THE BOOKE OF DEVTERONOMIE, IN HEBREW ELLE HADDEBARIM. Chap. I. Moyses beginneth, the first day of the eleuenth moneth and fourtith yeare after the children of Israel parted from Ægypt, to repete and explicate the Law; 6. first putting them in mind of Gods munificence, his owne and other superiors care ouer them, their ingratitude, incredulite, murmuring, 34. and punishment for the same. ^note

1   These are the wordes, which Moyses spake to al Israel beyond Iordan, in the champion wildernesse, against the Read sea, betwen Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is verie much gold:

2   eleuen daies from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

3   The fourtith yeare, the eleuenth moneth, the first day of the moneth Moyses spake to the children of Israel al thinges that our Lord had commanded him to say vnto them:

4   after that he had stroke Sehon king of the Amorrheites, which dwelt in Hesebon: and Og the king of Basan which abode in Aseroth, and in Edrai,

5   beyond Iordan in the Land of Moab. And Moyses began to expound the law, and to say:

6   The Lord our God spake to vs in Horeb, saying: It is sufficient for you that you haue stayed in this mountaine:

7   returne, and come to the mountaine of the Amorrheites, and to the rest that are next to it champion and hillie and lower places against the South, and beside the shore of the sea, the Land of the Chananeites, and of Libanus vnto the greate riuer Euphrates.

8   Behold (quoth he) I haue deliuered it to you: enter it and possesse it, vpon the which our Lord sware to

Repetition of benefites your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, that he would geue it to them, and to their seede after them.

9   And I said to you at that time:

10   I alone can not susteyne you: because the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the starres of heauen, verie manie.

11   (The Lord God of your fathers adde to this number manie thousandes, and blesse you as he hath spoken.)

12   I alone am not able to susteyne your businesses, and the charge of you and your quareles.

13   Geue from among you wise and skilful men, and such whose conuersation is approued in your tribes, that I may appoint them your princes.

14   Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

15   And I tooke of your tribes men wise and noble, and appointed them princes, tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deanes, that might teach you al thinges.

16   And I commanded them, saying: Heare them, and iudge that which is iust: whether he be the same countrie man, or a stranger.

17   There shal be no difference of persons, so shal you heare the litle as the great: neither shal you accept any mans person, because it is the iudgement of God. And if any thing seme hard to you, referre it to me, and I wil heare it.

18   And I commanded al thinges that you ought to do.

19   And departing from Horeb, we passed through the rerrible and huge wildernesse, which you saw, by the way of the mountaine of the Amorrheite, as the Lord our God had commanded vs. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,

20   I said to you: You are come to the mountaine of the Amorrheite, which the Lord our God wil geue to vs.

21   See the Land which the Lord thy God geueth thee: goe vp and possesse it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: feare not, neither dread you any thing.

22   And you came al vnto me, and said: Let vs send men that may view the Land: and may bring vs word what way we shal ascend, and to what cities to goe.

23   And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelue men, one of euerie tribe.

24   Who when they had gone, and were ascended into the mountaines, they came as farre as the Valley of cluster: and the Land being viewed,

25   taking of the fruites thereof, to shew the fruitfulnesse, they brought vnto vs, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God wil geue vs.

26   And you would not goe vp, but being incredulous at the word of the Lord our God,

27   you murmured in your

Repetition of benefites tabernacles, and said: Our Lord hateth vs, and therfore hath brought vs out of the Land of Ægypt, that he might deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorrheite, and destroy vs.

28   Whither shal we goe vp? the messengers haue feared our hart, saying: The multitude is verie great, and taller of stature then we: the cities greate, and fensed euen vnto heauen, the sonnes of the Enacims we haue seene there.

29   And I said to you: ^noteFeare not, neither be ye afrayd of them:

30   Our Lord God, which is your conductour, him self wil fight for you, as he did in Ægypt in the sight of al.

31   And in the wildernesse (thy selfe haste seene) the Lord thy God hath caried thee, as a man is wont to beare his litle sonne, al the way, that you haue walked, vntil you came to this place.

32   And neither so did you beleue the Lord your God,

33   who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tentes, in the night shewing you the way by fyre, and in the day by the piller of a clowde.

34   And when our Lord had heard the voice of your wordes, being wrath he sware and said:

35   There shal not any of the men of this wicked generation see the good Land, which by oath I promised to your fathers:

36   beside Caleb the sonne of Iephone. For he shal see it, and to him I wil geue the Land, that he hath troden, and to his children, because he hath folowed the Lord.

37   Neither is ^note his indignation against the people to be merueiled at, wheras our Lord being ^note angrie with me also for you, said: Neither shalt thou enter in thither.

38   But Iosue the sonne of Nun thy minister, he shal enter for thee: exhort and strenghen him, and he shal by lotte diuide the Land to Israel.

39   Your litle ones, of whom you said that they should be ledde captiues, and your sonnes that this day know not the difference of good and euil, they shal enter in: and to them I wil geue the Land, and they shal possesse it.

40   But returne you and goe into the wildernesse by the way of the Reddesea.

41   And you answered me: We haue sinned to our Lord: we wil goe vp and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you readie armed went vnto the mountaine,

42   our Lord said to me: Say to them: Goe not vp, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fal before your enemies.

43   I spake, and you heard not: but resisting the commandement of our Lord, and swelling with pride you went vp into the mountaine.

44   Therfore the

Against whom Israel must fight. Amorrheite that dwelt in the mountaines issuing forth, and coming to meete you, pursewed you, as bees are wont to pursew: and smote you from Seir as farre as Horma.

45   And when returning you wept before our Lord, he heard you not, neither would he condescend to your voice.

46   You abode therfore in Cadesbarne a great time. Chap. II. VVith commemoration of Gods continual protection of the Israelites, they are forbid to fight against the Idumeans, 9. the Moabites, or Ammonites. 24. But against Sehon King of Hesebon they should fight, kil him and al his, and posse&esset;e his land.

1   And departing thence we came into the wildernesse, that leadeth to the Redde sea, as our Lord had said to me: and we compassed the mountaine Seir a long time.

2   And our Lord said to me:

3   It is sufficient for you to haue compassed this mountaine: goe toward the North.

4   And command thou the people, saying: You shal passe by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwel in Seir, and they wil be affraid of you.

5   Looke diligently therfore that you sturre not against them. For I wil not geue you of their land so much as the steppe of one foote can treade, because I haue geuen the mountaine Seir to be the possession of Esau.

6   Meates you shal bie of them with money, and shal eate: bought water shal you draw, and drinke.

7   The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in euerie worke of thy handes: he knoweth thy iourney, how thou hast passed this great wildernesse, for fourtie yeares the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, & thou hast wanted nothing.

8   And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the champion way from Elath & from Asiongaber, we came to the way, that leadeth into the desert of Moab.

9   And our Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither make battel against them: for I wil not geue thee any of their land, because I haue geuen Ar to the children of Lot in possession.

10   Emim first were the inhabiters therof, a great people, and valiant, and so tall that ^note they were thought,

11   as it were giantes, of the Enacims stocke, & were like the children of the Enacims. Moreouer the Moabites cal them Emim.

12   But in Seir before dwelt the Horrins: who being expelled and destroyed, the children of Esau did inhabite

Against whom Israel must fight. it, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which our Lord gaue him.

13   Rysing vp therfore to passe the Torrent Zared, we came to it.

14   And the time, that we walked from Cadesbarne vnto the passage of the torrent Zared, was thirtie and eight yeares: vntil al the generation of the men that were warriers was consumed out of the campe, as our Lord had sworne:

15   whose hand was against them, that they should perish from among the campe.

16   And after al the warryers were dead,

17   our Lord spake to me, saying:

18   Thou shalt passe this day the borders of Moab, the citie named Ar:

19   and approching vnto the frontiers of the children of Ammon, beware thou fight not against them, neither once moue to battel: for I wil not geue thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I haue geuen it to the children of Lot in possession.

20   It was reputed the land of giantes: and giantes in old time dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites cal Zomzommim,

21   a great and huge people, and of long stature, as the Enacims whom our Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwel in their steede,

22   as he had done to the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, destroying the Horrheites, and deliuering their land to them, which they possesse vntil this present.

23   The Heueites also, that dwelt in Haserim as farre as Gaza, the Capadocians expelled: who issuing out of Capadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their steede.

24   Arise ye, and passe the torrent Arnon: behold I haue deliuered in thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrheite, and beginne to possesse his land, and ^note make warre against him.

25   This day wil I beginne to send thy terrour and feare vpon the peoples, that dwel vnder the whole heauen: that hearing thy name they may quake, and tremble after the manner of wemen in trauel, and be pinched with sorow.

26   I sent therfore messengers from the wildernes of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable wordes, saying:

27   We wil passe through thy land, we wil goe the common high way: we wil not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

28   Sel vs meates for money, that we may eate: Geue vs water for money, and so we wil drinke. Onlie this that thou wilt graunt vs passage,

29   as ^note the children of Esau haue done, that dwel in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: vntil we come to Iordan, and passe to the Land, which the Lord our God wil geue vs.

Repetition of victories.

30   And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not geue vs passage: because the Lord thy God had ^note indurated his spirit, and hardened his hart, that he might be deliuered into thy handes, as now thou seest.

31   And our Lord said to me: Behold I haue begunne to deliuer Sehon vnto thee, and his land, beginne to possesse it.

32   And Sehon came forth to meete vs with al his people to battel in Iasa.

33   And the Lord our God deliuered him to vs: and we smote him with his sonnes and al his people.

34   And al his cities we tooke at that time, killing the inhabiters therof, men and wemen and litle ones. we left nothing among them.

35   Except the cattel, which came to their portion that tooke prayes: and the spoyles of the cities, which we tooke

36   from Aroer, which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, a towne that is situated in a valley, as farre as Galaad. There was not a village or citie, that escaped our handes: the Lord our God deliuered al vnto vs.

37   Except the land of the children of Ammon, to the which we approched not: and al that adioyne to the torrent Ieboc, and the cities on the mountaine, and al the places, from which the Lord our God prohibited vs. Chap. III. The victorie against og king of Basan of the giants stock is repeted, 12. Ruben Gad and halfe tribe of Mana&esset;es haue possession on the other side Iordan from their brethren. 23. Moyses praying that he may goe ouer Iordan, for the sinnes of the people is denied.

1   Therfore turning we went vp by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came forth to meete vs with his people to fight in Edrai.

2   And our Lord said to me: Feare him not: because he is deliuered into thy hand with al his people and his land: and thou shalt doe to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites, that dwelt in Hesebon.

3   Therfore the Lord our God deliuered into our handes Og also the king of Basan, and al his people: and we stroke them to vtter destruction,

4   waisting al his cities at one time, there was not a towne that escaped vs: sixtie cities, al the countrie of Argob the kingdome of Og in Basan.

5   Al the cities were fensed with verie high walles, and with gates and barres, beside innumerable townes that had no walles.

6   And we destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying euerie citie, and men and wemen

Repetition of victories. and children:

7   but the cattel, and the spoyles of the cities we tooke for our praye.

8   And we tooke at that time the land out of the hand of two kinges of the Amorrheites, that were beyond Iordan: from the torrent Arnon vnto the mountaine Hermon,

9   which the Sidonians cal Sarion, and the Amorrheites Sanir:

10   al the cities, that are situated in the plaine, and al the Land of Galaad and Basan as farre as Selcha, and Edrai cities of the kingdome of Og in Basan.

11   For onlie Og the king of Basan remayned of the stocke of giantes. his bed of yron is shewed, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, hauing nine cubites in length, and foure in breadth after the measure of ^note the cubite of a mans hand.

12   And we possessed the Land at that time from Aroer, which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, vnto the halfe part of mount Galaad: and the cities therof I gaue to Ruben and Gad.

13   And the other part of Galaad, and al Basan of the kingdome of Og, I deliuered to the halfe tribe of Manasses, al the countrie of Argob: and al Basan is called the Land of giantes.

14   Iair the sonne of Manasses possessed al the countrie of Argob vnto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his owne name, Hauoth Iair, that is to say, the townes of Iair, ^note vntil this present day.

15   To Machir also I gaue Galaad.

16   And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gaue of the Land of Galaad as farre as the Torrent Arnon, halfe of the torrent, and the confines vnto the torrent Icboc, which is the border of the childr&ebar; of Ammon:

17   and the plaine of the wildernesse, and Iordan, and the borders of Cenereth vnto the sea of the desert, which is most salt, at the foote of mount Phasga against the east.

18   And I comm&abar;ded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God geveth you this land for an inheritance, goe wel appointed before your brethren the children of Israel al you strong men:

19   except your wiues, and litle ones and your cattel. For I know you haue much cattel, & they must remaine in the cities, which I haue deliuered you,

20   vntil our Lord geue rest to your brethren, as he hath geuen to you: and they also possesse the Land, which he wil geue them beyond Iordan: then shal euerie man returne to his possession, which I haue geuen you.

21   Iosue also at that time I commanded, saying: Thyne eyes haue seene what the Lord your God hath done to these two kinges: so wil he doe to al the kingdomes, to the which thou

Precepts Against Idoles. shalt passe.

22   Feare them not: for the Lord your God wil fight for you.

23   And I prayed our Lord at that time, saying:

24    God thou hast begonne to shew vnto thy seruant thy greatnes, and most mightie hand. for neither is there other God either in heauen, or in earth, that is able to doe thy workes, and to be compared to thy strength.

25   I wil passe ouer therfore, and wil see this excellent Land beyond Iordan, and this goodlie mountaine, and Libanus.

26   And our Lord was angrie with me ^note for you, and heard me not, but said to me: It sufficeth thee: speake no more to me of this matter.

27   Goe vp to the toppe of Phasga, and cast thine cies round about to the west, and to the north, and the south, and the east, and behold it. for thou shalt not passe this Iordan.

28   Command Iosue, and encourage and strenghen him: for he shal goe before this people, and shal diuide vnto them the Land, which thou shalt see.

29   And we abode in the valley against the temple of Phogor. Chap. IIII. Moyses exhorteth the people to kepe Gods commandments. 15. Namely that they make no similitude nor image of man, nor of beast, bird, fish, sunne, moone, nor of anie creature to serue the same for the Creator. ^note He fortelleth his owne death, 23. threatneth them if they forsake God. 41. and appointeth three cities of refuge, on the same side Iordan.

1   And now Israel heare the preceptes and iudgementes, which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayest liue, and entring in mayest possesse the Land, which the Lord the God of your fathers wil geue you.

2   You09Q0159 shal not adde to the word, that I speake to you, neither shal you take away from it: keepe the commandment of the Lord your God which I command you.

3   Your eyes haue seene al thinges that our Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed al his worshippers out of the middes of you.

4   But you that cleaue to the Lord your God, liue al vntil this present day.

5   You know that I haue taught you preceptes and iustices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shal you do them in the Land, which you shal possesse:

6   and you shal obserue, and fulfil them in worke. For ^note this is your wisedome, and vnderstanding before peoples, that hearing al these preceptes, may say: Behold a people ful of wisedome and vnderstanding, a great nation.

7   Neither is there other

Precepts Against Idoles. nation of great, that hath goddes approching vnto them, as our God is present at al our petitions.

8   For what other nation is there so renowmed that hath the ceremonies, and iust iudgementes, and the whole law, which I wil sette forth this day before your eyes.

9   Keepe thy selfe therfore, and thy soule carefully. Forget not the wordes, that thyne eyes haue seene, and let them not fal out of thy hart al the daies of thy life. Thou shalt teach them thy sonnes and thy nephewes,

10   the day wherin thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when our Lord spake to me, saying: Assemble vnto me the people, that they may heare my wordes, and may learne to feare me al the time that they liue on the earth, and may teach their children.

11   And you came to the foote of the mount, which burned euen vnto heauen: and there was in it darkenes, and a cloud and mist.

12   And our Lord spake to you from the middes of the fyre. The voice of his wordes you heard, and forme you saw not at al.

