" 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 wat slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zim the son of Salu, a prince of a chief hou among the Simeonites. 15. And the nam of the Midianitish woman that was slain Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midiar 16. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saf ing, 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 a "prince of Midian their sister, which wa " slain in the day of the plague (for

"Peor's sake.

(a) v. 8. "Thrust, &c." This is referred to Ps. cvi. 30. "Then stood up Phinehas, and "executed judgment, and so the plague was " stayed."

(6) v. 17. " Vex," and " smite, &c." This command was repeated and executed the same year; and the five kings of Midian, including Zur, were slain, and Balaam also, Numb. xxxi. 2.8.

(c) v. 18. "The plague for Peor's sake,"

"you. 3. Your eyes have seen what the "LORD did because of (f) Baal-peor: for "all the men that followed Baal-peor, the "LORD thy God hath destroyed them from

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among you. 4. But ye that did cleare " unto the LORD your God, are alive every " one of you this day. 5. Behold, I have " taught you statutes and judgments, evel " as the LORD my God commanded " that ye should do so in the land whither

ye go to possess it. 6. Keep therefore, " and do them, for this is your wisdom and

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your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, " surely this great nation is 2 a wise and understanding people." 7. For what nation is there so 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 K 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 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 covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, and he we wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14. And the Lord commanded me at "that time, to teach you statutes and judg"ments, that ye might do them in the "land whither ye go over to possess it.

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(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':

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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 thatgood 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 "ye 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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your God, which he made with you, and " make you a graven image, or the like. "ness of any thing which the LORD thy "God hath forbidden thee. 24. For the "LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even "a jealous God. 25. When thou shalt " beget children, and childrens children,

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

upon the earth beneath there is nome " else. 40. Thou shalt keep therefore he "statutes, and his commandments whic " I command thee this day, that it may "well with thee, and with thy children " after thee, and that thou mayest prolong 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 rising 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 Ga dites; and Golan in Bashan, of the M nassites. 44. And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israti 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 th side Jordan in the valley over against Bet peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, who Moses and the children of Israel smote, 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

Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon. 49. And all the plain on this ide Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of me plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

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ND 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 (1) 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. (0) (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 tland 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

(1) ข. 1. “Called, &c." This was the fortieth ear after the departure from Egypt, the ast year of the life of Moses; before Christ 1451.

(m) v. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 11. 12. 14. 15. 16. 22.24. 25. 27. 28. 32. 33. "The Lord." Heb. " Jehovah."

(n) v. 2. "Horeb." i. e. Mount Sinai: the

stranger that is within thy gates; that "thy man-servant and thy maid-servant

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" 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

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ye said, Behold the LORD our God hath "shewed us his glory, and his greatness, "and we have heard his voice out of the " midst of the fire: we have seen this day "that God doth talk with man, (p) and he "liveth. 25. Now therefore why should "we die? for this great fire will consume "us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our "God any more, then we shall die. 26. For "who is there of all flesh that hath heard "the voice of the living God, speaking out " of the midst of the fire (as we have) and " lived? 27. Go (q) thou near, and hear all "that the LORD our God shall say; "and speak thou unto us all that the "LORD our God shall speak unto thee, " and we will hear it, and do it. 28. And "the LORD heard the voice of your words, " when ye spake unto me; and the LORD " said unto me, "I have heard the voice " of the words of this people, which they " have spoken unto thee: they have well " said all that they have spoken. 29. O " that there were such an heart in them, "that they would fear me, and keep all

my commandments always that it might " be well with them, and with their chil"dren for ever. 30. Go say to them, Get "you into your tents again. 31. But as " for thee, stand thou here by me, and I " will speak unto thee all the command"ments, and the statutes, and the judg"ments which thou shalt teach them, that "they may do them in the land which I "give them to possess it." 32. Ye shall ob"serve to do therefore, as the LORD your "God hath commanded you: you shall not "turn aside to the right hand or to the left. " 33. You shall walk in all the ways which "the LORD your God hath commanded

(p) v. 24. " and he liveth." See ante, Deut. iv. 34.

(g) v. 27. "Go thou near, &c." See Exod. xx. 19.

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(5) v. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 10. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 24. 25. "The Lord." Heb. "Jehovah."

(1) v. 3. "As, &c." part of the oath to Abraham, Gen. xxii. 17. was " in multiplying I will " multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven:" and

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you, that ye may live, and that it " be well with you, and that ye mar " long your days in the land which res possess.

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