{
"book": "deuteronomy",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These [1] are the words, which Moyses spake to all Israel beyond Jordan, in the champion wilderness, against the Red sea, between Pharan and Tophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first part. A repetition of God's benefits, the people's ingratitude, and punishment."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "eleven days from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month Moyses spake to the children of Israel all things that our Lord had commanded him to say unto them:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "after that he had struck Sehon king of the Amorrheites, which dwelt in Hesebon: and Og the king of Basan which abode in Aseroth, and in Edrai,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "beyond Jordan in the Land of Moab. And Moyses began to expound the law, and to say:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The Lord our God spake to us in Horeb, saying: It is sufficient for you that you have stayed in this mountain:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "return, and come to the mountain of the Amorrheites, and to the rest that are next to it champion and hilly and lower places against the South, and beside the shore of the sea, the Land of the Chananites, and of Libanus unto the great river Euphrates."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Behold (quoth he) I have delivered it to you: enter in and possess it, upon the which our Lord sware to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, & to their seed after them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And I said to you at that time:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "I alone cannot sustain you, because the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, very many."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "I alone am not able to sustain your businesses, and the charge of you and your quarrels."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Give from among you wise and skillful men, and such whose conversation is approved in your tribes, that I may appoint them your princes."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And I took of your tribes men wise and noble, and appointed them Princes, tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deans, that might teach you all things."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be the same country man, or a stranger."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "There shall be no difference of persons, so shall you hear the little as the great: neither shall you accept any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And I commanded all things that you ought to do."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and huge wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Isaid to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "See the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, neither dread you any thing."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And you came all unto me, and said: Let us send men that may view the Land, and may bring us word what way we shall ascend, and to what cities to go."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Who when they had gone, and were ascended into the mountains, they came as far as the Valley of cluster: and the Land being viewed,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "taking of the fruits thereof, to shew the fruitfulness, they brought unto us, and said: The Land is good, which the Lord our God will give us."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And you would not go up, but being incredulous at the word of the Lord our God,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "you murmured in your tabernacles, and said: our Lord hateth us, and therefore hath brought us out of the Land of Aegypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Whither shall we go up? The messengers have feared our heart, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller of stature than we: the cities great, and fenced even unto heaven, the sons of the Enacims we have seen there."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And I said to you: (a) Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God so helpeth his servants, that they also must cooperate. S. Aug. q. 1. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Our Lord God, which is your conductor, himself will fight for you, as he did in Aegypt in the sight of all."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And in the wilderness (thyself hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to bear his little son, all the way that you have walked, until you came to this place."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And neither so did you believe the Lord your God,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "who went before you in the way, and marked out the place wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And when our Lord had heard the voice of your words, being wrath he sware and said:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "There shall not any of the men of this wicked generation see the good Land, which by oath I promised to your fathers:"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "beside Caleb the son of Jephone, For he shall see it, and to him I will give the Land, that he hath trodden, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Neither is (b) his indignation against the people to be marveled at, whereas our Lord being (c) angry with me also for you, said: Neither shalt thou enter in thither.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Difference of sins."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God is also angry with his good servants, & punisheth them temporally for small sins. S. Aug. q. 1. in Iosue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "But Josue the son of Nun thy minister, he shall enter for thee: exhort and strengthen him, and he shall by lot divide the Land of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Your little ones, of whom you said that they should be led captives, and your sons that this day know not the difference of good and evil, they shall enter in: and to them I will give the Land, and they shall possess it."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And you answered me: We have sinned to our Lord: We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you ready armed went unto the mountain,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "our Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Ispake, and you heard not: But resisting the commandment of our Lord, and swelling with pride you went up into the mountain."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Therefore the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains issuing forth, and coming to meet you, pursued you, as bees are wont to pursue: and smote you from Seir as far as Horma."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And when returning you wept before our Lord, he heard you not, neither would he condescend to your voice."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "You abode therefore in Cadesbarne a great time."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses beginneth, the first day of the eleventh month and fortieth year after the children of Israel parted from Aegypt, to repeat and explicate the Law; 6. first putting them in mind of God's munificence, his own and other superior's care over them, their ingratitude, incredulity, murmuring, 24. and punishment for the same."
