 3. b Ex. 19. 4. cch 4. 34, & 7.19 d See Is. 6. 9. 1 & 63 17. John 8. 43. Acts 28. 26, 27. Eph. 4. 18. 2 Thess.2.11. 12. e ch. 1. 3. & 8.2. f ch. 8. 4. g See Ex. 16. 12. ch. 8. 3. 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 671 In the morning 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 Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake 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. CHAPTER XXIX. 1 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the All are presented before the Lord to en- THESE are the words of the cove TH to obedience. that ye might know that I am the Before LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, à Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and igave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. CHRIST 1451. h Num 21.23. 24, 33. ch. 2. 32. & 3. 1. i Num. 32.33. ch. 3. 12, 13. 9 k Keep therefore the words of this kch. 4. 6. covenant, and do them, that ye may 1 prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all 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 12 That thou shouldest f enter into 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt 17 And ye have seen their abomina- 18 Lest there should be among you nant, which the LORD Command-whose heart turneth away this day ed Moses to make with the children 2 And Moses called unto all Is- 3 The great temptations which 4 Yet d the LORD hath not given 65 Ye have not eaten bread, neither Ps. 78. 21.25. have ye drunk wine or strong drink: |