Deuteronomy, in The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)

The fifth book of Moses: his discourses repeating the law before Israel enters the promised land, and his death. This is Deuteronomy as it stands in the first tome of the Douay Old Testament (Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1609), the English College of Douai’s Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, in its original spelling. The page gives the edition’s Argument of the book, every chapter with its printed summary, the verse text and the marginal notes and the Annotations.

THE ARGVMENT OF DEVTERONOMIE.

DEVTERONOMI, in English The ſecond law, ſo called not that there be two lawes of Moyſes, but becauſe the ſame which was firſt [Margin: This booke is a repetition, explication, and ſuplement of the Law.] [Margin: S. Aug. q. 49. in Deutero⟨illegible⟩.] geuen in Mount Sinai, fiftie dayes after the children of Iſrael parted from Aegypt, is here repeted, in the eleuenth moneth of the fourtith yeare of their abode in the deſert. In which repetition albeit Moyſes explicateth the ſame law, adding alſo diuers things not expreſſed before: yet is it but an Abbridgement conceiued and vttered in fewer wordes. VVhereupon S. Bode (in princ. Leuit.) compareth this booke with the foure precedent, as one made [Margin: It preſigured the Goſpel.] [Margin: et princ. Leutero.] of them al. For wheras the former foure prefigured the foure Goſpels, this ſignified the whole Goſpel, contained in al foure. Likewiſe S. Hierom calleth it A prefiguration of the Euangelical law: ſo iterating former things, that al become new of old. (Epiſt ad Paulin. [Margin: Manſ. vlt.] ca. 7. & de Manſ. 42.) But touching the literal ſenſe, Moyſes here compriſeth foure general things: vnto which after his death the fifth is added; and ſo the whole conteineth fiue partes. Firſt, he briefly reciteth Gods ſpecial benefites [Margin: Conteineth fiue partes.] [Margin: Chap. 1.] beſtowed on this people, and their ingratitude, incredulitie, murmurings, and punishments. in the three firſt chapters. Secondly he repeteth and [Margin: 4. 12.] explicateth Gods precepts, moral, ceremonial, and iudicial, with the functions and offices of Prieſts, and Leuites. from the 4. chap. to the 27. Thirdly [Margin: 27.] he denounceth Gods promiſes of manie bleſſings, and thretes of punishments, for keeping or breaking his commandments. from the 27. chap. to 31 Fourthly [Margin: 31.] he exhorteth them to ſerue and loue God, but withal fortelleth, that they wil often fal to great ſinnes, and for the ſame shal be punished, and at laſt forſaking Chriſt, shal be forſaken: yet finally bleſſeth their tribes, in figure of the Gentiles, that shal be called in their place. chap. 31. 32. and 33. Fiftly, in [Margin: 34.] the laſt chapter, loſue writeth the death, burial, and ſingular commendation of Moyſes.

THE BOOKE OF DEVTERONOMIE, IN HEBREW ELLE HADDEBARIM.

Chapter 1

CHAP. I. Moyſes beginneth, the first day of the eleuenth moneth and fourtith yeare after the children of Iſrael parted from Aegypt, to repete and explicate the Law; 6. first putting them in mind of Gods muniſicence, his owne and other ſuperiors care ouer them, their ingratitude, incredultie, murmuring, 34. [Margin: The firſt part. A repetition of Gods benefites, the peoples ingratitude, and puniſhment.] and punishment for the ſame.

1 THESE are the wordes, which Moyſes ſpake to al Iſrael beyond Iordan, in the champion wilderneſſe, againſt the Read ſea, betwen Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haſeroth, where there is verie much gold:

2 eleuen daies from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

3 The fourtith yeare, the eleuenth moneth, the firſt day of the moneth Moyſes ſpake to the children of Iſrael al thinges that our Lord had commanded him to ſay vnto them:

4 after that he had ſtroke Sehon king of the Amorrheites, which dwelt in Heſebon: and Og the king of Baſan which abode in Aſeroth, and in Edrai,

5 beyond Iordan in the Land of Moab. And Moyſes began to expound the law, and to ſay:

6 The Lord our God ſpake to vs in Horeb, ſaying: It is ſufficient for you that you haue ſtayed in this mountaine:

7 returne, and come to the mountaine of the Amorrheites, and to the reſt that are next to it champion and hillie and lower places againſt the South, and beſide the shore of the ſea, the Land of the Chananeites, and of Libanus vnto the greate riuer Euphrates.

8 Behold (quoth he) I haue deliuered it to you: enter in and poſſeſſe it, vpon the which our Lord ſware to your fathers Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob, that he would geue it to them, and to their ſeede after them.

9 And I ſaid to you at that time:

10 I alone can not ſuſteyne you: becauſe the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the ſtarres of heauen, verie manie.

11 (The Lord God of your fathers adde to this number manie thouſandes, and bleſſe you as he hath ſpoken.)

12 I alone am not able to ſuſteyne your buſineſſes, and the charge of you and your quareles.

13 Geue from among you wiſe and skilful men, and ſuch whoſe conuerſation is approued in your tribes, that I may appoint them your princes.

14 Then you anſwered me: The thing is good which thou meaneſt to do.

15 And I tooke of your tribes men wiſe and noble, and appointed them princes, tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deanes, that might teach you al thinges.

16 And I commanded them, ſaying: Heare them, and iudge that which is iuſt: whether he be the ſame countrie man, or a ſtranger.

17 There shal be no difference of perſons, ſo shal you heare the litle as the great: neither shal you accept any mans perſon, becauſe it is the iudgement of God. And if any thing ſeme hard to you, referre it to me, and I wil heare it.

18 And I commanded al thinges that you ought to do.

19 And departing from Horeb, we paſſed through the terrible and huge wilderneſſe, which you ſaw, by the way of the mountaine of the Amorrheite, as the Lord our God had commanded vs. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,

20 I ſaid to you: You are come to the mountaine of the Amorrheite, which the Lord our God wil geue to vs.

21 See the Land which the Lord thy God geueth thee: goe vp and poſſeſſe it, as the Lord our God hath ſpoken to thy fathers: feare not, neither dread you any thing.

22 And you came al vnto me, and ſaid: Let vs ſend men that may view the Land: and may bring vs word what way we shal aſcend, and to what cities to goe.

23 And becauſe the ſaying pleaſed me, I ſent of you twelue men, one of euerie tribe.

24 Who when they had gone, and were aſcended into the mountaines, they came as farre as the Valley of cluſter: and the Land being viewed,

25 taking of the fruites therof, to shew the fruitfulneſſe, they brought vnto vs, and ſaid: The Land is good, which the Lord our God wil geue vs.

26 And you would not goe vp, but being incredulous at the word of the Lord our God,

27 you murmured in your tabernacles, and ſaid: Our Lord hateth vs, and therfore hath brought vs out of the Land of Aegypt, that he might deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorrheite, and deſtroy vs.

28 Whither ſhal we goe vp? the meſſengers haue feared our hart, ſaying: The multitude is verie great, and taller of ſtature then we: the cities greate, and fenſed euen vnto heauen, the ſonnes of the Enacims we haue ſeene there.

29 And I ſaid to you: [::] Feare not, neither be ye afrayd of them:

30 Our Lord God, which is your conductour, him ſelf wil fight for you, as he did in Aegypt in the ſight of al.

31 And in the wilderneſſe (thy ſelfe haſte ſeene) the Lord thy God hath caried thee, as a man is wont to beare his litle ſonne, al the way, that you haue walked, vntil you came to this place.

32 And neither ſo did you beleue the Lord your God,

33 who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you ſhould pitch your tentes, in the night ſhewing you the way by fyre, and in the day by the piller of a clowde.

34 And when our Lord had heard the voice of your wordes, being wrath he ſware and ſaid:

35 There shal not any of the men of this wicked generation ſee the good Land, which by oath I promiſed to your fathers:

36 beſide Caleb the ſonne of Iephone. For he shal ſee it, and to him I wil geue the Land, that he hath troden, and to his children, becauſe he hath folowed the Lord.

37 Neither is [::] his indignation againſt the people to be merueiled at, wheras our Lord being [::] angrie with me alſo for you, ſaid: Neither shalt thou enter in thither.

38 But Ioſue the ſonne of Nun thy miniſter, he shal enter for thee: exhort and ſtrenghen him, and he shal by lotte diuide the Land to Iſrael.

39 Your litle ones, of whom you ſaid that they should be ledde captiues, and your ſonnes that this day know not the difference of good and euil, they shal enter in: and to them I wil geue the Land, and they shal poſſeſſe it.

40 But returne you and goe into the wilderneſſe by the way of the Reddeſea.

41 And you anſwered me: We haue ſinned to our Lord: we wil goe vp and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. † And when you readie armed went vnto the mountaine,

42 our Lord ſaid to me: Say to them: Goe not vp, and fight not, for I am not with you: leſt you fal before your enemies.

43 I ſpake, and you heard not: but reſiſting the commandement of our Lord, and ſwelling with pride you went vp into the mountaine.

44 Therfore the Amorrheite that dwelt in the mountaines iſſuing forth, and coming to meete you, purſewed you, as bees are wont to purſew: and ſmote you from Seir as farre as Horma.

45 And when returning you went before our Lord, he heard you not, neither would he condeſcend to your voice.

46 You abode therfore in Cadesbarne a great time.

Marginal notes to Chapter 1

• 29 [::] God ſo helpeth his ſeruantes, that they alſo muſt cooperate. S. Aug. q. 1. in Deut.
• 37 [::] Difference of ſinnes.
• 37 [::] God is alſo angrie with his good ſeruantes, and puniſheth thē temporally, for ſmal ſinnes. S. Aug. q. 1. in Ioſue.

Chapter 2

CHAP. II. VVith commemoration of Gods continual protection of the Iſraelites, they are forbid to fight againſt the Idumeans, 9. the Moabites, or Ammonites▪ 24. But against Sehon King of Heſebon they should fight, kil him and al his, and poſſeſse his land.

1 AND departing thence we came into the wilderneſſe, that leadeth to the Redde ſea, as our Lord had ſaid to me: and we compaſſed the mountaine Seir a long time.

2 And our Lord ſaid to me:

3 It is ſufficient for you to haue compaſſed this mountaine: goe toward the North.

4 And command thou the people, ſaying: You shal paſſe by the borders of your brethren the children of Eſau, which dwel in Seir, and they wil be affraid of you.

5 Looke diligently therfore that you ſturre not againſt them. For I wil not geue you of their land ſo much as the ſteppe of one foote can treade, becauſe I haue geuen the mountaine Seir to be the poſſeſſion of Eſau.

6 Meates you ſhal bie of them with money, and shal eate: bought water shal you draw, and drinke.

7 The Lord thy God hath bleſſed thee in euerie worke of thy handes: he knoweth thy iourney, how thou haſt paſſed this great wilderneſſe, for fourtie yeares the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, & thou haſt wanted nothing.

8 And when we had paſſed by our brethren the children of Eſau, that dwelt in Seir, by the champion way from Elath & from Aſiongaber, we came to the way, that leadeth into the deſert of Moab.

9 And our Lord ſaid to me: Fight not againſt the Moabites, neither make battel againſt them: for I wil not geue thee any of their land, becauſe I haue geuen Ar to the children of Lot in poſſeſſion.

10 Emim firſt were the inhabiters therof, a great people, and valiant, and ſo tall that [::] they were thought,

11 as it were giantes, of the Enacims ſtocke, & were like the children of the Enacims. Moreouer the Moabites cal them Emim.

12 But in Seir before dwelt the Horrins: who being expelled and deſtroyed, the children of Eſau did inhabite it, as Iſrael did in the land of his poſſeſſion, which our Lord gaue him.

13 Ryſing vp therfore to paſſe the Torrent Zared, we came to it.

14 And the time, that we walked from Cadeſbarne vnto the paſſage of the torrent Zared, was thirtie and eight yeares: vntil al the generation of the men that were warriers was conſumed out of the campe, as our Lord had ſworne:

15 whoſe hand was againſt them, that they should perish from among the campe.

16 And after al the warryers were dead,

17 our Lord ſpake to me, ſaying:

18 Thou shalt paſſe this day the borders of Moab, the citie named Ar:

19 and approching vnto the frontiers of the children of Ammon, beware thou fight not againſt them, neither once moue to battel: for I wil not geue thee of the land of the children of Ammon, becauſe I haue geuen it to the children of Lot in poſſeſſion.

20 It was reputed the land of giantes: and giantes in old time dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites cal Zomzommim,

21 a great and huge people, and of long ſtature, as the Enacims whom our Lord deſtroyed before their face: and he made them to dwel in their ſteede,

22 as he had done to the children of Eſau, that dwelt in Seir, deſtroying the Horrheites, and deliuering their land to them, which they poſſeſſe vntil this preſent.

23 The Heueites alſo, that dwelt in Haſerim as farre as Gaza, the Capadocians expelled: who iſſuing out of Capadocia, deſtroyed them, and dwelt in their ſteede.

24 Ariſe ye, and paſſe the torrent Arnon: behold I haue deliuered in thy hand Sehon king of Heſebon the Amorrheite, and beginne to poſſeſſe his land, and [::] make warre againſt him.

25 This day wil I beginne to ſend thy terrour and feare vpon the peoples, that dwel vnder the whole heauen: that hearing thy name they may quake, and tremble after the manner of wemen in trauel, and be pinched with ſorow.

26 I ſent therfore meſſengers from the wildernes of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Heſebon with peaceable wordes, ſaying:

27 We wil paſſe through thy land, we wil goe the common high way: we wil not decline neither to the right hand, not to the left.

28 Sel vs meates for money, that we may eate: Geue vs water for money, and ſo we wil drinke. Onlie this that thou wilt graunt vs paſſage,

29 as [::] the children of Eſau haue done, that dwel in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: vntil we come to Iordan, and paſſe to the Land, which the Lord our God wil geue vs.

30 And Sehon the king of Heſebon would not geue vs paſſage: becauſe the Lord thy God had [::] indurated his ſpirit, and hardened his hart, that he might be deliuered into thy handes, as now thou ſeeſt.

31 And our Lord ſaid to me: Behold I haue begunne to deliuer Sehon vnto thee, and his land, beginne to poſſeſſe it.

32 And Sehon came forth to meete vs with al his people to battel in Iaſa.

33 And the Lord our God deliuered him to vs: and we ſmote him with his ſonnes and al his people.

34 And al his cities we tooke at that time, killing the inhabiters therof, men and wemen and litle ones. we left nothing among them.

35 Except the cattel, which came to their portion that tooke prayes: and the ſpoyles of the cities, which we tooke

36 from Aroer, which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, a towne that is ſituated in a valley, as farre as Galaad. There was not a village or citie, that eſcaped our handes: the Lord our God deliuered al vnto vs.

37 Except the land of the children of Ammon, to the which we approched not: and al that adioyne to the torrent Ieboc, and the cities on the mountaine, and al the places, from which the Lord our God prohibited vs.

Marginal notes to Chapter 2

• 10 [::] Theſe were men of very great ſtature, but not equal to the giantes before the ſ⟨illegible⟩ould.
• 24 [::] By this we are inſtructed to fight aga⟨illegible⟩ſt in⟨illegible⟩ideles, but not without ſpecial cauſe againſt chriſtians, ſignified by the childrē of Lot and Eſau.
• 29 [::] The I dumeans once denied them paſſage Num. 20. v. 20. but afterwards granted therto.
• 30 [::] God permitted him for his former ſinnes, to indurate him ſelfe. See Exod. 7. v. 3.

Chapter 3

CHAP. III. The victorie againſt Og king of Baſan of the giants ſtock is repeted, 12. Ruben Gad and halfe tribe of Manaſses haue poſſeſsion on the other ſide Iordan from their brethren. 23. Moyſes praying that he may goe ouer Iordan, for the ſinnes of the people is denied.

1 THERFORE turning we went vp by the way of Baſan: and Og the king of Baſan came forth to meete vs with his people to fight in Edrai.

2 And our Lord ſaid to me: Feare him not: becauſe he is deliuered into thy hand with al his people and his land: and thou ſhalt doe to him as thou haſt done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites, that dwelt in Heſebon.

3 Therfore the Lord our God deliuered into our handes Og alſo the king of Baſan, and al his people: and we ſtroke them to vtter deſtruction,

4 waiſting al his cities at one time. there was not a towne that eſcaped vs: ſixtie cities, al the countrie of Argob the kingdome of Og in Baſan.

5 Al the cities were fenſed with verie high walles, and with gates and barres, beſide innumerable townes that had no walles.

6 And we deſtroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Heſebon, deſtroying euerie citie, and men and wemen and children:

7 but the cattel, and the ſpoyles of the cities we tooke for our praye.

8 And we tooke at that time the land out of the hand of two kinges of the Amorrheites, that were beyond Iordan: from the torrent Arnon vnto the mountaine Hermon,

9 which the Sidonians cal Sarion, and the Amorrheites Sanir:

10 al the cities, that are ſituated in the plaine, and al the Land of Galaad and Baſan as farre as Selcha, and Edrai cities of the kingdome of Og in Baſan.

11 For onlie Og the king of Baſan remayned of the ſtocke of giantes. his bed of yron is ſhewed, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, hauing nine cubites in length, and foure in breadth after the meaſure of [::] the cubite of a mans hand.

12 And we poſſeſſed the Land at that time from Aroer, which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, vnto the halfe part of mount Galaad: and the cities therof I gaue to Ruben and Gad.

13 And the other part of Galaad, and al Baſan of the kingdome of Og, I deliuered to the halfe tribe of Manaſſes, al the countrie of Argob: and al Baſan is called the Land of giantes.

14 Iair the ſonne of Manaſſes poſſeſſed al the countrie of Argob vnto the borders of Geſſuri, and Machati. And he called Baſan by his owne name, Hauoth Iair, that is to ſay, the townes of Iair, [::] vntil this preſent day

15 To Machir alſo I gaue Galaad.

16 And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gaue of the Land of Galaad as farre as the Torrent Arnon, halfe of the torrent, and the confines vnto the torrent Ieboc, which is the border of the childrē of Ammon:

17 and the plaine of the wilderneſſe, and Iordan, and the borders of Cenereth vnto the ſea of the deſert, which is moſt ſalt, at the foote of mount Phaſga againſt the eaſt.

18 And I commāded you at that time, ſaying: The Lord your God geueth you this land for an inheritance, goe wel appointed before your brethren the children of Iſrael al you ſtrong men:

19 except your wiues, and litle ones and your cattel. For I know you haue much cattel, & they muſt remaine in the cities, which I haue deliuered you,

20 vntil our Lord geue reſt to your brethren, as he hath geuen to you: and they alſo poſſeſſe the Land, which he wil geue them beyond Iordan: then shal euerie man returne to his poſſeſſion, which I haue geuen you.

21 Ioſue alſo at that time I commanded, ſaying: Thyne eyes haue ſeene what the Lord your God hath done to theſe two kinges: ſo wil he doe to al the kingdomes, to the which thou ſhalt paſſe.

22 Feare them not: for the Lord your God wil fight for you.

23 And I prayed our Lord at that time, ſaying:

24 Lord God thou haſt begonne to ſhew vnto thy ſeruant thy greatnes, and moſt mightie hand. for neither is there other God either in heauen, or in earth, that is able to doe thy workes, and to be compared to thy ſtrength.

25 I wil paſſe ouer therfore, and wil ſee this excellent Land beyond Iordan, and this goodlie mountaine, and Libanus.

26 And our Lord was angrie with me [::] for you, and heard me not, but ſaid to me: It ſufficeth thee: ſpeake no more to me of this matter.

27 Goe vp to the toppe of Phaſga, and caſt thine cies round about to the weſt, and to the north, and the ſouth, and the eaſt, and behold it. for thou ſhalt not paſſe this Iordan.

28 Command Ioſue, and encourage and ſtrenghen him: for he shal goe before this people, and shal diuide vnto them the Land, which thou shalt ſee.

29 And we abode in the valley againſt the temple of Phogor.

Marginal notes to Chapter 3

• 11 [::] Longer ſorte of cubites are a foote and 9, inches: ſo this bed was 15. foote and nine inches long, and 7. foote brode. Vitruuius Agricola.
• 14 [::] Eſdras adding theſe wordes, and often times the like, did not againſt the law, becauſe ſuch additions are agreable and not contrarie to that which was written before.
• 26 [::] See Num. ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩. 12.

Chapter 4

CHAP. IIII. Moyſes exhorteth the people to kepe Gods commandments. 15. Namely that they make no ſimilitude nor image of man, nor of beaſt, bird, fish, ſunne, moone, nor of anie creature to ſerue the ſame for the Creator. He fortelleth [Margin: The ſecond part. A repetition & explication of the law.] his owne death, 23. threatneth them if they forſake God. 41. and appointeth three cities of refuge, on the ſame ſide Iordan.

1 AND now Iſrael heare the preceptes and iudgementes, which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayeſt liue, and entring in mayeſt poſſeſſe the Land, which the Lord the God of your fathers wil geue you.

2 You “shal not adde to the word, that I ſpeake to you, neither shal you take away from it: keepe the commandment of the Lord your God which I command you.

3 Your eyes haue ſeene al thinges that our Lord hath done againſt Beelphegor, how he hath deſtroyed al his worshippers out of the middes of you.

4 But you that cleaue to the Lord your God, liue al vntil this preſent day.

5 You know that I haue taught you preceptes and iuſtices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: ſo shal you do them in the Land, which you shal poſſeſſe:

6 and you shal obſerue, and fulfil them in worke. For [::] this is your wiſedome, and vnderſtanding before peoples, that hearing al theſe preceptes, may ſay: Behold a people ful of wiſedome and vnderſtanding, a great nation.

7 Neither is there other nation ſo great, that hath goddes approching vnto them, as our God is preſent at al our petitions.

8 For what other nation is there ſo renowmed that hath the ceremonies, and iuſt iudgementes, and the whole law, which I wil ſette forth this day before your eyes.

9 Keepe thy ſelfe therfore, and thy ſoule carefully. Forget not the wordes, that thyne eyes haue ſeene, and let them not fal out of thy hart al the daies of thy life. Thou shalt teach them thy ſonnes and thy nephewes,

10 the day wherin thou didſt ſtand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when our Lord ſpake to me, ſaying: Aſſemble vnto me the people, that they may heare my wordes, and may learne to feare me al the time that they liue on the earth, and may teach their children.

11 And you came to the foote of the mount, which burned euen vnto heauen: and there was in it darkenes, and a clould and miſt.