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And departing thence we came into the wilderness, that leadeth to the Red sea, as our Lord had said to me: and we compassed the mountain Seir a long time."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord said to me:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "It is sufficient for you to have compassed this mountain: go toward the North."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Look diligently therefore that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread, because I have given the mountain Seir to be the possession of Esau."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Meats you shall buy of them with money, and shall eat: bought water shall you draw, and drink."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: he knoweth thy journey; how thou hast passed this great wilderness, for forty years the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, and thou hast wanted nothing."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the champion way from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way, that leadeth into the desert of Moab."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither make battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Emim first were the inhabiters thereof, a great people, and valiant, and so tall that (a) they were thought,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These were men of very great stature, but not equal to the giants before the flood."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "as it were giants, of the Enacims' stock, and were like the children of the Enacims. Moreover the Moabites call them Emim."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But in Seir before dwelt the Horrins: who being expelled and destroyed, the children of Esau did inhabit it, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which our Lord gave him."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Rising up therefore to pass the Torrent Zared, we came to it."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the time, that we walked from Cadesbarne unto the passage of the torrent Zared, was thirty and eight years: until all the generation of the men that were warriors was consumed out of the camp, as our Lord had sworn:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "whose hand was against them, that they should perish from among the camp."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And after all the warriors were dead,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "our Lord spake to me, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and approaching unto the frontiers of the children of Ammon, beware thou fight not against them, neither once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot in possession."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "It was reputed the land of giants: and giants in old time dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommim,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "a great and huge people, & of long stature, as the Enacims whom our Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in their stead,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "as he had done to the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, destroying the Horrheites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess until this present."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The Heveites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, the Capadocians expelled: who issuing out of Capadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: behold I have delivered in thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin to possess his land, and (b) make war against him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "By this we are instructed to fight against infidels, but not without special cause against Christians, signified by the children of Lot & Esau."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "This day will I begin to send thy terror and fear upon the peoples, that dwell under the whole heaven: that hearing thy name they may quake, and tremble after the manner of women in travail, and be pinched with sorrow."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Isent therefore messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "We will pass through thy land, we will go the common high way: we will not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Sell us meats for money, that we may eat: give us water for money, and so we will drink. Only this, that thou wilt grant us passage,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "as (c) the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to Jordan, and pass to the Land, which the Lord our God will give us.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Idumeans once denied them passage. Num. 20. v. 20. but afterwards granted thereto."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not give us passage: because the Lord thy God had (d) indurated his spirit, and hardened his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God permitted him for his former sins, to indurate himself. See Exod. 7. v. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And our Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver Sehon unto thee, and his land, begin to possess it."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Sehon came forth to meet us with all his people to battle in Jasa."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we smote him with his sons and all his people."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And all his cities we took at that time, killing the inhabiters thereof, men and women and little ones. We left nothing among them."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Except the cattle, which came to their portion that took preys: and the spoils of the cities, which we took"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situated in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Except the land of the children of Ammon, to the which we approached not: and all that adjoin to the torrent Jeboc, and the cities on the mountain, and all the places, from which the Lord our God prohibited us."
