"from Israel." 5. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel," Slay ye every one "his men, that were joined unto Baal"peor." 6. And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7. And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw it, he rose up from amongst the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust (a) both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9. And those that died in the plague, were twenty and four thousand. 10. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11." Phinehas the son of Eleazar, "the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of "Israel (while he was zealous for my

"sake among them) that I consumed not "the children of Israel in my jealousy, "12. Wherefore say, "Behold, I give unto "him my covenant of peace. 13. And he "shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priest"hood; because he was zealous for his "God, and made an atonement for the "children of Israel." 14. Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that wa slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zim the son of Salu, a prince of a chief hous among the Simeonites. 15. And the name! of the Midianitish woman that was slain w Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. 15. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saing, 17: "Vex (b) the Midianites, and "smite them: 18. For they vex you with "their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled

you, in the matter of Peor, and in the "matter of Cozbi, the daughter of i "prince of Midian their sister, which "slain in the day of the plague ( "Peor's sake.

your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, "surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." 7. For what nation is there fo great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8. And what nation is there fo great, that hath statutes and judgments fo righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day? 9. Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons sons: 10. Specially 'the day that thou stoodst before the LORD thy God in (g) Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, " Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children." 11. And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the moun<tain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12. And the LORD spake unto 16 you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw "no similitude, only ye heard a voice.

13. And he declared unto you his coveTC nant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14. And the LORD commanded me at that time, to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the "land whither ye go over to possess it. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto

(g) v. 10. " In Horeb," i. e. at mount Sinai, in the first year of the departure from Egypt, when God came down upon the mount, and delivered the Ten Commandments. Exod. xix. and xx.

(b) v. "" 21. Angry, &c." See Numb. xx. 2, 8, 10, 12. The people gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron for want of water: God ordered Moses to take his rod, to gather the assembly together, and to speak unto the rock before their eyes. When Moses had gathered the congregation together before the rock, he said unto them, "Hear now

"yourselves (for ye saw no manner of "similitude on the day that the LORD "spake unto you in Horeb, out of the "midst of the fire) 16. Lest ye corrupt "yourselves, and make you a graven image, "the similitude of any figure, the likeness ❝ of male or female, 17. The likeness of

any beast that is on the earth, the likeness "of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, "18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth "on the ground, the likeness of any fish "that is in the waters beneath the earth': 19. And lest thou lift up thine eyes "unto heaven, and when thou seest the 66 sun, and the moon, and the stars, even "all the host of heaven, shouldest be "driven to worship them, and serve them, " which the LORD thy God hath divided "unto all nations under the whole heaven. 20. But the LORD hath taken you, and "brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a "people of inheritance, as ye are this day. "21. Furthermore, the LORD was (b) angry "with me for your sakes, and sware that "I should not go over Jordan, and that I "should not goin unto that good land which "the LORD thy God giveth thee for an in"heritance. 22. But I must die in this "land, I must not go over Jordan: but shall go over and possess that good "land. 23. Take heed unto yourselves, "lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD

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" and shalt have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and "make a graven image, or the likeness of "any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of "the LORD thy God, to provoke him to ❝anger: 26. I call heaven and earth to "witness against you this day, that ye shall "soon utterly perish from off the land "whereunto you go over Jordan to possess "it: ye shall not prolong your days upon "it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27. And "the LORD shall scatter you among the "nations, and ye shall be left few in "number among the heathen, whither the "LORD shall lead you. 28. And there "shall serve gods, the work of mens hands, "wood and stone, which neither see, nor "hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29. But if "from thence thou shalt seek the LORD "thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou "seek him with all thy heart, and with all "thy soul. 30. When thou art in tribu"lation, and all these things are come "upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou "turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be "obedient unto his voice: 31. (For the "LORD thy God is a merciful God) he "will not forsake thee, neither destroy "thee, nor forget the covenant of thy "fathers, which he sware unto them.