12 And our Lord ſpake to you from the middes of the fyre. The voice of his wordes you heard, and forme you ſaw not at al.

13 And he shewed you his couenant, which he commanded you to do, and the [::] tenne wordes, that he wrote in two tables of ſtone.

14 And he cōmanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and iudgementes, which you should doe in the Land, that you shal poſſeſſe.

15 Keepe therfore your ſoules carefully. You ſaw not any ſimilitude in the day, that our Lord ſpake to you in Horeb from the middes of the fire:

16 leſt perhaps deceiued you might make you a grauen ſimilitude, or image of male or female,

17 the ſimilitude of al cattel, that are vpon the earth, or of birdes, that flie vnder heauen,

18 and of creeping beaſtes, that moue on the earth, or of fishes, that vnder the earth abide in the waters:

19 leſt perhapes lifting vp thyne cies to heauen, thou ſee the Sunne and the Moone, and al the ſtarres of heauen, and deceiued by errour thou adore and ſerue them, which the Lord thy God created to ſerue al nations, that are vnder heauen.

20 But you our Lord hath taken, and brought out of the yron furnace of Aegypt, to haue you his people by inheritance, as it is this preſent day.

21 And our Lord was angrie with me for your wordes, and he ſware [::] that I ſhould not paſſe ouer Iordan, nor enter into the excellent Land, which he wil geue you.

22 Behold I die [::] in this ground, I shal not paſſe ouer Iordan: you shal paſſe, and poſſeſſe the goodlie Land.

23 Beware leſt at any time thou forget the couenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thee a grauen ſimilitude of thoſe thinges, which our Lord hath prohibited to be made:

24 becauſe the Lord thy God is a conſuming fyre, ielouſe God.

25 If you shal begette ſonnes and nephewes, and abide in the Land, and being deceiued make to you ſome ſimilitude, committing euil before the Lord your God, to prouoke him to wrarh:

26 I cal this day heauen and earth witneſſes, that you shal quikly perish from out of the Land, which being paſſed ouer Iordan you shal poſſeſſe. You shal not dwel therin long time, but our Lotd wil deſtroy you,

27 and diſperſe you into al nations, and you shal remaine a few among the nations, to the which our Lord wil lead you.

28 and there you shal ſerue goddes, that were framed with mens hand, wood and ſtone that ſee not, nor heare, nor eate, nor ſmel.

29 And when thou shalt ſeeke there the Lord thy God, thou shalt finde him: yet ſo, if thou ſeeke him with al thy hart, and al tribulation of thy ſoule.

30 After that al the thinges aforeſaid shal finde thee, and in [::] the latter time thou shalt returne to the Lord thy God, and shalt heare his voice.

31 Becauſe the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he wil not leaue thee, nor altogether deſtroy thee, nor forget the couenant, wherein he ſware to thy fathers.

32 Aske of the dayes of old, that haue bene before thy time from the day that God created man vpon the earth, from one end of heauen to the other end therof, if euer there was done the like thing, or it hath beene knowen at any time,

33 that a people should heare the voice of God ſpeaking out of the middes of fyre, as thou haſt heard, and liued:

34 if God ſo did that he went in, and tooke vnto him a Nation out of the middes of nations, by temptations, ſignes, and wonders, by fight and ſtrong hand, and ſtretched out arme, and horrible viſions according to al thinges, that the Lord your God did for you in Aegypt, thine eies ſeeing it:

35 that thou mighteſt know that our Lord, he is God, and there is none other beſide him,

36 from heauen he made thee to heare his voice, that he might teach thee. And in earth he shewed thee his fyre, verie greate, and thou didſt heare his wordes out of the middes of the fyre,

37 becauſe he loued thy fathers, and choſe their ſeede after them. And he brought thee out of Aegypt, going before thee in his great power,

38 to deſtroy verie great nations and ſtronger then thou at thy entring in, and to bring thee in, and geue thee their land in poſſeſſion, as thou ſeeſt this preſent day.

39 Know therfore this day, and thinke in thy hart that our Lord he is God in heauen aboue, and in the earth beneth, and there is none other.

40 Keepe his preceptes and commandementes, which I command thee: that it may be wel with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayeſt remayne a long time vpon the Land, which the Lord thy God wil geue thee.

41 Then Moyſes ſeparated three cities beyond Iordan at the eaſt ſide,

42 that he might flee to them which ſhould kil his neighbour not voluntarily, neither was his enemie a day or two before, and he might ſcape to ſome of theſe cities:

43 Boſor in the wilderneſſe, which is ſituated in the champion countrie of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Baſan, which is in the tribe of manaſſes.

44 This is the law, that Moyſes ſette before the children of Iſrael,

45 and theſe are the teſtimonies and ceremonies and iudgementes, which he ſpake to the children of Iſrael, when they came out of Aegypt,

46 beyond Iordan in the valley againſt the temple of Phogor in the land of Sehon king of the Ammorrheite, that dwelt in Heſebon, whom Moyſes ſtroke. The children of Iſrael alſo comming out of Aegypt

47 poſſeſſed his land, and the land of Og the king of Baſan, the two kinges of the Amorrheites, which were beyond Iordan toward the ryſing of the ſunne:

48 from Aroer, which is ſituated vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon, vnto the mountaine Sion, which is alſo Hermon,

49 al the plaine beyond Iordan at the eaſt ſide, vnto the ſea of the wilderneſſe, and vnto the foote of mount Phaſga.

Marginal notes to Chapter 4

• 6 [::] To kepe Gods cōmandments is counted by al nations the moſt excellent wiſdome.
• 13 [::] Here and in other places it is manifeſt that the commandments, called the Decalogue, are iuſt tenne.
• 21 [::] Venial and leaſt ſinnes paſſe not with out temporal puniſhment.
• 22 [::] This was alſo a Myſterie, that the old law, ſignified by Moyſes, could not bring to heauen, the true land of promiſe, but the law of Chriſt, ſignified by Ioſue. Theodoret, q. 43. in Deut.
• 30 [::] Conuerſion of the Iewes in the end of the world.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. IIII.

2. You shal not adde.] Moyſes can not meane, that no more ſhould be [Margin: As other Scriptures are included in the law, ſo alſo Traditiōs are conteined in the Scriptures.] written, nor commanded; for then the laſt chapter of this booke, and the reſt of the Bible ſhould not haue benne written after his death; neither ought the Prieſtes or Prophetes to haue commanded anie thing not expreſſed in the law. And wheras Proteſtantes ſay that al other Scriptures are included in the [Margin: Brentius Kēniſius Caluin.] lawe, or pertaine to the explicatiō or performance therof: we alſo anſwer that vnwritten Traditiōs both in the old and new Teſtament are likewiſe implied, included, or perteine to the explication or performance of the law. For euen as the written doctrin of the Prophetes, yea and of Chriſt, and his Apoſtles, in general is conteined in the law of Moyſes, ſo alſo are certaine faſtes, feaſtes, rites, ceremonies and other traditions proued and confirmed by general ſpeaches and axiomes written in holie Scriptures, as by our Sauiours wordes to his Apoſtles Luc. 10. He that heareth you, heareth me. S. Paules to other Chriſtians (1. Cor. 10.) other things vvhen I come I vvil diſpoſe (2. Theſſ 2.) Hold the traditions vvhich you haue lerned: and the like. VVherupon S. Auguſtin [Margin: The Church, commended by Scriptures, approueth Traditions.] Li. 1. cont Creſcon. c. 33. geueth this rule, that albeit an euident example can not be produced of holie Scripture, yet the truth of the ſame Scriptures is holden by vs, vvhen vve do that pleaſeth the vvhole Church, vvhich the authoritie of Scriptures commendeth. The ſame he teacheth. Epiſt. 80. and in manie other places. So do S. Epiphanius in compend. ſides Cathol. S Hierom. Dialog. cont. Lucifer. c. 4. S. Chryſoſt, ho. 4. in 1. Theſſal 4. S. Baſil. de Spiritu Sancto, c. 39. S. Ireneus li. 3. c. 4.

Chapter 5

CHAP. V. The tenne commandements are repeted and explaned. 23. with commemoration of their dread and feare, When they heard the voice from the clowde, and ſaw the mountaine burne.

1 AND Moyſes called al Iſrael, and ſaid to them: Heare Iſrael the ceremonies & iudgements, which I ſpeake in your eares this day: lerne them, and [::] fulfil them in worke.

2 The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.

3 Not with our fathers did he make the couenant, but with vs at this preſent, and doe liue.

4 Face to face did he ſpeake to vs in the mount out of the middes of the fyre.

5 I was arbiter and [::] mediatour betwixt our Lord and you at that time, to ſhew you his wordes, for you feared the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he ſaid:

6 I the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the houſe of ſeruitude.

7 Thou shalt not haue ſtrange goddes in my ſight.

8 “Thou shalt not make to thee a thing grauen, nor the ſimilitude of any thinges, that are in heauen aboue, and that are in the earth beneath, and that abide in the waters vnder the earth.

9 Thou ſhalt not adore them, and thou ſhalt not ſerue them. For I am the Lord thy God, a Iealouſe God, tendering the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

10 and doing mercie vpon manie thouſandes to them that loue me, and keepe my preceptes.

11 Thou ſhalt not vſurpe the name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for he ſhal not be vnpuniſhed that taketh his name vpon a vaine thing.

12 Obſerue the day of the Sabbath, to ſanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13 Six dayes ſhalt thou worke, and shalt doe al thy workes.

14 The ſeuenth is the day of the Sabbath, that is, the reſt of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not doe any worke therin, thou, and thy ſonne and daughter, man ſeruant and woman ſeruant, and oxe, and aſſe, and al thy cattel, and the ſtranger that is within thy gates: that thy man ſeruant may reſt, and thy woman ſeruant, euen as thy ſelfe.

15 Remember that thou alſo dideſt ſerue in Aegypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence in a ſtrong hand, and ſtretched out arme. Therfore hath he commanded thee that thou ſhouldeſt obſerue the Sabbath.

16 Honour thy father and mother, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayſt liue a long time, and it may be wel with thee in the Land, which the Lord thy God wil geue thee.

17 Thou shalt not murder.

18 Neither shalt thou committe aduoutrie.

19 And thou shal not ſteale.

20 Neither shalt thou ſpeake againſt thy neighbour falſe teſtimonie.

21 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife: [::] Nor houſe, nor field, nor man ſeruant, nor woman ſeruant, nor oxe, nor aſſe, and al thinges that are his.

22 Theſe wordes ſpake our Lord to al your multitude in the mount, out of the middes of the fi⟨illegible⟩e and the cloude, and the darkenes, with a loude voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in the two tables of ſtone, which he deliuered vnto me.

23 And you after you heard the voice out of the middes of the darkenes, and ſaw the mount burne, came to me al the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you ſaid:

24 Behold the Lord our God hath shewed vs his maieſtie and greatnes, for we haue heard his voice out of the middes of the fire, and haue proued this day that God ſpeaking with man, man hath liued.

25 Why shal we die therfore, and this exceding great fire deuoure vs? For if we heare the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shal die.

26 What is al flesh, that it should heare the voice of the liuing God, who ſpeaketh out of the middes of the fire as we haue heard, and may liue?

27 Approche thou rather: and heare al thinges that the Lord our God shal ſay to thee: and thou shalt ſpeake to vs, and we hearing wil doe them.

28 Which when our Lord had heard, he ſaid to me: I haue heard the voice of the wordes of this people, which they ſpake to thee: they haue ſpoken al thinges wel.

29 Who shal geue them to haue ſuch a minde, that they would feare me, and keepe al my commandementes at al time, that it may be wel with them and with their children for euer?

30 Goe and ſay to them: Returne into your tentes.

31 But thou ſtand here with me, and I wil ſpeake to thee al my commandementes, and ceremonies and iudgementes: which thou shalt teach them, that they may doe them in the Land, which I wil geue them in poſſeſſion.

32 Keepe therfore and doe the thinges which our Lord God hath commanded you: you shal not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left:

33 but the way that the Lord your God hath commanded shal you walke, that you may liue, and it may be wel with you, and your daies may be prolonged in the land of your poſſeſſion.

Marginal notes to Chapter 5

• 1 [::] It is not ynough to beleue only, or to know the commandments, but neceſſarie alſo to fulfil them in ⟨illegible⟩vor⟨illegible⟩e.
• 5 [::] The title of mediator lawfully aſcribed to Gods lieu⟨illegible⟩enant in ⟨illegible⟩rth.
• 21 [::] Coueting as other mans wife, and coueting his goodes, differ as much, as the exterior actes of adultry and of theft. And ſo theſe two commandments are as diſtinct as the former two.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. V.

8. Thou shalt not make.] If our aduerſaries would quietly conſider the coherence of the holie text, they might eaſely ſee, that this prohibition of making, and worſhipping the ſimilitude of anie creature, perteyneth to the [Margin: Images of Idols forbid, but not of other things.] former ſentence: Thou shalt not haue ſtrange goddes: more particularly forbidding either to make Idoles, or to worſhip ſuch as others make; and that with commination, becauſe our Lord is a ielous God, and wil not ſuffer his honour to be geuen to anie creature. But other Images were made in the old Teſtament, by Gods commandment, and likewiſe Images of Chriſt and his Sainctes are lawful and profitable among Chriſtians. as before is noted. Exod. 20.

Chapter 6

CHAP. VI. God is diligently to be ſerued, and loued with thy whole hart, thy whole ſoule, and whole strength. Al his precepts, ceremonies and iudgements must be carefully kept, and commended to posteritie.

1 THESE are the preceptes, and ceremonies, and iudgementes, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and you should doe them in the Land, whereunto you paſſe ouer to poſſeſſe it:

2 that thou mayeſt feare the Lord thy God, and keepe his commandementes and preceptes, which I command thee, and thy ſonnes, and nephewes, al the dayes of thy life, that thy dayes may be prolonged.

3 Heare Iſrael, and obſerue that thou doe the thinges which our Lord hath commanded thee, and it may be wel with thee, and thou mayeſt be greately multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promiſed thee a land flowīg with milke and honie.

4 Heare Iſrael, The Lord our God, is one Lord.

5 Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with thy whole hart, and with thy whole ſoule, and with thy whole ſtrength.

6 And theſe wordes, which I command thee this day, shal be in thy hart:

7 and thou shalt tel them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate ſitting in thy houſe, and walking on thy iourney, ſleeping, and ryſing.

8 And thou shalt bind them as a ſigne on thy hand, and they shal be & shal moue betwen thine eies,

9 and thou shalt write them in the entrie, and on the doores of thy houſe.

10 And when the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the Land, for the which he ſware to thy fathers Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob: and shal haue geuen thee great and goodlie cities, which thou didſt not build,

11 houſes ful of al riches, which thou didſt not erect, ceſternes which thou didſt not digge, vineyardes and oliueyardes, which thou didſt not plant,

12 and thou shalt haue eaten and be ful:

13 take heede diligently leſt thou forget our Lord, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the houſe of ſeuitude. Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and [::] him onelie shalt thou ſerue, and by his name shalt thou ſweare.

14 You shal not goe after the ſtrange goddes of al Nations, that are round about you:

15 becauſe the Lord thy God is a Iealouſe God in the middes of thee: leſt ſometime the furie of the Lord thy God be wrath againſt thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.

16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou didſt tempt him in the place of tentation.

17 Keepe the preceptes of the Lord thy God, and the teſtimonies and ceremonies, which he hath commanded thee:

18 And doé that which is pleaſant and good in the ſight of our Lord, that it may be wel with thee: and entring in thou mayeſt poſſeſſe the goodlie Land, wherof our Lord ſware to thy fathers,

19 that he would deſtroy al thy enemies before thee, as he hath ſpoken.

20 And when thy ſonne shal aske thee to morrow, ſaying: What meane theſe teſtimonies, and ceremonies, and iudgementes, which the Lord our God hath commanded vs?

21 thou shalt ſay to him: We were the bondmen of Pharao in Aegypt, and our Lord brought vs out of Aegypt in a ſtrong hand:

22 and he did ſignes & wonders great and verie ſore in Aegypt againſt Pharao, and al his houſe, in our ſight,

23 and he brought vs out from thence, that being brought in he might geue vs the Land, wherupon he ſware to our fathers.

24 And our Lord commanded that we should doe al theſe ordinances, and should feare the Lord our God, that it might be wel with vs al the daies of our life, as it is at this day.

25 And he wil be merciful to vs, if we keepe and doe al his preceptes before the Lord our God, as he commanded vs.

Marginal notes to Chapter 6

• 13 [::] Some adoration agreeth to creatures, but ſeruice of Latria to God onlie S. Aug. q 61. in Gen.

Chapter 7

CHAP. VII. No league nor felowship to be had with the Gentiles: 5. but their altares, groues, and al their idoles to be destroyed. 17. God promiſeth victories to his people, willing them to truſt in him, and ſerue him.

1 VVHEN the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the land, which thou doeſt enter in to poſſeſſe, and shal haue deſtroyed manie Nations before thee, the Hetheite, and the Gergezeite, and the Amorrheite, and the Chananeite, and the Pherezeite, and the Heueite, and the Iebuſeite, ſeuen nations of much greater number then thou art, and ſtronger then thou:

2 and the Lord thy God shal haue deliuered them to thee, thou ſhalt ſtrike them vnto vtter deſtruction. Thou shalt not make league with them, nor pitie them,

3 nor make mariages with them. Thy daughter thou ſhalt not geue to his ſonne, nor take his daughter for thy ſonne:

4 for he wil ſeduce thy ſonne, that he folow not me, and that he rather ſerue ſtrange goddes, and the furie of our Lord wil be wrath, and shal quickly deſtroy thee.

5 But theſe thinges rather you shal doe to them: Ouerthrow their altares, and breake their ſtatuees, and cutte downe their groues, and burne their ſculptiles.

6 Becauſe thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath choſen thee, to be his peculiar people of al peoples, that are vpon the earth.

7 Not becauſe you paſſed al nations in number, is our Lord ioyned vnto you, and hath choſen you, wheras you are fewer then al peoples:

8 but becauſe our Lord hath loued you, and hath kept the oath, which he ſware to your fathers: and hath brought you forth in a ſtrong hand, and redemed you from the houſe of ſeruitude, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Aegypt.

9 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a ſtrong and faith ful God, keping his couenant and mercie to them that loue him, and to them that keepe his preceptes, vnto a thouſand generations:

10 and rendring forthwith to them that hate him, ſo that he deſtroyeth them, and differreth no longer, :: immediatly rendering to them that they deſerue.

11 Keepe therfore the preceptes and ceremonies and iudgementes, which I command thee this day to doe them.

12 [::] If after thou haſt heard theſe iudgementes, thou keepe and doe them, the Lord alſo thy God wil keepe the couenant vnto thee, and the mercie which he ſware to thy fathers:

13 and he wil loue and multiplie thee, and wil bleſſe the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne, and vintage, oile, and heardes, the flockes of thy ſheepe vpon the Land, for the which he ſware to thy fathers that he would geue it thee.

14 Bleſſed ſhalt thou be among al peoples. There ſhal be none barren with thee of neither ſexe, as wel in men as in thy flockes.

15 Our Lord wil take away from thee al diſeaſe: and the ſore infirmities of Aegypt, which thou knoweſt, he wil not bring vpon thee, but vpon al thyne enemies.

16 Thou ſhalt deuoure al the peoples, which the Lord thy God wil gene thee. Thyn eye ſhal not ſpare them, neither shalt thou ſerue their goddes, leſt they be the ruine of thee.

17 If thou ſay in thy hart: Theſe nations are moe then I, how ſhal I be able to deſtroy them?

18 Feare not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to al the Aegyptians,

19 the exceding great plagues, which thyne eies ſaw, and the ſignes and wonders, and the ſtrong hand, and the ſtretched out arme, that the Lord thy God might bring thee forth: ſo wil he doe to al peoples, whom thou feareſt.

20 Moreouer hornettes alſo wil the Lord thy God ſend vpon them, vntil he deſtroy and conſume al that eſcaped thee, and can hide them ſelues.

21 Thou shalt not feare them, becauſe the Lord thy God is in the middes of thee, a mightie God and terrible:

22 he wil conſume theſe nations in thy ſight by litle and litle and by partes. Thou mayeſt not deſtroy them al together: leſt perhappes the beaſtes of the earth multiplie againſt thee.

23 And the Lord thy God wil geue them in thy ſight: and wil kil them vntil they be vtterly deſtroyed.

24 And he wil deliuer their kinges into thy handes, and thou shalt deſtroy their names vnder heauen: no man shal be able to reſiſt thee, vntil thou deſtroy them.

25 Their ſculptiles thou shalt burne with fyre: thou shalt not couet the ſiluer and gold, wherof they were made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing therof, leſt thou offend, becauſe it is the abomination of the Lord thy God.

26 Neither shalt thou bring in ought of the Idol into thy houſe, leſt thou become anathema, as alſo that is. As filthines thou shalt deteſt it, and as vncleannes and filth thou shalt account it abominable, becauſe it is anathema.

Marginal notes to Chapter 7

• 9 Not withſtanding this commination, God ofrentimes differreth puniſhment, expecting the ſinners repentance.
• 12 [::] Gods promiſes cōditional, if his people ſerue him.

Chapter 8

CHAP. VIII. The people is put in mind of afflictions which happened in the deſerte, and of benefites as wel past, as promiſed▪ 11. to the end they loue and ſerue God more effectually.

1 EVERIE commandement, that I command thee this day, take diligent heede that thou doe it: that you may liue, and be multiplied, and entring in may poſſeſſe the Land, for the which our Lord ſware to your fathers.

2 And thou shalt remember al the iourney, through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee fourtie yeares by the deſert, that he might afflict and proue thee, and that the thinges that were in thy hart might be made knowen, whether thou wouldeſt keepe his commandementes or not.

3 He afflicted thee with penurie, and gaue thee for meate Manna, which thou kneweſt not nor thy fathers: for to shew vnto thee that [::] not in bread onlie a man liue, but in euerie word that procedeth from the mouth of God.

4 Thy rayment, wherwith thou waſt couered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foote is not worne, loe this is the fourtith yeare.

5 That thou mayeſt recount in thy hart, that as a man diſciplineth his ſonne, ſo the Lord thy God hath diſciplined thee,

6 that thou ▪shouldeſt keepe the cōmandementes of the Lord thy God, & walke in his wayes, and feare him.

