Then came they near unto Moses, and said, This will thy servants do: We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones; but we ourselves will go before our brethren until we have brought them unto their place. We will not return to our houses, until every man of them has entered into his inheritance. And Moses said unto them, If ye will surely do this thing, ye shall be guiltless towards the Lord, and towards thy brethren; and this land shall be unto you for a possession, as ye have said. But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out. Ye shall therefore go before your brethren, and help them; until the Lord have given rest to your brethren, even as he hath given you.

For we that are strong ought to help them that are weak; not looking each one to his own things, but each one also to the things of others. For he that herein serveth his neighbour is wellpleasing to God, and approved of men.

THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY

DEUTERONOMY IV

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what great nation is there, that hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is whensoever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Did ever a people hear the voice of God as thou hast heard? Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, according to all that the Lord your God did for you? Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else besides him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he

made thee to see his great works. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their children after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; to bring thee in, to give thee this land for an inheritance, as at this day.

Know therefore this day, and lay it to thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else. And thou shalt keep his statutes and his commandments, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days for ever.

DEUTERONOMY VI, XI

Now this is the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded to teach you, that ye may live. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandment of the Lord thy God. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, thou shalt lay up in thine heart and in thy soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, talking 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; that thy days, and the days of thy children, may be even as the days of heaven upon earth.

DEUTERONOMY VIII, X, XV

Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, which I command thee this day. Take heed to yourselves lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; then thine heart be lifted up above thy brethren, and thou forget the commandment of the Lord thy God.

If therefore there be within thy gates any man waxen poor, or fallen in decay, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother; but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely help him: yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner among you. Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

And now what doth the Lord require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord

thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul? For the Lord thy God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a God great, glorious, and mighty, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: he doth execute justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Thou therefore shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his commandments, alway.

DEUTERONOMY XVIII

Jeremiah, Ezekiel

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren; and will put his words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto thee all that the Lord shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he shall speak, it shall be required of him.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the prophet, that the Lord hath sent him? hereby shall ye know: The prophet that prophesieth of peace, of truth, and of righteousness, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him. And when this cometh to pass (behold, it will come), then shall ye know that a prophet hath been among you.

DEUTERONOMY VIII, XXVI

When the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land which he promised unto thy fathers, thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the