1 God doth not them good for their own righteousness, but for his own sake. 7 Moses putteth them in remembrance of their sins. 17 The two Tables are broken. 26 Moses prayeth for the people.

Hear, O Israel, Thou shalt pass over Jordan [a]this day, to go in and to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, and cities great and walled up to heaven,

A people great and tall, even the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast [b]heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak?

Understand therefore that this day the Lord thy God is he which [c]goeth over before thee as a consuming fire: he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so thou shalt cast them out and destroy them suddenly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

Speak not thou in thine heart (after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out before thee) saying, For my [d]righteousness the Lord hath brought me in, to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord hath cast them out before thee.

For thou entrust not to inherit their land for thy righteousness, or for their upright heart, but for the wickedness of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might perform the word which the Lord thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness: for thou art a [e]stiff-necked people.

¶ Remember and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to anger in the wilderness: [f]since the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came into this place, ye have rebelled against the Lord.

Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to anger, so that the Lord was wroth with you, even to destroy you.

When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the Tables of stone, the Tables, I say, of the Covenant, which the Lord made with you: and (A)I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet drank water:

10 (B)Then the Lord delivered me two tables of stone, written with the [g]finger of God, and in them was contained according to all the words which the Lord had said unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.

11 And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the covenant.

12 And the Lord said unto me, (C)Arise, get thee down quickly from hence: for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have [h]corrupt their ways: they are soon turned out of the way which I commanded them, they have made them a molten image.

13 Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

14 [i]Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and put out their name from under heaven, and I will make of thee a mighty nation and greater than they be.

15 So I returned, and came down from the mount (and the mount burnt with fire, and the two Tables of the Covenant were in my two hands.)

16 Then I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God: for ye had made you a molten calf, and had turned quickly out of the [j]way which the Lord had commanded you.

17 Therefore I took the two Tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

18 And I fell down before the Lord, forty days, and forty nights, as before: I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which ye had committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, in that ye provoked him unto wrath.

19 (For I was afraid of the wrath and indignation, wherewith the Lord was moved against you, even to destroy you) yet the Lord heard me at that time also.

20 Likewise the Lord was very angry with Aaron, even to [k]destroy him: but at that time I prayed also for Aaron.

21 And I took your sin, I mean the calf which ye had made, and burnt him with fire, and stamped him and ground him small, even unto very dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the river, that descended out of the [l]mount.

22 Also (D)in Taberah, and in (E)Massah, (F)and in Kibroth Hattaavah ye provoked the Lord to anger.

23 Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given you, then ye [m]rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and believed him not, nor hearkened unto his voice.

24 Ye have been rebellious unto the Lord, since the day that I knew you.

25 Then I fell down before the Lord [n]forty days, and forty nights, as I fell down before, because the Lord had said that he would destroy you.

26 And I prayed unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt by a mighty hand.

27 [o]Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

28 Lest the country whence thou broughtest them, say, (G)Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, or because he hated them, he carried them out to slay them in the wilderness.

29 Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power, and by thy stretched out arm.

10 5 The second Tables put in the Ark. 8 The tribe of Levi is dedicated to the service of the Tabernacle. 12 What the Lord requireth of his. 16 The circumcision of the heart. 17 God regardeth not the person. 21The Lord is the praise of Israel.

In the same time the Lord said unto me, (H)Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an Ark of wood,

And I will write upon the tables, the words that were upon the first Tables, which thou breakest, and thou shalt put them in the Ark.

And I made an Ark of [p]Shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mountain, and the two Tables in mine hand.

Then he wrote upon the Tables according to the first writing, (the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the [q]assembly) and the Lord gave them unto me.

And I departed and came down from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Ark which I had made: and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan, to [r]Moserah, where Aaron died, and was buried, and Eleazar his son became Priest in his stead.

¶ From thence they departed unto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of running waters.

¶ The same time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and to stand before the Lord, to [s]minister unto him, and to bless in his Name unto this day.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: for the Lord is his [t]inheritance, as the Lord thy God hath promised him.

10 And I tarried in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.

11 But the Lord said unto me, Arise, go forth in the journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God [u]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?

13 That thou keep the commandments of the Lord and his ordinances, which I command thee this day, for thy wealth?

14 Behold, heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, and the (I)earth, with all that therein is.

15 [v]Notwithstanding, the Lord set his delight in thy fathers to love them, and did choose their seed after them, even you above all people, as appeareth this day.

16 [w]Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and harden your necks no more.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty and terrible, which accepteth no (J)persons, nor taketh reward:

18 Who doeth right unto the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 (K)Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: thou shalt serve him, and thou shalt cleave unto him, and [x]shalt swear by his Name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt (L)with seventy persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as the (M)stars of the heaven in multitude.

11 1 An exhortation to love God, and keep his law. 10 The praises of Canaan. 18 To meditate continually the word of God. 19 To teach it unto the children. 26 Blessing and cursing.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God and shalt keep that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his laws and his commandments always.

And [y]consider this day (for I speak not to your children, which have neither known nor seen) the chastisements of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

And his signs, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and unto all his land:

And what he did unto the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses, and to their chariots, when he caused the waters of the red Sea to overflow them, as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them unto this day:

And [z]what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place:

And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them with their households, and their tents, and all their substance that [aa]they had in the midst of all Israel.