13   And he shewed you his couenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ^note tenne wordes, that he wrote in two tables of stone.

14   And he c&obar;manded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and iudgementes, which you should doe in the Land, that you shal possesse.

15   Keepe therfore your soules carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day, that our Lord spake to you in Horeb from the middes of the fire:

16   lest perhaps deceiued you might make you a grauen similitude, or image of male or female,

17   the similitude of al cattel, that are vpon the earth, or of birdes, that flie vnder heauen,

18   and of creeping beastes, that moue on the earth, or of fishes, that vnder the earth abide in the waters:

19   lest perhapes lifting vp thyne eies to heauen, thou see the Sunne and the Moone, and al the starres of heauen, and deceiued by errour thou adore and serue them, which the Lord thy God created to serue al nations, that are vnder heauen.

20   But you our Lord hath taken, and brought out of the yron furnace of Ægypt, to haue you his people by inheritance, as it is this present day.

21   And our Lord was angrie with me for your wordes, and he sware ^note that I should not passe ouer Iordan, nor enter into the excellent Land, which he wil geue you.

22   Behold I die ^note in this ground, I shal not passe ouer Iordan: you shal passe, and possesse the goodlie Land.

23   Beware lest at any time thou forget the

Threates. couenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thee a grauen similitude of those thinges, which our Lord hath prohibited to be made:

24   because the Lord thy God is a consuming fyre, iclouse God.

25   If you shal begette sonnes and nephewes, and abide in the Land, and being deceiued make to you some similitude, committing euil before the Lord your God, to prouoke him to wrarh:

26   I cal this day heauen and earth witnesses, that you shal quikly perish from out of the Land, which being passed ouer Iordan you shal possesse. You shal not dwel therin long time, but our Lord wil destroy you,

27   and disperse you into al nations, and you shal remaine a few among the nations, to the which our Lord wil lead you.

28   and there you shal serue goddes, that were framed with mens hand, wood and stone that see not, nor heare, nor eate, nor smel.

29   And when thou shalt seeke there the Lord thy God, thou shalt finde him: yet so, if thou seeke him with al thy hart, and al tribulation of thy soule.

30   After that al the thinges aforesaid shal finde thee, and in ^note the latter time thou shalt returne to the Lord thy God, and shalt heare his voice.

31   Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he wil not leaue thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the couenant, wherein he sware to thy fathers.

32   Aske of the dayes of old, that haue bene before thy time from the day that God created man vpon the earth, from one end of heauen to the other end therof, if euer there was done the like thing, or it hath beene knowen at any time,

33   that a people should heare the voice of God speaking out of the middes of fyre, as thou hast heard, and liued:

34   if God so did that he went in, and tooke vnto him a Nation out of the middes of nations, by temptations, signes, and wonders, by fight and strong hand, and stretched out arme, and horrible visions according to al thinges, that the Lord your God did for you in Ægypt, thine eies seeing it:

35   that thou mightest know that our Lord, he is God, and there is none other beside him,

36   from heauen he made thee to heare his voice, that he might teach thee. And in earth he shewed thee his fyre, verie greate, and thou didst heare his wordes out of the middes of the fyre,

37   because he loued thy fathers, and chose their seede after them. And he brought thee out of Ægypt, going before thee in his great power,

38   to destroy verie great nations and stronger then

Cities of refuge. thou at thy entring in, and to bring thee in, and geue thee their land in possession, as thou seest this present day.

39   Know therfore this day, and thinke in thy hart that our Lord he is God in heauen aboue, and in the earth beneth, and there is none other.

40   Keepe his preceptes and commandementes, which I command thee: that it may be wel with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayest remayne a long time vpon the Land, which the Lord thy God wil geue thee.

41   Then Moyses separated three cities beyond Iordan at the east side,

42   that he might flee to them which should kil his neighbour not voluntarily, neither was his enemie a day or two before, and he might scape to some of these cities:

43   Bosor in the wildernesse, which is situated in the champion countrie of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of manasses.

44   This is the law, that Moyses sette before the children of Israel,

45   and these are the testimonies and ceremonies and iudgementes, which he spake to the children of Israel, when they came out of Ægypt,

46   beyond Iordan in the valley against the temple of Phogor in the land of Sehon king of the Ammorrheite, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moyses stroke. The children of Israel also comming out of Ægypt

47   possessed his land, and the land of Og the king of Basan, the two kinges of the Amorrheites, which were beyond Iordan toward the rysing of the sunne:

48   from Aroer, which is situated vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, vnto the mountaine Sion, which is also Hermon,

49   al the plaine beyond Iordan at the east side, vnto the sea of the wildernesse, and vnto the foote of mount Phasga. ^{note note}

Chap. V. The tenne commandments are repeted and explaned. 23. with commemoration of their dread and feare, when they heard the voice from the clowde, and saw the mountaine burne.

1   And Moyses called al Israel, and said to them: Heare Israel the ceremonies & iudgements, which I speake in your eares this day: lerne them, and ^note fulfil them in worke.

2   The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.

3   Not with our fathers did he make the couenant, but with vs at this present, and doe liue.

4   Face to face did he speake to vs in the mount out of the middes of the fyre.

5   I was arbiter and ^note mediatour betwixt our Lord and you at that time, to shew you his wordes, for you feared the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said:

6   I the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt out of the house of seruitude.

7   Thou shalt not haue strange goddes in my sight.

8   09Q0160Thou shalt not make to thee a thing grauen, nor the similitude of any thinges, that are in heauen aboue, and that are in the earth beneath, and that abide in the waters vnder the earth.

9   Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serue them. For I am the Lord thy God, a Iealouse God, rendering the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

10   and doing mercie vpon manie thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my preceptes.

11   Thou shalt not vsurpe the name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for he shal not be vnpunished that taketh his name vpon a vaine thing.

12   Obserue the day of the Sabbath, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13   Six dayes shalt thou worke, and shalt doe al thy workes.

14   The seuenth is the day of the

The tenns commandmentes. Sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not doe any worke therin, thou, and thy sonne and daughter, man seruant and woman seruant, and oxe, and asse, and al thy cattel, and the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant may rest, and thy woman seruant, euen as thy selfe.

15   Remember that thou also didest serue in Ægypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence in a strong hand, and stretched out arme. Therfore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldest obserue the Sabbath.

16   Honour thy father and mother, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst liue a long time, and it may be wel with thee in the Land, which the Lord thy God wil geue thee.

17   Thou shalt not murder.

18   Neither shalt thou commirte aduoutrie.

19   And thou shal not steale.

20   Neither shalt thou speake against thy neighbour false testimonie.

21   Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife: ^note Nor house, nor field, nor man seruant, nor woman seruant, nor oxe, nor asse, and al thinges that are his.

22   These wordes spake our Lord to al your multitude in the mount, out of the middes of the fire and the cloude, and the darkenes, with a loude voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in the two tables of stone, which he deliuered vnto me.

23   And you after you heard the voice out of the middes of the darkenes, and saw the mount burne, came to me al the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:

24   Behold the Lord our God hath shewed vs his maiestie and greatnes, for we haue heard his voice out of the middes of the fire, and haue proued this day that God speaking with man, man hath liued.

25   Why shal we die therfore, and this exceding great fire deuoure vs? For if we heare the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shal die.

26   What is al flesh, that it should heare the voice of the liuing God, who speaketh out of the middes of the fire as we haue heard, and may liue?

27   Approche thou rather: and heare al thinges that the Lord our God shal say to thee: and thou shalt speake to vs, and we hearing wil doe them.

28   Which when our Lord had heard, he said to me: I haue heard the voice of the wordes of this people, which they spake to thee: they haue spoken al thinges wel.

29   Who shal geue them to haue such a minde, that they would feare me, and keepe al my commandementes at al time, that it may be wel with them and with their children for euer?

Preceptes and Iudgementes.

30   Goe and say to them: Returne into your tentes.

31   But thou stand here with me, and I wil speake to thee al my commandementes, and ceremonies and iudgementes: which thou shalt teach them, that they may doe them in the Land, which I wil geue them in possession.

32   Keepe therfore and doe the thinges which our Lord God hath commanded you: you shal not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left:

33   but the way that the Lord your God hath commanded shal you walke, that you may liue, and it may be wel with you, and your daies may be prolonged in the land of your possession. ^note Chap. VI. God is diligently to be serued, and loued with thy whole hart, thy whole soule, and whole strength. Al his precepts, ceremonies and iudgements must be carefully kept, and commended to posteritie.

1   These are the preceptes, and ceremonies, and iudgementes, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and you should doe them in the Land, whereunto you passe ouer to possesse it:

2   that thou mayest feare the Lord thy God, and keepe his commandementes and preceptes, which I command thee, and thy sonnes, and nephewes, al the dayes of thy life, that thy dayes may be prolonged.

3   Heare Israel, and obserue that thou doe the thinges which our Lord hath commanded thee, and it may be wel with thee, and thou may est be greately multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowig with milke and honie.

4   Heare Israel, The Lord our God, is one Lord.

5   Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with thy whole hart, and with thy whole soule, and with thy whole

Preceptes and Iudgementes. strength.

6   And these wordes, which I command thee this day, shal be in thy hart:

7   and thou shalt tel them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate sitting in thy house, and walking on thy iourney, sleeping, and rysing.

8   And thou shalt bind them as a signe on thy hand, and they shal be & shal moue betwen thine eies,

9   and thou shalt write them in the entrie, and on the doores of thy house.

10   And when the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the Land, for the which he sware to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob: and shal haue geuen thee great and goodlie cities, which thou didst not build,

11   houses ful of al riches, which thou didst not erect, cesternes which thou didst not digge, vineyardes and oliueyardes, which thou didst not plant,

12   and thou shalt haue eaten and be ful:

13   take heede diligently lest thou forget our Lord, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, out of the house of seuitude. Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and ^note him onelie shalt thou serue, and by his name shalt thou sweare.

14   You shal not goe after the strange goddes of al Nations, that are round about you:

15   because the Lord thy God is a Iealouse God in the middes of thee: lest sometime the furie of the Lord thy God be wrath against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.

16   Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou didst tempt him in the place of tentation.

17   Keepe the preceptes of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies, which he hath commanded thee:

18   And doe that which is pleasant and good in the sight of our Lord, that it may be wel with thee: and entring in thou mayest possesse the goodlie Land, wherof our Lord sware to thy fathers,

19   that he would destroy al thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

20   And when thy sonne shal aske thee to morrow, saying: What meane these testimonies, and ceremonies, and iudgementes, which the Lord our God hath commanded vs?

21   thou shalt say to him: We were the bondmen of Pharao in Ægypt, and our Lord brought vs out of Ægypt in a strong hand:

22   and he did signes & wonders great and verie sore in Ægypt against Pharao, and al his house, in our sight,

23   and he brought vs out from thence, that being brought in he might geue vs the Land, wherupon he sware to our fathers.

24   And our Lord commanded that we should doe al these ordinances, and should feare the Lord our God, that it might be wel with vs

Preceptes and Iudgementes. al the daies of our life, as it is at this day.

25   And he wil be merciful to vs, if we keepe and doe al his preceptes before the Lord our God, as he commanded vs. Chap. VII. No league nor felowship to be had with the Gentiles: 5. but their altares, groues, and al their idoles to be destroyed. 17. God promiseth victories to his people, willing them to trust in him, and serue him.

1   VVhen the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the land, which thou doest enter in to possesse, and shal haue destroyed manie Nations before thee, the Hetheite, and the Gergezeite, and the Amorrheite, and the Chananeite, and the Pherezeite, and the Heueite, and the Iebuseite, seuen nations of much greater number then thou art, and stronger then thou:

2   and the Lord thy God shal haue deliuered them to thee, thou shalt strike them vnto vtter destruction. Thou shalt not make league with them, nor pitie them,

3   nor make mariages with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not geue to his sonne, nor take his daughter for thy sonne:

4   for he wil seduce thy sonne, that he folow not me, and that he rather serue strange goddes, and the furie of our Lord wil be wrath, and shal quickly destroy thee.

5   But these thinges rather you shal doe to them: Ouerthrow their altares, and breake their statuees, and cutte downe their groues, and burne their sculptiles.

6   Because thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of al peoples, that are vpon the earth.

7   Not because you passed al nations in number, is our Lord ioyned vnto you, and hath chosen you, wheras you are fewer then al peoples:

8   but because our Lord hath loued you, and hath kept the oath, which he sware to your fathers: and hath brought you forth in a strong hand, and redemed you from the house of seruitude, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Ægypt.

9   And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keping his couenant and mercie to them that loue him, and to them that keepe his preceptes, vnto a thousand generations:

10   and rendring forthwith to them that hate him, so that he destroyeth them, and differreth no longer, ^note immediatly rendering to them that they deserue.

11   Keepe therfore the preceptes and ceremonies and iudgementes, which I command

Preceptes and Iudgementes. thee this day to doe them.

12    ^noteIf after thou hast heard these iudgementes, thou keepe and doe them, the Lord also thy God wil keepe the couenant vnto thee, and the mercie which he sware to thy fathers:

13   and he wil loue and multiplie thee, and wil blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne, and vintage, oile, and heardes, the flockes of thy sheepe vpon the Land, for the which he sware to thy fathers that he would geue it thee.

14   Blessed shalt thou be among al peoples. There shal be none barren with thee of neither sexe, as wel in men as in thy flockes.

15   Our Lord wil take away from thee al disease: and the sore infirmities of Ægypt, which thou knowest, he wil not bring vpon thee, but vpon al thyne enemies.

16   Thou shalt deuoure al the peoples, which the Lord thy God wil gene thee. Thyn eye shal not spare them, neither shalt thou serue their goddes, lest they be the ruine of thee.

17   If thou say in thy hart: These nations are moe then I, how shal I be able to destroy them?

18   Feare not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to al the Ægyptians,

19   the exceding great plagues, which thyne eies saw, and the signes and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arme, that the Lord thy God might bring thee forth: so wil he doe to al peoples, whom thou fearest.

20   Moreouer hornettes also wil the Lord thy God send vpon them, vntil he destroy and consume al that escaped thee, and can hide themselues.

21   Thou shalt not feare them, because the Lord thy God is in the middes of thee, a mightie God and terrible:

22   he wil consume these nations in thy sight by litle and litle and by partes. Thou mayest not destroy them al together: lest perhappes the beastes of the earth multiplie against thee.

23   And the Lord thy God wil geue them in thy sight: and wil kil them vntil they be vtterly destroyed.

24   And he wil deliuer their kinges into thy handes, and thou shalt destroy their names vnder heauen: no man shal be able to resist thee, vntil thou destroy them.

25   Their sculptiles thou shalt burne with fyre: thou shalt not couet the siluer and gold, wherof they were made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing therof, lest thou offend, because it is the abomination of the Lord thy God.

26   Neither shalt thou bring in ought of the Idol into thy house, lest thou become anathema, as also that is. As filthines thou shalt detest it, and as vncleannes and filth thou shalt account it abominable, because it is anathema.

Precepts and Iudgementes. Chap. VIII. The people is put in mind of afflictions which happened in the deserte, and of benefites as wel past, as promised; 11. to the end they loue and serue God more effectually.

1   Everie commandement, that I command thee this day, take diligent heede that thou doe it: that you may liue, and be multiplied, and entring in may possesse the Land, for the which our Lord sware to your fathers.

2   And thou shalt remember al the iourney, through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee fourtie yeares by the desert, that he might afflict and proue thee, and that the thinges that were in thy hart might be made knowen, whether thou wouldest keepe his commandementes or not.

3   He afflicted thee with penurie, and gaue thee for meate Manna, which thou knewest not nor thy fathers: for to shew vnto thee that ^notenot in bread onlie a man liue, but in euerie word that procedeth from the mouth of God.

4   Thy rayment, wherwith thou wast couered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foote is not worne, loe this is the fourtith yeare.

