1   I the Lord your God: you shal not make to your selues an idol and ^note thing grauen, neirher shal you erect titles, nor set a notorious stone in your land, for to adore it.

Rewardes promised. for I am the Lord your God.

2   Keepe my sabbathes, and dread my Sanctuarie. I the Lord.

3   If you walke in my preceptes, and keepe my commandementes, and doe them, I wil geue you raine in their seasons,

4   and the earth shal bring forth her spring, and the trees shal be replenished with fruites.

5   The threshing of your haruest shal reach vnto vintage, and the vintage shal reach vnto sowing time: and you shal eate your bread to your fil, and without feare shal you dwel in your land.

6   I wil geue peace in your coastes: you shal sleepe, and there shal be none to make you afraid. I wil take away euil beastes: and the sword shal not passe through your quarters.

7   You shal pursue your enemies, and they shal fal before you.

8   fiue of yours shal pursue an hundred strangers, and an hundred of you tenne thousand: your enemies shal fal by the sword in your sight.

9   I wil respect you, and make you encrease: you shal be multiplied, and I wil establish my couenant with you.

10   You shal eate the eldest of the old store, and new coming vpon it you shal cast forth the old.

11   I wil sette my tabernacle in the middes of you, and my soule shal not cast you of.

12   I wil walke among you, and wil be your God, and you shal be my people.

13   I the Lord your God: that haue brought you out of the Land of the Ægyptians, that you should not serue them, and that haue broken the chaines of your neckes, that you might goe vpright.

14   But if you wil not heare me, nor doe al my commandements,

15   if you dispise my lawes, and contemne my iudgementes that you do not those thinges which are appointed by me, and bring my couenant to nothing worth:

16   I also wil do these thinges to you: I shal quickly visite you with pouertie, and burning heat, which shal waist your eies, and consume your liues. you shal sowe your seede in vaine, which shal be deuoured of the enemies.

17   I wil sette my face against you, and you shal fal downe before your enemies, and shal be made subiect to them that hate you. you shal flee, when no man pursueth you.

18   But if you wil not obey me so neither, I wil increase your chastisementes seuen fould for your sinnes,

19   and wil breake the pride of your stubburnesse. and I wil make to you the heauen, from aboue as iron, and the earth as brasse.

20   Your labour shal be sp&ebar;t in vaine, the earth shal not bring forth her spring, nor the trees yeld their fruites.

21   If you walke contrarie

Punishments threatned. to me, and wil not heare me, I wil increase your plagues vntil seuen fould for your sinnes:

22   and I wil send in vpon you the beastes of the field, which may consume you, and your cattaile, and may bring al thinges to a smal number, and that your waies may be made desert.

23   And if you wil neither so receiue discipline, but walke rather contrarie to me:

24   I also wil goe opposite against you, and wil strike you seuen times for your sinnes.

25   and I wil bring in vpon you the sword a reuenger of my couenant. And when you shal flee into the cities, I wil send the pestilence in the middest of you, and you shal be deliuered in the handes of the enemies,

26   after I shal haue broken the staffe of your bread: so that tenne women shal bake your breades in one ouen, and shal render them by weight: and you shal eate, and shal not be filled.

27   But if you wil neither by these meanes heare me, but walke against me:

28   I also wil goe against you in contrarie furie, and wil chastice you with seuen plagues for your sinnes,

29   so that you shal ^note eate the flesh of your sonnes and of your daughters.

30   I wil destroy your excelses, and breake your idols. You shal fal among the ruines of your idols and my soule shal abhorre you,

31   in so much that I wil bring your cities into a wildernesse, and I wil make your Sanctuaries desert, neither wil I receiue any more the most sweete odour.

32   And I wil distroy your land, and your enemies shal be astonied vpon it, when they shal be inhabitants therof.

33   And you I wil disperse into the Gentiles, and wil draw out the sword after you, and your land shal be desert, and your cities destroied.

34   Then shal the land take pleasure in her sabbathes al the daies of her desolation: when you shal be

35   in the enemies land, she shal sabbatize, and rest in the sabbathes of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbathes when you dwelt in it.

36   And they that shal remaine of you, I wil put feare in their hartes in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leafe shal terrifie them, and they shal flie it as it were a sword: they shal fal, when no man pursueth,

37   and they shal euerie one fal vpon their brethren, as flying from warres, none of you shal be so hardie as to resist your enemies.

38   You shal perish among the Gentiles, and the enemies land shal consume you.

39   And if of them also some remaine, they shal pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and for the sinnes of

Punishments threatned. their fathers, and their owne they shal be afflicted:

40   vntil they confesse their owne and their auncetours iniquities, wherby they haue preuaricated against me, and walked contrarie vnto me.

41   I also therfore wil walke against them, and bring them into their enemies land, vntil their vncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shal they pray for their impieties.

42   And I wil remember my couenant, that I made with ^noteIacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. Of the land also I wil be mindful:

43   which when it shal be left of them, shal take pleasure in her sabbathes, being desolate for them. But they shal pray for their sinnes, for that they reiected my iudgementes, and dispised my lawes.

44   Howbeit euen when they were in the land of their enemies, ^note I did not cast them of altogether, neither did I so dispise them, that they should be consumed, and I should make my couenant with them frustrate. For I am the Lord their God,

45   and I wil remember mine old couenant, when I brought them out of the Land of Ægypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, for to be their God. I the Lord. These are the iudgementes, and precepts, and lawes, which our Lord gaue betwen him self and the children of Israel in Monnt Sinai by the hand of Moyses.

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