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8 ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth † the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 ¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a + Heb. soul. stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

c Lev. 25. 3.

|| Or, olive trees.

d Chap. 20.8.

Luke 13. 14.

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy || oliveyard.

12 Six days thou shalt do thy Deut. 5. 13. work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

e Deut. 16. 16.

f Chap. 13. 3. & 34. 18.

g Deut. 16. 16.

13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

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14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and Ecclus. 35. 4. none shall appear before me empty :) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in thy field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.

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9. -ye know the heart of a stranger,] Ye have felt what a distressed condition that of a stranger is; how friendless and helpless. Bp. Patrick.

13. make no mention of the name of other gods,] With any reverence, or any approbation, by appealing to them, or vowing by their names. It was not unlawful merely to mention the names of other gods in ordinary conversation. Bps. Patrick and Kidder. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.] This precept has respect to an idolatrous custom of the heathens of those days, cruel as well as superstitious, VOL. I.

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An Angel promised.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my || sacrifice remain until the morning.

Before CHRIST 1491.

|| Or, feast.

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19 The first of the firstfruits of h Chap. 34. thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou i Deut. 14. shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

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20 Behold, I send an Angel k Chap. 33. 2. before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an || adversary unto Or, I will thine adversaries.

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afflict them that afflict thee. 1 Chap. 33. 2.

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23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the m Josh. 24. Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: "but thou shalt n Deut. 7. 25. utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

26 [ ° There shall nothing cast o Deut. 7. 14. their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

+ Heb. neck.

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28 And I will send hornets be- p Josh. 24. fore thee, which shall drive out the

who used to boil a kid in its mother's milk, and sprinkle it on their fields and trees, in order to make them fruitful. Pyle.

20.- an Angel] Called at verse 23, "Mine Angel." See chap. xiv. 19.

21. - my name is in him.] He acts by my authority and power. Bp. Patrick. My power and divinity is in Him. Bp. Hall. John x. 38.

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Moses is called up

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1491.

q Chap. 34.

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Deut. 7. 2.

r Deut. 7. 16. Josh. 23. 13.

Judg. 2. 3.

EXODUS.

Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, 'it will surely be a snare unto thee.

CHAP. XXIV.

1 Moses is called up into the mountain. 3 The people promise obedience. 4 Moses buildeth an altar, and twelve pillars. 6 He sprinkleth the blood of the covenant. 9 The glory of God appeareth. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people. 15 Moses goeth into the mountain, where he continueth forty days and forty nights.

AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

3¶ And Moses came and told the

accomplishment of this promise in Josh. xxiv. 12, 13, with the note upon it.

Ælian gives a history of the Phasaelites, driven from their country by wasps. These people inhabited the mountains of Solymæ, and were originally of Phenicia, that is, descendants of the Canaanites; and very probably were some of those very people, who were expelled their country by those wasps or hornets which were sent to precede the army of Israel. Script. illust.

31.I will set thy bounds &c.] See Gen. xv. 18, and Numb. xxxiv. "The sea of the Philistines" is the Mediterranean sea, on which the Philistines bordered: 'the desert," the desert of Arabia, or Shur, Exod. xv. 22, near Egypt; and “the river," the Euphrates.

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into the mountain, where

Before CHRIST 1491.

people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, a All the words which the LORD a Chap. 19. hath said will we do.

4 And Moses wrote all the words

of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

8. & 24. 3, 7. Deut. 5. 27.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said,↳ All that ↳ Ver. 3. the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, c 1 Pet. 1. 2. which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

10 And they saw the God of Israel:

and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the

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under his feet] Under the lower part of this glorious light. There was no bodily form; for it is expressly said at Deut. iv. 15, that they saw no manner of similitude." Thus the Divine Majesty is sometimes said to have a footstool, though it have no human shape. Bp. Patrick.

a paved work of a sapphire stone,] A pavement very bright and glistering. Bp. Patrick. the body of heaven] serenest sky, when it is all Patrick.

As clear as the purest and spangled with stars. Bp.

11. - also they saw God, &c.] They saw God in these signs of his manifestation, and yet lived in health and soundness of body. Bp. Hall.

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