5   That thou mayest recount in thy hart, that as a man disciplineth his sonne, so the Lord thy God hath disciplined thee,

6   that thou shouldest keepe the c&obar;mandementes of the Lord thy God, & walke in his wayes, and feare him.

7   For the Lord thy God wil bring thee in vnto a good land, a land of riuers & waters and of fountaynes: in the plains wherof and mountaynes deepe floudes gush out:

8   a land of wheate, of barley & vineyardes, wherein figge trees and pomegranates, and oliueyardes doe grow: a land of oyle and honie.

9   Where without any penurie thou shalt eate thy bread, and enioy abundance of al thinges: whose stones are yron, and out of the mountaynes therof are digged metalles of brasse:

10   that when thou hast eaten, and art ful, thou mayest blesse the Lord thy God for the excellent land, which he hath geuen thee.

11   Obserue, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandementes and iudgementes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:

12   lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodlie houses, and dwelled in them,

13   and shalt haue heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe, of gold and siluer, and of al thinges plentie,

14   thy hart be lifted vp, and thou remember not the Lord

Precepts and Iudgementes. thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, out of the house of seruitude:

15   and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wildernesse, wherein was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and ^note the dipsas, and no waters at al: who brought forth riuers out of the hardest rocke,

16   and fed thee with Manna in the wildernesse, which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proued thee, at the last he had mercie vpon thee,

17   lest thou shouldest say in thy hart: Myne owne force, and the strength of myne owne hand, haue atchieued al these thinges for me.

18   But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath geuen thee strength, that he might fulfil his couenant, concerning which he sware to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

19   But if forgetting the Lord thy God, thou shalt folow strange goddes, and shalt serue and adore them: behold now I foretel thee that thou shalt perish vtterly.

20   As the Nations, which our Lord destroyed at thyne entrie, so shal you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God. Chap. IX. Lest they should impute the victories (which they shal haue) to them selues, 6. they are put in mind of their often prouoking Gods wrath, 12. by idolatrie, 22. by murmuring, by concupiscence, by contempt, and other sinnes. 25. for which they should haue bene destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to Abraham Isaac and Iacob.

1   Heare Israel: Thou shalt goe ouer Iordan this day; to possesse verie greate nations and stronger then thy selfe, huge cities, and walled ^note euen vnto heauen,

2   a great people and tal, the sonnes of the Enacims, whom thou hast seene, and heard, against whom no man is able to resist.

3   Thou shalt know therfore this day that the Lord thy God him selfe wil passe ouer before thee, a deuouring and consuming fyre, who shal destroy and abolish and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

4   Say not in thy hart, when the Lord thy God shal haue destroyed them in thy sight: For my iustice hath our Lord brought me in to possesse this land, wheras these nations were destroyed for their impieties.

5   For not because of thy iustices, and equitie of thy hart doest thou enter in to possesse their landes: but because they haue done impiously, at thy

Precepts and Iudgements. entring in they are destroyed: and that our Lord might accomplish his word, which by oath he promised to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob.

6   Know therfore that not for thy iustices hath the Lord thy God geuen thee this excellent land in possession, wheras thou art a verie stiffe necked people.

7   Remember, and forget not how thou didst prouoke the Lord thy God to wrath in the wildernesse. From the same day, that thou camest out of Ægypt vnto this place, thou hast alwayes contended against our Lord.

8   For in Horeb also thou didst prouoke him, and being wrath he would haue destroyed thee,

9   when I went vp into the mounte, to receiue the tables of stone, of the couenant which our Lord made with you: and I continewed in the mounte fourtie daies and nightes, not eating bread, nor drinking water.

10   And our Lord gaue me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and conteyning al the wordes that he spake to you in the mounte from the middes of the fyre, when the assemblie of the people was gathered.

11   And when fourtie dayes were passed, and as manie nightes, our Lord gaue me the two tables of stone, the tables of couenant,

12   and he said to me, Arise, and goe downe from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou didst bring out of Ægypt, haue quickly forsaken the way, that thou hast shewed them, and haue made them ^note a molten idol.

13   And againe our Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffe necked:

14   suffer me that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from vnder heauen, and may set thee ouer a Nation, that is greater and stronger then this.

15   And when I came downe from the burning mounte, and held the two tables of couenant with both handes,

16   and saw that you had sinned to the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calfe, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewed you:

17   I cast the tables out of my handes, and brake them in your sight.

18   And I fel downe before our Lord as before, fourtie dayes and nightes not eating bread, nor drinking water, for al your sinnes, which you committed against our Lord, and prouoked him to wrath:

19   for I feared his indignation and anger, wherwith being moued agaynst you, he would haue destroyed you. And our Lord heard me this time also.

20   Against Aaron also being exceeding angrie, he would haue destroyed him, and for him, in like maner did I

Precepts and Iudgements. pray.

21   And your sinne that you had committed, that is, the calfe, I tooke, and burnt it with fyre, and breaking it into peeces, and bringing it wholy into dust, I threw it into the torrent, that descendeth from the mount.

22   In the burning also and in the tentation, and in the Sepulchres of concupiscence you prouoked our Lord:

23   and when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying. Goe vp, and possesse the Land, that I haue geuen you, and you contemned the commandement of your Lord God, and did not beleue him, neither would you heare his voice:

24   but were alwaies rebellious from the day that I beganne to know you.

25   And I lay before our Lord fourtie dayes and nightes, in the which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:

26   and praying I said: Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thyne inheritance, which thou hast redemed in thy greatnes, whom thou didst bring out of Ægypt in a strong hand.

27   Remember thy seruantes Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob: regard not the stubbournes of this people, and his impietie and sinne:

28   lest perhappes the inhabitantes of the land, out of which thou hast brought vs, say; The Lord could not bring them in vnto the Land, that he promised them, and he hated them: therfore did he bring them forth, that he might kil them in the wildernes.

29   Which are thy people and thyne inheritance, whom thou didst bring forth in thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arme. Chap. X. Moyses receiuing the second tables of the tenne commandments, and making an arke put them therin. 6. with mention of certaine places where the children of Israel had camped, of Aarons death, and to the Leuites offices, and po&esset;e&esset;ions, 12. he inculcateth the feare and loue of God, and the keping of his precepts. 16. namely to circumcise the hart. 19. to loue strangers 20. and not to serue, nor sweare by false goddes.

1   At that time our Lord said to me: Hewe thee two tables of stone, as the former were, and come vp to me into the mounte: and thou shalt make an arke of wood,

2   and I wil write in the tables the wordes that were in them, which before thou didst breake, and thou shalt put them in the arke.

3   I made therfore an arke of the wood Settim. And when I had hewed two tables of stone like to the former, I went vp into the mount, hauing them in my handes.

4   And

Preceptes and Iudgementes. he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten wordes, which our Lord spake to you in the mount from the middes of the fyre, when the people was gathered: and he gaue them to me.

5   And returning from the mount, I came downe, and put the tables into the arke, that I had made, which are there til this present, as our Lord commanded me.

6   And the children of Israel remoued their campe from Beroth of the children of Iacan into ^note Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, for whom, Eleazar his soone did the function of priesthood.

7   Thence they came into Gadgad: from the which place departing, they camped in Ietebatha, in a Land of waters and torrentes.

8   At that time he separated the tribe of Leui, to carie the arke of the couenant of our Lord, and to stand before him in the ministerie, and to blesse in his name vntil this present day.

9   For the which cause Leui had no part, nor possession with his brethren: because our Lord him self is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.

10   And I stoode in the mount, as before, fourtie daies and nightes: and our Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.

11   And he said to me: Goe, and march before the people, that they may enter, and possesse the Land, which I sware to their fathers that I would deliuer to them.

12   And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou feare the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies, and loue him, and serue the Lord thy God with al thy hart, and with al thy soule:

13   and keepe the commandementes of our Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be wel with thee?

14   Behold heauen is the Lords thy God, and the heauen of heauen, the earth and al thinges that are in it.

15   And yet to thy fathers was our Lord ioyned, and he loued them, and chose their seede after them, that is to say you, from al Nations, as this day it is proued.

16   Circumcise therfore the prepuce of your hart, and your necke indurate no more:

17   because the Lord your God he is the God of goddes, and the Lord of lordes, a great God and mightie, and terrible, that accepteth not person nor giftes.

18   He doth iudgement to the pupil and the widowe, loueth the stranger, and geueth him victual & rayment.

19   And do you therfore loue strangers because you also were strangers in the Land of Ægypt.

20   Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue him only: to him thou

Preceptes and Iudgementes. shalt cleaue, and ^note shalt sweare in his name.

21   He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these greate and terrible thinges, which thyne eies haue seene.

22   In seuentie soules did thy fathers goe downe into Ægypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the starres of heauen. Chap. XI. For the benefites of God (wherof some are repeted, and others promised) the Israelites are bound to loue him. 16. but if they forsake him he threatneth punishmentes. 26. proposing benediction and malediction as they shal deserue.

1   Love therfore the Lord thy God, and obserue his preceptes and ceremonies, his iudgementes and commandmentes at al time.

2   Know this day the thinges that your children know not, who saw not the discipline of the Lord your God, his great doinges and strong hand, and stretched out arme,

3   the signes and workes which he did in the middes of Ægypt to Pharao the king, and to al his land,

4   and to al the hoste of the Ægyptians, and to their horses and charriottes: how the waters of the red sea couered them, when they pursewed you, and how our Lord destroyed them vntil this present day:

5   and to you what thinges he hath done in the wildernes, til you came to this place:

6   and to Dathan and Abiron the sonnes of Eliab, which was the sonne of Ruben: whom the earth opening her mouth swalowed vp with their houses and tabernacles, and al their substance, which they had in the middes of Israel.

7   Your eies haue seene al the great workes of our Lord, that he hath done,

8   that you may keepe al his commandementes, which I command you this day, and may enter in, and possesse the Land, to the which you enter,

9   and may liue in it a great time: which our Lord by oath promised to your fathers, and to their seede, flowing with milke and honie.

10   For the Land, which thou goest to possesse, is not as the Land of Ægypt, which thou camest out of, where when the seede is sowen, waters are brought in to water it after the maner of gardens.

11   but it is hilly and champion, expecting raine from heauen.

12   which the Lord thy God doth alwaies visite, and his eies are on it from the beginning of the yeare vnto the end therof.

13   If then you obey my commandementes, which I command you this day, that you loue the Lord your God, and serue him

Precepts and Iudgements. with al your hart, and with al your soule:

14   he wil geue rayne to your Land ^note the timely and the lateward, that you may gather your corne, and wine, and oile,

15   and haye out of the fieldes to feede your cattel, and that yourselues may eate and be filled.

16   Beware lest perhaps your hart be deceiued, and you depart from our Lord, and serue strange goddes, and adore them:

17   and our Lord being wrath shutte vp heauen, and the raine come not downe, nor the earth geue her spring, and you perish quickly from the excellent Land, which our Lord wil geue you

18   Put these my wordes in your hartes and mindes, and hang them for a signe on your handes, and place them betwen your eies.

19   Teach your children that they meditate them, when thou sittest in thy house, & walkest on the way, and liest downe and rysest vp.

20   Thou shalt write them vpon the postes and gates of thy house:

21   that thy daies may be multiplied, and the dayes of thy children in the Land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers, that he would geue it them as long as the heauen hangeth ouer the earth.

22   For if you keepe the commandementes which I command you, and doe them, that you loue the Lord your God, and walke in al his wayes, cleauing to him, ^note

23   our Lord wil destroy al these nations before your face, and you shal possesse them, which are greater and stronger then you.

24   Euerie place, that your foote shal treade, shal be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great riuer Euphrates vnto the west sea shal be your borders.

25   None shal stand against you: your terrour and feare shal the Lord your God geue vpon al the land that you shal treade, as he hath spoken to you.

26   Behold I sette forth in your sight this day ^note benediction and malediction:

27   benection, if you obey the commandementes of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

28   malediction, if you obey not the commandementes of the Lord your God, but reuolt from the way, which now I doe shew you, and walke after strange goddes, which you know not.

29   And when the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the Land, to the which thou goest to inhabite, thou shalt put the benediction vpon mounte Garizim, the malediction vpon mounte Hebal:

30   which are beyond Iordan behinde the way that bendeth to the going downe of the sunne in the Land of the Chananeite, which dwelleth in the champion countrie against Galgala, which is

Precepts and Iudgements. beside the valle that reacheth and entreth farre.

31   For you shal passe ouer Iordan, to possesse the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue and possesse it.

32   See therfore that you fulfil the ceremonies and iudgementes, which I shal sette this day in your sight. Chap. XII. Al idolatrie, and whatsoeuer apperteineth therto must be destroyed. 5. Sacrifices, tithes, and donaries must be offered in the special place, 15. Eating flesh they must not eate the bloud. 29. In no case to imitate the idolatrie of gentiles.

1   These are the preceptes and iudgementes, that you must do in the Land, which the Lord God of thy fathers wil geue thee, to possesse it al the daies, that thou shalt goe vpon the earth.

2   Subuert al places, wherein the nations, which you shal possesse, worshipped their goddes vpon the high mountaines, and hilles, and vnder euerie tree ful of leaues.

3   Ouerthrow their altares, and breake their statues, their groues burne with fire, and their Idols hewe al to peeces: destroy their names out of those places.

4   You shal not doe so to the Lord your God:

5   but ^note to the place, which the Lord your God hath chosen of al your tribes, to put his name there and to dwel in it, shal you come:

6   and shal offer in that place your holocaustes and victimes, the tithes and first fruites of your handes, and your vowes and donaries, the first borne of your oxen and sheepe.

7   And you shal eate there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shal reioyce in al thinges, whereunto you shal put your hand, you and your house, wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

8   You shal not doe there the thinges, that we doe here this day ^note euerie man that which seemeth good to him self.

9   For vntil this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God wil geue you.

10   You shal passe ouer Iordan, and shal dwel in the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue rest from al enemies round about: and may dwel without al feare,

11   in the place, which the Lord your God shal choose, that his name may be therin. Thither shal you bring al the thinges, that I command you, holocaustes, and hostes, and tithes, and the first fruites of your handes: and whatsoeuer is the principal in the giftes, that you shal vowe to our Lord.

12   There

Precepts and Iudgements. shal you feaste before the Lord your God, you and your sonnes and daughters, men seruantes and wemen seruantes, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in your cities, for he hath no other part and possession among you.

13   Beware thou offer not thy holocaustes in euerie place, that thou shalt see:

14   but in that, which our Lord shal choose, in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer hostes, and shalt doe what thinges soeuer I command thee.

15   But if thou wilt eate, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kil, and eate according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath geuen thee in thy cities: whether it be vncleane, that is to say, blemished and feeble: or cleane, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as is lawful to be offered, as the doa and the hatt, shalt thou eate it,

16   only without eating of the bloud, which thou shalt power out vpon the earth as water.

17   Thou canst not eate in thy townes the tithe of thy corne, and wine, and oyle, the first borne of thy heardes and cattel, and al thinges that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the first fruites of thy handes:

18   but before the Lord thy God shalt thou eate them in the place, which the Lord thy God shal choose, thou and thy sonne and thy daughter, and man seruant, and woman seruant, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt reioyce and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in al thinges, whereunto thou shalt extend thy hand.

19   Take heede thou forsake not the Leuite al the time that thou liuest in the land.

20   When the Lord thy God shal haue dilated thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eate the flesh, that thy soule desireth:

21   and if the place be farre of, which the Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may be there, thou shalt kil of the heardes and cattel, which thou hast as I haue commanded thee, and shalt eate in thy townes, as it pleaseth thee.

22   As the doa is eaten and the hart, so shalt thou eate them: both the cleane and vncleane shal eate in common.

23   This onlie beware, that thou eate not the bloud, for their bloud is for the soule: and therfore thou must not eate the soule with the flesh:

24   but vpon the earth thou shalt power it as water,

25   that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which pleaseth in the sight of our Lord.

