give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities. 7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. Before CHRIST, 1451. Deut. 4. 41. & 21.3. Josh. 20. 2. Heb. above them ye shall give. between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments: 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled: and he shall abide in it to the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; 27 And the avenger of blood find him 8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one 2 Heb. they without the borders of the city of his reshall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth. inherit. 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Deut. 19. 2, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, who killeth any person 3 at unawares. 12 And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge. 14 Ye shall give three cities on this side of Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. Josh. 20. 2. 3 Heb. by error. d Ex. 21. 14. 4 Heb. with e Deut.19.11. Ex. 21. 13. 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them that every one that killeth any s Heb. no person unawares may flee thither. 16 d And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put do death. 17 And if he shall smite him 4 by throwing a stone, by which he may die,& and he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he shall smite him with a hand-weapon of wood, with which he may die, and he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. blood shall be to him. Deut. 17. 6. Matt. 18. 16. 19 The avenger of blood himself shall 6 Heb. faul slay the murderer: when he meeteth ty to die. him, he shall slay him. 20 But if he shall thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying in wait, that he die. for the 21 Or in enmity shall smite him with 7 Heb. there his hand, that he die: he that smote him can be no shall surely be put to death; for he is a expiation murderer the avenger of blood shall land. slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. 22 But if he shall thrust him suddenly without enmity, or shall have cast upon him any thing without laying in wait, 23 Or with any stone, by which a man may die, seeing him not, and shall cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 24 Then the congregation shall judge! c. 27. 1. Josh. 17. 3. fuge, and the avenger of blood shall kill the slayer; 5 he shall not be guilty of blood: 28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoever killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. 31 Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. 6 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and 7 the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him that shed it. 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, in which I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. CHAP. XXXVI. 1 The inconvenience of the inheritance daughters, 5 is remedied by marrying in their own tribes, 7 lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe. 10 The daugh ters of Zelophehad marry their father's brothers' sons. ND the chief fathers of the families A of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: 2 And they said, a The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 And if they shall be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be put to the inheritance 6 This is the thing which the LORD to the, &c. doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them 2 marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall 3 keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the chil & c. 27. 1. 4 Heb. to some that were of the families. dren of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inherit ance. 10 ¶ Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: 11 & For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons: 12 And they were married 4 into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their fa ther. 13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. 1 DEUTERONOMY. CHAP. I. 1 Moses's speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the story 6 of God's promise, 13 of giving them officers, 19 of sending the epies to search the land, 34 of God's anger for their incredulity, 41 and disobedience. HESE are the words which Moses of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against Suf, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in com-1 mandment to them; Before CHRIST, 1490. a Num. 21. 24. Heb. all his neighbors. 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, 2 Heb. Frat. and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 3 Heb.given. 5 On the east side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, Gen. 15.18. & 17. 7, 8. 6 The LORD our God spoke to us in 4 or, toil, or, Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long fatigue. enough in this mount: 5 Heb. Give. and to 1 all the places nigh to it, in the plain, on the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea-side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river 2 Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have 3 set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them. 9¶ And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I alone bear your 4 encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 125 Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, 7 Turn you, and take your journey, Heb. gave. wise men, and known, and 6 made them and go to the mount of the Amorites, heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 a Ye shall not 7 respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. Before CHRIST, 1490. © John 7. 24. c. 16. 19. d Lev. 19. 15. 7 Heb. ac 19 And when we departed from Ho-knowledge reb, we went through all that great and faces. terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as 32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search out for you a place to pitch your tents i in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trod upon, and to his children, because he hath 9 wholly fol lowed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt the LORD our God commanded us; and Num. 15.3. not go in thither. we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said to you, Ye have come 24. to the mountain of the Amorites, which Num. 13. the LORD our God doth give to us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set ed. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover, your little ones, which the land before thee: go up and possess 8 Heb. melt-ye said should be a prey, and your chilit, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said to thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 22 T And ye came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall explore the land for us, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and ascended the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and explored it. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. 26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth from the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have 8 discouraged our heart, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover, we have seen the sons of the & Anakims there. 29 Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God who goeth before you; he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Num.13.28. A Ex. 13. 21. Num.14.29. filled to go 9 Heb.ful. after. * Num. 20. 12 & 27.14. c. 3. 26. & 4.21. & 34.4. Num.14.40. 10 Heb. you were presumptu ous, and went up. dren, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. 41 Then ye answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to ascend the hill. 42 And the LORD said to me, Say to them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 43 So I spoke to you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and 10 presumptuously ascended the hill. 44 And the Amorites, who dwelt on chased you, as bees do, and destroyed that mountain, came out against you, and you in Seir, even to Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear to you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that ye abode there. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: therefore take ye good heed to yourselves : 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, i no, not so much as a foot-breadth; because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a posses sion. CHRIST, Before 1451. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 21 A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyHeb. evened them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: the sole of treading of the foot. to the 22 As he did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead 6 Ye shall buy food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall a Gen. 36. 8. even to this day: also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. hostility against Moab. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed 2 or, Use no thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee: thou hast lacked nothing. 23 And the Avims who dwelt in Hazerim even to Azzah, the Caphtorims, who came forth from Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24 ¶ Arise ye, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: 6 beGen. 36. 20. gin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we 3 Heb. turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ited them. 25 This day will I begin to put the inher-dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 9 And the LORD said to me, 2 Distress not the Moabites, neither contend 4 or, room. with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. Num.21.12. 26 And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high-way, I will past, a people great, and many, and tall 5 or, valley. neither turn to the right hand nor to the as the Anakims; 10 (The Emims dwelt in it in times 11 Who also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt formerly in Seir, but the children of Esau 3 succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their 4 stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.) 13 Now rise, said I, and pass over the 5 brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we passed the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted from among the host, as the LORD Swore to them. 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spoke to me, say ing, 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: I 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. d 28 Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; 29 (As the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 31 And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed 7 the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city, we left none to remain. 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink Heb. every of the river of Arnon, and from the city city of men, that is by the river, even to Gilead, there men, and was not one city too strong for us: the little ones. LORD our God delivered all to us: and wo. 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities on the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbad us. CHAP. III. 1 The story of the conquest of Og king of Ba shan: 11 The size of his bed. 12 The distri bution of those lands to the two tribes and half. 23 Moses's prayer to enter into the land: 27 He is permitted to see it. THE HEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and a Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to & Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt att Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. Before CHRIST, 1451. Num. 21. 33, &c. c. 29. 7. Num. 21. 24. Num. 21. 33. d Num. 32. river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, even the salt-sea, 1 under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are 2 meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD shall have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man to his possession which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fortified with Josh. 13. 8, these two kings: so shall the LORD do high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number. &c. Num. 32. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and chil- 41. dren of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of Jordan, 1 or, under from the river of Arnon to mount Her- the springs of Pisgah, or, the hill. mon; 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salchah and Num. 32. Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 20. 12 ¶ And this land, which we possess- Num. 27. ed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. i Num. 20. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Ba- 12. shan, being the kingdom of Og, I gave c. 1. 37. to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, to the borders of Geshuri, and Manchathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-chavoth-jair, to this day. 15 And I gave Gilead to Machir. 16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to thel 3 or, the hill. c. 12. 32. Josh. 1. 7. Rev. 22. 18. to all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 24 O LORD God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD i was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me : and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this mat ter. 27 ¶ Ascend to the top of 3 Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thy eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. CHAP. IV. 1 An exhortation to obedience. 41 Moses ap pointeth the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan. Nthe statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. OW therefore hearken, O Israel, to 2 a Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the |