}
],
"summary": "With commemoration of God's 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, kill him and all his, and possess his land."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore turning we went up by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came forth to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites, that dwelt in Hesebon."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Therefore the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Basan, and all his people: and we struck them to utter destruction,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "wasting all his cities at one time. There was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the Kingdom of Og in Basan."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, beside innumerable towns that had no walls."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And we destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, and men and women and children:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "but the cattle, and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And we took at that time the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorrheites, that were beyond Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mountain Hermon."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrheites Sanir:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "all the cities, that are situated in the plain, and all the Land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha, and Edrai, cities of the Kingdom of Og in Basan."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "For only Og the king of Basan remained of the stock of giants. His bed of iron is shewed, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, having nine cubits in length, and four in breadth after the measure of (e) the cubit of a man's hand.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Longer sort of cubits are a foot and 9. inches: so this bed was 15. foot and nine inches long, and 7. foot broad. Vitruvius Agricola."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And we possessed the Land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half part of mount Galaad: and the cities thereof I gave to Ruben and Gad."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the other part of Galaad, and all Basan of the kingdom of Og, I delivered to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, (f) until this present day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Esdras adding these words, & often times the like, did not against the law, because such additions are agreeable & not contrary to that which was written before."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To Machir also I gave Galaad."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the Land of Galaad as far as the Torrent Arnon, half of the torrent, and the confines unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and the plain of the wilderness, and Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is most salt, at the foot of mount Phasga against the east."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go well appointed before your brethren the children of Israel all you strong men:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "except your wives, and little ones, and your cattle. For I know you have much cattle, & they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered you,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "until our Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to you: and they also possess the Land, which he will give them beyond Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have given you."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Josue also at that time I commanded, saying: Thine eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms, to the which thou shalt pass."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And I prayed our Lord at that time, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Lord God thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand. For neither is there other God either in heaven, or in earth, that is able to do thy works, and to be compared to thy strength."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent Land beyond Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord was angry with me (g) for you, and heard me not, but said to me: It sufficeth thee: speak no more to me of this matter.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "See Num. 20. v. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thine eyes round about to the west, and to the north, and the south, and the east, and behold it. For thou shalt not pass this Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the Land, which thou shalt see."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And we abode in the valley against the temple of Phogor."
}
],
"summary": "The victory against Og King of Basan of the giant's stock is repeated, 12. Ruben Gad and half tribe of Manasses have possession on the other side Jordan from their brethren. 23. Moyses praying that he may go over Jordan, for the sins of the people is denied."
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] now Israel hear the precepts and judgments, which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayest live, and entering in mayest possess the Land, which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The second part. A repetition & explication of the law."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "You shall not add to the word, that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandment of the Lord your God which I command you.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Your eyes have seen all things that our Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers out of the midst of you."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But you that cleave to the Lord your God, live all until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "You know that I have taught you precepts, and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the Land, which you shall possess:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and you shall observe, and fulfill them in work. For (a) this is your wisdom, and understanding before peoples, that hearing all these precepts, may say: Behold a people full of wisdom and understanding, a great nation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "To keep God's commandments by all nations the most excellent wisdom."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Neither is there other nation so great, that hath gods approaching unto them, as our God is present at all our petitions."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "For what other nation is there so renowned that hath the ceremonies, and just judgments, and the whole law, which I will set forth this day before your eyes."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words, that thine eyes have seen, and let them not fall out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them thy sons and thy nephews,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the day wherein thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when our Lord spake to me, saying; Assemble unto me the people, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was in it darkness, and a cloud and mist."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord spake to you from the midst of the fire. The voice of his words you heard, and form you saw not at all."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the (b) ten words, that he wrote in two tables of stone.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Here and in other places it is manifest that the commandments, called the Decalogue, are just ten."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments, which you should do in the Land, that you shall possess."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day, that our Lord spake to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "lest perhaps deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the similitude of all cattle, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and of creeping beasts, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that under the earth abide in the waters:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "lest perhaps lifting up thine eyes to heaven, thou see the Sun and the Moon, and all the stars of heaven, and deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created to serve all nations, that are under heaven."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But you our Lord hath taken, and brought out of the iron furnace of Aegypt, to have you his people by inheritance, as it is this present day."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord was angry with me for your words, and he sware (c) that I should not pass over Jordan, nor enter into the excellent Land, which he will give you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Venial and least sins pass not without temporal punishment."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Behold I die (d) in this ground, I shall not pass over Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly Land.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "This was also a Mystery, that the old law, signified by Moyses, could not bring to heaven, the true land of promise but the law of Christ, signified by Josue. Theod. q. 43. