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The 5th Chapter
And Moses called unto all Israel
and said unto them: Hear Israel the ordinances and laws which I
speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye
do them. The Lord our God made an appointment with us in Horeb. The
Lord made not this bond with our fathers, but with us: we are they,
which are all here alive this day. The Lord talked with you face to
face in the mount out of the fire. And I stood between the Lord and
you the same time, to show you the saying of the Lord. For ye were
afraid of the fire and therefore went not up into the mount and he
said. I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have therefore none other gods in my presence.
Thou shalt make thee no graven Image of any manner likeness
that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water
beneath the earth. Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor
serve them, for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the
wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and
the fourth generation, among them that hate me: and show mercy upon
thousands among them that love me and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for
the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain.
Keep the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it, as the Lord thy
God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour and do all that
thou hast to do, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God: thou shalt do no manner work, neither thou nor thy son nor thy
daughter nor thy servant nor thy maid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor
any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy city, that
thy servant and thy maid may rest as well as thou. And remember that
thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt and how that the Lord God,
brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm.
For which cause the Lord thy God commandeth thee to keep the Sabbath
day.
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath
commanded thee: that thou mayst prolong thy days, and that it may go
well with thee on the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not slay.
Thou shalt not break wedlock.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbors wife: thou shalt not
covet thy neighbours house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor *ought
that is thy neighbours.
These words the Lord spake unto all your multitude in the
mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and
added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and
delivered them unto me.
But as soon as ye heard the voice out of the darkness and saw
the hill burn with fire, ye came unto me all the heads of your
tribes and your elders: and ye said: behold, the Lord our God hath
showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a
man and he yet live. And now wherefore should we die that this great
fire should consume us: If we should hear the voice of the Lord our
God any more, we should die. For what is any flesh that he should
hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we have
done and should yet live: Go thou and hear all that the Lord our God
sayeth, and tell thou unto us all that the Lord our God sayeth unto
thee, and we will hear it and do it.
And the Lord heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto
me, and he said unto me: I have heard the voice of the words of this
people which they have spoken unto thee, they have well said all
that they have said. Oh that they had such an heart with them to
fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well
with them and with their children for ever. Go and say unto them:
get you into your tents again, but stand thou here before me and I
will tell thee all the commandments, ordinances and laws which thou
shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give
them to possess.
Take heed therefore that ye do as the Lord your God hath
commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the right hand or to
the left: but walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath
commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and
that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
*ought (anything)
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The 6th Chapter
These are the commandments,
ordinances and laws which the Lord your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that
thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his ordinances and
his commandments which I command thee, both thou and thy son and thy
sons son all days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. Hear
therefore Israel and take heed that thou do thereafter, that it may
go well with thee and that ye may increase mightily: even as the
Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
Hear Israel, the Lord thy God is Lord only and thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul and with
all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day, shall
be in thine heart and thou shalt *whet them on thy children, and
shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest
up: and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they
shall be papers of remembrance between thine eyes, and shalt write
them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates.
And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land
which he sware unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give
thee with great and goodly cities which thou buildest not, and
houses full of all manner goods which thou filledst not, and wells
digged which thou diggedst not, and vines and olive trees which thou
planted not, and when thou hast eaten, and art full: Then beware
lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt the house of bondage. But fear the Lord thy God and serve him,
and swear by his name, and see that ye walk not after strange gods
of the Gods of the nations which are about you. For the Lord thy God
is a jealous God among you, lest the wrath of the Lord thy God wax
hot upon thee and destroy thee from the earth.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as ye did at Masa. But
see that ye keep the commandments of the Lord your God, his
witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee, and see
thou do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that
thou mayst prosper and that thou mayst go and conquer that good land
which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, and that the Lord may cast
out all thine enemies before thee as he hath said.
When thy son asketh thee in time to come saying: What meaneth
the witnesses, ordinances and laws which the Lord our God hath
commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son: We were bondmen
unto Pharao in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a
mighty hand. And the Lord shewed signs and wonders both great and
evil upon Egypt, Pharao and upon all his household, before our eyes,
and brought us from thence: to bring us in and to give us the land
which he sware unto our fathers. And therefore commanded us to do
all these ordinances and for to fear the Lord our God, for our
wealth always and that he might save us, as it is come to pass this
day. Moreover it shall be righteousness unto us before the Lord our
God, if we take heed to keep all these commandments as he hath
commanded us.
*whet this is to sharpen them with these words.
