and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thy hand. w 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 shalt be mad, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. w35 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. shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign, and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; w 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, which the LORD 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. w 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou server 49 The LORD shall bring a naother gods, wood and stone. tion against thee from far, from the r 37 And thou shalt become an end of the earth, as swift as the eaastonishment, a proverb, and a by-gle flieth; a nation whose tongue word, among all nations whither the thou shalt not understand; LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the locusts shall consume it. 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of the land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have 10 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. w 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees destroyed thee. throughout all thy coasts, but thour 52 And he shall besiege thee in shalt not anoint thyself with the oil: for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 10 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them: for they shall go into captivity. all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. thyr* 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: w 42 All thy trees, and fruit of w 44 He shall lend to thee, and thon 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: nought: and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. stone. 55 So that he will not give to any r 64 And the LORD shall scatter of them of the flesh of his children thee among all people, from the one whom he shall eat; because he hath end of the earth even unto the other; nothing left him in the siege, and in and there thou shalt serve other the straitness, wherewith thine ene-gods, which neither thou nor thy famies shall distress thee in all thy thers have known, even wood and gates. 56 The tender and delicate wo-r 65 And among these nations shalt man among you, which would not thou find no ease, neither shall the adventure to set the sole of her foot sole of thy foot have rest: but the upon the ground for delicateness and LORD shall give thee there a tremtenderness, her eye shall be evil to- bling heart, and failing of eyes, and ward the husband of her bosom, sorrow of mind: and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thy heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and 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. t 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law, that are written in this book, that thou may-r 68 And the LORD shall bring thee est fear this glorious and fearful into Egypt again with ships, by the name, THE LORD THY GOD; way whereof I spake unto thee, w 59 Then the LORD will make thy Thou shalt see it no more again: plagues wonderful, and the plagues and there ye shall be sold unto your of thy seed, even great plagues, and enemies for bondmen and bondof long continuance, and sore sick-women, and no man shall buy you. nesses, and of long continuance. to 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee: 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. CHAP. XXIX. covenant which the LORD HESE are the words of the commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles; w 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. w 63 And it shall come to pass, that, as the LORD rejoiced over you to 4 Yet the LORD hath not given do you good, and to multiply you; you a heart to perceive, and eyes so the LORD will rejoice over you to see, and ears to hear, unto this to destroy you, and to bring you today. m 5 And I have led you forty years you man, or woman, or family, or in the wilderness: your clothes are tribe, whose heart turneth away this not waxen old upon you, and thy day from the LORD our God, to go shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. and serve the gods of these nations; 6 Ye have not eaten bread, nei- lest there should be among you a ther have ye drunk wine or strong root that beareth gall and wormdrink; that ye might know that I wood; am the LORD your God. g7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. d 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. f 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 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; d 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do 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: g 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; p 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them :) p 18 Lest there should be among w 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: w 20 The LORD will not spare him; but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book, shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: w 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sickness which the LORD hath laid upon it; f 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath; 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 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: p 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to his commandments, which I combring upon it all the curses that are mand thee this day. written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. t29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. CHAP. XXX. b 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in this book of the AND it shall cont to pass, law, and if thou turn unto the LORD when all these things are thy God with all thy heart, and with come upon thee, the blessing and all thy soul. the curse, which I have set before e 11 For this commandment, thee, and thou shalt call them to which I command thee this day, it mind among all the nations whither is not hidden from thee, neither is it the LORD thy God hath driven thee, far off": 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice, according to all that I command thee this day, thou, and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall b 3 That then the LORD thy God go over the sea for us, and bring it will turn thy captivity, and have unto us, that we may hear it, and compassion upon thee, and will re-do it? turn, and gather thee from all the 14 But the word is very nigh unnations whither the LORD thy God to thee, in thy mouth, and in thy hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee. heart, that thou mayest do it. e 15 Sec, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to 5 And the LORD thy God will walk in his ways, and to keep his bring thee into the land which thy commandments, and his statutes, fathers possessed, and thou shalt and his judgments, that thou mayest possess it; and he will do thee good, live and multiply; and the LORD and multiply thee above thy fathers. thy God shall bless thee in the land 6 And the LORD thy God will whither thou goest to possess it. circumcise thy heart, and the heart w 17 But if thy heart turn away, so of thy seed, to love the LORD thy that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be God with all thy heart, and with all drawn away, and worship other thy soul, that thou mayest live. gods, and serve them; And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return, and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. d 19 I call heaven and earth to re cord this day against you, that I forsake thee: fear not, neither be have set before you life and death, dismayed. blessing and cursing: therefore f 9 And Moses wrote this law, choose life, that both thou and thy and delivered it unto the priests the seed may live; sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto b 20 That thou mayest love the 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, CHAP. XXXI. 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose, AND Moses went and spake thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am ad 12 Gather the people together, hundred and twenty years old this men, and women, and children, and day; I can no more go out and thy stranger that is within thy gates, come in also the LORD hath said that they may hear, and that they unto me, Thou shalt not go over this may learn, and fear the LORD your Jordan. God, and observe to do all the words of this law; r3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. r4 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. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. d 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the con d 6 Be strong, and of a good cou-gregation. rage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:m 15 And the LORD appeared in for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. f7¶ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong, and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: w 17 Then my anger shall be kin- |