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Beware lest at any time thou forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thee a graven similitude of those things, which our Lord hath prohibited to be made:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, jealous God."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If you shall beget sons & nephews and abide in the Land, & being deceived make to you some similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "I call this day heaven and earth witnesses, that you shall quickly perish from out of the Land, which being passed over Jordan you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long time, but our Lord will destroy you,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and disperse you into all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to the which our Lord will lead you."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hand, wood and stone, that see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, & all tribulation of thy soul."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "After that all the things aforesaid shall find thee, & in (e) the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Conversion of the Jews in the end of the world."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee; nor forget the covenant, wherein he sware to thy fathers."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "that a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "if God so did that he went in, and took unto him a Nation out of the midst of nations, by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight and strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all things, that the Lord your God did for you in Aegypt, thine eyes seeing it:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "that thou mightest know that our Lord, he is God, and there is none other beside him,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "from heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And in earth he shewed thee his fire, very great, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Aegypt, going before thee in his great power,"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "to destroy very great nations and stronger than thou at thy entering in, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land in possession, as thou seest this present day."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that our Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is none other."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayest remain a long time upon the Land, which the Lord thy God will give thee."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Then Moyses separated three cities beyond Jordan at the east side,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "that he might flee to them which should kill his neighbour not voluntarily, neither was his enemy a day or two before, and he might scape to some of these cities:"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Bosor in the wilderness, which is situated in the champion country 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."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "This is the law that Moyses set before the children of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "and these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which he spake to the children of Israel, when they came out of Aegypt,"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "beyond Jordan in the valley against the temple of Phogor in the land of Sehon king of the Ammorrheite, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moyses struck. The children of Israel also coming out of Aegypt"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "possessed his land, and the land of Og the king of Basan, the two kings of the Amorrheites, which were beyond Jordan toward the rising of the sun:"
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "from Aroer, which is situated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the mountain Sion, which is also Hermon,"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "all the plain beyond Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses exhorteth the people to keep God's commandments. 15. Namely that they make no similitude nor image of man, nor of beast, bird, fish, sun, moon, nor of any creature to serve the same for the Creator. He foretelleth his own death, 23. threateneth them if they forsake God 41. and appointeth three cities of refuge, on the same side Jordan."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Moyses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear Israel the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and (a) fulfill them in work.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "It is not enough to believe only, or to know the commandments, but necessary also to fulfill them in work."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Not with our fathers did he make the covenant, but with us at this present, and do live."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Face to face did he speak to us in the mount out of the midst of the fire."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "I was arbiter and (b) Mediator betwixt our Lord and you at that time, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up into the mount, and he said:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The title of Mediator lawfully ascribed to God's lieutenant in earth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "I the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of servitude."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Thou shalt not make to thee a thing graven, nor the similitude of any things, that are in heaven above, and that are in the earth beneath, and that abide in the waters under the earth.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a Jealous God, rendering the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and doing mercy upon many thousands to them that love me, and keep my precepts."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Thou shalt not usurp the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Observe the day of the Sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Six days shalt thou work, and shalt do all thy works."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The seventh is the day of the Sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou, and thy son and daughter, man servant and woman servant, and oxe, and ass, and all thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man servant may rest, and thy woman servant, even as thyself."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Remember that thou also didst serve in Aegypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence in a strong hand, and stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the Sabbath."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Honour thy father and mother, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the Land, which the Lord thy God will give thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt not murder."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Neither shalt thou commit adultery."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And thou shalt not steal."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Neither shalt thou speak against thy neighbour false testimony."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: (c) Nor house, nor field, nor man servant, nor woman servant, nor oxe, nor ass, and all things that are his.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Coveting another man's wife, & coveting his goods, differ as much, as the exterior acts of adultery and of theft. And so these two commandments are as distinct as the former two."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "These words spake our Lord to all your multitude in the mount, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in the two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And you after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the mount burn, came to me all the Princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Behold the Lord our God hath shewed us his majesty and greatness for we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, & have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Why shall we die therefore, and this exceeding great fire devour us? For if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire as we have heard, and may live?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee: and thou shalt speak to us, and we hearing will do them."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Which when our Lord had heard, he said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spake to thee: they have spoken all things well."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Who shall give them to have such a mind, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments at all time, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Go and say to them: Return into your tents."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But thou stand here with me, and I will speak to thee all my commandments, and ceremonies, and judgments: which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the Land, which I will give them in possession."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Keep therefore and do the things which our Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "but the way that the Lord your God hath commanded shall you walk, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be prolonged in the land of your possession."