26   But the thinges which thou hast sanctified, and vowed to our Lord, thou shalt take vp, and shalt come to the place, which

Precepts and Iudgements. our Lord shal choose:

27   and shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the bloud vpon the altar of the Lord thy God: the bloud of thy hostes thou shalt power on the altar: and the flesh thy self shalt eate.

28   Obserue and heare al thinges that I command thee, that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee for euer, when thou shalt doe that which is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

29   When the Lord thy God shal haue destroyed before thy face the nations, that thou entrest in to possesse, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwel in their land:

30   beware left thou imitate them, after they be subuerted at thy entring in, and thou require their ceremonies, saying: As these nations haue worshipped their goddes, so wil I also worshippe.

31   Thou shalt not doe in like maner to the Lord thy God. For al the abominations, that our Lord doeth abhorre, haue they done to their goddes, offering their sonnes and daughters, and burning them with fyre.

32   What I command thee,09Q0161 that onlie doe to our Lord: neither adde any thing, nor diminish. ^note Chap. XIII. False Prophets must be slaine, 6. how nere soeuer they be in kinred, or freindshipe. 12. The whole citie that shal permite false doctrin must be vtterly destroyed, men, beastes, and al moueables, and neuer be built againe.

1   If there rise in the middes of thee a prophete, or one that saieth he hath seene a dreame, and foretel a signe and a wonder,

2   and it come to passe which he spake, and he say to thee: ^note Let vs goe, and folow strange goddes, which thou knowest not, and let vs serue them:

3   thou shalt not heare

Precepts and Iudgementes. the wordes of that prophete or dreamer: for the Lord your God tempteth you, that it may appeare whether you loue him or no, with al your hart, and with al your soule.

4   Folow the Lord your God, and feare him, and keepe his commandementes, and heare his voice: him you shal serue, and to him you shal cleaue.

5   And that prophete or forger of dreames shal be slaine: because he spake that he might auert you from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Ægypt, and redemed you from the house of seruitude: that he might make thee to erre from the way, that the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

6   If thy brother the sonne of thy mother, or thy sonne or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosome, or thy freind, whom thou louest as thy soule, wil perswade thee secretly, saying: Let vs goe, and serue strange goddes, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

7   of al nations round about, that be nigh or farre, from the beginning vnto the end of the earth,

8   consent not to him, nor heare him, neither let thyne eie spare him to pitie and hide him,

9   but ^note forthwith thou shalt kil him. let thy hand be first vpon him, and after thee al the people lay hand on him.

10   With stones shal he be stoned to death: because he would haue withdrawen thee from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, from the house of seruitude:

11   that al Israel hearing may feare, and may doe no more any thing like to this.

12   If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shal geue thee to inhabite, thou heare some say:

13   There are gone forth ^note children of Belial out of the middes of thee, and haue auerted the inhabitants of their citie, and haue said: Let vs goe, and serue strange goddes which you know not:

14   inquire carefully, and diligently, the truth of the thing being looked into, if thou finde it certaine that is said, and that this abomination is in act committed,

15   thou shalt forthwith strike the inhabitantes of that citie in the edge of the sworde, and shalt destroy it and al thinges that are in it, vnto the very beastes.

16   What stuffe also soeuer there is, thou shalt gather together in the middes of the streates therof, and shalt burne it with the citie itselfe, so that thou consume al thinges to the Lord thy God, and it be a heape for euer: it shal be built no more,

17   and there shal nothing sticke in thy hand of that anathema:

Precepts and Iudgementes. that our Lord may be turned from the wrath of his furie, and may haue mercie on thee, and multiplie thee as he sware to thy fathers,

18   when thou shalt heare the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping al his preceptes, which I command thee this day, that thou mayest doe that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God. Chap. XIIII. Gentiles maner of mourning for the dead is prohibited. 3. Likewise to eate things vncleane, with mention of certaine cleane and vncleane beastes, 9. fishes, 11. and birdes. 21. Also preceptes of pietie, clemencie, paying tithes, first fruites, 27. nourishing of Leuites, strangers, orphanes, and widowes.

1   Be ye the children of the Lord your God: you shal not cutte your selues, nor make bauldnes for the dead.

2   because thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of al nattions, that are vpon the earth.

3   Eate not the thinges that are vncleane.

4   This is the beast, that you ought to eate, The oxe, and the sheepe, and the goate,

5   the hart and the doa, the buffle, the chamois, the pygargue, the wilde beefe, the cameloparde.

6   Euerie beast, that diuideth the hoofe in two partes, and cheweth the cudde, shal you eate.

7   But of them, that chew the cudde, and diuide not the hoofe, these you shal not eate, as the camel, the hare, the cherogril: because they chew the cudde, and diuide not the hoofe, they shal be vncleane to you.

8   The swine also because it diuideth the hoof, and cheweth not the cudde, shal be vncleane. their flesh you shal not eate, and their carcasses you shal not touche.

9   These shal you eate of al that abide in the waters: Such as haue sinnes and scales, eate:

10   them that are without sinnes and scales, eate not, because they are vncleane.

11   Al birdes that are cleane eate.

12   The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

13   the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde:

14   and al of the rauens kinde,

15   and the ostriche, and the owle, and the sterne, and the hawke according to his kinde:

16   the herodian and the swanne, and the storke,

17   and the diuer, the porphyrion, and nightcrow,

18   the onocratal, and the charadrion, euerie one in their kinde: the lapwing also and the batte.

19   And al that creepeth and hath litle winges, shal be vncleane, and shal not be eaten.

20   Al that is cleane, eate.

21   But whatsoeuer

Precepts and Iudgements. is dead of it selfe, eate not therof. ^noteTo the stranger, that is within thy gates, geue it to eate, or sel it to him: because thou art the holie people of our Lord thy God. Thou shalt ^note not boyle a kidde in the milke of his damme.

22   The tenth part thou shalt seperate of al thy fruites that spring in the earth euerie yeare,

23   and thou shalt eate in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place, which he shal choose, that his name may be inuocated therin, the tithe of thy corne, and wine, and oile, and the first borne of thy heardes and sheepe: that thou mayest lerne to feare our Lord thy God at al time.

24   But when the way, and the place which our Lord thy God shal choose, are farre, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carie al these thinges thither,

25   thou shalt sel, and bring al into a price, and shalt carie it in thy hand, and shalt goe to the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose:

26   and thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoeuer pleaseth thee, either of heardes, or of sheepe, wine also and sicere, and al that thy soule desireth: and thou shalt eate before our Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

27   and the Leuite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

28   The third yeare thou shalt separate an other tenth of al thinges, that growe to thee at that time: and shalt lay it vp within thy gates.

29   And the Leuite shal come that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and pupil and widow, that are within thy gates, and shal eate and be filled: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the workes of thy handes that thou shalt doe. Chap. XV. Remi&esset;ion of debtes in the seuenth yeare to the Israelites, but not to strangers. 4. Albeit there wil alwayes be some poore, yet they must so lend to their needie bretheren, that none be forced to begge. 12. A bought seruant that is an hebrew must be set free in the seuenth yeare, 16. except he desire to serue stil. 19. The firstborne in al cattel must be consecrated to God, without making priuate profite therof.

1   In the seuenth yeare thou shalt make a remission,

2   which shal be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing of his freind or neighbour and brother, can not aske it againe, because it is the yeare of remission of our Lord.

3   Of the seiourner and stranger thou shalt exact: of thy

Precepts and Iudgements. countrie man and neighbour thou shalt not haue power to require it.

4   And ^note needie person and begger there shal be none among you: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in the land, which he wil geue thee in possession.

5   Yet so if thou heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and keepe al thinges that he hath bid, and which I command thee this day, he wil blesse thee, as he hath promised.

6   Thou shalt lend to manie nations, and thy selfe shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt haue dominion ouer verie manie nations, and no man shal haue dominion ouer thee.

7   If one of thy brethren that abideth within the gates of thy citie in the land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, come to pouertie: thou shalt not harden thy hart, nor close thy hand,

8   but shalt open it to the poore man, and shalt lend him, that which thou perceiuest he hath neede of.

9   Beware lest perhaps an impious cogitation steale in vpon thee, and thou say in thy hart: The seuenth yeare of remission draweth nigh; & turne away thy eies from thy poore brother denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he crie against thee to our Lord, and ^note it become a sinne vnto thee.

10   But thou shalt geue to him: neither shalt thou doe any thing craftely in releuing his necessities: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee at al times, and in al thinges whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

11   There shal not want poore in the land of thy habitation: therfore I command thee that thou open thy hand to thy needie and poore brother, that liueth in the Land.

12   When thy brother an Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath serued thee six yeares, in the seuenth yeare, thou shalt let him goe free:

13   and to whom thou geuest freedom, thou shalt in no case suffer him to depart emptie:

14   but geue him his wayfare of thy flockes, and of thy barne floore, and thy presse, wherwith our Lord thy God shal blesse thee.

15   Remember that thy self also didst serue in the Land of Ægypt, and our Lord thy God made thee free, and therfore doe I now command thee.

16   But if he say: I wil not depart: because he loueth thee, and thy house, and feeleth that he is wel with thee:

17   thou shalt take an awle, and bore through his eare in the dore of thy house, and he shal serue thee for euer. to thy woman seruant also thou shalt doe in like maner.

18   Turne not away thine eies from them, when thou makest them free: because he hath serued thee six yeares after the wages of an

Preceptes and Iudgementes. hireling: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the workes that thou doest.

19   Of the first borne, that come forth in thy heardes and sheepe, whatsoeuer is of the male sexe, thou shalt sanctifie to our Lord thy God. Thou shalt not worke with the first borne of an oxe, and thou shalt not sheare the first borne of thy sheepe.

20   In the sight of our Lord thy God shalt thou eate them euerie yeare in the place, that our Lord shal choose, thou and thy house.

21   But if it haue blemish, and be either lame, or blind, or in any part diffigured or feeble, it shal not be immolated to our Lord thy God.

22   but within the gates of thy citie shalt thou eate it: as wel the cleane as the vncleane in like maner shal eate them as the doa, and the hart.

23   This onlie shalt thou obserue, that their bloud thou eate not, but power it out on the earth as water. Chap. XVI. Three more solemne feastes to be kept euerte yeare, Pasch, ^note 9. Pentecost, 13. and the feast of tabernacles, 18. Iust Iudges to be appointed in euerie citie. 21. Al occasions of Idolatrie to be auoyded.

1   Observe the moneth of new corne, and ^note the first of the spring time, that thou mayest make the Phase to our Lord thy God: because in this moneth our Lord thy God, brought thee out of Ægypt by night.

2   And thou shalt immolate the Phase to our Lord thy God, of sheepe, and of oxen in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there. ^note

3   Thou shalt not eate in it leuened bread: Seuen daies shalt thou eate without leuen, the bread of affliction, because in feare didst thou come out of Ægypt: that thou mayest remember the day of thy comming out of Ægypt, al the dayes of thy life.

4   Leuened shal not appeare in al thy coastes for seuen daies, and there shal not remayne of the flesh of that which was immolated at euen the first day vntil morning.

5   Thou canst not immolate the Phase in euerie one of thy cities, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee;

6   but in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there: thou shalt immolate the Phase at euen at the going downe of the sunne, when thou camest out of Ægypt.

7   And thou shalt boyle, and eate it in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, and in the morning rysing vp thou shalt goe into thy tentes.

8   Six

Preceptes and Iudgementes. daies shalt thou eate azymes: and in the seuenth day, because it is the collection of our Lord thy God, thou shalt doe no worke. ^note

9   Seuen weekes shalt thou number thee from that day wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corne,

10   and thou shalt celebrate the festiual day of weekes to our Lord thy God, a voluntarie oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of our Lord thy God:

11   and thou shalt feast before our Lord thy God, thou, & thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy woman seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and pupil and widow, which abide with you: in the place which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there:

12   and thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Ægypt: and thou shalt keepe and doe the thinges that are commanded. ^note

13   The solemnitie also of Tabernacles thou shalt celebrate seuen daies, when thou hast gathered thy fruite of the barne floore and the presse:

14   and thou shalt feast in the festiuitie, thou, thy sonne, and thy daughter, thy man seruant and woman seruant, the Leuite also and stranger, and pupil and widow that are within thy gates.

15   Seuen daies shalt thou celebrate the feastes to our Lord thy God in the place, which our Lord shal choose: and our Lord thy God wil blesse thee in al thy fruites, and in euerie worke of thy handes, and thou shalt be in ioye.

16   Three times in a yeare shal al thy male appeare in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place which he shal choose: in the solemnitie of Azymes, in the solemnitie of weekes, and in the solemnitie of Tabernacles. There shal not appeare before our Lord any emptie:

17   but euerie one shal offer according to that he hath, according to the blessing of our Lord his God, which he shal geue him.

18   Iudges and maisters shalt thou appoynt in al thy gates, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, in euerie of thy tribes: that they may iudge the people with iust iudgement,

19   and not decline to either part. Thou shalt not accept person, nor giftes: because that giftes blinde the eies of the wise, and change the wordes of the iust.

20    ^noteIustly shalt thou pursew that which is iust: that thou mayest liue and possesse the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

21   Thou shalt plante no groue, nor any tree neere the altar of our Lord thy God.

22   Neither shalt thou make nor sette to thy self a statue: which thing our Lord thy God hateth.

Iudge of controuersies. Chap. XVII. Perfect hostes, not mamed nor defectiue, must be offered to God, Idolaters stoned to death. 8. VVhen inferior iudges differ, the cause must be decided, by the High Priest in consistorie. Who is warranted not to erre therin, and al are bound to obey his sentence. 14. The dutie also of a king (whom in future time God wil condescend to geue them) is described, with special charge to receiue the law of God at the Priestes handes.

1   Thov shalt not immolate to our Lord thy God a sheepe, and an oxe, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: because it is abomination to our Lord thy God.

2   When there shal be found with thee within one of thy gates, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, man or woman that do euil in the sight of our Lord thy God, and transgresse his couenant,

3   that they goe and serue strange goddes, and adore them, the sunne and the moone, and al the hoste of heauen, which thinges I commanded not:

4   and this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and the abomination is committed in Israel:

5   thou shalt bring forth the man and the woman, that haue committed that most heynous thing, to the gates of thy citie, and they shal be stoned.

6   At the mouth of two, or three witnesses shal he perish that is to be slaine. Let no man be killed, one onlie geuing testimonie against him.

7   The hand of the witnesses shal be first to kil him, and the hand of the rest of the people shal be layd on last: that thou mayest take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

8   09Q0162If thou perceiue that the iudgement with thee be hard and doubtful betwen bloud and bloud, cause and cause, leprosie and not leprosie: and thou see that the wordes of the iudges within thy gates doe varye: arise, and goe vp to the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose.

9   And thou shalt come to the priestes of the Leuitical stocke, and to ^note the iudge, that shal be at that time: and thou shalt aske of them,09Q0163 who shal shew thee the truth of the iudgment.

10   And thou shalt do whatsoeuer they, that are ^note zpresidentes of the place, which our Lord shal choose, shal say and teach thee,

11   according to his law; and thou shalt folow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.

12   But09Q0164 he that shal be proude, refusing to obey the commandement of the Priest, which at that time

Offices of a King. ministreth to our Lord thy God, and the decree of the iudge, that man shal die, and thou shalt take away the euil out of Israel:

13   and the whole people hearing shal feare, that none afterward swel in pride.

14   When thou art entred the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, and doest possesse it, and dwellest in it, and sayest: I wil sette a king ouer me, as al nations haue round about:

15   him shalt thou sette, whom our Lord thy God shal choose of the number of thy brethren. A man of an other nation that is not thy brother, thou canst not make king.

16   And when he is made, he shal not multiplie to him selfe horses, nor lead backe the people into Ægypt, taking high courage for the number of his horsemen, especially whereas our Lord hath commanded you that in no case you returne any more the same way.

