Enticers to idolatry DEUTERONOMY, XIV. are to be stoned. out of the house of bondage, to B. C. 1451. | from the fierceness of his anger, thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded ; ch. 17.7. thee to walk in. So shalt i thou 1Cor.5.13. put the evil away from the midst of thee. i k ch.28.54. Mi.7.5. m Pr.1.10. and shew u thee mercy, and have compassion w upon thee, and mul tiply a thee, as he hath sworny unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daugh- 1Sam.20. 17. keepz all his commandments which ter, or the wife k of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent m unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand n shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. n ch.17.7. 2 bondmen. o ch.19.20. p Jos.22.11. 3 CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning. 3 What may be eaten. WE are the children a of the or, naugh-cut b yourselves, nor make any YLORD your God, ye shall not baldness between your eyes for the dead: ty men, 9 Jude 19. 13. r Ex.22,20. Jer.49.2. Jos.6.18. 10 And thou shalt stone him with 4 or, devoted. stones, that he die; because het ch.7.26. hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of 2 bond age. 11 And o all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou shalt hear p say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God liath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, 3 the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn q the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying rit utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and s it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 7.1. u Jos.7.26. Rom. 8. 16. b Lev. 19.28. Jer. 16.6. c Lev.20.26. d 1Pet.2.9. e Eze.4.14. Acts 10.12, 14. 1 Cor. 10.28. 1 dishon, or, 2 For thou art an holy c people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a pe culiar d people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 T Thou shalt not eat e any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the 1 pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it d videth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch g their dead carcase. 9 These h ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat! 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat: it unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these i are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the nighthawk, and the cuckow, and e hawk after his kind, Of tithes. Of the year of release. in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. DEUTERONOMY, XV. 16 The little owl, and the great | B. C. 1451. owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-k Lev. 17.15. eagie, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that theth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. X: But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: Sarl thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thoum shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe n all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And o thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlingsp of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to arry it; or if q the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 22.8. Eze.4.14. ver.2. m Ex.23.19. 34.26. n ch.12.6,17. Lev.27.30. Nu.18.21. Ne. 10.37. o ch. 12.5.&c. pch.15.19,20. asketh of ch.12.7,18. ch. 12.21. thee. $ Ec.9.7. t ch. 18.1.2. Nu. 18.20. u ch.26.12. Am.4.4. v ver.27. ch. 12. 12. w Ex.22.21 24. Job 31.1622. Lu. 14. 1214. Heb. 13.2. ch. 15.10. Pr.3.9.10. 19.17 Mal.3.10. CHAPTER XV. 1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor: 7 it must be no let of lending or giving. Ta the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every 1 creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. 3 Of a foreigner b thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release: 42 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for c the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend d unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many naCHAP 15tions, but they shall not reign over Ex.23.10, 11. Le.25.2-4. 1 master of the lending of his hand b ch.23.20. 2 or, to the end that there be. c ch.28. 1-8, &c. And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul asteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul 2 desireth:d ch.28.12,44. and thour shalt eat there before e 1Jno.3. 17. the LORD thy God, and thou shalt f Lev.25.35rejoice, s thou, and thine houseboid, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for he t hath no part nor inbentance with thee. gates: 37. Gal.2.10. 4 Belial. 3 word. ch.28.54 56. Pr.23.6. Mat.20.15. 28 And at the end of three fears thou shalt bring forth all the h ch.24.15. tithe of thine increase the same Ex.22.23. Fear, and shalt lay it up within thyi Mat.25.41hath no part nor inheritance with And the Levite, (because v he & 2Cor.9.457. thee,) and the stranger, w and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, Heb. 13.16. and shall eat and be satisfied; that m Mat.26.11. the LORD thy God may bless thee I 7 ch.24.19. Ps.41.1,2. Pr. 11.25. 22.9. thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou e shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother; 8 But fthou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a 3 thought in thy 4 wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye g be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry h unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin i unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved k when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 11 For the poor m shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. Of a Hebrew servant. DEUTERONOMY. XVI. The feast of the passover. 12 T And if n thy brother, an He-1 B. C. 1451. | placed which the LORD shall choose brew man, or an Hebrew woman, Le.25.39 De sold unto thee, and serve theen Ex.21.2. 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: Q that wherewith o the LORD thy God hath p blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember qs that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 41. Jer.34.14. o Ps.68.10. p Pr.10.22. r Ex.21.5,6. v ch.17.1. &c. (CHAP. 16.) 16 And it shall be, ifr he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, (because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;) 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, w ch.12.15, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. a Ex.34.18. 18 It shall not seem hards unto b Ex.12.31thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. 42. c Nu.28.16 19. d ch.15.20. 19 T All the firstling t males that e Ex. 13.6,7. come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD f Ex. 12.10. thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou u shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. h 34.25. 2Ch 35.13. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, ork Lev.23.8. have any ill blemish, thou shalt not 2 restraint. sacrifice it unto the LORD thy Lev. 23.26. God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the w unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. I Ex.23.16. 34.22. Acts 2.1. 3 sufficiency. to place his name there. 