}
],
"summary": "The ten commandments are repeated and explained, 23. with commemoration of their dread and fear, when they heard the voice from the cloud, and saw the mountain burn."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and you should do them in the Land, whereunto you pass over to possess it:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "that thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and nephews, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Hear Israel, and observe that thou do the things which our Lord hath commanded thee, and it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk & honey."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Hear Israel, The Lord our God, is one Lord."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping, and rising."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thine eyes,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the Land, for the which he sware to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "houses full of all riches, which thou didst not erect, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and thou shalt have eaten and be full:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "take heed diligently lest thou forget our Lord, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the house of servitude. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and (a) him only shalt thou serve, and by his name shalt thou swear.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Some adoration agreeth to creatures, but service of Latria to God only. S. Aug. q. 61. in Gen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "You shall not go after the strange gods of all Nations, that are round about you:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "because the Lord thy God is a Jealous God in the midst of thee: lest sometime the fury of the Lord thy God be wrath against thee, & take thee away from the face of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou didst tempt him in the place of tentation."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies & ceremonies, which he hath commanded thee:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And do that which is pleasant and good in the sight of our Lord, that it may be well with thee: and entering in thou mayest possess the goodly Land, whereof our Lord sware to thy fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "that he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "thou shalt say to him: We were the bondmen of Pharao in Aegypt, and our Lord brought us out of Aegypt in a strong hand:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and he did signs & wonders great and very sore in Aegypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and he brought us out from thence, that being brought in he might give us the Land, whereupon he sware to our fathers."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And our Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he commanded us."
}
],
"summary": "God is diligently to be served, and loved with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, and whole strength: All his precepts, ceremonies, and judgements must be carefully kept, and commended to posterity."
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou doest enter in to possess, and shall have destroyed many Nations before thee, the Hetheite, and the Gergezeite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Heveite, and the Jebusite, seven nations of much greater number than thou art, and stronger than thou:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt strike them unto utter destruction. Thou shalt not make league with them, nor pity them,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "nor make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "for he will seduce thy son, that he follow not me, and that he rather serve strange gods, and the fury of our Lord will be wrath, and shall quickly destroy thee."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But these things rather you shall do to them: Overthrow their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their sculptiles."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples, that are upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Not because you passed all nations in number, is our Lord joined unto you, & hath chosen you, whereas you are fewer than all peoples:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "but because our Lord hath loved you, and hath kept the oath, which he sware to your fathers: and hath brought you forth in a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of servitude, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his precepts, unto a thousand generations:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and rendering forthwith to them that hate him, so that he destroyeth them, and deferreth no longer, (a) immediately rendering to them that they deserve.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Notwithstanding this commination, God oftentimes deferreth punishment, expecting the sinner's repentance."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "(b) If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord also thy God will keep the covenant unto thee, and the mercy which he sware to thy fathers:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God's promises conditional, if his people serve him."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and he will love and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and vintage, oil, and herds, the flocks of thy sheep upon the Land, for the which he sware to thy fathers that he would give it thee."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Blessed shalt thou be among all peoples. There shall be none barren with thee of neither sex, as well in men as in thy flocks."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Our Lord will take away from thee all disease: and the sore infirmities of Aegypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee, but upon all thine enemies."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Thou shalt devour all the peoples, which the Lord thy God will give thee. Thine eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be the ruin of thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao & to all the Aegyptians,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "the exceeding great plagues, which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, that the Lord thy God might bring thee forth: so will he do to all peoples, whom thou fearest."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Moreover hornets also will the Lord thy God send upon them, until he destroy and consume all that escaped thee, & can hide themselves."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty God & terrible:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "he will consume these nations in thy sight by little & little and by parts. Thou mayest not destroy them all together: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth multiply against thee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the Lord thy God will give them in thy sight: an will kill them until they be utterly destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he will deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names under heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Their sculptiles thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold, whereof they were made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is the abomination of the Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Neither shalt thou bring in ought of the idol into thy house, lest thou become anathema, as also that is. As filthiness thou shalt detest it, and as uncleanness and filth thou shalt account it abominable, because it is anathema."