7 For the Lord thy God wil bring thee in vnto a good land, a land of riuers & waters and of fountaynes: in the plains wherof and mountaynes deepe floudes gush out:

8 a land of wheate, of barley & vineyardes, wherein figge trees and pomegranates, and oliueyardes doe grow: a land of oyle and honie.

9 Where without any penutie thou shalt eate thy bread, and enioy abundance of al thinges: whoſe ſtones are yron, and out of the mountaynes therof are digged metalles of braſſe:

10 that when thou haſt eaten, and art ful, thou mayeſt bleſſe the Lord thy God for the excellent land, which he hath geuen thee.

11 Obſerue, and beware leſt at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandementes and iudgementes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:

12 leſt after thou haſt eaten and art filled, haſt built goodlie houſes, and dwelled in them,

13 and ſhalt haue heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe, of gold and ſiluer, and of al thinges plentie,

14 thy hart be lifted vp, and thou remember not the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the houſe of ſeruitude:

15 and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wilderneſſe, wherein was the ſerpent burning with his breath, and the ſcorpion and [::] the dipſas, and no waters at al: who brought forth riuers out of the hardeſt rocke,

16 and fed thee with Manna in the wilderneſſe, which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proued thee, at the laſt he had mercie vpon thee,

17 leſt thou ſhouldeſt ſay in thy hart: Myne owne force, and the ſtrength of myne owne hand, haue archieued al theſe thinges for me.

18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath geuen thee ſtrength, that he might fulfil his couenant, concerning which he ſware to thy fathers, as this preſent day ſheweth.

19 But if forgetting the Lord thy God, thou ſhalt folow ſtrange goddes, and ſhalt ſerue and adore them: behold now I foretel thee that thou shalt periſh vtterly.

20 As the Nations, which our Lord deſtroyed at thyne entrie, ſo ſhal you alſo perish, if you be diſobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

Marginal notes to Chapter 8

• 3 [::] God is able to make foode of what he plesſe, or to ſuſtaine men without ⟨illegible⟩cate.
• 15 [::] A ſerpent leſſe then a ſcorpion, making thoſe whom he byteth to die of thirſt Sol⟨illegible⟩us in polyhiſt. cap. de Africa.

Chapter 9

CHAP. IX. Leſt they should impute the victories (which they shal haue) to them ſelues, 6. they are put in mind of their often prouoking Gods wrath, 12. by idolatrie, 22. by murmuring, by concupiſcence, by contempt, and other ſinnes. 25 for which they should haue bene destroyed, but God ſpared them for his prou⟨illegible⟩ſe made to Abraham Iſaeac and Iacob.

1 HEARE Iſrael: Thou shalt goe ouer Iordan this day; to poſſeſſe verie greate nations and ſtronger then thy ſelfe, huge cities, and walled [::] euen vnto heauen,

2 a great people and tal, the ſonnes of the Enacims, whom thou haſt ſeene, and heard, againſt whom no man is able to reſiſt.

3 Thou shalt know therfore this day that the Lord thy God him ſelfe wil paſſe ouer before thee, a deuouring and conſuming fyre, who shal deſtroy and abolish and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath ſpoken to thee.

4 Say not in thy hart, when the Lord thy God shal haue deſtroyed them in thy ſight: For my iuſtice hath our Lord brought me in to poſſeſſe this land, wheras theſe nations were deſtroyed for their impieties.

5 For not becauſe of thy iuſtices, and equitie of thy hart doeſt thou enter in to poſſeſſe their landes: but becauſe they haue done impiouſly, at thy entring in they are deſtroyed: and that our Lord might accomplish his word, which by oath he promiſed to thy fathers Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob.

6 Know therfore that not for thy iuſtices hath the Lord thy God geuen thee this excellent land in poſſeſſion, wheras thou art a verie ſtiffe necked people.

7 Remember, and forget not how thou didſt prouoke the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderneſſe. From the ſame day, that thou cameſt out of Aegypt vnto this place, thou haſt alwayes contended againſt our Lord.

8 For in Horeb alſo thou didſt prouoke him, and being wrath he would haue deſtroyed thee,

9 when I went vp into the mounte, to receiue the tables of ſtone, of the couenant which our Lord made with you: and I continewed in the mounte fourtie daies and nightes, not eating bread, nor drinking water.

10 And our Lord gaue me two tables of ſtone written with the ſinger of God, and conteyning al the wordes that he ſpake to you in the mounte from the middes of the fyre, when the aſſemblie of the people was gathered.

11 And when fourtie dayes were paſſed, and as manie nightes, our Lord gaue me the two tables of ſtone, the tables of couenant,

12 and he ſaid to me, Ariſe, and goe downe from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou didſt bring out of Aegypt, haue quickly forſaken the way, that thou haſt ſhewed them, and haue made them [::] a molten idol.

13 And againe our Lord ſaid to me: I ſee that this people is ſtiffe necked:

14 ſuffer me that I may deſtroy them, and abolish their name from vnder heauen, and may ſet thee ouer a Nation, that is greater and ſtronger then this.

15 And when I came downe from the burning mounte, and held the two tables of couenant with both handes,

16 and ſaw that you had ſinned to the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calfe, and had quickly forſaken his way, which he had shewed you:

17 I caſt the tables out of my handes, and brake them in your ſight.

18 And I fel downe before our Lord as before, fourtie dayes and nightes not eating bread, not drinking water, for al your ſinnes, which you committed againſt our Lord, and prouoked him to wrath:

19 for I feared his indignation and anger, wherwith being moued agaynſt you, he would haue deſtroyed you. And our Lord heard me this time alſo.

20 Againſt Aaron alſo being exceeding angrie, he would haue deſtroyed him, and for him, in like maner did I pray.

21 And your ſinne that you had committed, that is, the calfe, I tooke, and burnt it with fyre, and breaking it into peeces, and bringing it wholy into duſt, I threw it into the torrent, that de⟨illegible⟩cendeth from the mount.

22 In the burning alſo and in the tentation, and in the Sepulchres of concupiſcence you prouoked our Lord:

23 and when he ſent you from Cadeſbarne, ſaying. Goe vp, and poſſeſſe the Land, that I haue geuen you, and you contemned the commandement of your Lord God, and did not beleue him, neither would you heare his voice:

24 but were alwaies rebellious from the day that I beganne to know you.

25 And I lay before our Lord fourtie dayes and nightes, in the which I humbly beſought him, that he would not deſtroy you as he had threatened:

26 and praying I ſaid: Lord God, deſtroy not thy people, and thyne inheritance, which thou haſt redemed in thy greatnes, whom thou didſt bring out of Aegypt in a ſtrong hand.

27 Remember thy ſeruantes Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob: regard not the ſtubbournes of this people, and his impietie and ſinne:

28 leſt perhappes the inhabitantes of the land, out of which thou haſt brought vs, ſay; The Lord could not bring them in vnto the Land, that he promiſed them, and he hated them: therfore did he bring them forth, that he might kil them in the wildernes.

29 Which are thy people and thyne inheritance, whom thou didſt bring forth in thy great ſtrength, and in thy ſtretched out arme.

Marginal notes to Chapter 9

• 1 [::] Holie Scripture vſeth the figure Hyperbola, folowing the vulgar maner of ſpeakīg as wel to helpe the vnderſtanding, as to moue affectiō in great and extraordinarie things.
• 12 [::] The ſimilitude of a calfe and called it their god. Exed. 32.

Chapter 10

CHAP. X. Moyſes receiuing the ſecond tables of the tenne commandments, and making an arke put them therin. 6. with mention of certaine places where the children of Iſrael had camped, of Aarons death, and to the Leuites offices, and poſseſstons, 12. be inculcateth the feare and loue of God, and the keping of his precepts. 16. namely to circumciſe the hart. 19. to loue ſtrangers 20. and not to ſerue, nor ſweare by falſe goddes.

1 AT that time our Lord ſaid to me: Hewe thee two tables of ſtone, as the former were, and come vp to me into the mounte: and thou shalt make an arke of wood,

2 and I wil write in the tables the wordes that were in them, which before thou didſt breake, and thou shalt put them in the arke.

3 I made therfore an arke of the wood Settim. And when I had hewed two tables of ſtone like to the former, I went vp into the mount, hauing them in my handes.

4 And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten wordes, which our Lord ſpake to you in the mount from the middes of the fyre, when the people was gathered: and he gaue them to me.

5 And returning from the mount, I came downe, and put the tables into the arke, that I had made, which are there til this preſent, as our Lord commanded me.

6 And the children of Iſrael remoued their campe from Beroth of the children of Iacan into [::] Moſera, where Aaron died and was buried, for whom, Eleazar his ſoone did the function of prieſthood.

7 Thence they came into Gadgad: from the which place departing, they camped in Ietebatha, in a Land of waters and torrentes.

8 At that time he ſeparated the tribe of Leui, to carie the arke of the couenant of our Lord, and to ſtand before him in the miniſterie, and to bleſſe in his name vntil this preſent day.

9 For the which cauſe Leui had no part, nor poſſeſſion with his brethren: becauſe our Lord him ſelf is his poſſeſſion, as the Lord thy God promiſed him.

10 And I ſtoode in the mount, as before, fourtie daies and nightes: and our Lord heard me this time alſo, and would not deſtroy thee.

11 And he ſaid to me: Goe, and march before the people, that they may enter, and poſſeſſe the Land, which I ſware to their fathers that I would deliuer to them.

12 And now Iſrael, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou feare the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies, and loue him, and ſerue the Lord thy God with al thy hart, and with al thy ſoule:

13 and keepe the commandementes of our Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be wel with thee?

14 Behold heauen is the Lords thy God, and the heauen of heauen, the earth and al thinges that are in it.

15 And yet to thy fathers was our Lord ioyned, and he loued them, and choſe their ſeede after them, that is to ſay you, from al Nations, as this day it is proued.

16 Circumciſe therfore the prepuce of your hart, and your necke indurate no more:

17 becauſe the Lord your God he is the God of goddes, and the Lord of lordes, a great God and mightie, and terrible, that accepteth not perſon nor giftes.

18 He doth iudgement to the pupil and the widowe, loueth the ſtranger, and geueth him victual & rayment.

19 And do you therfore loue ſtrangers becauſe you alſo were ſtrangers in the Land of Aegypt.

20 Thou ſhalt feare the Lord thy God, and ſerue him only: to him thou ſhalt cleaue, and [::] shalt ſweare in his name.

21 He is thy praiſe, and thy God, that hath done for thee theſe greate and terrible thinges, which thyne eies haue ſeene.

22 In ſeuentie ſoules did thy fathers goe downe into Aegypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the ſlarres of heauen.

Marginal notes to Chapter 10

• 6 [::] This Moſera where Aaron died, is more commonly called Hor. Num. 20. &. 33.
• 20 [::] VVhen iuſt cauſe requireth an oath, it muſt be made in the name of God, not of falſe goddes.

Chapter 11

CHAP. XI. For the benefites of God (wherof ſome are repeted, and others promiſed) the Iſraelites are bound to loue him. 16. but if they forſake him he threatneth punishmentes, 26. propoſing benediction and malediction as they shal deſerue.

1 LOVE therfore the Lord thy God, and obſerue his preceptes and ceremonies, his iudgementes and commandmentes at al time.

2 Know this day the thinges that your children know not, who ſaw not the diſcipline of the Lord your God, his great doinges and ſtrong hand, and ſtretched out arme,

3 the ſignes and workes which he did in the middes of Aegypt to Pharao the king, and to al his land,

4 and to al the hoſte of the Aegyptians, and to their horſes and charriottes: how the waters of the red ſea couered them, when they purſewed you, and how our Lord deſtroyed them vntil this preſent day:

5 and to you what thinges he hath done in the wildernes, til you came to this place:

6 and to Dathan and Abiron the ſonnes of Eliab, which was the ſonne of Ruben: whom the earth opening her mouth ſwalowed vp with their houſes and tabernacles, and al their ſubſtance, which they had in the middes of Iſrael.

7 Your eies haue ſeene al the great workes of our Lord, that he hath done,

8 that you may keepe al his commandementes, which I command you this day, and may enter in, and poſſeſſe the Land, to the which you enter,

9 and may liue in it a great time: which our Lord by oath promiſed to your fathers, and to their ſeede, flowing with milke and honie.

10 For the Land, which thou goeſt to poſſeſſe, is not as the Land of Aegypt, which thou cameſt out of, where when the ſeede is ſowen, waters are brought in to water it after the maner of gardens.

11 but it is hilly and champion, expecting raine from heauen.

12 which the Lord thy God doth alwaies viſite, and his eies are on it from the beginning of the yeare vnto the end therof.

13 If then you obey my commandementes, which I command you this day, that you loue the Lord your God, and ſerue him with al your hart, and with al your ſoule:

14 he wil geue rayne to your Land [::] the timely and the lateward, that you may gather your corne, and wine, and oile,

15 and haye out of the fieldes to feede your cattel, and that your ſelues may eate and be filled.

16 Beware leſt perhaps your hart be deceiued, and you depart from our Lord, and ſerue ſtrange goddes, and adore them:

17 and our Lord being wrath shutte vp heauen, and the raine come not downe, nor the earth geue her ſpring, and you perish quickly from the excellent Land, which our Lord wil geue you

18 Put theſe my wordes in your hartes and mindes, and hang them for a ſigne on your handes, and place them betwen your eies.

19 Teach your children that they meditate them, when thou ſitteſt in thy houſe, & walkeſt on the way, and lieſt downe and ryſeſt vp.

20 Thou shalt write them vpon the poſtes and gates of thy houſe:

21 that thy daies may be multiplied, and the dayes of thy children in the Land, which our Lord ſware to thy fathers, that he would geue it them as long as the heauen hangeth ouer the earth.

22 For if you keepe the commandementes which I command you, and doe them, that you loue the Lord your God, and walke in al his wayes, cleauing to him,

23 our Lord wil deſtroy al theſe nations before your face, and you ſhal poſſeſſe them, which are greater and ſtronger then you.

24 Euerie place, that your foote shal treade, shal be yours. From the deſert, and from Libanus, from the great riuer Euphrates vnto the weſt ſea shal be your borders.

25 None shal ſtand againſt you: your terrour and feare shal the Lord your God geue vpon al the land that you shal treade, as he hath ſpoken to you.

26 Behold I ſette forth in your ſight this day [::] benediction and malediction:

27 benection, if you obey the commandementes of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

28 malediction, if you obey not the commandementes of the Lord your God, but reuolt from the way, which now I doe shew you, and walke after ſtrange goddes, which you know not.

29 And when the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the Land, to the which thou goeſt to inhabite, thou shalt put the benediction vpon mounte Garizim, the malediction vpon mounte Hebal:

30 which are beyond Iordan behinde the way that bendeth to the going downe of the ſunne in the Land of the Chananeite, which dwelleth in the champion countrie againſt Galgala, which is beſide the valle that reacheth and entreth farre.

31 For you shal paſſe ouer Iordan, to poſſeſſe the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue and poſſeſſe it.

32 See therfore that you fulfil the ceremonies and iudgementes, which I shal ſette this day in your ſight.

Marginal notes to Chapter 11

• 14 [::] Raine after ſeeding and before harueſt ſignifieth Gods grace firſt ſtirring vp the ſoule, and aſſiſting the ſame to the end.
• 22 The ſecond leſſon in Maſſe on Imber Saturday in Lent
• 26 [::] God worketh, and we cooperate, for he taketh not away, but helpeth free wil. S. Aug. q. 15. in Deut.

Chapter 12

CHAP. XII. Al idolatrie, and whatſoeuer apperteineth therto muſt be deſtroyed. 5. Sacrifices, tithes, and donaries muſt be offered in the ſpecial place, 15. Eating flesh they muſt not eate the bloud. 29. In no caſe to imitate the idolatrie of gentiles.

1 THESE are the preceptes and iudgementes, that you muſt do in the Land, which the Lord God of thy fathers wil geue thee, to poſſeſſe it al the daies, that thou shalt goe vpon the earth.

2 Subuert al places, wherein the nations, which you shal poſſeſſe, worshipped their goddes vpon the high mountaines, and hilles, and vnder euerie tree ful of leaues.

3 Ouerthrow their altares, and breake their ſtatues, their groues burne with fire, and their Idols hewe al to peeces: deſtroy their names out of thoſe places.

4 You shal not doe ſo to the Lord your God:

5 but [::] to the place, which the Lord your God hath choſen of al your tribes, to put his name there and to dwel in it, shal you come:

6 and shal offer in that place your holocauſtes and victimes, the tithes and firſt fruites of your handes, and your vowes and donaries, the firſt borne of your oxen and sheepe.

7 And you shal eate there in the ſight of the Lord your God: and you shal reioyce in al thinges, whereunto you shal put your hand, you and your houſe, wherein the Lord your God hath bleſſed you.

8 You shal not doe there the thinges, that we doe here this day [::] euerie man that which ſeemeth good to him ſelf.

9 For vntil this preſent time you are not come to reſt, and to the poſſeſſion, which the Lord your God wil geue you.

10 You shal paſſe ouer Iordan, and shal dwel in the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue reſt from al enemies round about: and may dwel without al feare,

11 in the place, which the Lord your God shal chooſe, that his name may be therin. Thither shal you bring al the thinges, that I command you, holocauſtes, and hoſtes, and tithes, and the firſt fruites of your handes: and whatſoeuer is the principal in the giftes, that you shal vowe to our Lord.

12 There shal you feaſte before the Lord your God, you and your ſonnes and daughters, men ſeruantes and wemen ſeruantes, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in your cities▪ for he hath no other part and poſſeſſion among you.

13 Beware thou offer not thy holocauſtes in euerie place, that thou shalt ſee:

14 but in that, which our Lord shal chooſe, in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer hoſtes, and shalt doe what thinges ſoeuer I command thee.

15 But if thou wilt eate, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kil, and eate according to the bleſſing of the Lord thy God, which he hath geuen thee in thy cities: whether it be vncleane, that is to ſay, blemished and feeble: or cleane, that is to ſay, ſound and without blemish, ſuch as is lawful to be offered, as the doa and the hart, shalt thou eate it,

16 only without eating of the bloud, which thou shalt power out vpon the earth as water.

17 Thou canſt not eate in thy townes the tithe of thy corne, and wine, and oyle, the firſt borne of thy heardes and cattel, and al thinges that thou voweſt, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firſt fruites of thy handes:

18 but before the Lord thy God shalt thou eate them in the place, which the Lord thy God shal chooſe, thou and thy ſonne and thy daughter, and man ſeruant, and woman ſeruant, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt reioyce and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in al thinges, whereunto thou shalt extend thy hand.

19 Take heede thou forſake not the Leuite al the time that thou liueſt in the land.

20 When the Lord thy God shal haue dilated thy borders, as he hath ſpoken to thee, and thou wilt eate the flesh, that thy ſoule deſireth:

21 and if the place be farre of, which the Lord thy God shal chooſe, that his name may be there, thou shalt kil of the heardes and cattel, which thou haſt as I haue commanded thee, and shalt eate in thy townes, as it pleaſeth thee.

22 As the doa is eaten and the hart, ſo shalt thou eate them: both the cleane and vncleane shal eate in common.

23 This onlie beware, that thou eate not the bloud, for their bloud is for the ſoule: and therfore thou muſt not eate the ſoule with the flesh:

24 but vpon the earth thou shalt▪ power it as water,

25 that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which pleaſeth in the ſight of our Lord.

26 But the thinges which thou haſt ſanctified, and vowed to our Lord, thou shalt take vp, and shalt come to the place, which our Lord shal chooſe:

27 and shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the bloud vpon the altar of the Lord thy God: the bloud of thy hoſtes thou shalt power on the altar: and the flesh thy ſelf shalt eate.

28 Obſerue and heare al thinges that I command thee, that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee for euer, when thou shalt doe that which is good and pleaſing in the ſight of the Lord thy God.

29 When the Lord thy God shal haue deſtroyed before thy face the nations, that thou entreſt in to poſſeſſe, and thou shalt poſſeſſe them, and dwel in their land:

30 beware leſt thou imitate them, after they be ſubuerted at thy entring in, and thou require their ceremonies, ſaying: As theſe nations haue worshipped their goddes, ſo wil I alſo worshippe.

31 Thou shalt not doe in like maner to the Lord thy God. For al the abominations, that our Lord doeth abhorre, haue they done to their goddes, offering their ſonnes and daughters, and burning them with fyre.

32 What I command thee, ▪ that onlie doe to our Lord: neither adde any thing, nor diminish.

Marginal notes to Chapter 12

• 5 [::] Peculiar place appropriate to Gods ſeruice.
• 8 [::] In the deſe⟨illegible⟩ they could not obſerue the ceremonies of the Law: but comming to reſt they were bound to kepe al one ſette forme of holie rites.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XII.

32 That only do to our Lord.] VVheras the Gentiles offered their ſonnes and [Margin: No hoſtes lawful in ſacrifice but ſuch as the law appointed] daughters (v. 31.) and other abominable ſacrifices to Idols, God commandeth his people to offer thoſe things only, which are preſcribed by the law, and neither to imolate anie other thing, nor exclude anie thing appointed by the ſame law for ſacrifice. As for other preceptes, it is likewiſe forbid to adde or diminiſh anie thing that may corrupt the law: but was euer lawful for Superiors, [Margin: New precepts may be added, not contrarie to the former.] to adde more preceptes agreable, and not contrarie to the former. So King Dauid eſtabliſhed a new law that ſuch as ſtayed with the baggage, ſhould haue like portion of the praye, with thoſe that fought in battel. 1. Reg. 30. And our Sauiour by his preſence (Ioan 10▪) approued the feaſt of dedication, inſtituted long after Moyſes law. 1. Machab, 4.

Chapter 13

CHAP. XIII. Falſe Prophets must be ſlaine, 6. how nere ſoeuer they be in kinred, or freindshipe. 12. The whole citie that shal permite falſe doctrin muſt be vtterly deſtroyed, men, beaſtes, and al moueables, and neuer be built againe.

1 IF there riſe in the middes of thee a prophete, or one that ſaieth he hath ſeene a dreame, and foretel a ſigne and a wonder,

2 and it come to paſſe which he ſpake, and he ſay to thee: [::] Let vs goe, and folow ſtrange goddes, which thou knoweſt not, and let vs ſerue them:

3 thou shalt not heare the wordes of that prophete or dreamer: for the Lord your God tempteth you, that it may appeare whether you loue him or no, with al your hart, and with al your ſoule.