32. For ask now of the days that are past, "which were before thee, since the day "that God created man upon the earth, ❝ and ask from the one side of heaven "unto the other, whether there hath been "any fuch thing as this great thing is, or "hath been heard like it ? 33. Did ever "people hear the voice of God speaking "out of the midst of the fire, (i) as thou "hast heard, and live? 34. Or hath God "assayed to go and take him a nation from "the midst of another nation, by tempta❝tions, by signs, and by wonders, and by "war, and by a mighty hand, and by a "stretched out arm, and by great terrors, "according to all that the LORD your God "did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 66 35. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou "mightest know that the LORD he is God;

(i) v. 33. "As thou hast heard," i. e. when the Ten Commandments were delivered at mount Sinai. See Exod. xix. 21.-XX. 22. and post, Deuter. v. 4. 22. 23. 24.

"there is none else besides him. 36. Out "of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, "that he might instruct thee; and upon "earth he shewed thee his great fire, and "thou heardest his voice out of the midst "of the fire. 37. And because he loved "thy fathers, therefore he chose their "seed after them, and brought thee ou

in his sight with his mighty power ou "of Egypt: 38. To drive out natics "from before thee, greater and might "than thou art, to bring thee in to g "thee their land for an inheritance, as "this day. 39. Know therefore this "and consider it in thine heart, that "LORD he is God in heaven above, and

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upon the earth beneath: there is no "else. 40. Thou shalt keep therefore l "statutes, and his commandments whi "I command thee this day, that it may a "well with thee, and with thy childre "after thee, and that thou mayest prok "thy days upon the earth, which "LORD thy God giveth thee, for 41. Then Moses severed three cities this (k) side Jordan towards the sun ristag 42. That the slayer might flee thitha which should kill his neighbour unawares and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities, he might live: 43. Namely, Bezer in the wilder ness, in the plain country, of the Reube nites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the G dites; and Golan in Bashan, of the M nassites. 44. And this is the law whic Moses set before the children of Isra 45. These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt; 46. On their side Jordan in the valley over against Be peor, in the land of Sihon king of de Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smott, after they were come forth out of Egypt: 47. And they possesed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan, towards the sun-rising; 48. From

(k) v. 41. "This side," i. e. "the Ea "slde."

roer, which is by the bank of the river rnon, even unto mount Sion, which is ermon. 49. And all the plain on this le Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of e plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

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AND Moses (1) called all Israel, and

said unto them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them and keep and do them. 2. (m) The LORD our God made a covenant with us in (n) Horeb. 3. The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day, 4. The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, 5. (o) (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount) saying, 6. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7. Thou shalt have none other Gods before me. 8. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. 9. Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them; nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10. And shewing mercy unto thousands, of them that love

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and keep my commandments. 11. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh "his name in vain. 12. Keep the sabbath

"day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God "hath commanded thee. 13. Six days thou "shalt labour, and do all thy work: "14. But the seventh day is the sabbath "of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt "not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor "thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor "thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor "thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy "stranger that is within thy gates; that "thy man-servant and thy maid-servant 66 may rest as well as thou. 15. And re"member that thou wast a servant in the "land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy "God brought thee out thence, through "a mighty hand, and by a stretched out "arm, (p) therefore the LORD thy God "commanded thee to keep the sabbath"day. 16. Honour thy father and thy "mother, as the LORD thy God hath com"manded thee; that thy days may be pro"longed, and that it may go well with thee, "in the land which the LORD thy God "giveth thee. 17. Thou shalt not kill. "18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

19. Neither shalt thou steal. 20. Neither "shalt thou bear false witness against thy "neighbour. 21. Neither shalt thou de"sire thy neighbours wife, neither shalt "thou covet thy neighbours house, his "field, or his man-servant, or his maid

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servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing "that is thy neighbours. 22. These words "the LORD spake unto all your assembly " in the mount out of the midst of the fire, "of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, "with a great voice, and he added no more: "and he wrote them in two tables of stone, "and delivered them unto me. 23. And "it came to pass when ye heard the voice "out of the midst of the darkness (for the "mountain did burn with fire) that ye "came near unto me, even all the heads of "your tribes, and your elders. 24. And

first year after they left Egypt. See Exod. xix. and xx.

(0) v. 5. "I stood, &c." See Exod. xix. 20. Exod. xx. 18. 19.

(p) v. 15. "Therefore, &c." This reason applied peculiarly to the Israelites: but the reason affigned, Exod. xx. 11. "For in six "days the Lord made heaven and earth, &c." applies equally to all mankind.