3 Thou e shalt eat no leavened bread with it: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste;) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither ƒ shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not 1 sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates. which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover g at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast h and eat it in the place i which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and g unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unles vened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a 2 solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt de no work therein. 9 Seven / weeks shalt thou num ber unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with 3 a tribute of a freewill offer ing of thine hand, which thou shall give unto the LORD thy God, a cording m as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And n thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy Lev. 23.15. son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon them ver. 17. ground as water. CHAPTER XVI. 1 The feast of the passover, 9 of weeks, 13 of tabernacles. OBSERVE a the month of he and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God broug} ! thee forth out of Egypt by night.b 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the I Cor. 16.2. n ch.12.7,12, 18. Of judges and justice. DEUTERONOMY, XVII teast, thou, and thy son, and thy B. C. 1451. daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates Le.23.39, 40. s Ex.23.14. 34.23. 15 Seven r days shalt thou keep a solenin feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine in-u crease, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 Three s times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of nleavened bread, and in the feast weeks, and in the feast of taberacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: t 17 Every man shall give 5 as he is ble, according v to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. 44. 2Cor.8.12. wch.1.15-17. 11. Lev. 19.15. y Pr.24.23. z Pr. 17.23. or, matters. Phi.4.8. d Lev.26.1. 18 Judges w and officers shalt 8 statue, or, e Jer.44.4. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judg-(CHAP.17.) That which is altogether a just 2 Neitherd shalt thou set thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth.e CHAPTER XVII. 2Ki. 18.12. d Nu.35.30. 2Cor. 13.1. 1Ti.5.19. e Ac.7.58,59. ƒ Ex.21.12, &c. i ch. 19.17. 1 The things sacrificed must be sound. Ezra 10.8. hearken. 1 Je.25.3, &c. 21fb there be found among you, m ch. 18.5.7. with any of thy gates which the n Heb.19.28. LORD thy God giveth thee, man or 0 ch.13.5. woman, that hath wrought wicked-2 ch.13.11. news in the sight of the LORD thy G 1Sam.8.5, God, in c transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other de, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not s Jer.30.21. commanded; 19.20. r.Sam.9.15 Idolaters must be slain. 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired dili gently, and behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that min or that woman, which have committed that wicked th, unto thy gates, even that man or that Iwoman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At d the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands e of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood f and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the g place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the h priests the Levites, and unto the judge i that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment. 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And k the man that will do presumptuously, 2 and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth m to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: n and o thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And p all the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously." 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, Iq will set a king over me, like as 16.12. all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom r the LORD thy God shall choose: one from 17. ICh.22.10. The duty of a king. DEUTERONOMY, XVIII among thy brethren shalt thou set B. C. 1451. king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger t over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply u horses to himself, nor cause the people to v return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye w shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart a turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : 19 And y it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn z not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may pro-] long a his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 The Lord is the priests' and Levites' inheritance. 3 The priests' due. 15 Christ the prophet is to be heard. TH t Jer.2.25. u Christ the true prophet. 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which 1Ki.10.26-stand there before the LORD. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside 1 that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 28. Ps.20.7. 1Ki.11.8,4. (CHAP. 18.) a Nu. 18.20. c Ps. 16.5. i 2Chr.31.4. 1 his sales by k Lev. 18.21, 2 3 m THE priests a the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have non part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings b of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. &c. 9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There k shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter With familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations I the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be 2 perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt 3 possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto di viners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered m theeso or, sincere. to do. Rev.22.15. Gé. 17.1. or, inherit. Ps. 147.19, 20. Acts 14.16. Jno. 1.45. 6.14. Ac.3.22,23. He. 1. 1,2. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the c LORD is their inheritance, as p Ex.20.19. he hath said unto them. q Is.9.6. Zec.6.12,13. Mal.3.1. 3 And this d shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The firstfruit e also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. r Lu. 24. 19. t Jno.4.25. u 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where g he sojourned, and come with all the h desire of his mindy unto the place which the LORD thall choose, 8.28. Mar. 16.16. He.2.3. 12.25. 15 T The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet n from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him o ye shall hearken. 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day p of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 Iq will raise them up a r Prophet from among their brethren, like s unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he t sha speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever u will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my ch.13.1-5. name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak Je.28.15-17 in the name of other gods, even Rev. 19.20. that prophet shall die.w 1Jno.4.1-3. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, Is.41.22,23. How shall we know the won which the LORD hath not spoken! 22 When y a prophet speaketh is Je. 14. 14, 15. Jer.28.9. |