17   He ^note shal not haue manie wiues, that may allure his minde, nor huge weightes of siluer and gold.

18   And after he shal sitte in the throne of his kingdome, he shal copie to him selfe the Deuteronomie of this Law in a volume, ^note taking the copie of the priestes of the Leuitical tribe,

19   and he shal haue it with him, and shal reade it al the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare our Lord his God, and keepe his wordes and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law.

20   And that his hart be not lifted vp into pride ouer his brethren, nor decline to the right side or the left side, that he may reigne a long time, and his sonnes ouer Israel. ^{note note note}

^note Chap. XVIII. In steed of other inheritance Priestes and Leuites haue prouision by Sacrifices and oblations. 9. Al superstition to be auoided. 15. Perpetuitie of prophetes, and finally one special Prophet (towit, Christ) is promised. 20. False prophetes must be slaine.

1   The priestes and Leuites, and al that are of the same tribe, shal haue no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shal eate the sacrifices of our Lord, and his oblations,

2   and nothing els shal they receiue of the possession of their brethren: for our Lord him selfe is their inheritance, as he hath spoken to them.

3   This shal be the right of the priestes from the people, and from them that offer victimes: whether they immolate oxe, or sheepe, they shal geue to the priest the shoulder and the mawe:

4   the first fruites of corne, of wine, and oile, and a part of the woolle of their sheepe shearing.

5   For him hath our Lord chosen of al thy tribes, that he might stand, and minister to our Lord he and his sonnes for euer.

6   If a Leuite goe out of one of thy cities of al Israel in the which he dwelleth, and would come desiring the place which our Lord shal choose,

7   he shal minister in the name of our Lord his God, as al his brethren the Leuites, that shal stand at that time before our Lord.

8   He shal receiue the same portion of meates, that the rest doe: beside that, which in his owne citie is dew to him by succession from his fathers.

9   When thou art entred the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, beware

True and false Prophetes. thou be not willing to imitate the abominations of those nations.

10   Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his sonne, or daughter, making them to passe through the fyre: or that demandeth of southsayers, and obserueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a sorcerer,

11   nor inchanter, nor that consulteth with pithone, or diuiners, and seeketh the truth of the dead.

12   for al these thinges our Lord abhorreth, and for these abominations wil he destroy them at thy entring in.

13   thou shalt be perfect, and without spotte with our Lord thy God.

14   These nations, whose land thou shalt possesse, heare southsayers and diuiners: but thou art otherwise instructed of our Lord thy God.

15   09Q0165A prophet of thy nation and of thy brethren like vnto me, wil our Lord thy God raise vp to thee: him thou shalt heare,

16   as thou didst request of our Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assemblie was gathered, and saidst: I wil no more heare the voice of our Lord my God, and this exceding great fire I wil see no more, lest I die.

17   And our Lord said to mie; They haue spoken al thinges wel.

18   A prophete wil I rayse vp to them out of the middes of their brethren like to thee: and I wil put my wordes in his mouth, and he shal speake al thinges that I shal command him.

19   but he that wil not heare his wordes, which he shal speake in my name, I wil be the reuenger.

20   And the prophet that being depraued with arrogancie wil speake in my name, the thinges ^note that I did not command him to say, ^note or in the name of strange goddes, shal be slaine.

21   And if in secrete cogitation thou answer: How shal I vnderstand the word, that our Lord spake not?

22   This signe thou shalt haue: That which the same prophete foretelleth, in the name of the Lord and cometh not to passe: that our Lord hath not spoken, but by the arrogancie of his minde the prophet hath forged it: and therfore thou shalt not feare him. ^note

Chap. XIX. Certaine cities of refuge must be a&esset;igned for casual manslaughter. 11. wilful murther punished by death without remission, 15. so it be conuinced by two or three witnesses. 16. False witne&esset;es punished with the paine, which the crime obiected deserueth.

1   VVhen our Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he wil deliuer to thee, and thou doest possesse it, and dwellest in the cities and houses therof:

2   three cities shalt thou separate to thee in the middes of the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee in possession,

3    ^notepreparing diligently the way: and thou shalt diuide the whole prouince of thy Land equally into three partes: that he which for murder is a fugitiue, may haue neere at hand, whither to escape.

4   This shal be the law of the murderer that fleeth, whose life is to be saued: He that striketh his neighbour vnwitting, and that is proued yesterday and the day before to haue had no hatred against him:

5   but to haue gone with him simply vnto the wood to cutte wood, and in cutting the wood of axe slipped out of his hand, and the yron falling from the handle strooke his freind, and killed him: he shal flee to one of the cities aforesaid, and liue:

6   lest perhaps the next kinseman of him, whose bloud was shed, pricked with sorow, pursew, and apprehend him if the way be too long, and stricke his life, that is not guiltie of death, because he is proued to haue had no hatred before, against him that was slaine.

7   Therfore I command thee, that thou separat three cities of equal distance one from an other.

8   And when our Lord thy God shal haue dilated thy borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and shal geue thee al the Land, that he promised them,

9   (yet so, if thou keepe his commandementes, and do the thinges which I command thee this day, that thou loue our Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes at al time) thou shalt adde to thee other three cities, and shalt duble the number of the three cities aforesaid:

10   that innocent

Cities of refuge. bloud be not shed in the middes of the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee to possesse, lest thou be guiltie of bloud.

11   But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wayte for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,

12   the ancientes of his citie shal send, acd take him out of the place of refuge, and shal deliuer him into the hand of the kinseman of him, whose bloud was shed, and he shal die.

13    ^noteThou shalt not pitie him, and thou shalt take away the guiltie bloud out of Israel, that it may be wel with thee.

14   Thou shalt not take, and transferre thy neighbours boundes, which thy predecessours did sette in thy possession, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee in the Land, that thou shalt receiue to possesse.

15   One witnesse shal not stand against any man, whatsoeuer sinne, or wickednesse it be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses shal euerie word stand.

16   If a lying witnesse stand against a man, accusing him of preuarication,

17   both of them, whose the cause is, shal stand before our Lord in the sight of the priestes and the iudges that shal be in those daies.

18   And when searching most diligently, they shal finde that the false witnes hath said a lie against his brother:

19   they shal render to him as he meant to doe to his brother, and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee:

20   that others hearing may haue feare, and may not be bold to doe such things.

21    ^noteThou shalt not pitie him, but life for life, eie for eie, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote shalt thou exacte. Chap. XX. Lawful warres are to be vndertaken with corege and confidence. 5. Such as for special causes may be discoreged, must be dismissed from the field, 10. VVhat to be obserued towardes the enimie. 19. VVhat trees may not be cut downe, and what sorte may be, for the vse of warres.

1   If thou goe forth to warre against thyne enemies, and see the horse men and chariottes, and the multitude of the aduersaries hoste greater then thou hast, thou shalt not feare them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt.

2   And when the battel is now at hand, the priest shal stand before the armie, and shal speake to the people thus:

3   Heare Israel, you this day ioyne battel against your enemies, let not your hart feare, be not

Preceptes and Iudgementes. affrayd, retire not, neither dread them:

4   because our Lord your God is in the middes of you, and wil fight for you against your aduersaries, to deliuer you from danger.

5   The Captaines also through euerie bande in the hearing of the hoste shal proclaime: ^note what man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him goe, and returne into his house, lest perhaps he die in the battel, and an other dedicate it.

6   What man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, wherof al men may lawfully eate? let him goe, and returne into his house: lest perhaps he die in the battel, and an other man execute his office.

7   What man is there, that hath despoused a wife, and not taken her? let him goe, and returne into his house, lest perhaps he die in the warre, and an other take her.

8   These thinges being said they shal adde the rest, and shal speake to the people: What man is there feareful, and fainte harted? let him goe, and returne into his house, lest he make the hartes of his brethren to feare, as him selfe is frighted with feare.

9   And when the Captaines of the host shal hold their peace, and make an end of speaking, euerie man shal prepare their bandes to fight.

10   If at anie time thou come to winne a citie, thou shalt first offer peace.

11   If they receiue it, and open the gates to thee, al the people that is therein, shal be saued, and shal serue thee vnder tribute.

12   But if they wil not make peace, and shal beginne battel against thee, thou shalt assalt it.

13   And when our Lord thy God shal deliuer it into thy hand, thou shalt strike al, that is therein of the male sexe, in the edge of the sword,

14   excepting wemen and children, the cattel and other thinges, that are in the citie. Al the praye thou shalt diuide to the armie, and thou shalt eate of the spoiles of thine enemies, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

15   So shalt thou doe to al cities, that be verie farre from thee, and be not of these cities, which thou shalt receiue in possession.

16   But of those cities, that shal be geuen thee, thou shalt suffer none at al to liue:

17   but shalt kil them in the edge of the sword, to witte, the Hetheite, and Amorrheite, and Chananeite, the Pherezeite, and Heueite, and Iebuseite, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

18   lest perhaps they teach you to doe al the abominations, which them selues did worke to their goddes: and you sinne against our Lord your God.

19   When thou hast

Preceptes and Iudgementes. besieged a citie a long time, and hast compassed it with munition to winne it, thou shalt not cutte downe the trees, that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoile the countrie round about with axes: because it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of warryers against thee.

20   But if there be any trees not fruitful, but wilde, and apt for other vses, cutte them downe, and make engines, vntil thou take the citie, which fighteth against thee. Chap. XXI. How to seeke out a secrete murtherer. 10. wemen taken in battel may be maried, and afterwardes can not be sold nor made bondwemen. 15. The eldest sonne may not be depriued of his birthright for hatred of his mother. 18. A stubburne sonne must be stoned to death. 22. VVhen one is hanged on a gibbet, he must be taken downe the same day, and buried.

1   VVhen there shal be found in the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, the corps of a man slaine, and he that is guiltie of the murder is not knowne

2   thy ancientes, and iudges shal goe forth, and measure from the place of the corps the distance of euerie citie round about:

3   and which they shal perceiue to be neerer then the rest, the ancientes of that citie shal take an heifer out of the heard, that hath not drawen yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

4   and shal bring her to a rough and stonie valley, that neuer was ploughed, nor receiued seede: and in it they shal strike of the necke of the heifer:

5   and the priestes the sonnes of Leui shal come, whom our Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to blesse in his name, and at their word euerie matter dependeth, and whatsoeuer is cleane or vncleane must be iudged.

6   And the ancientes of that citie shal come to the slaine person, and shal wash their handes ouer the heifer, that was strooken in the valley,

7   and shal say: Our handes did not sheede this bloud, ^note nor our eies seee it.

8   be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redemed o Lord, and impute not innocent bloud in the middes of thy people Israel. And the guilte of bloud shal be taken from them:

9   and thou shalt be free from the innocents bloud, that was shed, when thou shalt haue done that which our Lord hath commanded thee.

10   If thou goe forth to fight against thyne enemies, and our Lord thy God deliuer them in thy hande and thou leade them away captiue,

11   and seest in

Precepts and Iudgementes. the number of the captiues a beautiful woman, and louest her, and wilt haue her to wife,

12   thou shalt bring her into thy house: who shal shaue of her hare, and payre her nailes,

13   and put of the rayment, wherein she was taken: and sitting in thy house, shal mourne her father and mother one moneth: and afterward thou shalt enter vnto her, and shalt sleepe with her, and she shal be thy wife.

14   But if afterward she content not thy mynde, thou shalt let her goe free, neither canst thou sel her for money, nor oppresse her by might: because thou hast humbled her.

15   If a man haue two wiues, one beloued, and the other hated, and they haue begotten children by him, and the sonne of the hated be the firstborne,

16   and he meaneth to diuide his substance among his sonnes: he can not make the sonne of the beloued the first borne, and preferre him before the sonne of the hated,

17   but the sonne of the hated he shal acknowledge for the first borne, and shal geue to him of those thinges, which he hath, al duble: for this is the beginning of his children, & to this are dew the first brith rightes.

18   If a man begette a stubbourne and froward sonne, that wil not heare the commandementes of his father and mother, and being chastened, contemneth to be obedient:

19   they shal take him, and bring him to the ancientes of his citie, and to the gate of iudgement,

20   and shal say to them: This our sonne is froward and stubborne, he contemneth to heare our admonitions, he geueth himself to comessation, and to ryote and banketinges:

21   the people of the citie shal stone him: and he shal die, that you may take away the euil out of the middes of you, and al Israel hearing it may be afrayde.

22   When a man hath offended so that he is to be punished by death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gybbet:

23   his bodie shal not remaine vpon the tree, but the same day shal be buried: because he is ^note accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not contaminate thy Land, which our Lord thy God geueth thee in possession. Chap. XXII. Pietie towardes neighboures. 5. neither sexe may vse the apparel of the other. 6. crueltie to be auoided euen towardes birdes, 8. batlement about the roofe of a house. 9. Things of diuers kindes not to be mixed. 12. cordes in the hemes of a cloke. 13. Trial and punishment of adulterie and of deflowring virgines. 30. the sonne may not marie his stepmother.

Precepts and Iudgementes.

1   Thov shalt not see thy brothers oxe, or sheepe straying, and passe by: but shalt bring it backe to thy brother,

2   although thy brother be not nigh, and thou know him not: thou shalt bring them vnto thy house, and they shal be with thee vntil thy brother seeke them, and receiue them.

3   In like manner shalt thou doe with his asse, and with his rayment, and with euerie thing of thy brothers, that shal be lost: if thou finde it, neglect it nor as perteyning to an other.

4   If thou see thy brothers asse or oxe to be fallen in the way, thou shalt not contemne it, but shalt lift it vp with him.

5   A woman shal not be clothed with mans apparel, neither shal a man vse womans apparel: for he is abominable before God that doeth these thinges.

6   If walking by the way thou finde a birdes nest in a tree or on the ground, and the damme sitting vpon the young or the egges: thou shalt not hold her with her young,

7   but shalt let her goe, taking the young and holding them: that it may be wel with thee, and thou mayest liue a long time.

8   When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make ^note a batlement to the roofe round about: lest bloud be shed in thy house, and thou be guiltie an other slipping, and falling headlong.

9   Thou shalt not sowe thy vineyard with diuerse seede: lest both the seede which thou didst sow, and the thinges that grow of the vineyard, ^note be sanctified together.

10   Thou shalt not plough with an oxe and asse together.

11   Thou shalt not weare a garment that is wouen of wolle and linnen.

12   Thou shalt make litle cordes in the hemme at the foure corners of thy cloke, wherwith thou shalt be couered.

13   If a man marrie a wife, and afterward hate her,

14   and seeke occasions to put her away, obiecting vnto her a verie il name, and say: I tooke this wife, and compayning with her: I found her not a virgin:

15   her father and mother shal take her, and shal carie with them the signes of her virginitie to the ancientes of the citie that are in the gate:

16   and the father shal say: I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife: whom because he hateth,

17   he layeth vnto her a verie il name, so that he sayeth: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the signes of my daughters virginitie. they shal spread the vesture before the ancientes of the citie:

18   and the ancientes of that citie shal take the man, and beate him,

19   condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of siluer, which he shal geue to

Precepts and Iudgementes. the wenches father, because he hath infamousely spred a verie il name vpon a virgin of Israel: and he shal haue her to wife, and can not put her away al the daies of his life.

20   But if it be true which he obiected, and virginitie be not found in the wench:

21   they shal cast her forth without the doores of her fathers house, and the men of her citie shal stone her to death, and she shal die: because she hath done wickednes in Israel, to fornicate in her fathers house: and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

22   If a man lie with an others mans wife, both shal die, that is to say, the aduouterer and the aduouteresse: and thou shalt take away the euil out of Israel.

23   If a man haue despoused a maide that is a virgine, and some man finde her in the citie, and lie with her,

24   thou shalt bring forh both of them to the gate of that citie, and they shal be stoned: the maide, because she cried not, being in the citie: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife and thou shalt take away the euil from the middes of thee.

