23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) Of Og king of Bashan. 2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not; for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at 24 T Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have Heshbon. given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, 3 So the LORD our God delivered into King of Heshbon, and his land: begin to our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and possess it, and contend with him in battle, all his people: and we smote him until 25 This day will I begin to put the dread none was left to him remaining. of thee and the fear of thee upon the na- 4 And we took all his cities at that tions that are under the whole heaven, who time, there was not a city which we took shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, not from them, threescore cities, all the reand be in anguish because of thee. 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me meat 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 which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto 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 unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and bis 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 the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city, we left none to remain. gion of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children 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 Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 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, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 ¶ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. re 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey gion of Argob, with all Bashan, which was unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities called the land of giants. which we took. 38 From Aroer,which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, unto the coasts of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon,half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the HEN we turned, and went up the way coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto to Bashan: and Og the king of Ba-the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, unshan came out against us, he and all his der Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. people, to battle at Edrei. 18 And I commanded you at that time, THE CHAP. HII. The prayer of Moses. CHAP. IV. An exhortation to obedience. saying, The LORD your God hath given 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD you this land to possess it; ye shall pass your God, are alive every one of you this over armed before your brethren the chil-day. dren of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes, 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and judgments, even as the LORD my God and your cattle, for I know that ye have commanded me, that ye should do so in much cattle,) shall abide in your cities the land whither ye go to possess it. which I have given you; 6 Keep therefore and do them: for 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto this is your wisdom and your understandyour brethren, as well as unto you, and ing in the sight of the nations, which shall until they also possess the land which the hear all these statutes, and say, Surely LORD your God hath given them beyond this great nation is a wise and understandJordan: and then shall ye return every ing people. man unto his possession which I have 7 For what nation is there so great, who given you. hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. 23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so 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 24 O Lord Gop, thou hast begun to lest they depart from thy heart all the shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, mighty hand for what God is there in and thy sons' sons: heaven or in earth, that can do according 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest to thy works, and according to thy might? before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the LORD said unto me, Gather me the the good land that is beyond Jordan, that people together, and I will make them goodly mountain, and Lebanon. hear my words, that they may learn to fear. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me me all the days that they shall live upon for your sakes, and would not hear me: the earth, and that they may teach their and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice children. thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 11 And ye came near and stood under 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, the mountain; and the mountain burned and lift up thine eyes westward, and north-with fire unto the midst of heaven, with ward, and southward, and eastward, and darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of not go over this Jordan. the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice 28 But charge Joshua, and encou-of the words, but saw no similitude; only rage him, and strengthen him: for he shall ye heard a voice. go over before this people, and he shall 13 And he declared unto you his covecause them to inherit the land which thou nant, which he commanded you to pershalt see. form, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. CHAP. IV. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judg Now e judgment rat ge over to possess it. TOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto ments, that ye might do them in the land which I teach you, for to do them, that ye 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto may live, and go in and possess the land yourselves; for ye saw no manner of simiwhich the LORD God of your fathers giveth litude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and I command you, neither shall ye diminish make you a graven image, the similitude aught from it, that ye may keep the com- of any figure, the likeness of male or femandments of the LORD your God which male," I command you. 17 The likeness of any beast that is 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD on the earth, the likeness of any winged did because of Baal-peor: for all the men fowl that flieth in the air, that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy 18 The likeness of any thing that creepGod hath destroyed them from among eth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: you. An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY. Three cities of refuge. 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto and ask from the one side of heaven unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, the other, whether there hath been any and the moon, and the stars, even all the such thing as this great thing is, or hath host of heaven, shouldest be driven to wor- been heard like it? ship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land. 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, 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 temptations, 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: 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 words out of the midst of the fire. 