Plagues threatened DEUTERONOMY. flec seven ways before them; and 26 And thy carcase shall be meat 27 The LORD will smite thee with the 29 And thou shalt grope at noon-day, : for disobedience. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the locust shall con sume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt bave olive-trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daugh ters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust cousume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shall come down very low. 41 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thy hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up: and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always: 34 So that thou shall be mad, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt sec. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 47 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abun dance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thing enemies which the LonD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle fietha nation whose longue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance 36 The LORD shall bring thec,and thy which shall not regard the person o! king which thou shalt set over thee, un- the old,nor show favour to the young: to a nation which neither thou nor thy 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy fathers have known; and there shalt cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou serve other gods, wood and stone. thou be destroyed; which also shall 37 And thou shalt become an aston not leave thee either corn, wine, or ishment, a proverb, and a by-word, oil, or the increase of thy kine, o among all natious whither the Lonn Blocks of thy sheep, until he have de shall lead thee ! stroyed thee. Plagues threatened CHAP. XXIX. For disobedience. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all 62 And ye shall be left few in num thy gates, until thy high and fenced ber, whereas ye were as the stars of walls come down, wherein thou heaven for multitude; because thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: wouldest not obey the voice of the and he shall besiege thee in all thy Lord thy God. gates throughout all thy land, which 63 And it shall come to pass, that as The Lord thy God hath given thee. the Loan rejoiced over you to do you 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of good, and to multiply you; so the thine own body, the flesh of thy sons Lend will rejoice over you to destroy and of thy daughters, which the LORD you, and to bring you to nought; and thy God hath given thee, in the siege, ye shall be plucked from off the land and in the straitness, wherewith whither thou goest to possess it. thine enemies shall distress thee: 64 And the Load shall scatter thee 54 So that the man that is tender among all people, from the one end among you, and very delicate,his eyes of the earth even unto the other; and shall be evil toward his brother, and there thou shalt serve other gods, toward the wife of his bosom, and which neither thou nor thy fainers toward the remnant of his children have known, even wood and stone, which he shall leave : 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no case,neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lond shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness wherewith thine ene-mind : inies shall distress thee in all thy 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt gates. before thee; and thou shalt fear day 56 The tender and delicate woman and night, and shalt have none assuramong you, which would not adven-Jauce of thy life; ture to set the sole of her foot upon 67 In the morning thou shalt say, the ground for delicateness and ten-Would God it were even! and at even derness, her eye shall be evil toward thou shalt say, Would God it were the husband of her bosom,and toward her son, and toward her daughter, morning! for the fear of thy beart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt 57. And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet,and see. toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book,that thou mayést fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the Lono will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance,and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance, 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof 1 spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for boud men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you, CHAP. XXIX. HESE are the words of the cove T 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all IsGO Moreover he will bring upon thee|rael,aud said unto them, Ye have seen all the diseases of Egypt, which thou all that the LORD did before your eyes wast afraid of; and they shall cleave in the land of Egypt unto Puaraoh, unto thee. and unto all his servants, and unto all 61 Also every sickness, and every his land; plague, which is not written in the 3 The great temptations which thine book of this law, them will the LORD eyes have seen, the signs, and those bring upon thee, until thou be de-great miracles; stroyed. 4 Yet the Lord hata not given you with his people, beareth gall and wormwood; a heart to perceive, and eyes to sec, there should be among you a root that and cars to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in 19 And it come to pass, when be the wilderness your clothes are not heareth the words of this curse, that waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is he bless himself in his heart, saying, I not waxen old upon thy foot. shall have peace, though I walk in the 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither imagination of my heart, to add have ye drunk wine or strong dring:dru kenness to thirst: that ye might know that I am the 20 The LORD will not spare him,but LORD your God. then the anger of the LORD and his 7. And when ye came unto this place, jealousy shallsmoke against that man, Sibon the king of Heshbon,and Ög thejand all the curses that are written in king of Bashan, came out against us this book shall lie upon him, and the unto battle, and we smote them; Lono shall blot out his name from un8 And we took their land, and gave der heaven. it for an inheritance unto the Reuben-| ites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 21. And the Lowo shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the cov enant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of 10 T Ye stand this day all of you your children that shall rise up after before the LORD your God; your cap-you, and the stranger that shall come tains of your tribes, your elders, and from a far land, shall say, when they vour officers, with all the men of Is-see the plagues of that land, and the rael, sickness which the LORD hath laid upon it; 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 23 And that the whote and thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bearcth, nor 12 That thou shouldest enter into any grass groweth therein, like the covenant with the Lord thy God,and overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrao; into his oath, which the LORD thy God | Admah, and Zeboim, which the Load maketh with thee this day : overthrew in his anger, and in his 13 That he may establish thee to-day | wrath: for a people unto himself, and that be 24 Even all nations shali say, Wheremay be unto thee a God, as he hath fore hath the LonD done thus unto this said unto thee, and as he hath sworn|land? what meaneth the heat of this unto thy fathers,to Abraham,to Isaac, great anger? and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath ; 15. But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom le had not given unto them : 27 And the anger of the LonD was kindled against this laud, to bring 17 And ye have seen their abomina-Jupon it all the curses that are written tions, and their idols,wood and stone, in this book: silver and gold, which were among 28 And the Load rooted them out them :) 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest of their land in auger, and in wrath, and in great indignation,andeast them into another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret things belong unto the Lord ourGod; but those things which are revealed belong untɔ us and to our Mercy promised CHAP XXX, XXXI. to the penitent. children for ever, that we may do all command thee thus day, it is not hid the words of this law, A CHAP. XXX. den from thee, neither is it far off. ND it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nahou shouldest say, Who shall go over tions, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? 