25   But if the man finde the maide that is despoused, in the field, and taking her, lie with her, he alone shal die:

26   the maide shal suffer nothing, neither is she guiltie of death: for as a theefe ryseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the maide suffer.

27   she was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to deliuer her.

28   If a man finde a maide that is a virgin, which hath not a spouse, and taking her lie with her, and the matter come into iudgement:

29   he that lay with her, shal geue to the father of the maide fiftie sicles of siluer, and shal haue her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away al the daies of his life.

30   No man shal take his fathers wife, nor reuele his couering. Chap. XXIII. Eunuches, bastardes, Moabites, & Ammonites may not enter into the Church. 7. Idumeans, and Ægyptians may be admitted. 9. Obseruation of spiritual and corporal cleannes. 15. other preceptes concerning fugitiues, 17. fornication, 19. vsurie. 21. vowes, 24. and eating other mens grapes or corne.

1   An ^note eunuch that hath his stones broken, or cutte of, & his yeard cutte away, shal not enter into the church of our Lord.

2   Mamzer, that is to say, one borne of a common woman, shal not enter into the church of our Lord, vntil the tenth generation.

3   The ^note Ammonite, and the

Precepts and Iudgementes. Moabite yea after the tenth generation shal not enter into the church of our Lord, for euer:

4   because they would not meete you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Ægypt: and because they hyred against thee Balaam, the sonne of Beor of Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee:

5   and our Lord thy God would not heare Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, for that he loued thee.

6   Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither doe thou seeke their good al the daies of thy life for euer.

7   Thou shalt not abhorre the Idumeite, because he is thy brother: nor the Ægyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

8   They that are borne of them, in the third generation shal enter into the church of our Lord.

9   When thou goest forth against thyne enemies to battel, thou shalt keepe thy self from al euil thing.

10   If there be among you a man, that is polluted in a dreame by night, he shal goe forth without the campe,

11   and shal not returne, before he be washed with water at euen: and after sunne sette he shal returne into the campe.

12   Thou shalt haue a place without the campe, whither thou mayest goe to the necessities of nature,

13   carying on thy girdle a piked instrument. & when thou sittest downe, thou shalt digge round about, and with the earth that is digged vp shal couer

14   that which thou art eased of (for our Lord thy God walketh in the middes of thy campe, to deliuer thee, and to geue thyne enemies vnto thee) and let thy campe be holie, and let no filthines appeare therein, lest he forsake thee.

15   Thou shalt not deliuer the seruant to his Maister, that is fled to thee.

16   he shal dwel with thee in the place, that shal please him, and in one of thy cities shal he rest: vexe him not.

17   There shal be no whoore of the daughters of Israel, nor whooremonger of the sonnes of Israel.

18   Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strompet, nor the price of a dogge, in the house of our Lord thy God, whatsoeuer it be that thou hast vowed: because both is abomination before our Lord thy God.

19   Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to vsurie, nor corne, nor any other thing:

20   but ^note to the str&abar;ger. And to thy brother thou shalt lend, that which he needeth without vsurie: that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in al thy worke in the Land, which thou shalt enter to possesse.

21   When thou hast vowed a vow to our Lord thy God, thou shalt not slacke to pay it: because our Lord thy God wil require it.

Preceptes and Iudgementes. and if thou delay, it shal be reputed to thee for sinne.

22    ^noteIf thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sinne.

23   But that which is once gone out of thy lippes, thou shalt obserue, and shalt doe as thou hast promised to our Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy proper wil and thyne owne mouth.

24   Entring into thy neighbours vineyarde, eate grapes as much as shal please thee: but carrie none out with thee.

25   If thou enter into thy freindes corne, thou shalt breake the eares, and rubbe them in thy hand: but with a sikcle thou shalt not reape. Chap. XXIIII. Diuorce permitted to auoide greater euil. 5. The newly maried must not goe to warre. 7. He that traterously selleth a man must be slaine, 8. disobedience to Priestes incurreth leprosie. 10. Such things may not be taken to pledge, as can not be wel spared. 14. Poore laborers must be presently payed. 16 not one punished for an others fault, but right iudgement to al, 18. and liberal almes to the poore.

1   If a man take a wife, and haue her, and she finde not grace before his eies for sonne lothsomenes: he shal write a bil of diuorce, and shal geue it in her hand, and09Q0166 dimisse her out of his house.

2   And being departed when she shal haue married an other husband,

3   and he also hateth her, and hath geuen her a bil of diuorce, and hath dimissed her out of his house, or is deade:

4   the former husband can not take her againe to wife: because she is polluted, and is made abominable before our Lord: lest thou make thy Land to sinne, which our Lord thy God shal deliuer thee to possesse.

5   When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shal not goe forth to battel, neither shal any publique necessitie be inioyned him, but he shal attend to his owne house without fault, that one yeare he may reioyce with his wife.

6   Thou shalt not take for a pledge the nether, or the vpper milstone: because ^note he hath pledged his life to thee.

7   If any man be taken soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him take a price, he shal be slaine, and thou shalt take away the euil from the middes of thee.

8   Obserue diligently that thou incurre not the plague of leprosie, but thou shalt doe whatsoeuer the priestes of the Leuitical stocke shal teach thee, according to that, which I haue commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.

9   Remember what our Lord your

Preceptes and Iudgementes. God did to Marie, in the way when you came out of Ægypt.

10   When thou shalt require of thy neighbour any thing, that he oweth thee, thou shalt not enter into his house to take away a pledge:

11   but thou shalt stand without, and he shal bring forth to thee that which he hath.

12   but if he be poore, the pledge shal not lodge with thee that night,

13   but forthwith thou shalt restore it to him before the going downe of the sunne: that sleeping in his rayment, he may blesse thee, & thou mayest haue iustice before our Lord thy God.

14   Thou shalt not denie the hyre of the needie, and poore man thy brother, or the stranger, that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

15   but the same day thou shalt pay him the price of his labour, before the going downe of the sunne, ^note because he is poore, and there withal susteyneth his life: lest he crie against thee to our Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sinne.

16   The fathers shal not be slaine for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but euerie one shal die for his owne sinne.

17   Thou shalt not peruert the iudgement of the stranger and the pupil, neither shalt thou take away the widowes rayment for a pledge.

18   Remember that thou didst serue in Ægypt, and our Lord thy God deliuered thee from thence Therfore I command thee that thou doe this thing.

19   When thou hast reaped the corne in thy field, and forgetting hast left a sheafe, thou shalt not returne to take it away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the pupil, and the widow to take it away, that our Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thy handes.

20   If thou haue gathered the fruites of thy oliue trees, whatsoeuer remaineth on the trees, thou shalt not returne to gather it: but shalt leaue it to the stranger, the pupil, and the widow.

21   If thou make vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remaine, but they shal goe to the vses of the stranger, the pupil, and the widow.

22   Remember that thou also didst serue in Ægypt, and therfore I command thee that thou doe this thing. ^note

Chap. XXV. Punishment afflicted according to the fault, but so that he which is beaten haue not aboue fourtie stripes. 4. The oxes mouth not be mooseled that treadeth corne. 5. A maried man dying without i&esset;ue, his brother must marie the widow. 11. The wife that taketh her husbands aduersarie by priuities must lose her hand. 13. no false weightes, nor measures to be kept. 17. Amelicites must be vtterly destroyed.

1   If there be a controuersie betwen some, and they cal vpon the iudges: whom they shal perceiue to be iust, to him they shal geue the price of iustice: whom impious, him they shal condemne of impietie.

2   And if they see that the offender be worthie of stripes: they shal cast him downe, & shal cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sinne shal the measure also of the stripes be:

3   yet so, that they exceede not the number of fourtie: lest thy brother depart fowly torne before thyne eies.

4   Thou shalt ^note not moosel the

Preceptes and Iudgementes. mouth of the oxe that treadeth out thy corne in the flore.

5   When brethren shal dwel together, & one of them die without children, the wife of the deceased shal not marie to an other: but09Q0167 his brother shal take her, and rayse vp the seede of his brother:

6   and the first borne sonne of her he shal cal by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.

7   But if he wil not take his brothers wife, that by law is dew to him, the woman shal goe to the gate of the citie, and cal vpon the ancientes, and say: My husbandes brother wil not rayse vp his brothers seede in Israel: nor take me to his wife.

8   And forthwith they shal cause him to be sent for, and shal aske him. If he answer: I wil not take her to wife:

9   the woman shal come to him before the ancientes, and shal take of his shoe from his foote, and ^note spitte in his face, and say: So shal it be done to the man, that buildeth not his brothers house.

10   And his name shal be called in Israel ^note The house of the vnshodde.

11   If two men fal at wordes betwixt them selues, and one beginne to brawle against the other, and the wife of the one willing to deliuer her husband out of the hand of the stronger, put forth her hand, and take his priuities:

12   thou shalt cutte of her hand, neither shalt thou be moued with any pitie vpon her.

13   Thou shalt not haue diuerse weightes in thy bagge, a greater and a lesse:

14   neither shal there be in thy house a greater bushel and a lesse.

15   Thou shalt haue a weight iust and true, and thy bushel shal be equal and true: that thou mayest liue a long time vpon the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

16   For thy Lord abhorreth him, that doth these thinges, and detesteth al iniustice.

17   Remember what ^note Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Ægypt:

18   how he mette thee: & stroke the hindemost of thy armie, which being wearie rested them selues, when thou wast spent with famine and labour, and he feared not God.

19   Therfore when our Lord thy God shal geue thee rest, and subdewe al nations round about in the Land, which he hath promised thee: thou shalt destroy his name vnder heauen. Beware thou forget it not. ^{note note}

Chap. XXVI. First fruites must be offered in special place a&esset;igned to Gods seruice, professing of gratitude for the land po&esset;essed according to Gods promise. 12. Likewise tithes of the third yeare, 16. with conclusion, that the people promise to obserue al the preceptes of God, and so doing he wil protect and prosper them.

1   And when thou art entred into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee to possesse, and hast obteyned it, and dwellest in it: ^note

2   thou shalt take first of al thy fruites, and put them in a maunde, and shalt goe to the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may be inuocated there:

3   and thou shalt goe to the priest, that shal be in those daies, and say to him: I professe this day before our Lord thy God, that I am entred into the Land, for the which he sware to our fathers, that he would geue it vs.

4   and the priest taking the maund at his hand, shal sette it before the altar of our Lord thy God:

5   and thou shalt speake in the sight of our Lord God: ^note The Syrian persecuted my father, who descended into Ægypt, and seiourned there in a verie smale number and grew into a nation greate and strong and of an infinite multitude.

6   And the Ægyptians afflicted vs, and persecuted vs laying on most grieuous burdens:

7   and we cried to our Lord the God of our fathers: who heard vs, and respected our affliction, and labour, and distresse:

8   and brought vs out of Ægypt in a strong hand, a stretched out arme, in great terrour, in signes and wonders:

9   and brought vs into this place, and deliuered to vs this Land flowing with milke and honie.

10   And therfore now I offer first fruites of the Land, which our Lord hath geuen me. And thou shalt leaue them in the sight of our Lord thy God, adoring our Lord thy God. ^note

11   And thou shalt feast in al the good thinges, which our Lord thy God hath geuen to thee, and thy house, thou and the Leuite and the stranger that is with thee

12   When thou hast finished the tithe of al thy fruites, in ^note the third yeare of tithes thou shalt geue to the Leuite, and the

Precepts and Iudgementes. stranger, and the pupil, and the widow, that they may eate within thy gates, and be filled:

13   and thou shalt speake in the sight of our Lord thy God: I haue brought that which is sanctified out of my house, and haue geuen it to the Leuite and the stranger, and the pupil and the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I haue not transgressed thy commandements nor forgotten thy preceptes.

14   I haue not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them in any vncleannes, nor spent of them any thing in funerals. I haue obeyed the voice of our Lord my God, and haue done al thinges as thou didst command me.

15   Looke from thy sanctuarie, and thy high habitation of heauen, and blesse thy people Israel, and the Land, which thou hast geuen vs, as thou swarest to our fathers, a land flowing with milke and honie.

16   This day our Lord thy God hath commanded thee to doe these commandmentes and iudgementes: that thou keepe and fulfil them with al thy hart, and with al thy soule.

17    ^noteThou hast chosen our Lord this day, to be thy God, and to walke in his waies, and keepe his ceremonies, and preceptes and iudgementes, and obey his commandement.

18   And our Lord hath chosen thee this day, that thou shouldest be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou shouldest keepe al his commandementes:

19   and make thee higher then al nations which he created, to his prayse, and name, and glorie: that thou mayest be a holie people of our Lord thy God, as he hath spoken. Chap. XXVII. Gods commandmentes must be written in plastred stones. An Altar erected, and sacrifices offered. ^note 12. Obseruers of the commandments must be ble&esset;ed, and transgressors cursed. 14. with the forme of cursing idolaters, and diuers other enormious sinners.

1   And Moyses and the ancientes of Israel commanded the people, saying: Keepe euerie commandment that I command you this day.

2   And when you are passed ouer Iordan into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, thou shalt erect great stones, and shalt polish them with plaster,

3   that thou mayest write on them al the wordes of this law, when thou hast passed ouer Iordan: that thou mayest enter into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, a land flowing with milke and honie, as he sware to thy

Blessinges and curses fathers.

4   When therfore you are passed Iordan, erect the stones which I command you this day in mount Hebal, and thou shalt polish them with plaster:

5   and thou shalt build there an altar to our Lord thy God of stones, which yron hath not touched,

6   and of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt put vpon it holocaustes to our Lord thy God,

7   and shalt immolate pacifique hostes, and eate there, and feaste there before our Lord thy God.

8   And thou shalt write vpon the stones al the wordes of this law plainely and cleerly.

9   And Moyses and the priestes of the Leuitical stocke said to al Israel: Attend, and heare Israel: This day thou art made the people of our Lord thy God:

10   thou shalt heare his voice, and doe the commandementes and iustices, which I command thee.

11   And Moyses commanded the people in that day, saying:

12    ^noteThese shal stand to blesse the people, vpon mount Garizim, when you are past Iordan: Simeon, ^note Leui, Iudas, Issachar, Ioseph, and Beniamin.

13   And ouer against them these shal stand to curse on mount Hebal. Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephthali:

14   And the ^note Leuites shal pronounce, and say to al the men of Israel with a high voice:

15   Cursed be the man that maketh a grauen and molten thing, the abomination of our Lord, the worke of the handes of artificers, and shal put it ^note in secrete. and al the people shal answer, and say: Amen.

16   Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother. and al the people shal say: Amen.

17   Cursed be he that remoueth his neighbours boundes. and al the people shal say: Amen.

18   Cursed be he that maketh the blinde to goe amisse in his iourney. and al the people shal say: Amen.

19   Cursed be he that peruerteth the iudgement of the stranger, of the pupil and the widow. and al the people shal say: Amen.

20   Cursed be he that sleepeth with his fathers wife, and reuealeth the couer of his bedde. and al the people shal say: Amen.

21   Cursed be he that lyeth with any beast. and al the people shal say: Amen.

22   Cursed be he that sleepeth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother. and al the people shal say: Amen.

23   Cursed be he that sleepeth with his mother in law and al the people shal say: Amen.

24   Cursed be he that secretely striketh his neighbour. and al the people shal say: Amen.

25   Cursed be he that taketh giftes, to kil the soule of innocent bloud. and al the people shal say:

Blessinges and curses Amen.

26   Cursed be he that obydeth not in the wordes of this law, and fulfilleth them not in worke. and al the people shal say: Amen. Chap. XXVIII. Diuers ble&esset;ings are promised to the obseruers of Gods commandmentes. 15. and curses and threatned to transgressors.

1   Bvt if thou wilt heare the voice of our Lord thy God, that thou doe and keepe al his commandementes, which I command thee this day, our Lord thy God wil make thee higher then al nations, that be on the earth

2   And ^note al these blessinges shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee: yet so if thou heare his preceptes.