For your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

Therefore shall ye keep [ab]all the commandments, which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it:

Also that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers, to give unto them and to their seed, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

10 ¶ For the land whither thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy [ac][ad]feet as a garden of herbs:

11 But the land whither ye go to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven.

12 This land doth the Lord thy God care for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.

13 ¶ If ye shall hearken therefore unto my commandments, which I command you this day, that ye love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul,

14 I also will give rain unto your land in due time, [ae]the first rain and the latter, that thou mayest gather in thy wheat, and thy wine, and thine oil.

15 Also I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat, and have enough.

16 But beware lest your heart [af]deceive you, and lest ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them.

17 And so the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that your land yield not her fruit, and ye perish quickly from the good land, which the Lord giveth you.

18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and (N)bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as a frontlet between your eyes,

19 And ye shall (O)teach them your children, speaking 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.

20 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house, and upon thy gates,

21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as long as [ag]the heavens are above the earth.

22 ¶ For if ye keep diligently all these Commandments, which I command you to do: that is, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him,

23 Then will the Lord cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall possess great nations and mightier than you.

24 (P)All the places whereon the soles of [ah]your feet shall tread, shall be yours: your coast shall be from the wilderness and from Lebanon, and from the River even the river Perath, unto the uttermost [ai]Sea.

25 No man shall stand against you: for the Lord your God shall cast the fear and dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

27 (Q)The blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

28 And the (R)curse, if ye will not obey the Commandments of the Lord your God, but turn out of the way, which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not [aj]known.

29 ¶ When the Lord thy God therefore hath brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to possess it, then thou shalt put the (S)blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

30 Are they not beyond Jordan on that part, [ak]where the Sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, beside [al]the grove of Moreh?

31 For ye shall pass over Jordan, to go in to possess that land which the Lord your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.

32 Take heed therefore that ye (T)do all the commandments and the laws, which I set before you this day.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:1 Meaning, shortly.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:2 By the report of the spies, Num. 13:26.
  3. Deuteronomy 9:3 To guide thee and govern thee.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:4 Man of himself can deserve nothing but God’s anger, and if God spare any it cometh of his great mercy.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:6 Like stubborn oxen which will not endure their master’s yoke.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:7 He proveth by the length of time, that their rebellion was most great and intolerable.
  7. Deuteronomy 9:10 That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men.
  8. Deuteronomy 9:12 So soon as man declineth from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt.
  9. Deuteronomy 9:14 Signifying that the prayers of the faithful are a bar to stay God’s anger that he consume not all.
  10. Deuteronomy 9:16 That is, from the Law: wherein he declareth what is the cause of our perdition.
  11. Deuteronomy 9:20 Whereby he showeth what danger they are in, that have authority and resist not wickedness.
  12. Deuteronomy 9:21 Horeb, or Sinai.
  13. Deuteronomy 9:23 At the return of the spies.
  14. Deuteronomy 9:25 Whereby is signified that God requireth earnest continuance in prayer.
  15. Deuteronomy 9:27 The godly in their prayers ground on God’s promise, and confess their sins.
  16. Deuteronomy 10:3 Which wood is of long continuance.
  17. Deuteronomy 10:4 When you were assembled to receive the Law.
  18. Deuteronomy 10:6 This mountain was also called Hor, Num. 20:28.
  19. Deuteronomy 10:8 That is, to offer sacrifice, and to declare the Law to the people.
  20. Deuteronomy 10:9 So God turned the curse of Jacob, Gen. 49:7, unto blessing.
  21. Deuteronomy 10:12 For all our sins and transgressions God requireth nothing but to turn to him and obey him.
  22. Deuteronomy 10:15 Although he was Lord of heaven and earth, yet would he choose none but you.
  23. Deuteronomy 10:16 Cut off all your evil affections, Jer 4:4.
  24. Deuteronomy 10:20 Read Deut. 6:13.
  25. Deuteronomy 11:2 Ye, which have seen God’s graces with your eyes, ought rather to be moved, than your children, which have only heard of them.
  26. Deuteronomy 11:5 As well concerning his benefits, as his corrections.
  27. Deuteronomy 11:6 Hebrew, was at their feet.
  28. Deuteronomy 11:8 Because ye have felt both his chastisements and his benefits.
  29. Deuteronomy 11:10 Or, labor.
  30. Deuteronomy 11:10 As by making gutters for the waters to come out of the river Nile to water the land.
  31. Deuteronomy 11:14 In the seed time, and toward harvest.
  32. Deuteronomy 11:16 By devising to yourselves foolish devotions according to your own fantasies.
  33. Deuteronomy 11:21 As long as the heavens endure, 2 Pet. 3:10,12.
  34. Deuteronomy 11:24 This was accomplished in David’s and Solomon’s time.
  35. Deuteronomy 11:24 Called Mediterranean.
  36. Deuteronomy 11:28 He reproveth the malice of men which leave that which is certain to follow that which is uncertain.
  37. Deuteronomy 11:30 Meaning, in Samaria.
  38. Deuteronomy 11:30 Or, plain.

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