}
],
"summary": "No league nor fellowship to be had with the Gentiles: 5. but their altars, groves, and all their idols to be destroyed. 17. God promiseth victories to his people, willing them to trust in him, and serve him."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Every commandment, that I command thee this day, take diligent heed that thou do it: that you may live, and be multiplied, and entering in may possess the Land, for the which our Lord sware to your fathers."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And thou shalt remember all the journey, through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee forty years by the desert, that he might afflict & prove thee, & that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "He afflicted thee with penury, and gave thee for meat Manna, which thou knewest not nor thy fathers: for to shew unto thee that (a) not in bread only a man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God is able to make food of what he please, or to sustain men without meat."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Thy raiment, wherewith thou wast covered hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "That thou mayest recount in thy heart, that as a man disciplineth his son, so the Lord thy God hath disciplined thee,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "that thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "For the Lord thy God will bring thee in unto a good land, a land of rivers and waters and of fountains: in the plains whereof and mountains deep floods gush out:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "a land of wheat, of barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards do grow: a land of oil and honey."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Where without any penury thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: whose stones are iron, and out of the mountains thereof are digged metals of brass:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "that when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayest bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land, which he hath given thee."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Observe, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelled in them,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, of gold and silver, and of all things plenty,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the house of servitude:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wilderness, wherein was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and (b) the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth rivers out of the hardest rock,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Aserpent less than a scorpion, making those whom he biteth to die of thirst. Solinus in polyhist. cap. de Africa."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and fed thee with Manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy upon thee,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: Mine own force, & the strength of mine own hand, have achieved all these things for me."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfill his covenant, concerning which he sware to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But if forgetting the Lord thy God, thou shalt follow strange gods, and shalt serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt perish utterly."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "As the Nations, which our Lord destroyed at thine entry, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God."