3   Blessed shalt thou be in the citie, and blessed in the field.

4   Blessed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, and the fruite of thy cattel, the troupes of thy heardes, & the foldes of thy sheepe.

5   Blessed shal thy barnes be, and blessed ^note thy remaines.

6   Blessed shalt thou be comming in and going out.

7   Our Lord wil geue thyne enemies, that rise vp against thee, to fal downe in thy sight: one way they shal comme against thee, and seuen wayes they shal flee from thy face.

8   Our Lord wil send forth blessing vpon thy cellars, and vpon al the workes of thy handes: and wil blesse thee in the land, that thou shalt receiue.

9   Our Lord wil rayse thee vp vnto him self to be a holie people, as he sware to thee: If thou keepe the commandmentes of our Lord thy God, and walke in his waies.

10   And al the people of the earth shal see that the name of our Lord is inuocated vpon thee, and they shal feare thee.

11   Our Lord wil make thee abound with al goodes, with the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy cattel, with the fruite of thy land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers that he would geue thee.

12   Our Lord wil open his most excellent treasure, the heauen, that it may geue rayne to thy land in due season: and wil blesse al the workes of thy handes. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and thy self shalt take lone of no man.

13   And our Lord shal make thee ^note the heade, and not thr taile: and thou shalt be alwaies aboue, and not vnder: ^note yet so, if thou wilt heare the commandmentes of our Lord thy God which I command thec rhis day, and keepe and doe them,

14   and decline not from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor folow strange goddes, nor

Blessinges and curses serue them

15   But if thou wilt not heare the voice of our Lord thy God, to keepe, and doe al his commandmentes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, ^note al these curses shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.

16   Cursed shalt thou be in the citie, cursed in the field.

17   Cursed shal thy barne be, and cursed thy remaines.

18   Cursed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, the heardes of thy oxen, and the flockes of thy sheepe.

19   Cursed shalt thou be comming in, and cursed going out.

20   Our Lord shal send vpon thee famine & hunger, and rebuke vpon al the workes, which thou shalt doe: vntil he consume, and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inuentions, wherein thou hast forsaken me.

21   Our Lord sette the pestilence vpon thee, vntil he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt enter in to possesse.

22   Our Lord strike thee with pouertie, with the feuer and cold, with burning and heate, and with corrupt ayre and blasting, and pursew thee til thou perish.

23   Be the heauen, that is ouer thee, of brasse: and the ground, that thou treadest, of yron.

24   Our Lord geue dust for rayne vpon thy land, and ashes descend from heauen vpon thee, til thou be consumed.

25   Our Lord deliuer thee to fal downe before thyne enemies. one way goe thou forth against them, and flee seuen, and be thou dispersed through out al the kingdomes of the earth.

26   and be thy carcasse meate to al the fowles of the ayre, and beastes of the earth, and be there none to driue them away.

27   Our Lord strike thee with the boile of Ægypt, and the part of thy bodie, by the which dung is cast out, with scabbe also and itche: so that thou canst not be cured:

28   Our Lord strike thee with madnes & blindnes and furie of minde,

29   and grope thou at midday as the blinde is wont to grope in the darke, and direct not thy wayes. And at al times susteyne thou wrong, and be thou oppressed with violence, neither haue thou any to deliuer thee.

30   Take thou a wife, and an other sleepe with her. Build thou a house, and dwel not therin. Plant thou a vineyard, and take not the vintage there of.

31   Be thy oxe immolated beforre thee, and thou not eate therof. By thy asse taken away in the sight, and not restored to thee. Be thy sheepe geuen to thyne enemies, and be there none to helpe thee.

32   Be thy sonnes and thy daughters deliuered to an other people, thyne eies seing, and daseling at the sight of them al the day, and be there no strength in

Blessinges and curses thy hand.

33   The fruites of thy land, and al thy laboures let a people eate, which thou knowest not: and be thou alwaies susteyning calumnie, and oppressed al dayes,

34   and astonished at the terrour of those thinges, which thyne eies shal see.

35   Our Lord strike thee with a verie sore botche in the knees and shankes, and be thou vncurable from the sole of the foote vnto the toppe of thy head.

36   Our Lord shal bring thee, and thy King, whom thou shalt appoint ouer thee, vnto a nation, which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serue strange goddes, wood and stone.

37   And thou shalt be destroyed for a prouerbe and fable to al peoples, vnto whom our Lord shal bring thee in.

38   Thou shalt cast much seede into the ground, and gather litle: because the locustes shal deuoure al thinges.

39   Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and digge, and the wine thou shalt not drinke, nor gather any thing therof: because it shal be wasted with wormes.

40   Thou shalt haue oliues in al thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oyle: because they shal droppe away, & perish.

41   Thou shalt begette sonnes and daughters, and shalt not enioy them: because they shal be Iedde into captiuitie.

42   Al thy trees and the fruites of thy ground the blasting shal consume.

43    ^noteThe stranger that liueth with thee in the Land, shal ascend ouer thee, and shal be higher: and thou shalt descend downeward, and be inferior.

44   He shal lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him. He shal be as the head, and thou shalt be the tayle.

45   And al these curses shal come vpon thee, and pursewing shal ouertake thee, til thou perish: because thou heard not the voice of our Lord thy God, nor kept his commandmentes and ceremonies which he commanded thee.

46   And they shal be in thee as signes and wonders, and in thy seede for euer:

47   because thou didst not serue our Lord thy God in ioy, and gladnes of hart, for the abundance of al thinges.

48   Thou shalt serue thine enemie, whom our Lord wil send vpon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakednes, and al penurie: and he shal put an yron yoke vpon thy necke, til he consume thee.

49   Our Lord wil bring vpon thee a Nation from a farre, and from the vttermost endes of the earth, in likenes of an eagle that flieth with vehemencie: whose tongue thou canst not vnderstand:

50   a verie malapert Nation, that wil attribute nothing to the ancient, nor haue pitie on the litle one,

51   and wil deuoure

Blessinges and curses the fruite of thy cattel, and the fruites of thy Land: vntil thou perish, and wil not leaue thee wheate, wine, and oile, heardes of oxen, and flockes of sheepe: vntil it destroy thee,

52   and consume thee in al thy cities, and thy strong and highe walles be destroyed, wherin that hadst confidence in al thy Land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in al thy Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee:

53   and thou shalt eate the fruite of thy wombe, and the flesh of thy sonnes and of thy daughters, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, in the distresse and vastation wherwith thyne enemie shal oppresse thee.

54   The man that is delicate in thee, and very riotious, shal much enuie his owne brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosome,

55   so that he shal not geue them of the flesh of his children, which he wil eate: because he hath nothing els in the siege and penurie, wherwith thine enemies shal waste thee within al thy gates.

56   The tender and delicate woman, that could not goe vpon the ground, nor sette downe her foote for ouer much nicenes and tendernes, wil enuie her husband, that lyeth in her bosome, vpon the flesh of her sonne, and daughter,

57   and the filthines of the after birthes, that come forth from the middes of her thighes, and vpon the children that are borne the same howre. for they shal eate them secretely because of the penurie of al thinges, in the siege and vastation, wherwith thine enemie shal oppresse thee within thy gates.

58   Vnlesse thou keepe, and doe al the wordes of this law, that be written in this volume, and feare his name glorious and terrible, that is. Our Lord thy God:

59   our Lord shal increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seede, greate plagues and continuing, sore infirmities and perpetual.

60   and he shal turne vpon thee al the afflictions of Ægypt, which thou didst feare, and they shal cleaue to thee.

61   Moreouer also al the diseases, and plagues, that be not written in the volume of this law, our Lord wil bring vpon thee, til he consume thee:

62   and you shal remaine few in number, which before was as the starres of heauen for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of our Lord thy God.

63   And as before our Lord reioyced vpon you, doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shal reioyse destroying and subuerting you, so that you may be taken away from the Land, which thou shalt enter to possesse.

64   Our Lord shal disperse thee into al peoples, from the farthest

Blessinges and curses partes of the earth to the endes therof: and there thou shalt serue strange goddes, which thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, woode and stone.

65   In those nations also thou shalt not be quiet, neither shal there be resting for the steppe of thy foote. For our Lord wil geue thee a feareful hart, and daseling eies, and a soule consumed with pensifenes:

66   and thy life shal be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt feare night and day, and thou shalt not trust in thy life.

67   In the morning thou shalt say: Who wil graunt me euening? and at euening: Who wil grant me morning? for the fearefulnes of thy hart, wherwith thou shalt be terrified, and for those thinges, which thou shalt see with thine eies.

68   Our Lord shal bring thee againe with shippes into Ægypt by the way, wherof he said to thee that thou shouldest see it no more. There shalt thou be sould to thine enemies for bondmen and bondweomen, and no man shal bye you. Chap. XXIX. A couenant and oath is made betwen God and his people (with commemoration of sundrie benefites by them receiued) that keping his law they shal be more blessed: and breaking the same shal susteine the threatned punishmentes.

1   These are the wordes of the couenant which our Lord commanded Moyses to make with the children of Israel in the Land of Moab: beside that couenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2   And Moyses called al Israel, and said to them: you saw al thinges, that our Lord did before you in the Land of Ægypt to Pharao, and to al his seruantes, and to his whole land,

3   the great tentations, which thine eies haue seene, those mightie signes, and wonders,

4   and our Lord ^note hath not geuen you a hart to vnderstand, and eies to see, and eares that can heare, vnto this present day.

5   He hath brought you fourtie yeares by the desert: your garmentes are not worne out, neither are the shoes of your feete consumed with age.

6   Breade you haue not eaten, wine and sicer you haue not drunke: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

7   And you came to this place: and there came forth Sehon the King of Hesebon, and Og the King of Basan, meeting vs to fight. And we stroke them,

8   and tooke their land, and deliuered it in possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.

9   Keepe therfore

Couenant betwen God and his people. the wordes of this couenant, and fulfil them: that you may vnderstand al thinges that you doe.

10   You stand this day al before our Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancientes, and doctors, al the people of Israel,

11   your children and your wiues, and the strangers that abide with thee in the campe, besides the cutters of wood, and them, that carie water:

12   that thou mayest passe in the couenant of our Lord thy God, and in the oath which in this day our Lord thy God maketh with thee:

13   that he may rayse thee vp a people to him selfe, and he be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob.

14   Neither with you onlie doe I make this couenant, and confirme these oathes,

15   but with al that be present and absent.

16   For you know how we dwelt in the Land of Ægypt, and how we haue passed through the middes of nations, which passing through

17   you haue seene their abominations and filth, that is to say, their Idols, wood and stone, siluer and gold, which they worshipped.

18   Lest perhaps there be among you man or woman, familie or tribe, whose hart is turned away this day from our Lord God, to goe and serue the goddes of those Nations: and there be among you ^note a roote bringing forth gal and bitternes.

19   And when he shal heare the wordes of this oath, he blesse him selfe in his hart, saying: I shal haue place, and walke in the prauitie of my hart: and the ^note drunken take to her the thirstie,

20   and our Lord forgeue him not: but then his furie most specially fume, and his zeale against that man, and al the curses sitte vpon him, that be written in this volume: and our Lord abolish his name vnder heauen,

21   and consume him vnto perdition out of al the tribes of Israel, according to the curses, that are conteyned in the Booke of this law and couenant.

22   And the generation folowing shal say, and the children that shal be borne from thence forth, and the strangers, that shal come from a farre, seeing the plagues of that Land, and the infirmities, wherwith our Lord hath afflicted it,

23   burning it with brimstone, and heate of the salt, so that it can no more be sowen, nor any grene thing spring therof, after the example of the subuersion of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama, and Seboim, which our Lord subuerted in his wrath and furie.

24   And al the Nations shal say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this Land? what is this exceding wrath of his furie?

25   And they

Couenant betwen God and his people. shal answer: Because they forsooke the couenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the Land of Ægypt:

26   and they haue serued strange goddes, and adored them, whom they knew not, and to whom they had not beene designed:

27   therfore the furie of the Lord was wrath against this Land, to bring vpon it al the curses, that are written in this volume:

28   and he hath cast them out of their land, in wrath and furie, and in verie great indignation, and hath throwen them into a strange land, as this day it is proued.

29   Thinges hidden, ^note to our Lord God: which are manifest, to vs and to our children for euer, that we may doe al the words of this Law. Chap. XXX. If the children of Israel, offending and falling into the forsaide curses shal repent, God wil restore them to his ble&esset;ings againe. 11. leauing it in their powre to serue him if they wil, 17. and therfore warneth them that the impenitent shal assuredly perish, because hauing life and death, ble&esset;ing and cursing proposed, they choose the worse.

1   Therfore when al these wordes shal be come vpon thee, the blessing or cursing, which I haue sette forth before thee: & thou be touched with repentance of thy hart in al nations, into which our Lord thy God dispersed thee,

2   and shalt returne to him, and obey his commandmentes, as I this day command thee, with thy children, in al thy hart, and in al thy soule:

3   our Lord thy God wil bring thee againe from thy captiuitie, and haue mercie vpon thee, and gather thee againe out of al the peoples, into which he dispersed thee before.

4   If thou be dispersed as farre as the poles of heauen, thence wil our Lord thy God draw thee backe,

5   and wil take thee to him, and bring thee into the Land, which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt obteyne it: and blessing thee, wil make thee to be ^note of a greater number, then were thy fathers.

6   Our Lord thy09Q0168 God wil circumcise thy hart, and the hart of thy seede: that thou mayest loue oure Lord thy God in al thy hart, and in al thy soule, that thou mayest liue.

7   And al these curses he wil turne vpon thine enemies, and them that hate and persecute thee.

8   But thou shalt returne, and heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and shalt doe al the commandmentes which I command thee this day:

9   and our Lord wil make thee abound in al

Gods Couenant with his people. the workes of thy handes, in the issue of thy wombe, and in the fruite of thy cattel, in the fertilitie of thy ground, and in the plentie of al thinges. For our Lord wil returne to reioyse vpon thee in al riches, as he reioysed in thy fathers:

10   yet so, if thou heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and keepe his preceptes and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and returne to our Lord thy God in al thy hart, and in al thy soule.

11   This commandment, that I command thee this daie, 09Q0169 is not aboue thee, nor so farre of,

12   nor situated in heauen that thou maiest say: Which of vs is able to ascend vnto heauen to bring it to vs, that we may heare and fulfil it in worke?

13   Nor placed beyond the sea that thou mayest pretend, and say: Which of vs can passe ouer the sea, and bring it euen vnto vs: that we way heare, and doe that which is commanded?

14   But the word is very neere thee, in thy mouth and in thy hart, to doe it.

15   Consider that I haue 09Q0170 set before thee this day life and good, and contrariewise death and euil:

16   that thou mayest loue our Lord thy God, and walke in his waies, and keepe his commandmentes and ceremonies and iudgementes: and thou mayest liue, and he multiplie thee, and blesse thee in the Land, which thou shalt enter to possesse.

17   But if thy hart be auerted, and thou wilt not heare, and deceaued with errour thou adore strange goddes, and serue them:

18   I foretel thee this day that thou shalt perish, and abide a litle time in the Land, which passing ouer Iordan, thou shalt enter to possesse.

19   09Q0171I cal for witnesses this day heauen and earth, that I haue proposed to you life and death, blessing and cursing. ^noteChoose therfore life, that both thou mayest liue, and thy seede:

20   and mayest loue our Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and cleaue to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy daies) that thou mayest liue in the Land, for the which our Lord sware to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, that he would geue it them. ^{note note}

Gods Couenant with his people. ^{note note note} Chap. XXXI. Moyses substituteth Iosue his successour in temporal gouernment. ^note 9. deliuereth the law to the Priestes. 16. God fortelleth that the people wil often forsake him, and that he wil punish them. 19. commandeth Moyses to write a canticle, (an abrigement of the Law) easie to be remembred. 25. and in further testimonie against them, the Leuites must put this booke in the arke of couenant.