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any 37 And because he loved thy fathers, thing which the LORD thy God hath for-therefore he chose their seed after them, bidden thee. and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 38 To drive out nations from before 25 When thou shalt beget children, and thee, greater and mightier than thou art, children's children,and ye shall have remain- to bring thee in, to give thee their land ed long in the land, and shall corrupt your-for an inheritance, as it is this day, selves, and make a graven image, or the 39 Know therefore this day, and conlikeness of any thing, and shall do evil in sider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke God in heaven above, and upon the earth him to anger: beneath there is none else. : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his staagainst you this day, that ye shall soon tutes and his commandments which I comutterly perish from off the land whereun-mand thee this day, that it may go well to ye go over Jordan to possess it: ye with thee, and with thy children after shall not prolong your days upon it, but thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy shall utterly be destroyed. days upon the earth, which the LORD thy 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among God giveth thee, for ever. the nations, and ye shall be left few in 41 Then Moses severed three cities number among the heathen, whither the on this side Jordan, toward the sun-rising; LORD shall lead you. 42 That the slayer might flee thither, 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the which should kill his neighbour unawares, work of men's hands, wood and stone, and hated him not in times past; and that which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor fleeing unto one of these cities he might smell. live: 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if the plain country, of the Reubenites; and thou seek him with all thy heart, and with Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and all thy soul. Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 T And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD 45 These are the testimonies, and the thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his statutes, and the judgments, which Moses. voice; spake unto the children of Israel, after 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful they came forth out of Egypt, God;) he will not forsake thee, neither] 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of over against Beth-peor, in the land of Síthy fathers, which he sware unto them. hon king of the Ainorites, who dwelt at 32 For ask now of the days that are Heshbon, whom Moses and the children past, which were before thee, since the of Israel smote, after they were come forth day that God created man upon the earth, out of Egypt: The ten commandments. CHAP. V. Moses receives the law from God. 47 And they possessed his land, and the] 15 And remember that thou wast a serland of Og king of Bashan, two kings of vant in the land of Egypt, and that the the Amorites, which were on this side Jor-LORD thy God brought thee out thence dan, toward the sun-rising. through a mighty hand and by a stretched 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank out arm: therefore the LORD thy God of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day. which is Hermon, 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan as the LORD thy God hath commanded eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and under the springs of Pisgah. CHAP. V. AND Moses called all Israel, and said tutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in 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 (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. that it may go well with thee, in the land 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery! 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 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 ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven greatness, and we have heard his voice out image, or any likeness of any thing that of the midst of the fire: we have seen is in heaven above, or that is in the earth this day that God doth talk with man, and beneath, or that is in the waters beneath he liveth. the earth: 25 Now therefore why should we die? 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto for this great fire will consume us: if we them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy hear the voice of the LORD our God any God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity more, then we shall die. of the fathers upon the children unto the 26 For who is there of all flesh that 28 And the LORD heard the voice of that is within thy gates; that thy man-ser- 30 Go say to them, Get you into your Moses exhorts the Israelites. DEUTERONOMY. Bids them teach their children. me, and I will speak unto thee all the 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of commandments, and the statutes, and the the gods of the people which are round judgments, which thou shait teach them, about you; that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you;) lest the anger of the 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as LORD thy God be kindled against thee, the LORD your God hath commanded you: and destroy thee from off the face of the ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or earth. to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. CHAP. VI. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right TOW these are the commandments, and good in the sight of the LORD: that it which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies from 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. God, to keep all his statutes and his com- 20 And when thy son asketh thee in mandments which I command thee, thou, time to come, saying, What mean the tesand thy son, and thy son's son, all the days timonies, and the statutes, and the judg of thy life; and that thy days may be pro-ments, which the LORD our God hath longed. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and ob- 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, serve to do it; that it may be well with We were Pharaoh's bond-men in Egypt; thee, and that ye may increase mightily, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt as the LORD God of thy fathers hath pro- with a mighty hand: mised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. manded you? com 22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, it we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. CHAP. VII. ATHEN the LORD thy God shall bring 9 and thou shalt write them upon the W thee in one lay whither thou posts of thy house, and on thy gates. goest to possess it, and hath cast out many10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy nations before thee, the Hittites, and the God shall have brought thee into the land Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abra- Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the ham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations great and goodly cities, which thou build-greater and mightier than thou; edst not, 2 And when the LORD thy God shall 11 And houses full of all good things, deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite which thou filledst not, and wells digged, them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt which thou diggedst not, vineyards and make no covenant with them, nor shew olive-trees, which thou plantedst not; mercy unto them: when thou shalt have eaten and be full; 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages 12 Then beware lest thou forget the with them; thy daughter thou shalt not LORD, which brought thee forth out of the give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. thou take unto thy son. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, 4 For they will turn away thy son and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. from following me, that they may serve |