4 Folow the Lord your God, and feare him, and keepe his commandementes, and heare his voice: him you shal ſerue, and to him you shal cleaue.

5 And that prophete or forget of dreames shal be ſlaine: becauſe he ſpake that he might auert you from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, and redemed you from the houſe of ſeruitude: that he might make thee to erre from the way, that the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

6 If thy brother the ſonne of thy mother, or thy ſonne or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy boſome, or thy freind, whom thou loueſt as thy ſoule, wil perſwade thee ſecretly, ſaying: Let vs goe, and ſerue ſtrange goddes, which thou knoweſt not, nor thy fathers,

7 of al nations round about, that be nigh or farre, from the beginning vnto the end of the earth,

8 conſent not to him, nor heare him, neither let thyne eie ſpare him to pitie and hide him,

9 but [::] forthwith thou shalt kil him▪ let thy hand be firſt vpon him, and after thee al the people lay hand on him.

10 With ſtones shal he be ſtoned to death: becauſe he would haue withdrawen thee from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, from the houſe of ſeruitude:

11 that al Iſrael hearing may feare, and may doe no more any thing like to this.

12 If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shal geue thee to inhabite, thou heare ſome ſay:

13 There are gone forth :: children of Belial out of the middes of thee, and haue auerted the inhabitants of their citie, and haue ſaid: Let vs goe, and ſerue ſtrange goddes which you know not:

14 inquire carefully, and diligently, the truth of the thing being looked into, if thou finde it certaine that is ſaid, and that this abomination is in act committed,

15 thou shalt forthwith ſtrike the inhabitantes of that citie in the edge of the ſworde, and shalt deſtroy it and al thinges that are in it, vnto the very beaſtes.

16 What ſtuffe alſo ſoeuer there is, thou shalt gather together in the middes of the ſtreares therof, and shalt burne it with the citie it ſelfe, ſo that thou conſume al thinges to the Lord thy God, and it be a heape for euer: it shal be built no more,

17 and there shal nothing ſticke in thy hand of that anathema: :: that our Lord may be turned from the wrath of his furie, and may haue mercie on thee, and multiplie thee as he ſware to thy fathers,

18 when thou shalt heare the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping al his preceptes, which I command thee this day, that thou mayeſt doe that which is pleaſing in the ſight of the Lord thy God.

Marginal notes to Chapter 13

• 2 [::] Noueltie in Religion is a marke of idolatrie or hereſie.
• 9 [::] Euerie priuat man is not commanded, nor warrented by this to kil: but euerie one is bound to informe the Magiſtrate, and ſo by order of iuſtice to procede againſt the wicked. :: Such as wil not indure diſcipline are called children of Be⟨illegible⟩lial, that is, vvithout yoke.

Chapter 14

CHAP. XIIII. Gentiles maner of mourning for the dead is prohibited. 3. Likewiſe to eate things vncleane, with mention of certaine cleane and vncleane beastes, 9. fishes, 11. and birdes. 21. Alſo preceptes of pietie, clemencie, paying tithes, firſt fruites, 27. nourishing of Leuites, ſtrangers, orphanes, and widowes.

1 BE YE the children of the Lord your God: you shal not cutte your ſelues, nor make bauldnes for the dead.

2 becauſe thou art a holie people to the Lord thy God: and he choſe thee to be his peculiar people of al nattions, that are vpon the earth.

3 Eate not the thinges that are vncleane.

4 This is the beaſt, that you ought to eate, The oxe, and the sheepe, and the goate,

5 the hart and the doa, the buffle, the chamois, the pygargue, the wilde beefe, the cameloparde.

6 Euerie beaſt, that diuideth the hoofe in two partes, and cheweth the cudde, shal you eate.

7 But of them, that chew the cudde, and diuide not the hoofe, theſe you shal not eate, as the camel, the hare, the cherogril: becauſe they chew the cudde, and diuide not the hoofe, they shal be vncleane to you.

8 The ſwine alſo becauſe it diuideth the hoof, and cheweth not the cudde, shal be vncleane▪ their flesh you shal not eate, and their carcaſſes you shal not touche.

9 Theſe shal you eate of al that abide in the waters: Such as haue finnes and ſcales, eate:

10 them that are without finnes and ſcales, eate not, becauſe they are vncleane.

11 Al birdes that are cleane eate.

12 The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey,

13 the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde:

14 and al of the rauens kinde,

15 and the oſtriche, and the owle, and the ſterne, and the hawke according to his kinde:

16 the herodian and the ſwanne, and the ſtroke,

17 and the diuer, the porphyrion, and nightcrow,

18 the onocratal, and the charadrion, euerie one in their kinde: the lapwing alſo and the batte.

19 And al that creepeth and hath litle winges, shal be vncleane, and shal not be eaten.

20 Al that is cleane, eate.

21 But whatſoeuer is dead of it ſelfe, eate not therof. [::] To the ſtranger, that is within thy gates, geue it to eate, or ſel it to him: becauſe thou art the holie people of our Lord thy God. Thou shalt [::] not boyle a kidde in the milke of his damme.

22 The tenth part thou shalt ſeperate of al thy fruites that ſpring in the earth euerie yeare,

23 and thou shalt eate in the ſight of our Lord thy God in the place, which he shal chooſe, that his name may be inuocated therin, the tithe of thy corne, and wine, and oile, and the firſt borne of thy heardes and sheepe: that thou mayeſt lerne to feare our Lord thy God at al time.

24 But when the way, and the place which our Lord thy God shal chooſe, are farre, and he hath bleſſed thee, and thou canſt not carie al theſe thinges thither,

25 thou shalt ſel, and bring al into a price, and shalt carie it in thy hand, and shalt goe to the place, which our Lord thy God shal chooſe:

26 and thou shalt buy with the ſame money whatſoeuer pleaſeth thee, either of heardes, or of sheepe, wine alſo and ſicere, and al that thy ſoule deſireth: and thou shalt eate before our Lord thy God, and shalt feaſt, thou and thy houſe:

27 and the Leuite that is within thy gates, beware thou forſake him not, becauſe he hath no other part in thy poſſeſſion.

28 The third yeare thou shalt ſeparate an other tenth of al thinges, that growe to thee at that time: and shalt lay it vp within thy gates.

29 And the Leuite shal come that hath no other part nor poſſeſſion with thee, and the ſtranger and pupil and widow, that are within thy gates, and shal eate and be filled: that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee in al the workes of thy handes that thou shalt doe.

Marginal notes to Chapter 14

• 21 [::] If theſe thīgs were vncleane by nature they were not lawful for anie nation to eate, but being only forbid to the Iewes ſheweth, that this prohibition was ceremonial, only for that time and people.
• 21 [::] Al ſhew of crueltie to be auoided. Myſtically this preſigured, that Chriſt (for the ſimilitude of ſinful fleſh ſignified by a kidde) ſhould not be ſlaine in his infancie. ⟨illegible⟩. Tho. 1. 2. q. 102. ⟨illegible⟩. 6. ad 4.

Chapter 15

CHAP. XV. Remiſsion of dibtes in the ſeuenth yeare to the iſraelites, but not to ſtrangers. 4. Albeit there wil alwayes be ſome poore, yet they muſt ſo lend to their needie bretheren, that none be forced to begge. 12. Abought ſeruant that is an hebrew muſt be ſet free in the ſeuenth yeare, 16. except he deſire to ſerue ſtil. 19. The firſtborne in al cattel muſt be conſecrated to God, without making priuate profite therof.

1 IN the ſeuenth yeare thou shalt make a remiſſion,

2 which shal be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing of his freind or neighbour and brother, can not aske it againe, becauſe it is the yeare of remiſſion of our Lord.

3 Of the ſeiourner and ſtranger thou shalt exact: of thy countrie man and neighbour thou shalt not haue power to require it.

4 And [::] needie perſon and begger there shal be none among you: that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee in the land, which he wil geue thee in poſſeſſion.

5 Yet ſo if thou heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and keepe al thinges that he hath bid, and which I command thee this day, he wil bleſſe thee, as he hath promiſed.

6 Thou shalt lend to manie nations, and thy ſelfe shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt haue dominion ouer verie manie nations, and no man shal haue dominion ouer thee.

7 If one of thy brethren that abideth within the gates of thy citie in the land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, come to pouertie: thou shalt not harden thy hart, nor cloſe thy hand,

8 but shalt open it to the poore man, and shalt lend him, that which thou perceiueſt he hath neede of.

9 Beware leſt perhaps an impious cogitation ſteale in vpon thee, and thou ſay in thy hart: The ſeuenth yeare of remiſſion draweth nigh; & turne away thy eies from thy poore brother denying to lend him that which he asketh: leſt he crie againſt thee to our Lord, and [::] it become a ſinne vnto thee.

10 But thou shalt geue to him: neither shalt thou doe any thing craftely in releuing his neceſſities: that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee at al times, and in al thinges whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

11 There shal not want poore in the land of thy habitation: therfore I command thee that thou open thy hand to thy needie and poore brother, that liueth in the Land.

12 When thy brother an Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is ſold to thee, and hath ſerued thee ſix yeares, in the ſeuenth yeare, thou shalt let him goe free:

13 and to whom thou geueſt freedom, thou ſhalt in no caſe ſuffer him to depart emptie:

14 but geue him his way fare of thy flockes, and of thy barne floore, and thy preſſe, wherwith our Lord thy God ſhal bleſſe thee.

15 Remember that thy ſelf alſo didſt ſerue in the Land of Aegypt, and our Lord thy God made thee free, and therfore doe I now command thee.

16 But if he ſay: I wil not depart: becauſe he loueth thee, and thy houſe, and feeleth that he is wel with thee:

17 thou ſhalt take an awle, and bore through his eare in the dore of thy houſe, and he ſhal ſerue thee for euer. to thy woman ſeruant alſo thou ſhalt doe in like maner.

18 Turne not away thine eies from them, when thou makeſt them free: becauſe he hath ſerued thee ſix yeares after the wages of an hireling: that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee in al the workes that thou doeſt.

19 Of the firſt borne, that come forth in thy heardes and ſheepe, whatſoeuer is of the male ſexe, thou ſhalt ſanctifie to our Lord thy God. Thou shalt not worke with the firſt borne of an oxe, and thou shalt not sheare the firſt borne of thy ſheepe.

20 In the ſight of our Lord thy God shalt thou eate them euerie yeare in the place, that our Lord shal chooſe, thou and thy houſe.

21 But if it haue blemish, and be either lame, or blind, or in any part diffigured or feeble, it shal not be immolated to our Lord thy God.

22 but within the gates of thy citie shalt thou eate it: as wel the cleane as the vncleane in like maner shal eate them as the doa, and the hart.

23 This onlie shalt thou obſerue, that their bloud thou eate not, but power it out on the earth as water.

Marginal notes to Chapter 15

• 4 [::] The Iſraelites were boūd to do their endeuour that none ſhould be needie among them: notwithſtanding for exerciſe of loue & charitie Gods prouidence ſuffered ſome to be poore. ⟨illegible⟩. 7. &. 11.
• 9 [::] He that can and wil not feede his neighboure in extremitie, killeth him. S. Amb. li. 2. de Offic. c. 7.

Chapter 16

CHAP. XVI. Three more ſolemne feaſtes to be kept euerie yeare, Paſch, 9. Pentecost, 13. and [Margin: The reſt of the feaſtes are mentioned Leuit. 23. Num. 28. &. 29.] the feaſt of tabernacles, 18. Iust Iudges to be appointed in euerie citie. 21▪ Al occaſions of Idolatrie to be auoyded.

1 OBSERVE the moneth of new corne, and [::] the firſt of the ſpring time, that thou mayeſt make the Phaſe to our Lord thy God: becauſe in this moneth our Lord thy God, brought thee out of Aegypt by night.

2 And thou shalt immolate the Phaſe to our Lord thy God, of sheepe, and of oxen in the place, which our Lord thy God shal chooſe, that his name may dwel there.

3 Thou shalt not eate in it leuened bread: Seuen daies shalt thou eate without leuen, the bread of affliction, becauſe in feare didſt thou come out of Aegypt: that thou mayeſt remember the day of thy comming out of Aegypt, al the dayes of thy life.

4 Leuened shal not appeare in al thy coaſtes for ſeuen daies, and there shal not remayne of the flesh of that which was immolated at euen the firſt day vntil morning.

5 Thou canſt not immolate the Phaſe in euerie one of thy cities, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee;

6 but in the place, which our Lord thy God shal chooſe, that his name may dwel there: thou shalt immolate the Phaſe at euen at the going downe of the ſunne, when thou cameſt out of Aegypt.

7 And thou shalt boyle, and eate is in the place, which our Lord thy God shal chooſe, and in the morning ryſing vp thou shalt goe into thy tentes.

8 Six daies shalt thou eate azymes: and in the ſeuenth day, becauſe it is the collection of our Lord thy God, thou shalt doe no worke.

9 Seuen weekes shalt thou number thee from that day wherein thou didſt put the ſickle to the corne,

10 and thou shalt celebrate the feſtiual day of weekes to our Lord thy God, a voluntarie oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the bleſſing of our Lord thy God:

11 and thou shalt feaſt before our Lord thy God, thou, & thy ſonne, and thy daughter, and thy man ſeruant, and thy woman ſeruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the ſtranger and pupil and widow, which abide with you: in the place which our Lord thy God shal chooſe, that his name may dwel there:

12 and thou shalt remember that thou waſt a ſeruant in Aegypt: and thou shalt keepe and doe the thinges that are commanded.

13 The solemnitie alſo of Tabernacles thou ſhalt celebrate ſeuen daies, when thou haſt gathered thy fruite of the barne floore and the preſſe:

14 and thou shalt feaſt in the feſtiuitie, thou, thy ſonne, and thy daughter, thy man ſeruant and woman ſeruant, the Leuite alſo and ſtranger, and pupil and widow that are within thy gates.

15 Seuen daies shalt thou celebrate the feaſtes to our Lord thy God in the place, which our Lord shal chooſe: and our Lord thy God wil bleſſe thee in al thy fruites, and in euerie worke of thy handes, and thou shalt be in ioye.

16 Three times in a yeare shal al thy male appeare in the ſight of our Lord thy God in the place which he shal chooſe: in the ſolemnitie of Azymes, in the ſolemnitie of weekes, and in the ſolemnitie of Tabernacles. There shal not appeare before our Lord any emptie:

17 but euerie one shal offer according to that he hath, according to the bleſſing of our Lord his God, which he shal geue him.

18 Iudges and maiſters shalt thou appoynt in al thy gates, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, in euerie of thy tribes: that they may iudge the people with iuſt iudgement,

19 and not decline to either part. Thou shalt not accept perſon, nor giftes: becauſe that giftes blinde the eies of the wiſe, and change the wordes of the iuſt.

20 [::] Iuſtly shalt thou purſew that which is iuſt: that thou mayeſt liue and poſſeſſe the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

21 Thou shalt plante no groue, nor any tree neere the altar of our Lord thy God.

22 Neither ſhalt thou make nor ſette to thy ſelf a ſtatue: which thing our Lord thy God hateth.

Marginal notes to Chapter 16

• 1 [::] Here only three of the principal.
• 2 1.
• 2 :: Paſch.
• 9 2. Pentecoſt.
• 13 3. Feaſt of Tabernacles.
• 20 [::] It is not ynough to doe that is iuſt except it be donne iuſtly, to a good end, for loue of iuſtice.

Chapter 17

CHAP. XVII. Perfect hoſtes, not mamed nor defectiue, muſt be offered to God, Idolaters ſtoned to death. 8. VVhen inferior iudges differ, the cauſe muſt be decided, by the High Priest in conſiſtorie. Who is warranted not to erre therin, and al are bound to obey his ſentence. 14. The dutie alſo of a king (Whom in future time God wil condeſcend to geue them) is deſcribed, with ſpecial charge to receiue the law of God at the Prieſtes handes.

1 THOV shalt not immolate to our Lord thy God a sheepe, and an oxe, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: becauſe it is abomination to our Lord thy God.

2 When there shal be found with thee within one of thy gates, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, man or woman that do euil in the ſight of our Lord thy God, and tranſgreſſe his couenant,

3 that they goe and ſerue ſtrange goddes, and adore them, the ſunne and the moone, and al the hoſte of heauen, which thinges I commanded not:

4 and this is told thee, and hearing it thou haſt inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and the abomination is committed in Iſrael:

5 thou ſhalt bring forth the man and the woman, that haue committed that moſt heynous thing, to the gates of thy citie, and they shal be ſtoned.

6 At the mouth of two, or three witneſſes shal he perish that is to be ſlaine. Let no man be killed, one onlie geuing teſtimonie againſt him.

7 The hand of the witneſſes shal be firſt to kil him, and the hand of the reſt of the people shal be layd on laſt: that thou mayeſt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

8 “ If thou perceiue that the iudgement with thee be hard and doubtful betwen bloud and bloud, cauſe and cauſe, leproſie and not leproſie: and thou ſee that the wordes of the iudges within thy gates doe varye: ariſe, and goe vp to the place, which our Lord thy God shal chooſe.

9 And thou shalt come to the prieſtes of the Leuitical ſtocke, and to [::] the iudge, that shal be at that time: and thou shalt aske of them, “ who shal shew thee the truth of the iudgment.

10 And thou ſhalt do whatſoeuer they, that are [::] preſidentes of the place, which our Lord ſhal chooſe, ſhal ſay and teach thee,

11 according to his law; and thou shalt folow their ſentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.

12 But “ he that shal be proude, refuſing to obey the commandement of the Prieſt, which at that time miniſtreth to our Lord thy God, and the decree of the iudge, that man shal die, and thou shalt take away the euil out of Iſrael:

13 and the whole people hearing shal feare, that none afterward ſwel in pride.

14 When thou art entred the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, and doeſt poſſeſſe it, and dwelleſt in it, and ſayeſt: I wil ſette a king ouer me, as al nations haue round about:

15 him shalt thou ſette, whom our Lord thy God shal chooſe of the number of thy brethren. A man of an other nation that is not thy brother, thou canſt not make king.

16 And when he is made, he shal not multiplie to him ſelfe horſes, nor lead backe the people into Aegypt, taking high courage for the number of his horſemen, eſpecially whereas our Lord hath commanded you that in no caſe you returne any more the ſame way.

17 He [::] shal not haue manie wiues, that may allure his minde, nor huge weightes of ſiluer and gold.

18 And after he shal ſitte in the throne of his kingdome, he shal copie to him ſelfe the Deuteronomie of this Law in a volume, [::] taking the copie of the prieſtes of the Leuitical tribe,

19 and he shal haue it with him, and shal reade it al the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare our Lord his God, and keepe his wordes and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law.

20 And that his hart be not lifted vp into pride ouer his brethren, nor decline to the right ſide or the left ſide, that he may reigne a long time, and his ſonnes ouer Iſrael.

Marginal notes to Chapter 17

• 9 [::] In the councel of Prieſtes one ſupreme Iudge, which was the High Prieſt. v. 12.
• 10 [::] There were not manie preſidentes at once, but in ſucceſſion, one after an other.
• 17 [::] Pluralitie of wiue is not here forbid; for king Dauid tranſgreſſed not this precept hauing more then one or two: but Salomon offended in multiplying manie wiues. S. Aug. q. 27. in Deut.
• 18 [::] Temporal good Princes take the law, and word of God, at the Prieſts handes.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XVII.

8. If the iudgement be hard.] For a ful and aſſured deciſion of al controuerſies, [Margin: Supreme Iuge of controuerſies.] God here inſtituted to his people a ſupreme Tribunal, that in caſe inferior Iudges varied in iudgement, recourſe might be had to the Councel of Prieſtes, where one chiefe Iudge, the High Prieſt, was appointed to geue ſentence, and al others commanded to receiue and obey the ſame.

9. vvho shal shevv the truth.] God ſo aſſiſted this conſiſtorie with his ſpirite of truth, that their ſentence was infallible: though otherwiſe they might erre, [Margin: Sentence of the Iewes conſiſtorie infallible.] either in life, or in priuate opinion. VVherfore, our Sauiour diſtinguiſhing betwen their publique doctrin, and their workes, taught the people, that for ſomuch as the Scribes and Phariſees ſate in Moyſes chaire, and yet tranſgreſſed Gods commandmentes, euerie one should obſerue and doe as they ſaide: but not doe according to their vvorkes. Mat. 23. And S. Iohn aſcribeth the true ſentence geuen by Caiphas in the councel, to his office of High Prieſt, ſaying: [Margin: The high prieſt was chief Iudge.] (Ioan. 11.) He ſaid not this of him ſelfe, but being the high prieſt of that yeare, he prophecied that IESVS should die for the nation and to gather into one the children of God. VVhere the high prieſt by vertue and priuilege of his office, vttered the truth, which him ſelfe neither meant nor vnderſtood. And this happened when the Law and Prieſthood of the Iewes was to decline & geue place to Chriſts new ordinance, and therfore no doubt God euer directed the ſentence of the high Prieſt: and moſt ſpecially now Chriſt preſerueth the Apoſtolique See from error [Margin: Proteſtantes friuolous euaſion.] in faith, and in general decrees touching manners: yea though the chiefe viſible Iudge were as wicked as Caiphas. And therfore the Proteſtantes euaſion is friuolous, limiting the prieſts ſentence to binde the ſubiectes, ſo long as he is [Margin: English Bible. 1603.] the true miniſter of God, and pronounceth according to his vvord. For except God aſſiſted him, that he should pronounce according to his word, and ſo al men reſt ſatisfied, ſubmitting them ſelues to his ſentence, the controuerſie ſhould be endles, and this conſiſtorie nothing worth: but ſtil be new examinations, and new iudgementes, whether the former were according to Gods word or no.

12. He that shal be proude.] This alſo conuinceth, that al were bound to [Margin: Pride in priuate opinion puniſhed with death.] accept of the high prieſts ſentence, the law condemning him of pride, that refuſed to obey the commandment of the Prieſt, vvhich at that time miniſtred to our Lord; and for his diſobedience puniſhing him with death.

Chapter 18

CHAP. XVIII. In ſteed of other inheritance Prieſies and Leuites haue prouiſion by Sacrifices and oblations. 9. Al ſuperſtition to be auoided. 15. Perpetuitie of prophetes, and finally one ſpecial PROPHET (towit, CHRIST) is promiſed. 20. Falſe prophetes muſt be ſlaine.