}
],
"summary": "The people is put in mind of afflictions which happened in the desert, and of benefits as well past, as promised, 11. to the end they love and serve God more affectually."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Hear Israel: Thou shalt go over Jordan this day to possess very great nations and stronger than thyself, huge cities, and walled (a) even unto heaven,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Holy Scripture useth the figure Hyperbole, following the vulgar manner of speaking, as well to help the understanding, as to move affection in great & extraordinary things."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "a great people and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard, against whom no man is able to resist."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, who shall destroy and abolish and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath our Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations were destroyed for their impieties."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "For not because of thy justices and equity of thy heart dost thou enter in to possess their lands: but because they have done impiously, at thy entering in they are destroyed: and that our Lord might accomplish his word, which by oath he promised to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Know therefore that not for thy justices hath the Lord thy God given thee this excellent land in possession, whereas thou art a very stiff necked people."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Remember, and forget not how thou didst provoke the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the same day that thou camest out of Aegypt, unto this place, thou hast always contended against our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him, and being wrath he would have destroyed thee,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "when I went up into the mount, to receive the tables of stone, of the covenant which our Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, not eating bread, nor drinking water."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and containing all the words that he spake to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the assembly of the people was gathered."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, our Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and he said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people which thou didst bring out of Aegypt, have quickly forsaken the way, that thou hast shewed them, and have made them (b) a molten idol.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The similitude of a calf, and called it their God. Exod. 32."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And again our Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiff necked:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "suffer me that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and may set thee over a Nation, that is greater and stronger than this."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of covenant with both hands,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and saw that you had sinned to the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way which he had shewed you,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "I cast the tables out of my hands, and brake them in your sight."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And I fell down before our Lord as before, forty days and nights not eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you committed against our Lord, and provoked him to wrath:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "for I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And our Lord heard me this time also."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Against Aaron also being exceeding angry, he would have destroyed him, and for him in like manner did I pray."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, and bringing it wholly into dust, I threw it into the torrent that descendeth from the mount."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "In the burning also and in the tentation, and in the Sepulchres of concupiscence you provoked our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the Land that I have given you, and you contemned the commandment of your Lord God, and did not believe him, neither would you hear his voice,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "but were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And I lay before our Lord forty days and nights, in the which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and praying I said: Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou didst bring out of Aegypt in a strong hand."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: regard not the stubbornness of this people, and his impiety and sin:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them in unto the Land, that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore did he bring them forth, that he might kill them in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Which are thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst bring forth in thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm."
}
],
"summary": "Lest they should impute the victories (which they shall have) to themselves, 6. they are put in mind of their often provoking God's wrath, 12. by idolatry, 22. by murmuring, by concupiscence, by contempt, and other sins, 25. for which they should have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "At that time our Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stones, as the former were, & come up to me into the mount: & thou shalt make an ark of wood,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "& I will write in the tables the words that were in them, which before thou didst break, & thou shalt put them in the ark."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "I made therefore an ark of the wood Setim. And when I had hewed two tables of stone like to the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my hands."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten words, which our Lord spake to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people was gathered: and he gave them to me."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, which are there till this present, as our Lord commanded me."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth of the children of Jacan into (a) Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, for whom Eleazar his son did the function of priesthood.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This Mosera where Aaron died, is more commonly called Hor. Num. 20. & 33."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Thence they came into Gadgad: from the which place departing, they camped in Jetebatha, in a Land of waters and torrents."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of our Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "For the which cause Levi had no part nor possession with his brethren: because, our Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and our Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And he said to me: Go, and march before the people, that they may enter, and possess the Land, which I sware to their fathers that I would deliver to them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and keep the commandments of our Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are in it."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And yet to thy fathers was our Lord joined, and he loved them, and chose their seed after them, that is to say you, from all Nations, as this day it is proved."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Circumcise therefore the prepuce of your heart, and your neck indurate no more:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty, and terrible, that accepteth not person nor gifts."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He doth judgment to the pupil and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him victual and raiment."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And do you therefore love strangers because you also were strangers in the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt cleave, and (b) shalt swear in his name.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "When just cause requireth an oath, it must be made in the name of God, not of false gods."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "In seventy souls did thy fathers go down into Aegypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses receiving the second tables of the ten commandments, and making an ark, put them therein. 