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The 7th Chapter
When the Lord thy God hath
brought thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and
hath cast out many nations before thee: the Hethites, the Girgosites,
the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pheresites, the Hevites and the
Jebusites. Seven nations more in number and mightier than thou: and
when the Lord thy God hath set them before thee that thou shouldest
smite them, see that thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant
with them nor have compassion on them. Also thou shalt make no
marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son nor take
his daughter unto thy son. For they will make your sons depart from
me and serve strange Gods, and then will the wrath of the Lord wax
hot upon you and destroy you shortly.
But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars,
break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn their
images with fire. For thou art an holy nation unto the Lord thy God:
the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto
himself of all nations that are upon the earth. It was not because
of the multitude of you above all nations, that the Lord had lust
unto you and chose you. For ye were fewest of all nations: But
because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of
Egypt with a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of
bondage: even from the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God he is God and that
a true God, which keepeth appointment and mercy unto them that love
him and keep his commandments, even throughout a thousand
generations and rewardeth them that hate him before his face so that
he bringeth them to nought, and will not defer the time unto him
that hateth him but will reward him before his face. Keep therefore
the commandments, ordinances and laws which I command you this day,
that ye do them.
If ye shall hearken unto these laws and shall observe and do
them, then shall the Lord thy God keep appointment with thee and the
mercy which he sware unto thy fathers and will love thee, bless thee
and multiply thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit
of thy field, thy corn, thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine
oxen and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all nations, there
shall be neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor anything
unfruitful among your cattle. Moreover the Lord will turn from thee
all manner infirmities, and will put none of the evil diseases of
Egypt (which thou knowest) upon thee, but will send them upon them
that hate thee. Thou shalt bring to nought all nations which
the Lord thy God delivereth thee, thine eye shall have no pity upon
them neither shalt thou serve their Gods, for that shall be thy
decay. If thou shalt say in thine heart: these nations are more than
I, how can I cast them out? Fear them not, but remember what the
Lord thy God did unto Pharao and unto all Egypt, and the great
temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders and
mighty hand and stretched out arm wherewith the Lord thy God brought
thee out: even so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the nations of
which thou art afraid.
Thereto, the Lord thy God will send hornets among them until
they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. See
thou fear them not for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God
and a terrible. The Lord thy God will put out these nations before
thee a little and a little: thou mayst not consume them at once lest
the beasts of the field increase upon thee. And the Lord thy God
shall deliver them unto thee and stir up a mighty tempest among
them, until they be brought to nought. And he shall deliver their
kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their names from under
heaven. There shall no man stand before thee, until thou have
destroyed them. The images of their gods thou shalt burn with fire,
and see that thou covet not the silver or gold that is on them nor
take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an
abomination unto the Lord thy God. Bring not therefore the
Abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing as it is:
but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must be
destroyed.
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The 8th Chapter
All the commandments which I
command thee this day ye shall keep for to do them, that ye may live
and multiply and go and possess the land which the Lord sware unto
your fathers. And think on all the way which the Lord thy God led
thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to
prove thee, to *wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest
keep his commandments or no. He humbled thee and made thee hunger
and fed thee with manna which neither thou nor thy father knew of,
to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only: but by all
that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord must a man live. Thy
raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy feet swell this
forty years.
Understand therefore in thine heart, that as a man nurtureth
his son, even so the Lord thy God nurtureth thee. Keep therefore the
commandments of the Lord thy God that thou walk in his ways and that
thou fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,
a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of springs that spring
out both in valleys and hills: a land of wheat and of barley, of
vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil
and of honey: a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness,
and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and
out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass. When thou hast eaten
therefore and filled thyself, then bless the Lord for the good land
which he hath given thee.
But beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, that thou
wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and ordinances which I
command thee this day: yea and when thou hast eaten and filled
thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, and when thy
beasts and thy sheep are waxed many and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied and all that thou hast increased, then beware lest thine
heart rise and thou forget the Lord thy God which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt the house of bondage, and which led thee in the
wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions
and *drouth where was no water, which brought the water out of the
rock of flint: which fed thee in the wilderness with *Man whereof
thy fathers knew not, for to humble thee and to prove thee, that he
might do thee good at thy latter end.
And beware that thou say not in thine heart, my power and the
might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts: But remember the
Lord thy God, how that it is he which gave thee power to do
manfully, for to make good the promise which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is come to pass this day.
For if thou shalt forget the Lord thy God and shalt walk after
strange gods and serve them and worship them, I testify unto you
this day, that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord
destroyeth before thee, even so ye shall perish, because ye would
not hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God.
*wete: to know, to sharpen. *Man this is exactly as it appears in
the text cap M. *drouth (drought)
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The 9th Chapter
Hear Israel, thou goest over
Jordan this day, to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than
thyself and cities great and walled up to heaven, and people great
and tall, even the children of the Enakims, which thou knowest and
of whom thou hast heard say who is able to stand before the children
of Enack? But understand this day that the Lord thy God which goeth
over before thee a consuming fire, he shall destroy them and he
shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them out, and
bring them to nought quickly as the Lord hath said unto thee.