1   Moyses therfore went, and spake al these wordes to al Israel,

2   and said to them: I am this day a hundred and twentie yeares old, I can not ^note goe out and come in any longer, especially wheras our Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not passe ouer this Iordan.

3   Our Lord therfore thy God wil passe ouer before thee: he wil destroy al these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possesse them: and this Iosue shal passe ouer before thee, as our Lord hath spoken.

4   And our Lord shal doe to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kinges of the Ammorheites, and to their land, and shal destroy them.

5   Therfore when our Lord shal haue deliuered these also to you, you shal doe in like manner to them as I haue commanded you.

6   Doe manfully, and be strengthned: feare not, neither tremble ye at their sight: because our Lord thy God him selfe is thy conductor, and wil not leaue, nor forsake thee.

7   And Moyses called Iosue, and said to him before al Israel: Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt bring in this people into the Land, which our Lord sware that he would geue to their fathers, and thou shalt diuide it by lotte.

8   And our Lord that is your conductor, him selfe

Forwarninges. wil be with thee: he wil not leaue, nor forsake thee: feare not, neither dread thou.

9   Moyses therfore wrote this law, and deliuered it to the priestes the sonnes of Leui, which caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, and to al the ancientes of Israel.

10   And he commanded them saying: After seuen yeares, in the yeare of remission, in the solemnitie of tabernacles,

11   when al come together out of Israel, to appeare in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place, which our Lord shal choose, thou shalt read the wordes of this law before al Israel, they hearing,

12   and the people being assembled together, as wel men as wemen, children, and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learne, and feare our Lord your God, and keepe, and fulfil al the wordes of this law.

13   Their children also who now are ignorant; that they may heare, and feare our Lord their God, al the daies that they liue in the Land, which passing ouer Iordan you goe to obteyne.

14   And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold the daies of thy death are nigh: cal Iosue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of testimonie, that I may command him. Moyses therfore and Iosue went, and stoode in the tabernacle of testimonie,

15   and our Lord appeared there in the piller of a cloude: which stood in the entring of the tabernacle.

16   And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people rysing vp wil fornicate after strange goddes in the Land, to the which it entreth to dwel therein: there wil they forsake me, and wil make the couenant, which I haue made with them, of none effect.

17   And my furie shal be wrath against them in that day: and I wil forsake them, and wil hide my face from them, and they shal be deuoured: al euils and afflictions shal finde them, so that they shal say in that day: In truth because God is not with me, these euils haue found me.

18   But I wil hide, and keepe close my face in that day, for al the euils, which they haue done, because they haue folowed strange goddes.

19   Now therfore write vnto you ^note this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they know it by hart, and sing it by mouth, and this song be vnto me for ^note a testimonie among the children of Israel.

20   For I wil bring them into the Land, for the which I sware to their fathers, flowing with milke and honie. And when they haue eaten, and are ful, and fatte, they wil turne away to strange goddes, and serue them: and wil detract

A Canticle of the law. from me, and make my couenant of none effect.

21   After that manie euils and afflictions shal haue found them, this canticle shal answer them for a testimonie, which no obliuion shal take away out of the mouth of their seede. For I know their cogitations, what thinges they are about to doe this day, before that I bring them into the Land, which I haue promised them. ^note

22   Moyses therfore wrote the canticle, and taught it the children of Israel.

23   And our Lord commanded Iosue the sonne of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the Land, which I haue promised, and I wil be with thee.

24   Therfore after that Moyses wrote the wordes of this law in a volume, and finished it:

25   he commanded the Leuites, that caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, saying:

26   Take this booke, and put it in the side of the arke of the couenant of our Lord your God: that it may be for a testimonie against thee.

27   For I know thy contention, and thy most stiffe necke. Whiles I yet liue and goe in with you, you haue done alwayes contenciously against our Lord: how much more when I shal be dead?

28   Gather to me al the ancientes by your tribes, and your doctors, and I wil speake these wordes in their hearing, and wil inuocate against them heauen and earth.

29   For I know that after my death you wil doe wickedly, and wil decline quickly from the way, that I haue commanded you: and euils shal come vpon you in the later times, when you shal doe euil in the sight of our Lord, to prouoke him by the workes of your handes.

30   Moyses therfore spake, in the hearing of the whole assemblie of Israel, the wordes of this song, and finished it euen to the end. Chap. XXXII. A Canticle of the Law, wherin the people are exhorted to serue God, for his perfect goodnes, for his singular benefites, for their former ingratitude, and for his mercie stil mixed with his punishmentes. ^note 44. Al which being earnestly commended to them to remember and teach their children, 48. Moyses is commanded to goe into a mountaine, whenee he shal see the promised land, but not enter into it.

1   Heare ye ^note heauens what thinges I speake, the earth heare the wordes of my mouth.

2   My ^note doctrine grow together as raine, my speach flow as the dew, as it were a shower vpon the herbe, and as it were droppes vpon the grasse.

A Canticle of the law.

3    ^noteBecause I wil inuocate the name of our Lord: geue magnificence to our God.

4   The workes of God be perfect, and al his waies iudgementes: God is faithful, and without any iniquitie, iust and right.

5   They ^note haue sinned to him, and not his children in filthines: a froward and peruerse generation.

6   These thinges doest thou render to our Lord thou foolish and vnwise people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made, and created thee?

7   Remember the old daies, thinke vpon euerie generation: aske thy father, and he wil declare to thee: thy elders, and they wil tel thee.

8   When the highest ^note diuided the nations: when he separated the sonnes of Adam, he appointed the limites of people according to ^note the number of the children of Israel.

9   But our Lords part, is his people: Iacob the corde of his inheritance.

10   He ^note found him in a desert land, in a place of horrour, and of wast wildernes: he ledde him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.

11   As the eagle prouoking her young to flie, and houering ouer them, hath he spred his winges, and he hath taken him, and caried him on his shoulders.

12   Our Lord onlie was his guide: and there was not with him a strange God.

13   He placed him ouer an high land: that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, that he might sucke ^note honie out of the rocke, and ^note oile out of the hardest stone.

14   Butter from the heard, and milke of the sheepe with the fatte of lambes, and of rammes the sonnes of Basan: and bucke goates with the marow of wheate, and might drinke the bloud of the grape most pure.

15   The ^note beloued was made grosse, and spurned: made grosse, fatted, dilated, he left God his maker, and departed from God his saluation.

16   They prouoked him in strange goddes, and in abominations stirred him to anger.

17   They immolated to diuels and not to God, to goddes, which they knew not: there came ^note new & fresh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.

A Canticle of the law.

18   God that begatte thee thou hast forsaken, and hast09Q0172 forgotten our Lord thy creatour.

19   Our Lord saw, and was moued to wrath: because his sonnes and daughters prouoked him.

20   And he said: ^note I wil hide my face from them, and wil consider their last: for it is a peruerse generation, and vnfaithful children.

21   They ^note haue prouoked me in that, which was no God, and haue angred me in their vanities: and I wil prouoke them in that, which is no people, and in ^note a foolish nation wil I anger them.

22   A fyre is kindled in my wrath, and shal burne euen to the lowest partes of hel: and shal deuoure the earth with her spring, and shal burne the foundations of mountaines.

23   I wil heape euils vpon them, and myne arrowes I wil spend in them.

24   They shal be consumed with famine, and birdes shal deuoure them with most bitter biting: the teeth of beastes wil I send vpon them, with the furie of those that traile vpon the ground, and creepe.

25   Without shal the sword deuoure them, & within fearefulnes, the young man and the virgin together, the sucking child with the old man.

26   I said: Where are they? I wil make their memorie to cease from among men.

27   But ^note for the wrath of the enemies I haue differed: lest perhaps their enemies might be proude, and would say: Our mightie hand, and not the Lord, hath done al these thinges.

28   A nation without counsel is it, and without wisedome.

29   O that they were ^note wise, and vnderstoode, and would prouide for their last.

30   How should one pursew a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? was it not therfore, because their God sold them, and our Lord inclosed them?

31   For our Lord is not as their goddes: ^note our enemies also are iudges.

32   Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the suburbes of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the clusters most bitter.

33   The gall of dragons their wine, and the venime of Aspes vncurable.

A canticle of the law.

34   Are not these thinges laid vp with me, and signed in my treasures?

35   Reuenge is myne, and I wil repay them in time, that their foote may slide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make hast to be present.

36   Our Lord wil iudge his people, and wil haue mercie on his seruantes: he shal see that their hand is weakened, and ^note the shut vp also haue fayled, and the residew be consumed.

37   And he shal say: Where are their goddes, in whom they had confidence.

38   Of whose victimes they did eate fatte, and dranke the wine of their libamentes: ^note Let them arise, and help you, and protect you in necessitie.

39   See ye that I am onlie, and there is no other God besides me: I wil kil, and I wil make to liue: I wil strike, and I wil heale, and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand.

40   I wil lift vp my hand to heauen, and wil say: I liue for euer.

41   If I shal whette my sword as the lightening, and my hand take iudgement: I wil repay vengeance to myne enemies, and them that hate me wil I requite.

42   I wil embrew my arrowes with bloud, and my sword shal deuoure flesh, of the bloud of the slaine and of captiuitie, of ^note the bare head of the enemies.

43   You gentiles09Q0173 prayse his people, because he wil reuenge the bloud of his seruantes: and wil repay vengeance vpon their enemies, and wil be propitious to the land of his people.

44   Moyses therfore came and spake al the wordes of this canticle in the eares of the people, he and Iosue the sonne of Nun.

45   And he finished al these wordes, speaking to the children of Israel.

46   and he said to them: Sette your hartes on al the wordes, which I testifie to you this day: that you command them to your children to keepe and to doe, and to fulfil al thinges of this law that are written:

47   for not in vaine are they commanded you, but that euerie one should liue in them: which doing you may continew a long time in the Land, which passing ouer Iordan you enter to possesse.

48   And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day, saying:

49   Goe vp into this mount Abarim, that is to say, of passages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab against Iericho: and see the Land of Chanaan, which I wil deliuer to

Blessing of the tribes. the children of Israel to obteyne, and die thou in the mount.

50   Which going vp vnto thou shalt be ioyned to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was layd to his people:

51   because you did preuaricate against me in the middes of the children of Israel at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctifie me among the children of Israel.

52   Ouer against shalt thou see the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I wil geue to the children of Israel. ^{note note} Chap. XXXIII. Moyses ble&esset;ing the tribes of Israel (Simeon omitted) prophecyeth particularly of euerie one. 26. Againe exhorteth them, that as God hath chosen them his peculiar people, so they loue and honour him their onlie God.

1   This is ^note the blessing, wherwith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

2   And he said: Our Lord09Q0174 came from Sinai, and from Seir is he risen to vs: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thous&abar;des to Sainctes. In his right hand a fyrie law.

3   He hath loued the peoples, al the saintes are in his hand: and they that approch to his feete, shal receiue of his doctrine.

4   Moyses commanded vs a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Iacob.

Blessinges of the tribes.

5   He shal be king with the most right, the princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

6   Liue Ruben, and die he not, and be he litle in number.

7   This is the blessing of Iudas: Heare Lord the voice of Iudas, and bring him in vnto his people: his handes shal fight for him, and he shal be his helper against his aduersaries.

8   To Leui also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holie man, whom thou hast proued in tentation, and iudged at the Waters of contradiction.

9   He that ^note said to his father, and to his mother: I know you not; and to his brethren: I know you not: & they knew not their children. These kept thy word, and obserued thy couenant,

10   thy iudgementes o Iacob, and thy law o Israel: they shal put incense in thy furie, and holocaust vpon thyne altar.

11   Blesse Lord his strength, and receiue the workes of his handes. Strike the backes of his enemies, and they that hate him, let them not rise vp.

12   And to Beniamin he said: The best beloued of our Lord ^note shal dwel confidently in him: as in a bride chamber al the day shal he abide, and betwen his shoulders shal he rest.

13   To Ioseph also he said: Of the blessing of our Lord be his land, of the fruites of heauen, and the dew, & the depth lying vnderneth.

14   Of the pomes of the fruites of the sunne and moone,

15   of the toppes of the old mountaynes, of the pomes of the eternal hilles:

16   and of the fruites of the earth, and of the fulnes therof. The blessing of him, that appeared in the bush, come vpon the head of Ioseph, and vpon the crowne of the nazarite among his brethren.

17   His beautie as of the first borne of an oxe, his hornes the hornes of an vnicorne: in them shal he winow the Nations euen to the endes of the earth. these are the multitudes of ^note Ephraim, and these the thousandes of Manasses.

18   And to Zabulon he said: Reioyse Zabulon in thy going out, and Issachar in thy tabernacles.

19   They shal cal the peoples to the mountaine: there shal they immolate the victimes of iustice. Who shal sucke the inundation of the sea as milke, and the hidden treasures of the sandes.

20   And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in breadth: as a lion hath he rested, and taken the arme and the toppe of the head.

21   And he saw his principalitie, that in his part the doctor was reposed: which was with the princes of the people,

Blessinges of the tribes. and did the iustices of our Lord, and his iudgement with Israel.

22   To Dan also he said: Dan a lions whelpe, he shal flow largely from Basan.

23   And to Nephthali he said: Nephthali shal enioy abundance, and shal be ful of the blessinges of our Lord: the sea and the south he shal possesse.

24   To Aser also he said: Blessed be Aser in children, be he acceptable to his brethren, and dippe he in oile his foote.

25   His shoe yron and brasse. As the daies of thy youth, so also thy old age.

26   There is no other God as the God of the rightest: the mounter of heauen is thy helper. By his magnificence the cloudes runne hither and thither,

27   his habitation is aboue, and vnder the euerlasting armes: he shal cast out the enemie from thy face, and shal say: Be destroyed.

28    ^noteIsrael shal dwel confidently, and alone. The eie of Iacob in the land of corne and wine, and the heauens shal be mistie with dew.

29   Blessed art thou Israel: who is like to thee o people, that art saued in our Lord? the shield of thy helpe, and the sword of thy glorie: thy enemies shal denie thee, and thou shalt treade their neckes. ^note

Moyses dieth. Chap. XXXIIII. Moyses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to goe into it, 5. He dieth at the age of 120. yeares. ^note God burieth his bodie secretly, and al Israel mourne for him thirtie dayes. 9. Iosue replenished (by imposition of Moyses handes) with the spirite of God succedeth. 10. But Moyses for his special familiaritie with God, and for most wonderful miracles is commended aboue al other Prophetes.

1   Moyses therfore went vp from the champion of Moab vpon mount Nebo, into the toppe of Phasga against Iericho: and our Lord shewed him ^note al the land of Galaad as farre as Dan,

2   and al Nephthali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and al the Land of Iuda vnto the vtmost sea,

3   and the south part, and the bredth of the plaine of Iericho a citie of palmetrees as farre as Segor.

4   And our Lord said to him: This is the Land, for the which I sware to Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, saying: To thy seede wil I geue it. Thou hast seene it with thyne eies, and shalt not passe ouer to it.

5   And Moyses the seruant of our Lord died there, in the land of Moab, our Lord commanding it:

6   and he buried him in the valley of the Land of Moab against Phogor: and ^note no man hath knowne his sepulchre vntil this present day.

7   Moyses was an hundred and twentie yeares old when he died: his eie was not dimme, neither were his teeth moued.

8   And the children of Israel mourned him in the champion countrie of Moab thirtie daies: and the daies of their mourning that mourned for Moyses were accomplished.

9   And Iosue the sonne of Nun was replenished with the spirit of wisedome, because Moyses did put his handes vpon him. And the children of Israel obeied him, and did as our Lord commanded Moyses.

10   And there rose no more a prophete in Israel as Moyses, whom our Lord had knowen face to face,

11   in al signes and wonders, which he sent by him, to doe in the Land of Ægypt to Pharao, and to al his seruantes, and to his whole Land,

12   and al the strong hand, and great mernailes, which Moyses did before al Israel. The end of the fiue bookes of Moyses, conteining the Law.

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