1 THE prieſtes and Leuites, and al that are of the ſame tribe, shal haue no part nor inheritance with the reſt of Iſrael, becauſe they shal eate the ſacrifices of our Lord, and his oblations,

2 and nothing els shal they receiue of the poſſeſſion of their brethren: for our Lord him ſelfe is their inheritance, as he hath ſpoken to them.

3 This shal be the right of the prieſtes from the people, and from them that offer victimes: whether they immolate oxe, or sheepe, they shal geue to the prieſt the shoulder and the mawe:

4 the firſt fruites of corne, of wine, and oile, and a part of the woolle of their sheepe shearing.

5 For him hath our Lord choſen of al thy tribes, that he might ſtand, and miniſter to our Lord he and his ſonnes for euer.

6 If a Leuite goe out of one of thy cities of al Iſrael in the which he dwelleth, and would come deſiring the place which our Lord shal chooſe,

7 he shal miniſter in the name of our Lord his God, as al his brethren the Leuites, that shal ſtand at that time before our Lord.

8 He shal receiue the ſame portion of meates, that the reſt doe: beſide that, which in his owne citie is dew to him by ſucceſſion from his fathers.

9 When thou art entred the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, beware thou be not willing to imitate the abominations of thoſe nations.

10 Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,

11 nor inchanter, nor that conſulteth with pithone, or diuiners, and ſeeketh the truth of the dead.

12 for al theſe thinges out Lord abhorreth, and for theſe abominations wil he deſtroy them at thy entring in.

13 thou shalt be perfect, and without ſpotte with our Lord thy God.

14 Theſe nations, whoſe land thou shalt poſſeſſe, heare ſouthſayers and diuiners: but thou art otherwiſe inſtructed of our Lord thy God.

15 “ A PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like vnto me, wil our Lord thy God raiſe vp to thee: him thou shalt heare,

16 as thou didſt requeſt of our Lord thy God in Horeb, when the aſſemblie was gathered, and ſaidſt: I wil no more heare the voice of our Lord my God, and this exceding great fire I wil ſee no more, leſt I die.

17 And our Lord ſaid to mie; They haue ſpoken al thinges wel.

18 A prophete wil I rayſe vp to them out of the middes of their brethren like to thee: and I wil put my wordes in his mouth, and he shal ſpeake al thinges that I shal command him.

19 but he that wil not heare his wordes, which he shal ſpeake in my name, I wil be the reuenger.

20 And the prophet that being depraued with arrogancie wil ſpeake in my name, the thinges [::] that I did not command him to ſay, [::] or in the name of ſtrange goddes, shal be ſlaine.

21 And if in ſecrete cogitation thou anſwer: How shal I vnderſtand the word, that our Lord ſpake not?

22 This ſigne thou shalt haue: That which the ſame prophete foretelleth, in the name of the Lord and cometh not to paſſe: that our Lord hath not ſpoken, but by the arrogancie of his minde the prophet hath forged it: and therfore thou shalt not feare him.

Marginal notes to Chapter 18

• 20 [::] This ſorte of falſe prophets ſignified Heretikes, that preach falſe things in Chriſts name.
• 20 [::] Theſe prefigured Apoſtataes, which renouncing Chriſt, expreſly profeſſe falſe goddes.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XVIII.

15. A PROPHET of thy nation.] Amongſt other places this plainly proueth [Margin: The ſame wordes may haue diuers literal ſenſes.] that the ſame wordes in holie Scripture may haue diuers literal ſenſes. For firſt the coherence of the text ſheweth, that God here promiſed to geue his people an other extraordinarie prophet, after Moyſes death, of their owne nation: as wel to take away occaſion of ſeeking to ſouthſayers, diuiners, and other prophane prophetes of falſe goddes, ſtrictly forbidden in the wordes going immediatly before; as in approbation of their conuenient deſire, mentioned in the wordes folowing, to heare Gods wil, not by himſelf, nor by an Angel, but by Moyſes, who was now ſhortly to be taken from them. And ſo this promiſe was firſt performed in Ioſue, ſucceding next after Moyſes in gouernment. And as neede required God ceaſſed not to ſend more prophetes beſides their ordinarie Prieſts Againe this place is alſo vnderſtood of Chriſt our Sauiour, chief Prophete, and maſter of al prophetes; S Peter ſo expounding it; Act. 3. v. 22. & 23.

Chapter 19

CHAP. XIX. Certaine cities of refuge muſt be aſsigned for caſual manſlaughter. 11. wilful murther punished by death without remiſsion, 15. ſo it be conuinced by two or three witneſſes. 16. Falſe witneſses punished with the paine, which the crime obiected deſerueth.

1 VVHEN our Lord thy God hath deſtroyed the nations, whoſe land he wil deliuer to thee, and thou doeſt poſſeſſe it, and dwelleſt in the cities and houſes therof:

2 three cities shalt thou ſeparate to thee in the middes of the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee in poſſeſſion,

3 [::] preparing diligently the way: and thou ſhalt diuide the whole prouince of thy Land equally into three partes: that he which for murder is a fugitiue, may haue neere at hand, whither to eſcape.

4 This shal be the law of the murderer that fleeth, whoſe life is to be ſaued: He that ſtriketh his neighbour vnwitting, and that is proued yeſterday and the day before to haue had no hatred againſt him:

5 but to haue gone with him ſimply vnto the wood to cutte wood, and in cutting the wood of axe ſlipped out of his hand, and the yron falling from the handle ſtrooke his freind, and killed him: he shal flee to one of the cities aforeſaid, and liue:

6 leſt perhaps the next kinſeman of him, whoſe bloud was shed, pricked with ſorow, purſew, and apprehend him if the way be too long, and ſtricke his life, that is not guiltie of death, becauſe he is proued to haue had no hatred before, againſt him that was ſlaine.

7 Therfore I command thee, that thou ſeparat three cities of equal diſtance one from an other.

8 And when our Lord thy God shal haue dilated thy borders, as he ſware to thy fathers, and shal geue thee al the Land, that he promiſed them, (

9 yet ſo, if thou keepe his commandementes, and do the thinges which I command thee this day, that thou loue our Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes at al time) thou shalt adde to thee other three cities, and shalt duble the number of the three cities aforeſaid:

10 that innocent bloud be not shed in the middes of the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee to poſſeſſe, leſt thou be guiltie of bloud.

11 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wayte for his life, and riſe and ſtrike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforeſaid,

12 the ancientes of his citie shal ſend, acd take him out of the place of refuge, and shal deliuer him into the hand of the kinſeman of him, whoſe bloud was ſhed, and he shal die.

13 [::] Thou shalt not pitie him, and thou ſhalt take away the guiltie bloud out of Iſrael, that it may be wel with thee.

14 Thou shalt not take, and transferre thy neighbours boundes, which thy predeceſſours did ſette in thy poſſeſſion, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee in the Land, that thou shalt receiue to poſſeſſe.

15 One witneſſe shal not ſtand againſt any man, whatſoeuer ſinne, or wickedneſſe it be: but in the mouth of two or three witneſſes shal euerie word ſtand.

16 If a lying witneſſe ſtand againſt a man, accuſing him of preuarication,

17 both of them, whoſe the cauſe is, shal ſtand before our Lord in the ſight of the prieſtes and the iudges that shal be in thoſe daies.

18 And when ſearching moſt diligently, they shal finde that the falſe witnes hath ſaid a lie againſt his brother:

19 they shal render to him as he meant to doe to his brother, and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee:

20 that others hearing may haue feare, and may not be bold to doe ſuch things.

21 [::] Thou shalt not pitie him, but life for life, eie for eie, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote shalt thou exacte.

Marginal notes to Chapter 19

• 3 [::] The way to the cities of refuge were paued, and markes ſet for direction, that he which fled might not erre in his way.
• 13 [::] This was ſayd to the whole people who muſt not intreate for the murderers pardon: but the kinſmen of him that was ſlaine, might remitte the puniſhment.
• 21 [::] This pertained to the Iudge: who without partialitie muſt do iuſtice.

Chapter 20

CHAP. XX. Lawful warres are to be vndertaken with corege and confidence. 5. Such as for ſpecial cauſes may be diſcoreged, must be diſmiſſed from the field, 10. VVhat to be obſerued towardes the enimie. 19. VVhat trees may not be cut downe, and what ſorte may be, for the vſe of warres.

1 IF thou goe forth to warre againſt thyne enemies, and ſee the horſe men and chariottes, and the multitude of the aduerſaries hoſte greater then thou haſt, thou shalt not feare them: becauſe the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt.

2 And when the battel is now at hand, the prieſt shal ſtand before the armie, and shal ſpeake to the people thus:

3 Heare Iſrael, you this day ioyne battel againſt your enemies, let not your hart feare, be not affrayd, retire not, neither dread them:

4 becauſe our Lord your God is in the middes of you, and wil fight for you againſt your aduerſaries, to deliuer you from danger.

5 The Captaines alſo through euerie bande in the hearing of the hoſte ſhal proclaime: [::] what man is there, that hath built a new houſe, and hath not dedicated it? let him goe, and returne into his houſe, leſt perhaps he die in the battel, and an other dedicate it.

6 What man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, wherof al men may lawfully eate? let him goe, and returne into his houſe: leſt perhaps he die in the battel, and an other man execute his office.

7 What man is there, that hath deſpouſed a wife, and not taken her? let him goe, and returne into his houſe, leſt perhaps he die in the warre, and an other take her.

8 Theſe thinges being ſaid they shal adde the reſt, and shal ſpeake to the people: What man is there feareful, and fainte harted? let him goe, and returne into his houſe, leſt he make the hartes of his brethren to feare, as him ſelfe is frighted with feare.

9 And when the Captaines of the hoſt ſhal hold their peace, and make an end of ſpeaking, euerie man shal prepare their bandes to fight.

10 If at anie time thou come to winne a citie, thou shalt firſt offer peace.

11 If they receiue it, and open the gates to thee, al the people that is therein, shal be ſaued, and shal ſerue thee vnder tribute.

12 But if they wil not make peace, and shal beginne battel againſt thee, thou shalt aſſalt it.

13 And when our Lord thy God shal deliuer it into thy hand, thou shalt ſtrike al, that is therein of the male ſexe, in the edge of the ſword,

14 excepting wemen and children, the cattel and other thinges, that are in the citie. Al the praye thou shalt diuide to the armie, and thou shalt eate of the ſpoiles of thine enemies, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

15 So shalt thou doe to al cities, that be verie farre from thee, and be not of theſe cities, which thou shalt receiue in poſſeſſion.

16 But of thoſe cities, that shal be geuen thee, thou shalt ſuffer none at al to liue:

17 but shalt kil them in the edge of the ſword, to witte, the Hetheite, and Amorrheite, and Chananeite, the Pherezeite, and Heueite, and Iebuſeite, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

18 leſt perhaps they teach you to doe al the abominations, which them ſelues did worke to their goddes: and you ſinne againſt our Lord your God.

19 When thou haſt beſieged a citie a long time, and haſt compaſſed it with munition to winne it, thou shalt not cutte downe the trees, that may be eaten of, neither ſhalt thou ſpoile the countrie round about with axes: becauſe it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increaſe the number of warryers againſt thee.

20 But if there be any trees not fruitful, but wilde, and apt for other vſes, cutte them downe, and make engines, vntil thou take the citie, which fighteth againſt thee.

Marginal notes to Chapter 20

• 5 [::] Men poſſeſſed with ſuch deſires haue not like valure to good ſouldiars. And by worde or example often diſcorege others. So in ſpiritual warfare, we muſt not be addicted to worldlie profites, or pleaſures.

Chapter 21

CHAP. XXI. How to ſeeke out a ſecrete murtherer. 10. wemen taken in battel may be maried, and afterwardes can not be ſold nor made bond wemen. 15. The eldeſt ſonne may not be depriued of his birthright for hatred of his mother. 18. A ſtubburne ſonne muſt be ſtoned to death. 22. VVhen one is hanged on a gibbet, he muſt be taken downe the ſame day, and buried.

1 VVHEN there shal be found in the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, the corps of a man ſlaine, and he that is guiltie of the murder is not knowne

2 thy ancientes, and iudges shal goe forth, and meaſure from the place of the corps the diſtance of euerie citie round about:

3 and which they ſhal perceiue to be neerer then the reſt, the ancientes of that citie shal take an heifer out of the heard, that hath not drawen yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

4 and shal bring her to a rough and ſtonie valley, that neuer was ploughed, nor receiued ſeede: and in it they shal ſtrike of the necke of the heifer:

5 and the prieſtes the ſonnes of Leui shal come, whom our Lord thy God hath choſen to miniſter to him, and to bleſſe in his name, and at their word euerie matter dependeth, and whatſoeuer is cleane or vncleane muſt be iudged.

6 And the ancientes of that citie shal come to the ſlaine perſon, and shal wash their handes ouer the heifer, that was ſtrooken in the valley,

7 and shal ſay: Our handes did not ſheede this bloud, [::] nor our eies ſeee it.

8 be merciful to thy people Iſrael, whom thou haſt redemed o Lord, and impute not innocent bloud in the middes of thy people Iſrael. And the guilte of bloud shal be taken from them:

9 and thou shalt be free from the innocents bloud, that was ſhed, when thou shalt haue done that which our Lord hath commanded thee.

10 If thou goe forth to fight againſt thyne enemies, and our Lord thy God deliuer them in thy hande and thou leade them away captiue,

11 and ſeeſt in the number of the captiues a beautiful woman, and loueſt her, and wilt haue her to wife,

12 thou ſhalt bring her into thy houſe: who ſhal shaue of her hare, and payre her nailes,

13 and put of the rayment, wherein she was taken: and ſitting in thy houſe, shal mourne her father and mother one moneth: and afterward thou shalt enter vnto her, and ſhalt ſleepe with her, and ſhe ſhal be thy wife.

14 But if afterward she content not thy mynde, thou shalt let her goe free, neither canſt thou ſel her for money, nor oppreſſe her by might: becauſe thou haſt humbled her.

15 If a man haue two wiues, one beloued, and the other hated, and they haue begotten children by him, and the ſonne of the hated be the firſtborne,

16 and he meaneth to diuide his ſubſtance among his ſonnes: he can not make the ſonne of the beloued the firſt borne, and preferre him before the ſonne of the hated,

17 but the ſonne of the hated he shal acknowledge for the firſt borne, and shal geue to him of thoſe thinges, which he hath, al duble: for this is the beginning of his children, & to this are dew the firſt brith rightes.

18 If a man begette a ſtubbourne and froward ſonne, that wil not heare the commandementes of his father and mother, and being chaſtened, contemneth to be obedient:

19 they shal take him, and bring him to the ancientes of his citie, and to the gate of iudgement,

20 and shal ſay to them: This our ſonne is froward and ſtubborne, he contemneth to heare our admonitions, he geueth himſelf to comeſſation, and to ryote and banketinges:

21 the people of the citie shal ſtone him: and he shal die, that you may take away the euil out of the middes of you, and al Iſrael hearing it may be afrayde.

22 When a man hath offended ſo that he is to be punished by death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gybbet:

23 his bodie shal not remaine vpon the tree, but the ſame day shal be buried: becauſe he is [::] accurſed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not contaminate thy Land, which our Lord thy God geueth thee in poſſeſſion.

Marginal notes to Chapter 21

• 7 [::] By this ceremonie and abiuration they purged them ſelues, that they were not negligent in doing iuſtice.
• 23 [::] Myſtically, he is curſed that perſiſteth in ſinne, as it were hanging on the tree, by which our firſt parents ſinned

Chapter 22

CHAP. XXII. Pietie towardes neighboures. 5. neither ſexe may vſe the apparel of the other▪ 6. crueltie to be auoided euen towardes birdes, 8. batlement about the roofe af a houſe. 9. Things of diuers kindes not to be mixed. 12. cordes in the hemes of a cloke. 13. Trial and punishment of adulterie and of deflowring virgines. 30. the ſonne may not marie his ſtepmother.

1 THOV ſhalt not ſee thy brothers oxe, or ſheepe ſtraying, and paſſe by: but ſhalt bring it backe to thy brother,

2 although thy brother be not nigh, and thou know him not: thou shalt bring them vnto thy houſe, and they ſhal be with thee vntil thy brother ſeeke them, and receiue them.

3 In like manner ſhalt thou doe with his aſſe, and with his rayment, and with euerie thing of thy brothers, that shal be loſt: if thou finde it, neglect it nor as perteyning to an other.

4 If thou ſee thy brothers aſſe or oxe to be fallen in the way, thou shalt not contemne it, but shalt liſt it vp with him.

5 A woman ſhal not be clothed with mans apparel, neither ſhal a man vſe womans apparel: for he is abominable before God that doeth theſe thinges.

6 If walking by the way thou finde a birdes neſt in a tree or on the ground, and the damme ſitting vpon the young or the egges: thou shalt not hold her with her young,

7 but shalt let her goe, taking the young and holding them: that it may be wel with thee, and thou mayeſt liue a long time.

8 When thou buildeſt a new houſe, thou shalt make [::] a batlement to the roofe round about: leſt bloud be ſhed in thy houſe, and thou be guiltie an other ſlipping, and falling headlong.

9 Thou shalt not ſowe thy vineyard with diuerſe ſeede: leſt both the ſeede which thou didſt ſow, and the thinges that grow of the vineyard, [::] be ſanctiſied rogether.

10 Thou ſhalt not plough with an oxe and aſſe together.

11 Thou ſhalt not weare a garment that is wouen of wolle and linnen.

12 Thou shalt make litle cordes in the hemme at the foure corners of thy cloke, wherwith thou shalt be couered.

13 If a man marrie a wife, and afterward hate her,

14 and ſeeke occaſions to put her away, obiecting vnto her a verie il name, and ſay: I tooke this wife, and compayning with her: I found her not a virgin:

15 her father and mother shal take her, and shal carie with them the ſignes of her virginitie to the ancientes of the citie that are in the gate:

16 and the father shal ſay: I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife: whom becauſe he hateth,

17 he layeth vnto her a verie il name, ſo that he ſayeth: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold theſe are the ſignes of my daughters virginitie. they shal ſpread the veſture before the ancientes of the citie:

18 and the ancientes of that citie shal take the man, and beate him,

19 c⟨illegible⟩ndemning him beſides in a hundred ſicles of ſiluer, which he shal geue to the wenches father, becauſe he hath infamouſely ſpred a verie il name vpon a virgin of Iſrael: and he shal haue her to wife, and can not put her away al the daies of his life.

20 But if it be true which he obiected, and virginitie be not found in the wench:

21 they shal caſt her forth without the doores of her fathers houſe, and the men of her citie shal ſtone her to death, and she ſhal die: becauſe ſhe hath done wickednes in Iſrael, to fornicate in her fathers houſe: and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

22 If a man lie with an others mans wife, both shal die, that is to ſay, the aduouterer and the aduoutereſſe: and thou shalt take away the euil out of Iſrael.

23 If a man haue deſpouſed a maide that is a virgine, and ſome man finde her in the citie, and lie with her,

24 thou shalt bring forh both of them to the gate of that citie, and they shal be ſtoned: the maide, becauſe she cried not, being in the citie: the man, becauſe he hath humbled his neighbours wife. and thou shalt take away the euil from the middes of thee.

25 But if the man finde the maide that is deſpouſed, in the field, and taking her, lie with her, he alone shal die:

26 the maide shal ſuffer nothing, neither is she guiltie of death: for as a theefe ryſeth againſt his brother, and taketh away his life, ſo alſo did the maide ſuffer.

27 she was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to deliuer her.

28 If a man finde a maide that is a virgin, which hath not a ſpouſe, and taking her lie with her, and the matter come into iudgement:

29 he that lay with her, shal geue to ⟨illegible⟩he father of the maide ſiftie ſicles of ſiluer, and shal haue her to wife, becauſe he hath humbled her: he can not put her away al the daies of his life.

30 No man shal take his fathers wife, nor reuele his couering.

Marginal notes to Chapter 22

• 8 [::] Their houſes had flat roofes as manie of our churches, pallaces, and caſtles, where battlements are neceſſarie for danger of falling when, anie walke theron.
• 9 [::] For correction of ſo couetous a mind the whole fruicte muſt be offered to pious vſes. Theodoret. q. 23. in Deut.

Chapter 23

CHAP. XXIII. Eunuches, baſtardes, Moabites, & Ammonites may not enter into the Church. 7. Idumeans, and Aegyptians may be admitted. 9. Obſeruation of ſpiritual and corporal cleannes. 15. other preceptes concerning fugitiues, 17. fornication, 19. vſurie. 21. vowes, 24. and eating other mens grapes or corne.

1 AN [::] eunuch that hath his ſtones broken, or cutte of, & his yeard cutte away, shal not enter into the church of our Lord.

2 Mamzer, that is to ſay, one borne of a common woman, shal not enter into the church of our Lord, vntil the tenth generation.

3 The [::] Ammonite, and the Moabite yea after the tenth generation shal not enter into the church of our Lord, for euer:

4 becauſe they would not meete you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Aegypt: and becauſe they hyred againſt thee Balaam, the ſonne of Beor of Meſopotamia in Syria, to curſe thee:

5 and our Lord thy God would not heare Balaam, and he turned his curſing into thy bleſſing, for that he loued thee.

6 Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither doe thou ſeeke their good al the daies of thy life for euer.

7 Thou shalt not abhorre the Idumeite, becauſe he is thy brother: nor the Aegyptian, becauſe thou waſt a ſtranger in his land.

8 They that are borne of them, in the third generation shal enter into the church of our Lord.

9 When thou goeſt forth againſt thyne enemies to battel, thou shalt keepe thy ſelf from al euil thing.

10 If there be among you a man, that is polluted in a dreame by night, he shal goe forth without the campe,

11 and shal not returne, before he be washed with water at euen: and after ſunne ſette he shal returne into the campe.

12 Thou shalt haue a place without the campe, whither thou mayeſt goe to the neceſſities of nature,

13 carying on thy girdle a piked inſtrument. & when thou ſitteſt downe, thou shalt digge round about, and with the earth that is digged vp shal couer

14 that which thou art eaſed of (for our Lord thy God walketh in the middes of thy campe, to deliuer thee, and to geue thyne enemies vnto thee) and let thy campe be holie, and let no filthines appeare therein, leſt he forſake thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliuer the ſeruant to his Maiſter, that is fled to thee.

16 he shal dwel with thee in the place, that shal pleaſe him, and in one of thy cities shal he reſt: vexe him not.