Speak not in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath
cast them out before thee saying: for my righteousness the Lord hath
brought me into possess this land. Nay, but for the wickedness of
these nations the Lord doth cast them out before thee. It is not for
thy righteousness sake and right heart that thou goest to possess
their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord
thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that
which the Lord thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.
Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness
sake, that the Lord thy God doth give thee this good land to possess
it, for thou art a stiffnecked people. Remember and forget not how
thou provokedest the Lord thy God in the wilderness: for since the
day that thou camest out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto
this place, ye have rebelled against the Lord. Also in Horeb ye
angered the Lord so that the Lord was wroth with you, even to have
destroyed you, after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the
tables of stone, the tables of appointment which the Lord made with
you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither
ate bread nor drank water. And the Lord delivered me two tables of
stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to
all the words which the Lord said unto you in the mount out of the
fire in the day when the people were gathered together.
And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the Lord
gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the testament, and
said unto me: Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy
people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred themselves.
They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and
have made them a God of metal. Furthermore the Lord spake unto me
saying: I see this people how that it is a stiffnecked people, let
me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from
under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more
than they.
And I turned away and came down from the hill (and the hill
burnt with fire) and had the two tables of the appointment in my
hands. And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the Lord
your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out
of the way which the Lord had commanded you. Then I took the two
tables and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your
eyes. And I fell before the Lord: even as at the first time forty
days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water, over all
your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the
Lord and in provoking him. For I was afraid of the wrath and
fierceness wherewith the Lord was angry with you, even for to have
destroyed you. But the Lord heard my petition at that time also.
The Lord was very angry with Aaron also, even for to have
destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aaron also the same time.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with
fire and stamped him and ground him a good, even unto small dust.
And I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the
mount. Also at Thabeera and at Masa and at the sepulchres of lust ye
angered the Lord, yea and when the Lord sent you from Cades Barna
saying: go up and conquer the land which I have given you, ye
disobeyed the mouth of the Lord your God, and neither believed him
nor hearkened unto his voice. Thus ye have been disobedient unto the
Lord, since the day that I knew you.
And I fell before the Lord forty days and forty nights which I
lay there, for the Lord was minded to have destroyed you. But I made
intercession unto the Lord and said: O' Lord God, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered through thy
greatness and which thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty
hand. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and look not
unto the stubbornness of this people nor unto their wickedness and
sin: lest the land whence thou broughtest them say: Because the Lord
was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them and
because he hated them, therefore he carried them out to destroy them
in the wilderness. Moreover they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy mighty power and
with thy stretched out arm.
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The 10th Chapter
In the same season the Lord said
unto me: hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come
up unto me into the mount and make thee an Ark of wood, and I will
write in the tables, the words that were in the first tables which
thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark
of sethim wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first,
and went up into the mountain and the two tables in mine hand.
And he wrote in the tables, according to the first writing
(the ten verses which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of
the fire in the day when the people were gathered together) and gave
them unto me. And I departed and came down from the hill and put the
tables in the ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the
Lord commanded me.
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beroth of
the children of Jakan to Mosera, where Aaron died and where he was
buried, and Eleazer his son became priest in his stead. And from
thence they departed unto Galaad: and from Galaad to Jathbath, a
land of rivers of water. And the same season the Lord separated the
tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the appointment of the Lord and to
stand before the Lord, and to minister unto him and to bless in his
name unto this day. Wherefore the Levites have no part nor
inheritance with their brethren. The Lord he is their inheritance,
as the Lord thy God hath promised them.
And I tarried in the mount, even as at the first time forty
days and forty nights, and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time
also, so that the Lord would not destroy thee. And the Lord said
unto me: up and go forth in the journey before the people and let
them go in and conquer the land which I sware unto their fathers to
give unto them.
And now Israel what is it that the Lord thy God requireth of
thee, but to fear the Lord thy God and to walk in all his ways and
to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and
with all thy soul, that thou keep the commandments of the Lord and
his ordinances which I command thee this day, for thy wealth.
Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy God, and
the earth with all that therein is: only the Lord had a lust unto
thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after
them of all nations, as it is come to pass this day.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your hearts, and be no
longer stiffnecked. For the Lord your God, he is God of gods and
Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth
no mans person nor taketh gifts: but doeth right unto the fatherless
and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
Love therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers yourselves in the
land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him and
cleave unto him and swear by his name, for he is thy praise and he
is thy God that hath done these great and terrible things for thee,
which thine eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
seventy souls, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars
of heaven in multitude.
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