2 Aud shalt returu unto the LORD thy 14 But the word is very nigh unto God, and shalt obey his voice, accord-thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, ing to all that I command thee this that thou mayest do it. day, thou and thy children, with all 15 See, I have set before thee this thy heart, and with all thy soul; day life and good, and death and evil; 3 That then the Lono thy God will 16 In that I command thee this day tura thy captivity, and have compas-to love the LORD thy God, to walk in sion upon thee, and will return and his ways, and to keep his command gather thee from all the nations, ments, and his statutes, and his judg. whither the Lord thy God hath scatments, that thou mayest live and mul tered thee. tiply and the LORD thy God shall 4 If any of thine be driven out unto bless thee in the land whither thou the outmost parts of heaven, from goest to possess it. thence will the Lond thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 17 But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, 5 And the LORD thy God will bring and serve them; thee into the land which thy fathers 18 I denounce unto you this day, that possessed, and thou shalt possess it; ye shall surely perish, and that ye and he will do thee good, and multiply shall not prolong your days upon the thee above thy fathers. land, whither thou passest over Jordan 5 And the LORD thy God will circum-[to go to possess it. cise thy heart, and the heart of thy 19 I call heaven and earth to record seed, to love the LORD thy God with this day against you, that I have set all thy heart, and with all thy soul that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upou thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which perse cuted thee. before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave $ And thou shalt return and obey the unto him; (for he is thy life, and the voice of the LORD, and do all his com-length of thy days;) that thou mayest mandments which I command thee dwell in the land which the Lorr this day. sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham. 9 And the LORD thy God will make to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give themn. thee plenteous in every work of thy CHAP. XXXI hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in AND Moses went and spake these unto all Israel. of thy land for good: for the LonD 2 And he said unto them, I am ɛ will again rejoice over thee for good, hundred and twenty years old this day, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: I can no more go out and come in : alsé 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the the LORD hath said unto me, Thou voice of the LORD thy God, to keep shalt not go over this Jordan. his commandments and his statutes 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over which are written in this book of the before thee, and he will destroy these law, and if thou turn unto the LonD nations from before thee, and thon thy God with all thy heart, and with shalt possess them: and Joshua, be all thy soul. shall go over before thee, as the LORI For this commandment which I hath said. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. Joshua a charge tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 16 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, 5 And the LORD shall give them up Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fa before your face, that ye may do unto thers; and this people will rise and up, them according unto all the command. jgo a whoring alter the gods of the ments which I have commanded you-strangers of the land, whither they go 6 Be strong, and of a good courage, to be among them, and will forsake fear not, norbe afraid of them: for the me, and break my covenant which 1 LORD thy God, he it is that doth go have made with them. with thee; he will not fail thee, nor 17 Then my anger shall be kindled forsake thee. against them in that day, and 1 will 7 ¶ And Moses called unto Joshua, forsake them, and I will hide my face and sand muto him in the sight of all from them, and they shall be devoured, Israel, Be strong, and of a good cour-and many evils and troubles shall beage; for thou must go with this people fall them; so that they will say in that unto the land which the Lord hath day, Are not these evils come upon us, sworn unto their fathers to give them; because our God is not among us? and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 18 Aud I will surely hide my lace in S And the LORD, he it is that doth go that day, for all the evils which they before thee; he will be with thee, he shall have wrought, in that they are will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: tuned unto other gods. fear not, neither be dismayed. 19 T Now therefore write ye this 9¶ And Moses wrote this law, and song for you, and teach it the children delivered it unto the priests the sons of of Israel: put it in their mouths, that Levi, which bare the ark of the cov-this song may be a witness for me enant of the LORD, and unto all the against the children of Israel. elders of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought 10 And Moses commanded them, them into the land which I sware unto saying, At the end of every seven years their fathers, that floweth with milk in the solemnity of the year of release, and honey, and they shall have eaten, in the feast of tabernacles, and filled themselves, and waxen fat; 11 When all Israel is come to appear then will they turn unto other gods, before the Lord thy God, in the place and serve them, and provoke me, and which he shall choose, thou shalt_read|break my covenant. this law before all Israel in their hear. 21 And it shall come to pass, when ing. many evils and troubles are befallen 12 Gather the people together, men, them, that this song shall testify and women, and children, and thy agamist them as a witness; for it shall stranger that is within thy gates, that not be forgotton out of the mouths of they may hear, and that they may their seed: for I know their magilearn, and fear the LORD your God, nation which they go about, even now, and observe to do all the words of this before I have brought them into the Jand which I sware. .aw: 13 And that their children, which| 22 Moses therefore wrote this song have not known any thing, may hear, the same day, and taught it the chil and learn to fear the LORD your God, dren of Israel. as long as ye live in the land whither 23 ¶ And he gave Joshua the son of ye go over Jordan to possess it. Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and 14 And the Lord said unto Moses, of a good courage: for thou shalt brig Behold, thy days approach that thou the children of Israel into the laud must die: call Joshua, and present which 1 sware unto them; and I will yourselves in the tabernacle of the be with thee. congregation, that I may give him a 24 ¶ And it came to pass, when Mocharge. And Moses and Joshua went, ses had made an end of writing the and presented themselves in the tab-words of this law in a book, until they crnacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the were Enished, 25 That Moses commanded the Le. |