17 There shal be no whoore of the daughters of Iſrael, nor whooremonger of the ſonnes of Iſrael.

18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a ſtrompet, nor the price of a dogge, in the houſe of our Lord thy God, whatſoeuer it be that thou haſt vowed: becauſe both is abomination before our Lord thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to vſurie, nor corne, nor any other thing:

20 but [::] to the ſtrāger. And to thy brother thou shalt lend, that which he needeth without vſurie: that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee in al thy worke in the Land, which thou shalt enter to poſſeſſe.

21 When thou haſt vowed a vow to our Lord thy God, thou shalt not ſlacke to pay it: becauſe our Lord thy God wil require it. and if thou delay, it shal be reputed to thee for ſinne.

22 [::] If thou wilt not promiſe, thou shalt be without ſinne.

23 But that which is once gone out of thy lippes, thou shalt obſerue, and shalt doe as thou haſt promiſed to our Lord thy God, and haſt ſpoken with thy proper wil and thyne owne mouth.

24 Entring into thy neighbours vineyarde, eate grapes as much as shal pleaſe thee: but carrie none out with thee.

25 If thou enter into thy freindes corne, thou shalt breake the eares, and rubbe them in thy hand: but with a ſikcle thou shalt not reape.

Marginal notes to Chapter 23

• 1 [::] Such as are barrē in good workes can not enter into Gods houſe. Theod. q. 25. in Deut.
• 3 [::] Theſe natiōs not able to hurt the children of Iſrael, neither by denying ordinarie curteſies, nor by force, nor by hyring Balaā to curſe them, yet inuegling them with carnal ſinnes, ſignified obſtinate peruerſe ſinners, that nouer amending can neuer be rightly receiued into the Church of God.
• 20 [::] Onlie lawful enemies are here called ſtrangers: where therfore is iuſt cauſe of warre, there only it is lawful to exerciſe vſurie. S. Amb. li. de Tobia. c. 15.
• 22 [::] Vowes binde where otherwiſe was no obligation.

Chapter 24

CHAP. XXIIII. Diuorce permitted to auoide greater euil. 5. The newly maried must not goe to warre. 7. He that traterouſly ſelleth a man must be slaine, 8. diſobedience to Prieſtes incurreth leproſie▪ 10. Such things may not be taken to pledge, as can not be wel ſpared. 14. Poore laborers muſt be preſently payed. 16. not one punished for an others fault, but right iudgement to al, 18. and liberalalmes to the poore.

1 IF a man take a wife, and haue her, and she finde not grace before his eies for ſonne lothſomenes: he shal write a bil of diuorce, and shal geue it in her hand, and▪ dimiſſe her out of his houſe.

2 And being departed when she shal haue married an other husband,

3 and he alſo hateth her, and hath geuen her a bil of diuorce, and hath dimiſſed her out of his houſe, or is deade:

4 the former husband can not take her againe to wife: becauſe she is polluted, and is made abominable before our Lord: leſt thou make thy Land to ſinne, which our Lord thy God shal deliuer thee to poſſeſſe.

5 When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shal not goe forth to battel, neither shal any publique neceſſitie be inioyned him, but he shal attend to his owne houſe without fault, that one yeare he may reioyce with his wife.

6 Thou shalt not take for a pledge the nether, or the vpper milſtone: becauſe [::] he hath pledged his life to thee.

7 If any man be taken ſoliciting his brother of the children of Iſrael, and ſelling him take a price, he shal be ſlaine, and thou shalt take away the euil from the middes of thee.

8 Obſerue diligently that thou incurre not the plague of leproſie, but thou shalt doe whatſoeuer the prieſtes of the Leuitical ſtocke shal teach thee, according to that, which I haue commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.

9 Remember what our Lord your God did to Marie, in the way when you came out of Aegypt.

10 When thou ſhalt require of thy neighbour any thing, that he oweth thee, thou ſhalt not enter into his houſe to take away a pledge:

11 but thou ſhalt ſtand without, and he shal bring forth to thee that which he hath.

12 but if he be poore, the pledge shal not lodge with thee that night,

13 but forthwith thou shalt reſtore it to him before the going downe of the ſunne: that ſleeping in his rayment, he may bleſſe thee, & thou mayeſt haue iuſtice before our Lord thy God.

14 Thou shalt not denie the hyre of the needie, and poore man thy brother, or the ſtranger, that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

15 but the ſame day thou shalt pay him the price of his labour, before the going downe of the ſunne, [::] becauſe he is poore, and there withal ſuſteyneth his life: leſt he crie againſt thee to our Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a ſinne.

16 The fathers shal not be ſlaine for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but cuerie one shal die for his owne ſinne.

17 Thou shalt not peruert the iudgement of the ſtranger and the pupil, neither shalt thou take away the widowes rayment for a pledge.

18 Remember that thou didſt ſerue in Aegypt, and our Lord thy God deliuered thee from thence Therfore I command thee that thou doe this thing.

19 When thou haſt reaped the corne in thy field, and forgetting haſt left a ſheafe, thou shalt not returne to take it away: but thou shalt ſuffer the ſtranger, and the pupil, and the widow to take it away, that our Lord thy God may bleſſe thee in al the worke of thy handes.

20 If thou haue gathered the fruites of thy oliue trees, whatſoeuer remaineth on the trees, thou shalt not returne to gather it: but shalt leaue it to the ſtranger, the pupil, and the widow.

21 If thou make vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the cluſters that remaine, but they shal goe to the vſes of the ſtranger, the pupil, and the widow.

22 Remember that thou alſo didſt ſerue in Aegypt, and therfore I command thee that thou doe this thing.

Marginal notes to Chapter 24

• 6 [::] This hebrew phraſe ſignifieth, that pledging the thing wherin the meanes of life conſiſteth is as if he pledged his life.
• 15 [::] In caſe the laborer ſuſteyneth his life by his dailie wages, then not to pay him is in effect to kil him. and ſuch ſinne crieth to God for reuenge.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXIIII.

1. Dimiſſe her.] VVhether this diuorce was tollerated as a leſſe ſinne, to auoide a greater, as S. Hierom. (li. 1. in Mat. c. 5. & li 3. in c. 19.) S. Chryſoſtom. (ho. 12. in Mat. 5.) and others teach; or diſpenſed withal, and ſo made lawful to the Iewes, which is alſo probabtle, for hat none of the holie Prophetes [Margin: VVhether the band of mariage could be ⟨illegible⟩ooſed or no in the old law, amongſt Chriſtiās it can not be diſſolued.] did euer reprehend it; ſure it is, that Chriſt either by correcting a fault, or by recalling a former diſpenſation, reſtored the inſolubilitie of mariage to the firſt inſtitution, ſaying: (Mat. 19.) That vvhich God hath ioyned together, let not man ſeparate. Further anſwering the Phareſes, concerning this law: that Moyſes for the hardnes of your hart permitted you to dimiſse your vviues: but from the beginning it vvas not ſo. And albeit he alloweth ſeparation of man and wife for fornication, yet for no cauſe neither of them can marie againe, ſo long as the other liueth. As S. Auguſtin (li. 1. de adulter. coningijs. c. 11. & 12.) by conference of three Euangeliſtes wordes touching this point, plainly ſheweth, concluding [Margin: No not for adultrie.] that for ſo much as holie Scripture calleth him (that taketh a woman ſo dimiſſed) not a husband, but an adulterer, she is ſtil his vvife, by vvhom for fornication she vvas dimiſſed. Likewiſe he proueth by S. Paules doctrin. (Rom. 7. & 1. Cor. 7.) that though diuorce be made for adultrie, yet neither the guiltie nor innocent partie can marie an other, for the Apoſtle ſaieth: a vvoman is vnder the lavv of her husband, ſo long as he liueth, if her husband be dead, she is looſed from his lavv. Therfore her husband liuing, she shal be called an aduoutreſſe, if she be vvith an other man. If she part let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled to her husband. A vvoman is bond to the lavv ſo long time, as her husband lieth, &c. Theſe wordes of the Apoſtle (ſayeth he, li. 2. c. 4.) ſo often repeted, ſo often incultated, are true, are liuclie, are ſound, are plaine. A woman beginneth not to be the wife of a later huſhand, except ſhe ceaſe to be the wife of the former And ſhe caeſeth to be the wife of the former, if he die, not if he (or ſhe) committe adultrie. Therfore a wife is lawfully dimiſſed [Margin: Only before conſummatiō Mariage is diſſolued by ſolemne vow in Religion.] for fornication, but the bond of the former remaineth, for which cauſe he is guiltie of adultrie, that marieth her that is dimiſſed, yea though it be for fornication. Thus and much more ſayeth. S. Auguſtin in the ſame, & in other bookes. And al the ancient fathers, and lerned ſchoolmen teach vniformly, that nothing but bodilie death can looſe the band of Mariage conſummate; nor of vnconſummate, but death, or ſolemne vow in an approued rule of religion.

Chapter 25

CHAP. XXV. Punishment afflicted according to the fault, but ſo that he which is beaten haue not aboue fourtie ſtripes. 4. The oxes mouth not be mooſeled that treadeth corne. 5. A maried man dying without iſsue, his brother muſt marie the widow. 11. The wife that taketh her huſbands aduerſarie by priuities must loſe her hand. 13. no falſe weightes, nor meaſures to be kept. 17. Amelicites muſt be vtterly destroyed.

1 IF there be a controuerſie betwen ſome, and they cal vpon the iudges: whom they shal perceiue to be iuſt, to him they shal geue the price of iuſtice: whom impious, him they shal condemne of impietie.

2 And if they ſee that the offender be worthie of ſtripes: they ſhal caſt him downe, & shal cauſe him to be beaten before them. According to the meaſure of the ſinne shal the meaſure alſo of the ſtripes be:

3 yet ſo, that they exceede not the number of fourtie: leſt thy brother depart fowly torne before thyne eies.

4 Thou shalt [::] not mooſel the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out thy corne in the flore.

5 When brethren shal dwel together, & one of them die without children, the wife of the deceaſed ſhal not marie to an oother: but▪ his brother ſhal take her, and rayſe vp the ſeede of his brother:

6 and the firſt borne ſonne of her he shal cal by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Iſrael.

7 But if he wil not take his brothers wife, that by law is dew to him, the woman shal goe to the gate of the citie, and cal vpon the ancientes, and ſay: My husbandes brother wil not rayſe vp his brothers ſeede in Iſrael: nor take me to his wiſe.

8 And ſorthwith they shal cauſe him to be ſent for, and shal aske him. If he anſwer: I wil not take her to wife:

9 the woman shal come to him before the ancientes, and shal take of his shoe from his foote, and [::] ſpitte in his face, and ſay: So shal it be done to the man, that buildeth not his brothers houſe.

10 And his name shal be called in Iſrael [::] The houſe of the vnshodde.

11 If two men fal at wordes betwixt them ſelues, and one beginne to brawle againſt the other, and the wife of the one willing to deliuer her husband out of the hand of the ſtronget, put forth her hand, and take his priuities:

12 thou shalt cutte of her hand, neither shalt thou be moued with any pitie vpon her.

13 Thou shalt not haue diuerſe weightes in thy bagge, a greater and a leſſe:

14 neither shal there be in thy houſe a greater bushel and a leſſe.

15 Thou shalt haue a weight iuſt and true, and thy bushel shal be equal and true: that thou mayeſt liue a long time vpon the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

16 For thy Lord abhorreth him, that doth theſe thinges, and deteſteth al iniuſtice.

17 Remember what [::] Amalec did to thee in the way when thou cameſt out of Aegypt:

18 how he mette thee: & ſtroke the hindemoſt of thy armie, which being wearie reſted them ſelues, when thou waſt ſpent with famine and labour, and he feared not God.

19 Therfore when our Lord thy God shal geue thee reſt, and ſubdewe al nations round about in the Land, which he hath promiſed thee: thou shalt deſtroy his name vnder heauen. Beware thou forget it not.

Marginal notes to Chapter 25

• 4 [::] S. Paul expoundeth this of the ſpiritual laborer in Gods Church that he muſt haue his main tenāce for his trauel. 1. Cor. 9. & 1. Tim. 5 It was alſo ment of oxen, ſo it hath two literalsēſes. Theod. q 31. in Deut.
• 9 [::] He that diſdaineth to honour his brother is iuſtly deſpiſed.
• 10 [::] A laſie familie & vnprofitable to the cōmōwealth. Myſtically, Paſtors and Doctors muſt beget ſpiritual children to Chriſt, not to themſelues; & ſo they are called Chriſtians, not Paulians, whom S. Paul conuerted. And he that is elected by the church to ſpiritual functiō, & neglecteth his dutie, is worthie of reproch and in famie. S. Aug. li. 32. c. 10. cont. Fauſt. Manich.
• 17 [::] Amalec firſt impugned Iſrael after they had paſſed the redſea. Exo. 17.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXV.

5. His brother shal take her.] This proueth euidently that the prohibition, not to marie the brothers wife (Leuit. 18.) was a poſitiue law, binding only when the firſt brother dying left iſſue. For dying without iſſue, his brother [Margin: Mariage with the brothers wife, he dying without iſſue.] was bound by this law to marie the widow. In default of the brother, the next of kinne was to marie her: and for default of neerer, the more remote. ſo Booz maried Ruth. Neither was it contrarie, but agreable to the law of nature, to [Margin: Rut⟨illegible⟩. 3. &. 4.] marie the brothers wife when he was dead without iſſue, as is before noted. Gen. 38.

Chapter 26

CHAP. XXVI. First fruites muſt be offered in ſpecial place aſsigned to Gods ſeruice, profeſſing of gratitude for the land poſseſſed according to Gods promiſe. 12. Likewiſe tithes of the third yeare, 16. with concluſion, that the people promiſe to obſerue al the preceptes of God, and ſo doing he wil protect and proſper them.

1 AND when thou art entred into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee to poſſeſſe, and haſt obteyned it, and dwelleſt in it:

2 thou ſhalt take firſt of al thy fruites, and put them in a maunde, and ſhalt goe to the place, which our Lord thy God ſhal chooſe, that his name may be inuocated there:

3 and thou shalt goe to the prieſt, that shal be in thoſe daies, and ſay to him: I profeſſe this day before our Lord thy God, that I am entred into the Land, for the which he ſware to our fathers, that he would geue it vs.

4 and the prieſt taking the maund at his hand, shal ſette it before the altar of our Lord thy God:

5 and thou shalt ſpeake in the ſight of our Lord God: [::] The Syrian perſecuted my father, who deſcended into Aegypt, and ſeiourned there in a verie ſmale number and grew into a nation greate and ſtrong and of an infinite multitude.

6 And the Aegyptians afflicted vs, and perſecuted vs laying on moſt grieuous burdens:

7 and we cried to our Lord the God of our fathers: who heard vs, and reſpected our affliction, and labour, and diſtreſſe:

8 and brought vs out of Aegypt in a ſtrong hand, a ſtretched out arme, in great terrour, in ſignes and wonders:

9 and brought vs into this place, and deliuered to vs this Land flowing with milke and honie.

10 And therfore now I offer firſt fruites of the Land, which our Lord hath geuen me. And thou shalt leaue them in the ſight of our Lord thy God, adoring our Lord thy God.

11 And thou shalt feaſt in al the good thinges, which our Lord thy God hath geuen to thee, and thy houſe, thou and the Leuite, and the ſtranger that is with thee

12 When thou haſt finiſhed the tithe of al thy fruites, in [::] the third yeare of tithes thou shalt geue to the Leuite, and the ſtranger, and the pupil, and the widow, that they may eate within thy gates, and be filled:

13 and thou ſhalt ſpeake in the ſight of our Lord thy God: I haue brought that which is ſanctified out of my houſe, and haue geuen it to the Leuite and the ſtranger, and the pupil and the widow, as thou haſt commanded me: I haue not tranſgreſſed thy commandements nor forgotten thy preceptes.

14 I haue not eaten of them in my mourning, nor ſeparated them in any vncleannes, nor ſpent of them any thing in funerals. I haue obeyed the voice of our Lord my God, and haue done al thinges as thou didſt command me.

15 Looke from thy ſanctuarie, and thy high habitation of heauen, and bleſſe thy people Iſrael, and the Land, which thou haſt geuen vs, as thou ſwareſt to our fathers, a land flowing with milke and honie.

16 This day our Lord thy God hath commanded thee to doe theſe commandmentes and iudgementes: that thou keepe and fulfil them with al thy hart, and with al thy ſoule.

17 [::] Thou haſt choſen our Lord this day, to be thy God, and to walke in his waies, and keepe his ceremonies, and preceptes and iudgementes, and obey his commandement.

18 And our Lord hath choſen thee this day, that thou shouldeſt be his peculiar people, as he hath ſpoken to thee, and thou shouldeſt keepe al his commandementes:

19 and make thee higher then al nations which he created, to his prayſe, and name, and glorie: that thou mayeſt be a holie people of our Lord thy God, as he hath ſpoken.

Marginal notes to Chapter 26

• 1 The third leſſon in Maſſe on Imber Saturday in whit funweke.
• 5 [::] Laban purſued Iacob, when he parted from Meſopothamia of Syria. Gen. 27.
• 11 The firſt leſsō in Maſſe on Imber Saturday in Lent.
• 12 [::] The people payed euerie yeare two ⟨illegible⟩thes: firſt to the Leuites: the ſecond for entertaining trauelers to & from Ieruſalē & euerie third yeare, a third tith for relief of the poore inhabitantes.
• 17 [::] Mutual pact betwen God & his peoples that they ſeruing him, he wil reward them.

Chapter 27

CHAP. XXVII. Gods commandmentes muſt be written in plaſtred ſtones. An Altar erected, and Sacrifices offered. 12. Obſeruers of the commandments muſt be [Margin: The third part Gods promiſes & threates, for keeping or breaking his commandments.] bleſsed, and tranſgreſſors curſed. 14. with the forme of curſing idolaters, and diuers other enormious ſinners.

1 AND Moyſes and the ancientes of Iſrael commanded the people, ſaying: Keepe euerie commandment that I command you this day.

2 And when you are paſſed ouer Iordan into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, thou ſhalt erect great ſtones, and ſhalt polish them with plaſter,

3 that thou mayeſt write on them al the wordes of this law, when thou haſt paſſed ouer Iordan: that thou mayeſt enter into the Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee, a land flowing with milke and honie, as he ſware to thy fathers.

4 When therfore you are paſſed Iordan, erect the ſtones which I command you this day in mount Hebal, and thou ſhalt poliſh them with plaſter:

5 and thou ſhalt build there an altar to our Lord thy God of ſtones, which yron hath not touched,

6 and of ſtones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt put vpon it holocauſtes to our Lord thy God,

7 and shalt immolate pacifique hoſtes, and eate there, and feaſte there before our Lord thy God.

8 And thou shalt write vpon the ſtones al the wordes of this law plainely and cleerly.

9 And Moyſes and the prieſtes of the Leuitical ſtocke ſaid to al Iſrael: Attend, and heare Iſrael: This day thou art made the people of our Lord thy God:

10 thou shalt heare his voice, and doe the commandementes and iuſtices, which I command thee.

11 And Moyſes commanded the people in that day, ſaying:

12 [::] Theſe shal ſtand to bleſſe the people, vpon mount Garizim, when you are paſt Iordan: Simeon, [::] Leui, Iudas, Iſſachar, Ioſeph, and Beniamin.

13 And ouer againſt them theſe shal ſtand to curſe on mount Hebal. Ruben, Gad, and Aſer, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephthali:

14 And the [::] Leuites shal pronounce, and ſay to al the men of Iſrael with a high voice:

15 Curſed be the man that maketh a grauen and molten thing, the abomination of our Lord, the worke of the handes of artificers, and shal put it [::] in ſecrete. and al the people shal anſwer, and ſay: Amen.

16 Curſed be he that honoureth not his father and mother. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

17 Curſed be he that remoueth his neighbours boundes. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

18 Curſed be he that maketh the blinde to goe amiſſe in his iourney. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

19 Curſed be he that peruerteth the iudgement of the ſtranger, of the pupil and the widow. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

20 Curſed be he that ſleepeth with his fathers wife, and reuealeth the couer of his bedde. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

21 Curſed be he that lyeth with any beaſt. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

22 Curſed be he that ſleepeth with his ſiſter, the daughter of his father, or of his mother. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

23 Curſed be he that ſleepeth with his mother in law. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

24 Curſed be he that ſecretely ſtriketh his neighbour. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

25 Curſed be he that taketh giftes, to kil the ſoule of innocent bloud. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

26 Curſed be he that obydeth not in the wordes of this law, and fulfilleth them not in worke. and al the people shal ſay: Amen.

Marginal notes to Chapter 27

• 12 [::] The ancientes of euerie tribe.
• 12 [::] The Leuites proper office was to bleſſe.
• 14 [::] But by occaſion of ſinne their office was alſo to pronounce curſes.
• 15 [::] Though the ſinnes were ſecrete, yet the offenders were curſed: publique ſinnes were alſo publikely puniſhed.

Chapter 28

CHAP. XXVIII. Diuers bleſsings are promiſed to the obſeruers of Gods commandmentes. 15. and curſes threatned to tranſgreſſors.

1 BVT if thou wilt heare the voice of our Lord thy God, that thou doe and keepe al his commandementes, which I command thee this day, our Lord thy God wil make thee higher then al nations, that be on the earth.

2 And [::] al theſe bleſſinges shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee: yet ſo if thou heare his preceptes.

3 Bleſſed shalt thou be in the citie, and bleſſed in the field.

4 Bleſſed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, and the fruite of thy cattel, the troupes of thy heardes, & the foldes of thy sheepe.

5 Bleſſed shal thy barnes be, and bleſſed [::] thy remaines.

6 Bleſſed shalt thou be comming in and going out.

7 Our Lord wil geue thyne enemies, that riſe vp againſt thee, to fal downe in thy ſight: one way they shal comme againſt thee, and ſeuen wayes they shal flee from thy face.

8 Our Lord wil ſend forth bleſſing vpon thy cellars, and vpon al the workes of thy handes: and wil bleſſe thee in the land, that thou shalt receiue.

9 Our Lord wil rayſe thee vp vnto him ſelf to be a holie people, as he ſware to thee: If thou keepe the commandmentes of our Lord thy God, and walke in his waies.

10 And al the people of the earth shal ſee that the name of our Lord is inuocated vpon thee, and they shal feare thee.

11 Our Lord wil make thee abound with al goodes, with the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy cattel, with the fruite of thy land, which our Lord ſware to thy fathers that he would geue thee.

12 Our Lord wil open his moſt excellent treaſure, the heauen, that it may geue rayne to thy land in due ſeaſon: and wil bleſſe al the workes of thy handes. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and thy ſelf shalt take lone of no man.

13 And our Lord ſhal make thee [::] the heade, and not thr taile: and thou shalt be alwaies aboue, and not vnder: [::] yet ſo, if thou wilt heare the commandmentes of our Lord thy God which I command thec rhis day, and keepe and doe them,

14 and decline not from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor folow ſtrange goddes, nor ſerue them.

15 But if thou wilt not heare the voice of our Lord thy God, to keepe, and doe al his commandmentes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, [::] al theſe curſes shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.

16 Curſed shalt thou be in the citie, curſed in the field.

17 Curſed shal thy barne be, and curſed thy remaines.

18 Curſed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, the heardes of thy oxen, and the flockes of thy sheepe.

19 Curſed shalt thou be comming in, and curſed going out.

20 Our Lord shal ſend vpon thee famine & hunger, and rebuke vpon al the workes, which thou shalt doe: vntil he conſume, and deſtroy thee quickly, for thy moſt wicked inuentions, wherein thou haſt forſaken me.

21 Our Lord ſette the peſtilence vpon thee, vntil he conſume thee out of the land, which thou shalt enter in to poſſeſſe.

22 Our Lord ſtrike thee with pouertie, with the feuer and cold, with burning and heate, and with corrupt ayre and blaſting, and purſew thee til thou perish.

23 Be the heauen, that is ouer thee, of braſſe: and the ground, that thou treadeſt, of yron▪

24 Our Lord geue duſt for rayne vpon thy land, and ashes deſcend from heauen vpon thee, til thou be conſumed.

25 Our Lord deliuer thee to fal downe before thyne enemies. one way goe thou forth againſt them, and flee ſeuen, and be thou diſperſed through out al the kingdomes of the earth.

26 and be thy carcaſſe meate to al the fowles of the ayre, and beaſtes of the earth, and be there none to driue them away.

27 Our Lord ſtrike thee with the boile of Aegypt, and the part of thy bodie, by the which dung is caſt out, with ſcabbe alſo and itche: ſo that thou canſt not be cured:

28 Our Lord ſtrike thee with madnes & blindnes and furie of minde,

29 and grope thou at midday as the blinde is wont to grope in the darke, and direct not thy wayes. And at al times ſuſteyne thou wrong, and be thou oppreſſed with violence, neither haue thou any to deliuer thee.

30 Take thou a wife, and an other ſleepe with her. Build thou a houſe, and dwel not therin. Plant thou a vineyard, and take not the vintage thereof.

31 Be thy oxe immolated beforte thee, and thou not eate therof. Be thy aſſe taken away in thy ſight, and not reſtored to thee. Be thy sheepe geuen to thyne enemies, and be there none to helpe thee.

32 Be thy ſonnes and thy daughters deliuered to an other people, thyne eies ſeing, and daſeling at the ſight of them al the day, and be there no ſtrength in thy hand.

33 The fruites of thy land, and al thy laboures let a people eate, which thou knoweſt not: and be thou alwaies ſuſteyning calumnie, and oppreſſed al dayes,

34 and aſtonished at the terrour of thoſe thinges, which thyne eies shal ſee.

35 Our Lord ſtrike thee with a verie ſore botche in the knees and shankes, and be thou vncurable from the ſole of the foote vnto the toppe of thy head.

36 Our Lord shal bring thee, and thy King, whom thou shalt appoint ouer thee, vnto a nation, which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt ſerue ſtrange goddes, wood and ſtone.

37 And thou shalt be deſtroyed for a prouerbe and fable to al peoples, vnto whom our Lord shal bring thee in.

38 Thou shalt caſt much ſeede into the ground, and gather litle: becauſe the locuſtes shal deuoure al thinges.

39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and digge, and the wine thou shalt not drinke, nor gather any thing therof: becauſe it shal be waſted with wormes.

40 Thou shalt haue oliues in al thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oyle: becauſe they shal droppe away, & perish.

41 Thou shalt begette ſonnes and daughters, and shalt not enioy them: becauſe they shal be ledde into captiuitie.

42 Al thy trees and the fruites of thy ground the blaſting shal conſume.

43 [::] The ſtranger that liueth with thee in the Land, shal aſcend ouer thee, and shal be higher: and thou shalt deſcend downeward, and be inferior.

44 He shal lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him. He shal be as the head, and thou shalt be the tayle.

45 And al theſe curſes shal come vpon thee, and purſewing shal ouertake thee, til thou perish: becauſe thou heard not the voice of our Lord thy God, nor kept his commandmentes and ceremonies which he commanded thee.

46 And they shal be in thee as ſignes and wonders, and in thy ſeede for euer:

47 becauſe thou didſt not ſerue our Lord thy God in ioy, and gladnes of hart, for the abundance of al thinges.

48 Thou shalt ſerue thine enemie, whom our Lord wil ſend vpon thee, in hunger, and thirſt, and nakednes, and al penurie: and he shal put an yron yoke vpon thy necke, til he conſume thee.

49 Our Lord wil bring vpon thee a Nation from a farre, and from the vttermoſt endes of the earth, in likenes of an eagle that flieth with vehemencie: whoſe tongue thou canſt not vnderſtand:

50 a verie malapert Nation, that wil attribute nothing to the ancient, nor haue pitie on the litle one,

51 and wil deuoure the fruite of thy cattel, and the fruites of thy Land: vntil thou perish, and wil not leaue thee wheate, wine, and oile, heardes of oxen, and flockes of sheepe: vntil it deſtroy thee,

52 and conſume thee in al thy cities, and thy ſtrong and highe walles be deſtroyed, wherin that hadſt confidence in al thy Land. Thou shalt be beſieged within thy gates in al thy Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee:

53 and thou shalt cate the fruite of thy wombe, and the flesh of thy ſonnes and of thy daughters, which our Lord thy God ſhal geue thee, in the diſtreſſe and vaſtation wherwith thyne enemie shal oppreſſe thee.

54 The man that is delicate in thee, and very riotious, shal much enuie his owne brother, and his wife, that lieth in his boſome,

55 ſo that he shal not geue them of the flesh of his children, which he wil eate: becauſe he hath nothing els in the ſiege and penurie, wherwith thine enemies shal waſte thee within al thy gates.

56 The tender and delicate woman, that could not goe vpon the ground, nor ſette downe her foote for ouer much nicenes and tendernes, wil enuie her husband, that lyeth in her boſome, vpon the flesh of her ſonne, and daughter,

57 and the filthines of the after birthes, that come forth from the middes of her thighes, and vpon the children that are borne the ſame howre. for they shal eate them ſecretely becauſe of the penurie of al thinges, in the ſiege and vaſtation, wherwith thine enemie shal oppreſſe thee within thy gates.

58 Vnleſſe thou keepe, and doe al the wordes of this law, that be written in this volume, and feare his name glorious and terrible, that is. Our Lord thy God:

59 our Lord shal increaſe thy plagues, and the plagues of thy ſeede, greate plagues and continuing, ſore infirmities and perpetual.

60 and he shal turne vpon thee al the afflictions of Aegypt, which thou didſt feare, and they shal cleaue to thee.

61 Moreouer alſo al the diſeaſes, and plagues, that be not written in the volume of this law, our Lord wil bring vpon thee, til he conſume thee:

62 and you shal remaine few in number, which before was as the ſtarres of heauen for multitude, becauſe thou heardſt not the voice of our Lord thy God.

63 And as before our Lord reioyced vpon you, doing good to you, and multiplying you: ſo he shal reioyſe deſtroying and ſubuerting you, ſo that you may be taken away from the Land, which thou shalt enter to poſſeſſe.

64 Our Lord shal diſperſe thee into al peoples, from the fartheſt partes of the earth to the endes therof: and there thou shalt ſerue ſtrange goddes, which thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, woode and ſtone.

65 In thoſe nations alſo thou shalt not be quiet, neither shal there be reſting for the ſteppe of thy foote. For our Lord wil geue thee a feareful hart, and daſeling eies, and a ſoule conſumed with penſifenes:

66 and thy life shal be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt feare night and day, and thou shalt not truſt in thy life.

67 In the morning thou shalt ſay: Who wil graunt me euening? and at euening: Who wil grant me morning? for the fearefulnes of thy hart, wherwith thou shalt be terrified, and for thoſe thinges, which thou shalt ſee with thine eies.

68 Our Lord shal bring thee againe with shippes into Aegypt by the way, wherof he ſaid to thee that thou shouldeſt ſee it no more. There shalt thou be ſould to thine enemies for bondmen and bondweomen, and no man shal bye you.

Marginal notes to Chapter 28

• 2 [::] Temporal bleſſings belonged to ſenſual people of the old teſtament: now the poore in ſpirite are bleſſed, that mourne, and ſuffer perſecution for truth and iuſtice.
• 5 [::] The poore beīg releeued of thy ſuperfluitie shal bleſſe thee.
• 13 [::] Thou ſhalt rule ouer others & none ouer thee.
• 13 [::] Yet alwaies with this condition: if thou ſerue God.
• 15 [::] Thus moſt cōmonly ſinners were curſed in the old Teſtament, but ſuch as now ſerue not God rightly, and yet proſper in this world, shal in a moment deſcend into hel. Iob. 21.
• 43 [::] After manie other plagues and puniſhments, at laſt the Iewes refuſing and perſecutīg Chriſt, were reiected, and Gentiles called into the Church, and aduanced aboue them. Theod q. 34. in Deut.

Chapter 29

CHAP. XXIX. A couenant and oath is made betwen God and his people (with commemoration of ſundrie benefites by them receiued) that keping his law they shal be more bleſſed: and breaking the ſame shal ſuſteine the threatned punishmentes.

1 THESE are the wordes of the couenant which our Lord commanded Moyſes to make with the children of Iſrael in the Land of Moab: beſide that couenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 And Moyſes called al Iſrael, and ſaid to them: you ſaw al thinges, that our Lord did before you in the Land of Aegypt to Pharao, and to al his ſeruantes, and to his whole land,

3 the great tentations, which thine eies haue ſeene, thoſe mightie ſignes, and wonders,

4 and our Lord [::] hath not geuen you a hart to vnderſtand, and eies to ſee, and eares that can heare, vnto this preſent day.

5 He hath brought you fourtie yeares by the deſert: your garmentes are not worne out, neither are the shoes of your feete conſumed with age.

6 Breade you haue not eaten, wine and ſicer you haue not drunke: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

7 And you came to this place: and there came forth Sehon the King of Heſebon, and Og the King of Baſan, meeting vs to fight. And we ſtroke them,

8 and tooke their land, and deliuered it in poſſeſſion to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manaſſes.

9 Keepe therfore the wordes of this couenant, and fulfil them: that you may vnderſtand al thinges that you doe.

10 You ſtand this day al before our Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancientes, and doctors, al the people of Iſrael,

11 your children and your wiues, and the ſtrangers that abide with thee in the campe, beſides the cutters of wood, and them, that carie water:

12 that thou mayeſt paſſe in the couenant of our Lord thy God, and in the oath which in this day our Lord thy God maketh with thee:

13 that he may rayſe thee vp a people to him ſelfe, and he be thy God as he hath ſpoken to thee, and as he ſware to thy fathers, Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob.

14 Neither with you onlie doe I make this couenant, and confirme theſe oathes,

15 but with al that be preſent and abſent.

16 For you know how we dwelt in the Land of Aegypt, and how we haue paſſed through the middes of nations, which paſſing through

17 you haue ſeene their abominations and filth, that is to ſay, their Idols, wood and ſtone, ſiluer and gold, which they worshipped.

18 Leſt perhaps there be among you man or woman, familie or tribe, whoſe hart is turned away this day from our Lord God, to goe and ſerue the goddes of thoſe Nations: and there be among you [::] a roote bringing forth gal and bitternes.

19 And when he shal heare the wordes of this oath, he bleſſe him ſelfe in his hart, ſaying: I shal haue place, and walke in the prauitie of my hart: and the [::] drunken take to her the thirſtie,

20 and our Lord forgeue him not: but then his furie moſt ſpecially fume, and his zeale againſt that man, and al the curſes ſitte vpon him, that be written in this volume: and our Lord aboliſh his name vnder heauen,

21 and conſume him vnto perdition out of al the tribes of Iſrael, according to the curſes, that are conteyned in the Booke of this law and couenant.

22 And the generation folowing shal ſay, and the children that shal be borne from thence forth, and the ſtrangers, that shal come from a farre, ſeeing the plagues of that Land, and the infirmities, wherwith our Lord hath afflicted it,

23 burning it with brimſtone, and heate of the ſalt, ſo that it can no more be ſowen, nor any grene thing ſpring therof, after the example of the ſubuerſion of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama, and Seboim, which our Lord ſubuerted in his wrath and furie.

24 And al the Nations shal ſay: Why hath the Lord done thus to this Land? what is this exceding wrath of his furie?

25 And they ſhal anſwer: Becauſe they forſooke the couenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the Land of Aegypt:

26 and they haue ſerued ſtrange goddes, and adored them, whom they knew not, and to whom they had not beene deſigned:

27 therfore the furie of the Lord was wrath againſt this Land, to bring vpon it al the curſes, that are written in this volume:

28 and he hath caſt them out of their land, in wrath and furie, and in verie great indignation, and hath throwen them into a ſtrange land, as this day it is proued.

29 Thinges hidden, [::] to our Lord God: which are manifeſt, to vs and to our children for euer, that we may doe al the words of this Law.

Marginal notes to Chapter 29

• 4 [::] For ſinnes paſt God letteth ſome runne into reprobate ſenſe, permitting them to their owne freewil, who being voide of grace wilfully obdurate them ſelues. Theod. q. 37. in Deut.
• 18 [::] A mind ſecretly infected with idolatric.
• 19 [::] The appetite drunken with pleaſures thirſteth ſtil more.
• 29 [::] Secrete thinges are knowne to God, manifeſt thīges to men Theod. 9. 38. in Deut.

Chapter 30

CHAP. XXX. If the children of Iſrael, offending and falling into the forſaide curſes shal repent, God wilrestore them to his bleſsings againe. 11. leauing it in their powre to ſerue him if they wil, 17. and therfore warneth them that the impenitent shal aſſuredly perish, becauſe hauing life and death, bleſsing and curſing propoſed, they chooſe the worſe.

1 THERFORE when al theſe wordes shal be come vpon thee, the bleſſing or curſing, which I haue ſette forth before thee: & thou be touched with repentance of thy hart in al nations, into which our Lord thy God diſperſed thee,

2 and ſhalt returne to him, and obey his commandmentes, as I this day command thee, with thy children in al thy hart, and in al thy ſoule:

3 our Lord thy God wil bring thee againe from thy captiuitie, and haue mercie vpon thee, and gather thee againe out of al the peoples, into which he diſperſed thee beſore.

4 If thou be diſperſed as farre as the poles of heauen, thence wil our Lord thy God draw thee backe,

5 and wil take thee to him, and bring thee into the Land, which thy fathers poſſeſſed, and thou shalt obteyne it: and bleſſing thee, wil make thee to be [::] of a greater number, then were thy fathers.

6 Our Lord thy▪ God wil circumcile thy hart, and the hart of thy ſeede: that thou mayeſt loue oure Lord thy God in al thy hart, and in al thy ſoule, that thou mayeſt liue.

7 And al theſe curſes he wil turne vpon thine enemies, and them that hate and perſecute thee.

8 But thou ſhalt returne, and heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and shalt doe al the commandmentes which I command thee this day:

9 and our Lord wil make thee abound in al the workes of thy handes, in the iſſue of thy wombe, and in the fruite of thy cattel, in the fertilitie of thy ground, and in the plentie of al thinges. For our Lord wil returne to reioyſe vpon thee in al riches, as he reioyſed in thy fathers:

10 yet ſo, if thou heare the voice of our Lord thy God, and keepe his preceptes and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and returne to our Lord thy God in al thy hart, and in al thy ſoule.

11 This commandment, that I command thee this daie, “is not aboue thee, nor ſo farre of,

12 nor ſituated in heauen that thou maieſt ſay: Which of vs is able to aſcend vnto heauen to bring it to vs, that we may heare and fulfil it in worke?

13 Nor placed beyond the ſea: that thou mayeſt pretend, and ſay: Which of vs can paſſe ouer the ſea, and bring it euen vnto vs: that we way heare, and doe that which is commanded?

14 But the word is very neere thee, in thy mouth and in thy hart, to doe it.

15 Conſider that I haue “ſet before thee this day life and good, and contrariewiſe death and euil:

16 that thou mayeſt loue our Lord thy God, and walke in his waies, and keepe his commandmentes and ceremonies and iudgementes: and thou mayeſt liue, and he multiplie thee, and bleſſe thee in the Land, which thou ſhalt enter to poſſeſſe.

17 But if thy hart be auerted, and thou wilt not heare, and deceaued with errour thou adore ſtrange goddes, and ſerue them:

18 I foretel thee this day that thou ſhalt perish, and abide a litle time in the Land, which paſſing ouer Iordan, thou shalt enter to poſſeſſe.

19 “I cal for witneſſes this day heauen and earth, that I haue propoſed to you life and death, bleſſing and curſing. [::] Chooſe therfore life, that both thou mayeſt liue, and thy ſeede:

20 and mayeſt loue our Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and cleaue to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy daies) that thou mayeſt liue in the Land, for the which our Lord ſware to thy fathers, Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob, that he would geue it them.

Marginal notes to Chapter 30

• 5 [::] Some ſinners through great repentance become more vertuous, and are more rewarded then ſome that offended leſſe.
• 19 [::] God gaue man libertie to chooſe, what he would folow. S. A⟨illegible⟩b. in Pſal. 40. v. 10

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXX.

6. God vvil circumciſe thy bart.] Moſt true it is, that of our ſelues, without [Margin: By grace men are made able to kepe Gods cōmandments] Gods grace none can kepe or fulfil the commandmentes. But he, whoſe hart God doth circumciſe, is therby made able to loue God with al his hart, and with al his ſoule. And except ſome hartes were thus circumciſed, and ſo made able to loue God aboue al, and conſequently their neighboures, God ſhould not performe his promiſe, that he wil circumciſe the hart of ſome.

11. Is not aboue thee.] VVhen thou art ſtirred vp, aſſiſted, and indued with [Margin: So the commandmentes are not impoſſible.] [Margin: S. Aug. denat. et grat. c. 69. et q. 54. in Deut. rheod q. ⟨illegible⟩8. in Deut. S. Cypri. li. 3. c. 52. ad Quir. S. Amb. in Pſal. 40.] Gods grace, the commandment of God is not (then) aboue thee, nor faire of from thee, but very nere thee, in thy mouth (to confeſſe God, and his truth) and in thy hart, to do it. But you wil aske: How then cometh it to paſſe, that manie hauing receiued ſufficient grace, yet do not kepe Gods commandmentes? God him ſelf anſwereth:

15. That he hath ſet before thee life and good, and contrrivviſe death and euil; he inuiteth and helpeth, yet forceth thee not he geueth⟨illegible⟩thee powre & abilitie, helping [Margin: Freew⟨illegible⟩.] and not deſtroying thy freewil, that thou maiſt loue our Lord thy God, walke in his wayes, and kepe his commandements. But if thy hart be auerted and (v. 17.) thou vrilt not heare, thou ſhalt periſh. Againe God inculcateth:

19. I cal for vvitneſſes heauen and earth, that I haue propoſed to you life and death, bleſſing and curſing. Chooſe therfore life &c. VVhat Doctor can teach more plainly the poſſibilitie of keeping Gods commandmentes; and frewil in man, then this text of holie Scripture?

Chapter 31

CHAP. XXXI. Moyſes ſubſtituteth Ioſue his ſucceſſour in temporal gouernment. 9. deliuereth [Margin: The fourth part. An exhortation to ſerue God, with predictiō of their often ſinnes and puniſhmentes.] the law to the Prieſtes. 16. God fortelleth that the people wil often forſake him, and that he wil punish them. 19. commandeth Moyſes to write a canticle, (an abrigement of the Law) eaſie to be remembred. 25. and in further testimonie againſt them, the Leuites muſt put this booke in the arke of couenant.

1 MOYSES therfore went, and ſpake al theſe wordes to al Iſrael,

2 and ſaid to them: I am this day a hundred and twentie yeares old, I can not [::] goe out and come in any longer, eſpecially wheras our Lord alſo hath ſaid to me: Thou ſhalt not paſſe ouer this Iordan.

3 Our Lord therfore thy God wil paſſe ouer before thee: he wil deſtroy al theſe nations in thy ſight, and thou ſhalt poſſeſſe them: and this Ioſue ſhal paſſe ouer before thee, as our Lord hath ſpoken.

4 And our Lord ſhal doe to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kinges of the Ammorheites, and to their land, and ſhal deſtroy them.

5 Therfore when our Lord ſhal haue deliuered theſe alſo to you, you shal doe in like manner to them as I haue commanded you.

6 Doe manfully, and be ſtrengthned: feare not, neither tremble ye at their ſight: becauſe our Lord thy God him ſelfe is thy conductor, and wil not leaue, nor forſake thee.

7 And Moyſes called Ioſue, and ſaid to him before al Iſrael: Take courage, and be ſtrong: for thou ſhalt bring in this people into the Land, which our Lord ſware that he would geue to their fathers, and thou ſhalt diuide it by lotte.

8 And our Lord that is your conductor, him ſelfe wil be with thee: he wil not leaue, nor forſake thee: feare not, neither dread thou.

9 Moyſes therfore wrote this law, and deliuered it to the prieſtes the ſonnes of Leui, which caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, and to al the ancientes of Iſrael.

10 And he commanded them ſaying: After ſeuen yeares, in the yeare of remiſſion, in the ſolemnitie of tabernacles,

11 when al come together out of Iſrael, to appeare in the ſight of our Lord thy God in the place, which our Lord ſhal chooſe, thou shalt read the wordes of this law before al Iſrael, they hearing,

12 and the people being aſſembled together, as wel men as wemen, children, and ſtrangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learne, and feare our Lord your God, and keepe, and fulfil al the wordes of this law.

13 Their children alſo who now are ignorant; that they may heare, and feare our Lord their God, al the daies that they liue in the Land, which paſſing ouer Iordan you goe to obteyne.

14 And our Lord ſaid to Moyſes: Behold the daies of thy death are nigh: cal Ioſue, and ſtand ye in the tabernacle of teſtimonie, that I may command him. Moyſes therfore and Ioſue went, and ſtoode in the tabernacle of teſtimonie,

15 and our Lord appeared there in the piller of a cloude: which ſtood in the entring of the tabernacle.

16 And our Lord ſaid to Moyſes: Behold thou ſhalt ſleepe with thy fathers, and this people ryſing vp wil fornicate after ſtrange goddes in the Land, to the which it entreth to dwel therein: there wil they forſake me, and wil make the couenant, which I haue made with them, of none effect.

17 And my furie shal be wrath againſt them in that day: and I wil forſake them, and wil hide my face from them, and they shal be deuoured: al euils and afflictions shal finde them, ſo that they shal ſay in that day: In truth becauſe God is not with me, theſe euils haue found me.

18 But I wil hide, and keepe cloſe my face in that day, for al the euils, which they haue done, becauſe they haue folowed ſtrange goddes.

19 Now therfore write vnto you [::] this canticle, and teach the children of Iſrael: that they know it by hart, and ſing it by mouth, and this ſong be vnto me for [::] a teſtimonie among the children of Iſrael.

20 For I wil bring them into the Land, for the which I ſware to their fathers, flowing with milke and honie. And when they haue eaten, and are ful, and fatte, they wil turne away to ſtrange goddes, and ſerue them: and wil detract from me, and make my couenant of none effect.

21 After that manie euils and afflictions shal haue found them, this canticle shal anſwer them for a teſtimonie, which no obliuion shal take away out of the mouth of their ſeede. For I know their cogitations, what thinges they are about to doe this day, before that I bring them into the Land, which I haue promiſed them.

22 Moyſes therfore wrote the canticle, and taught it the children of Iſrael.

23 And our Lord commanded Ioſue the ſonne of Nun, and ſaid: Take courage, and be ſtrong: for thou shalt bring the children of Iſrael into the Land, which I haue promiſed, and I wil be with thee

24 Therfore after that Moyſes wrote the wordes of this law in a volume, and finished it:

25 he commanded the Leuites, that caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, ſaying:

26 Take this booke, and put it in the ſide of the arke of the couenant of our Lord your God: that it may be for a teſtimonie againſt thee.

27 For I know thy contention, and thy moſt ſtiffe necke. Whiles I yet liue and goe in with you, you haue done alwayes contenciouſly againſt our Lord: how much more when▪ I shal be dead▪

28 Gather to me al the ancientes by your tribes, and your doctors, and I wil ſpeake theſe wordes in their hearing, and wil inuocate againſt them heauen and earth.

29 For I know that after my death you wil doe wickedly, and wil decline quickly from the way, that I haue commanded you: and euils ſhal come vpon you in the later times, when you ſhal doe euil in the ſight of our Lord, to prouoke him by the workes of your handes.

30 Moyſes therfore ſpake, in the hearing of the whole aſſemblie of Iſrael, the wordes of this ſong, and finiſhed it euen to the end.

Marginal notes to Chapter 31

• 2 [::] He meaneth that he cā not exerciſe the office of a captaine general, and bring the people into the promiſed land.
• 19 [::] M⟨illegible⟩ter is more eaſily kept in memorie then proſe.
• 19 [::] And ſo by this Canticle they are conuinced that they were abundantly for warned, not to breake couenāt with God.
• 22 The eleuenth prophecie in the office before Maſ⟨illegible⟩e on Eaſter eue. And the third on whitſuneue.

Chapter 32

CHAP. XXXII. A Canticle of the Law, wherin the people are exhorted to ſerue God, for his [Margin: The canticle at Laudes on Saturday.] perfect goodnes, for his ſingular benefites, for their former ingratitude, and for his mercie ſtil mixed with his punishmentes. 44. Al which being [Margin: a Al thinges in heauen and in cart⟨illegible⟩ teſtifie, that God dealeth wel with his people.] earneſtly commended to them to remember and teach their children, 48. Moyſes is commanded to goe into a mountaine, whence he shal ſee the promiſed land, but not enter into it.

1 HEARE ye :: heauens what thinges I ſpeake, the earth heare the wordes of my mouth.

2 My [b] doctrine grow together as raine, my ſpeach flow as the dew, as it were a ſhower vpon the herbe, and as it were droppes vpon the graſſe.

3 [c] Becauſe I wil inuocate the name of our Lord: geue magnificence to our God.

4 The workes of God be perfect, and al his waies iudgementes: God is faithful, and without any iniquitie, iuſt and right.

5 They[d] haue ſinned to him, and not his children in filthines: a froward and peruerſe generation.

6 Theſe thinges doeſt thou render to our Lord thou fooliſh and vn wiſe people? Is not he thy father, that hath poſſeſſed thee, and made, and created thee?

7 Remember the old daies, thinke vpon euerie generation: aske thy father, and he wil declare to thee: thy elders, and they wil tel thee.

8 When the higheſt[c] diuided the nations: when he ſeparated the ſonnes of Adam, he appointed the limites of people according to[f] the number of the children of Iſrael.

9 But our Lords part, is his people: Iacob the corde of his inheritance.

10 He[g] found him in a deſert land, in a place of horrour, and of waſt wildernes: he ledde him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As the eagle prouoking her young to flie, and houering ouer them, hath he ſpred his winges, and he hath taken him, and caried him on his shoulders.

12 Our Lord onlie was his guide: and there was not with him a ſtrange God.

13 He placed him ouer an high land: that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, that he might ſucke[h] honie out of the rocke, and[i] oile out of the hardeſt ſtone.

14 Butter from the heard, and milke of the ſheepe with the fatte of lambes, and of rammes the ſonnes of Baſan: and bucke goates with the marow of wheate, and might drinke the bloud of the grape moſt pure.

15 The[k] beloued was made groſſe, and ſpurned: made groſſe, fatted, dilated, he left God his maker, and departed from God his ſaluation.

16 They prouoked him in ſtrange goddes, and in abominations ſtirred him to anger.

17 They immolated to diuels and not to God, to goddes, which they knew not: there came[l] new & freſh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.

18 God that begatte thee thou haſt forſaken, and haſt “forgotten our Lord thy creatour.

19 Our Lord ſaw, and was moued to wrath: becauſe his ſonnes and daughters prouoked him.

20 And he ſaid:[m] I wil hide my face from them, and wil confider their laſt: for it is a peruerſe generation, and vnfaithful children.

21 They[n] haue prouokedme in that, which was no God, and haue angred me in their vanities: and I wil prouoke them in that, which is no people, and in[o] a foolish nation wil I anger them.

22 A fyre is kindled in my wrath, and shal burne euen to the loweſt partes of hel: and shal deuoure the earth with her ſpring, and shal burne the foundations of mountaines.

23 I wil heape euils vpon them, and myne arrowes I wil ſpend in them.

24 They shal be conſumed with famine, and birdes shal deuoure them with moſt bitter biting: the teeth of beaſtes wil I ſend vpon them, with the furie of thoſe that traile vpon the ground, and creepe.

25 Without shal the ſword deuoure them, & within fearefulnes, the young man and the virgin together, the ſucking child with the old man.

26 I ſaid: Where are they? I wil make their memorie to ceaſe from among men.

27 But[p] for the wrath of the enemies I haue differred: leſt perhaps their enemies might be proude, and would ſay: Our mightie hand, and not the Lord, hath done al theſe thinges.

28 A nation without counſelis it, and without wiſedome.

29 O that they were[q] wiſe, and vnderſtoode, and would prouide for their laſt.

30 How should one purſew a thouſand, and two put ten thouſand to flight? was it not therfore, becauſe their God ſold them, and our Lord incloſed them?

31 For our Lord is not as their goddes:[r] our enemies alſo are iudges.

32 Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the ſuburbes of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the cluſters moſt bitter.

33 The gall of dragons their wine, and the venime of Aſpes vncurable.

34 Are not theſe thinges laid vp with me, and ſigned in my treaſures?

35 Reuenge is myne, and I wil repay them in time, that their foote may ſlide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make haſt to be preſent.

36 Our Lord wil iudge his people, and wil haue mercie on his ſeruantes: he shal ſee that their hand is weakened, and [ſ] the shut vp alſo haue fayled, and the reſidew be conſumed.

37 And he shal ſay: Where are their goddes, in whom they had confidence.

38 Of whoſe victimes they did eate fatte, and dranke the wine of their libamentes: [t] Let them ariſe, and help you, and protect you in neceſſitie.

39 See ye that I am onlie, and there is no other God beſides me: I wil kil▪ and I wil make to liue: I wil ſtrike, and I wil heale, and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand.

40 I wil lift vp my hand to heauen, and wil ſay: I liue for euer.

41 If I shal whette my ſword as the lightening, and my hand take iudgement: I wil repay vengeance to myne enemies, and them that hate me wil I requite.

42 I wil embrew my arrowes with bloud, and my ſword ſhal deuoure flesh, of the bloud of the ſlaine and of captiuitie, of [v] the bare head of the enemies.

43 You gentiles“ prayſe his people, becauſe he wil reuenge the bloud of his ſeruantes: and wil repay vengeance vpon their enemies, and wil be propitious to the land of his people.

44 Moyſes therfore came and ſpake al the wordes of this canticle in the eares of the people, he and Ioſue the ſonne of Nun.

45 And he finished al theſe wordes, ſpeaking to the children of Iſrael.

46 and he ſaid to them: Sette your hartes on al the wordes, which I teſtifie to you this day: that you command them to your children to keepe and to doe, and to fulfil al thinges of this law that are written:

47 for not in vaine are they commanded you, but that euerie one should liue in them: which doing you may continew a long time in the Land, which paſſing ouer Iordan you enter to poſſeſſe.

48 And our Lord ſpake to Moyſes in the ſame day, ſaying:

49 Goe vp into this mount Abarim, that is to ſay, of paſſages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab againſt Iericho: and ſee the Land of Chanaan, which I wil deliuer to the children of Iſrael to obteyne, and die thou in the mount.

50 Which going vp vnto thou shalt be ioyned to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was layd to his people:

51 becauſe you did preuaricate againſt me in the middes of the children of Iſrael at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the deſert of Sin: and you did not ſanctifie me among the children of Iſrael.

52 Ouer againſt shalt thou ſee the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I wil geue to the children of Iſrael.

Marginal notes to Chapter 32

• 2 [b] Doctrine doth fructifie in good ſoules as raine & dew in the ground.
• 3 [c] Mans firſt dutie is to praiſe God.
• 5 [d] The next, to acknowledge his owne ſinnes & defectes
• 8 [c] At the towre of Babel.
• 8 [f] Iſrael being but one people poſſeſſed the inheritance of ſeuen other nations.
• 10 [g] God choiſe Iſrael to be his peculiar people of mere grace and protected them.
• 13 [h] Bees without mens induſtrie made honie in the rockes.
• 13 [i] Oliue trees proſpered in ſtonie places.
• 15 [k] Temporal proſperitie occaſion of the Iewes reuolting from God
• 17 [l] Noueltie allureth carnal people to idolatrie and hereſie.
• 20 [m] For their peruerſnes God withdrew his helpe from them.
• 21 [n] God firſt loueth, before anie man loueth him, but men firſt for▪ ſake God, before he forſake them.
• 21 [o] The Iewes reputed moſt Gētiles fooliſh yet now they are inferior to al.
• 27 [p] For iuſt cauſes God ſome times differreth puniſhment.
• 29 [q] True wiſdome conſidereth thinges paſt, vnderſtandeth things preſent, and prouideth for things to come.
• 31 [r] Al infideles confeſſe more Maieſty in the true God and in his Religiō ▪ then in their owne.
• 36 [ſ] Euen ſuch offenders as thinck them ſelues ſecure, eſcape not.
• 38 [t] It is vnpoſſible that falſe goddes ſhould helpe theirfolowers in neceſſitie.
• 42 [v] The vaine counſel of the wicked being detected ſhal be puniſhed.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXXII.

18. Forgotten our Lord.] Caluin (li. 1. Inſtit. c. 11. parag. 9.) contending that [Margin: Caluin contradicteth the holie Scripture.] it is idolatrie, to worſhip Chriſt in his picture, ſaieth the idolatrie committed about the molten calfe (Exod. 32.) conſiſted in worſhipping the true God in that image of a calfe: affirming that the Ievves vvere not ſo inconſiderate, as not to remember, that it vvas God vvhich had brought them out of the Land of Aegypt. Quite contrarie to this text, which ſaieth: God that begate thee thou haſt forſaken, and haſt forgotten our Lord thy creator. Caluin therfore was either ignorant or forgetful, that the Holie Ghoſt here chargeth them, to haue forſaken and forgotten God the Creator; or els (which is worſe) Knowing and remembring it, he was moſt impudent in auouching the contrarie.

43. Praiſe his people.] In the people of the Iewes were alwayes ſome good, [Margin: Alwaies ſome good in the Church of the old Teſtamēt.] & worthie of praiſe, that ſerued God; and ſometimes ſuffered perſecution for iuſtice; whoſe bloud God promiſed here to reuenge, and for their ſakes to be merciful to others. Al which we ſee was performed, in that God reduced them from captiuitie, and conſerued them after in their countrie til Chriſts time, for ſo he was propitious to the land of his people.

Chapter 33

CHAP. XXXIII. Moyſes bleſsing the tribes of Iſrael (Simeon omitted) prophecyeth particularly of euerie one. 26. Againe exhorteth them, that as God hath choſen them his peculiar people, ſo they loue and honour him their onlie God.

1 THIS is [::] the bleſſing, wherwith Moyſes the man of God bleſſed the children of Iſrael, before his death.

2 And he ſaid: Our Lord“ came from Sinai, and from Seir is he riſen to vs: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousādes of Sainctes. In his right hand a fyrie law.

3 He hath loued the peoples, al the ſaintes are in his hand: and they that approch to his feere, shal receiue of his doctrine.

4 Moyſes commanded vs a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Iacob.

5 He shal be king with the moſt right, the princes of the people being aſſembled with the tribes of Iſrael.

6 Liue Ruben, and die he not, and be he litle in number.

7 This is the bleſſing of Iudas: Heare Lord the voice of Iudas, and bring him in vnto his people: his handes shal fight for him, and he shal be his helper againſt his aduerſaties.

8 To Leui alſo he ſaid: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holie man, whom thou haſt proued in tentation, and iudged at the Waters of contradiction.

9 He that [::] ſaid to his father, and to his mother: I know you not; and to his brethren: I know you not: & they knew not their children. Theſe kept thy word, and obſerued thy couenant,

10 thy iudgementes o Iacob, and thy law o Iſrael: they shal put incenſe in thy furie, and holocauſt vpon thyne altar.

11 Bleſſe Lord his ſtrength, and receiue the workes of his handes. Strike the backes of his enemies, and they that hate him, let them not riſe vp.

12 And to Beniamin he ſaid: The beſt beloued of our Lord [::] shal dwel confidently in him: as in a bride chamber al the day shal he abide, and betwen his shoulders shal he reſt.

13 To Ioſeph alſo he ſaid: Of the bleſſing of our Lord be his land, of the fruites of heauen, and the dew, & the depth lying vnderneth.

14 Of the pomes of the fruites of the ſunne and moone,

15 of the toppes of the old mountaynes, of the pomes of the eternal hilles:

16 and of the fruites of the earth, and of the fulnes therof. The bleſſing of him, that appeared in the bush, come vpon the head of Ioſeph, and vpon the crowne of the nazarite among his brethren.

17 His beautie as of the firſt borne of an oxe, his hornes the hornes of an vnicorne: in them shal he winow the Nations euen to the endes of the earth. theſe are the multitudes of [::] Ephraim, and theſe the thouſandes of Manaſſes.

18 And to Zabulon he ſaid: Reioyſe Zabulon in thy going out, and Iſſachar in thy tabernacles.

19 They shal cal the peoples to the mountaine: there shal they immolate the victimes of iuſtice. Who shal ſucke the inundation of the ſea as milke, and the hidden treaſures of the ſandes.

20 And to Gad he ſaid: Bleſſed be Gad in breadth: as a lion hath he reſted, and taken the arme and the toppe of the head.

21 And he ſaw his principalitie, that in his part the doctor was repoſed: which was with the princes of the people, and did the iuſtices of our Lord, and his iudgement with Iſrael.

22 To Dan alſo he ſaid: Dan a lions whelpe, he ſhal flow largely from Baſan.

23 And to Nephthali he ſaid: Nephthali shal enioy abundance, and ſhal be ful of the bleſſinges of our Lord: the ſea and the ſouth he shal poſſeſſe.

24 To Aſer alſo he ſaid: Bleſſed be Aſer in children, be he acceptable to his brethren, and dippe he in oile his foote.

25 His ſhoe yron and braſſe. As the daies of thy youth, ſo alſo thy old age.

26 There is no other God as the God of the righteſt: the mounter of heauen is thy helper. By his magnificence the cloudes runne hither and thither,

27 his habitation is aboue, and vnder the euerlaſting armes: he shal caſt out the enemie from thy face, and shal ſay: Be deſtroyed.

28 [::] Iſrael shal dwel confidently, and alone. The eie of Iacob in the land of corne and wine, and the heauens shal be miſtie with dew.

29 Bleſſed art thou Iſrael: who is like to thee o people, that art ſaued in our Lord? the ſhield of thy helpe, and the ſword of thy glorie: thy enemies shal denie thee, and thou shalt treade their neckes.

Marginal notes to Chapter 33

• 1 [::] The ancient fathers expound theſe bleſſinges rather of the Church of Chriſt, then of the Iewes Synagogue. s. Aug. q. 56. Theod. q. 44. in Deut.
• 9 [::] The prieſtlie tribe muſt eſpecially preferre Gods ſeruice before their neereſt kinred.
• 12 [::] The Temple was built in the tribe of Beniamin, which God more ſpecially protected, and ſo they dwelt more ſecurely. Theod. q. 45. in Deut.
• 17 [::] Epthaim is preferred before his elder brother, agreable to their granfathers prophetical bleſſing. Gen. 48.
• 28 [::] The ſinne of Zābri a prince of Simeons tribe, in freſh memorie (Nu. 25.) ſemeth to be the cauſe, why this tribe is not partilarly bleſſed, but only in general with al Iſrael.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXXIII.

2. Came from Sinai.] According to the hiſtorie Moyſes recounteth here three benefites. Firſt that God gaue the Law in Sinai. (Exod. 20.) Secondly, he cured thoſe which were bitten with ſerpentes nere to Seir. (Num. 21.) Thirdly in mount Pharan he appointed Seuentie ancientes to aſſiſt Moyſes in iudgementes [Margin: The prophetical ſenſe of theſe bleſsīges is more certaine, & more euident, then the hiſtorical.] (Num. 11.) But according to the Myſterie, which ſpecially is intended, S. Auguſtin (q. 56. in Deut.) ſaieth this prophecie is not to be negligently paſſed ouer. For it euidently appeareth that this benediction perteineth to a new people, whom Chriſt our Lord hath ſanctified, in whoſe perſon Moyſes ſpake and not in his owne. So in this prophetical and proper ſenſe (ſaieth this Doctor) our Lord and Sauiour cometh from Sinai, which is interpreted tentation, when he paſſed the tentation of his paſſion and death, Heb. 2. v. 18. Chriſt riſeth from Seir, interpreted hearie, for that in the ſimilitude of the fleſh of ſinne, e⟨illegible⟩en of ſinne, he damned ſinne in the fleſh. Rom. 8. v. 3. He appeareth from mount Pharan interpreted fruitful mountaine, in that he geueth abundance of grace in his Church of the new Teſtament; which is a citie ſet vpon a hil. Mat. 5.

Chapter 34

CHAP. XXXIIII. Moyſes ſeeth the promiſed land, but is not ſuffered to goe into it, 5. He dieth at the age of 120. yeares. God burieth his bodie ſecretly, and al Iſrael [Margin: The fifth part. The death, burial and ſingular praiſe of Moyſes.] mourne for him thirtie dayes. 9. Ioſue replenished (by impoſition of Moyſes handes) with the ſpirite of God ſuccedeth. 10. But Moyſes for his ſpecial familiaritie with God, and for moſt wonderful miracles is commended aboue al other Prophetes.

1 MOYSES therfore went vp from the champion of Moab vpon mount Nebo, into the toppe of Phaſga againſt Iericho: and our Lord shewed him [::] al the land of Galaad as farre as Dan,

2 and al Nephthali, and the land of Ephraim and Manaſſes, and al the Land of Iuda vnto the vtmoſt ſea,

3 and the ſouth part, and the bredth of the plaine of Iericho a citie of palmetrees as farre as Sego⟨illegible⟩.

4 And our Lord ſaid to him: This is the Land, for the which I ſware to Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob, ſaying: To thy ſeede wil I geue it. Thou haſt ſeene it with thyne eies, and shalt not paſſe ouer to it.

5 And Moyſes the ſeruant of our Lord died there, in the land of Moab, our Lord commanding it:

6 and he buried him in the valley of the Land of Moab againſt Phogor: and [::] no man hath knowne his ſepulchre vntil this preſent day.

7 Moyſes was an hundred and twentie yeares old when he died: his eie was not dimme, neither were his teeth moued.

8 And the children of Iſrael mourned him in the champion countrie of Moab thirtie daies: and the daies of their mourning that mourned for Moyſes were accomplished.

9 And Ioſue the ſonne of Nun was replenished with the ſpirit of wiſedome, becauſe Moyſes did put his handes vpon him. And the children of Iſrael obeied him, and did as our Lord commanded Moyſes.

10 And there roſe no more a prophete in Iſrael as Moyſes, whom our Lord had knowen face to face,

11 in al ſignes and wonders, which he ſent by him, to doe in the Land of Aegypt to Pharao, and to al his ſeruantes, and to his whole Land,

12 and al the ſtrong hand, and great meruailes, which Moyſes did before al Iſrael.

Marginal notes to Chapter 34

• 1 [::] God eleuated his viſiue powre aboue nature to ſee ſo farre.
• 6 [::] Onlie Angels (whoſe miniſterie God vſed herein) knew the place of his burial: leſt the Iewes prone to idolatrie might haue honored him for God.

The end of the fiue bookes of Moyſes, conteining the Law.

Colophon

The holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With arguments of the bookes, and chapters: annotations. tables: and other helpes. By the English College of Doway. The first tome (Genesis to Job), Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1609 (STC 2207). Copy: Henry E. Huntington Library, as reproduced in Early English Books Online (image set 2087).

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