6. With mention of certain places where the children of Israel had camped, of Aaron's death, and of the Levites' offices, and possessions, 12. he inculcateth the fear and love of God, and the keeping of his precepts. 16. Namely to circumcise the heart, 19. to love strangers, 20. and not to serve, nor swear by false gods."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Love therefore the Lord thy God, and observe his precepts & ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all time."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the discipline of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong hand and stretched out arm,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "the signs and works which he did in the midst of Aegypt to Pharao the king, and to all his land,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and to all the host of the Aegyptians, and to their hosts and chariots: how the waters of the red sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how our Lord destroyed them until this present day:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and to you what things he hath done in the wilderness, till you came to this place:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, which was the son of Ruben: whom the earth opening her mouth swallowed up with their houses and tabernacles, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Your eyes have seen all the great works of our Lord, that he hath done,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "that you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may enter in, and possess the Land, to the which you enter,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and may live in it a great time: which our Lord by oath promised to your fathers, and to their seed, flowing with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "For the Land, which thou goest to possess, is not as the Land of Aegypt, which thou camest out of, where when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "but it is hilly and champion, expecting rain from heaven,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "which the Lord thy God doth always visit, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "he will give rain to your Land: (c) the timely and the lateward, that you may gather your corn, and wine, and oil,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Rain after sending harvest, signifieth God's grace first stirring up the soul, and assisting the same to the end."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that yourselves may eat and be filled."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from our Lord, and serve strange gods, & adore them:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and our Lord being wrath shut up heaven, and the rain come not down, nor the earth give her spring, and you perish quickly from the excellent Land, which our Lord will give you."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Put these my words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Teach your children that they meditate them, when thou sittest in thy house, and walkest on the way, and liest down and risest up."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Thou shalt write them upon the posts and gates of thy house:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "that thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the Land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers, that he would give it them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "[1] For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, that you love the Lord your God, & walk in all his ways, cleaving to him,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The second lesson in Mass on Imber Saturday in Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "our Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Every place that your foot shall tread, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the west sea shall be your borders."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "None shall stand against you: your terror & fear shall the Lord your God give upon all the land that you shall tread, as he hath spoken to you."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Behold I set forth in your sight this day (d) benediction and malediction:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God worketh, and we cooperate, for he taketh not away, but helpeth freewill. S. Aug. q. 15. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "benediction, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "malediction, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God, but revolt from the way, which now I do shew you, and walk after strange gods, which you know not."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the Land, to the which thou goest to inhabit, thou shalt put the benediction upon mount Garizim, the malediction upon mount Hebal:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "which are beyond Jordan behind the way that bendeth to the going down of the sun in the Land of the Chananite, which dwelleth in the champion country against Galgala, which is beside the valley that reacheth and entereth far."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "For you shall pass over Jordan, to possess the Land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have and possess it."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "See therefore that you fulfill the ceremonies and judgments, which I shall set this day in your sight."
}
],
"summary": "For the benefits of God (whereof some are repeated, and others promised) the Israelites are bound to love him. 16. But if they forsake him he threateneth punishments, 26. proposing benediction and malediction as they shall deserve."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the Land, which the Lord God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days, that thou shalt go upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Subvert all places, wherein the nations, which you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon the high mountains, and hills, and under every tree full of leaves."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Overthrow their altars, and break their statues, their groves burn with fire, and their idols hew all to pieces: destroy their names out of those places."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "You shall not do so to the Lord your God:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "but (a) to the place, which the Lord your God hath chosen of all your tribes, to put his name there and to dwell in it, shall you come:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Peculiar place appropriate to God's service."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and first fruits of your hands, and your vows and donaries, the first born of your oxen and sheep."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your house, wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "You shall not do there the things, that we do here this day (b) every man that which seemeth good to himself.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In the desert they could not observe the ceremonies of the Law: but coming to rest they were bound to keep all one set form of holy rites."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "You shall pass over Jordan, and shall dwell in the Land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell without all fear,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things, that I command you, holocausts, and hosts, and tithes, and the first fruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the principal in the gifts, that you shall vow to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, men servants and women servants, and the Levite, that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Beware thou offer not thy holocausts in every place, that thou shalt see:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "but in that which our Lord shall choose, in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer hosts, and shalt do what things soever I command thee."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if thou wilt eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee in the cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, blemished and feeble: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as is lawful to be offered, as the doe and the hart, shalt thou eat it,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "only without eating the blood, which thou shalt pour out upon the earth as water."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou canst not eat in thy towns the tithe of thy corn, and wine, and oil, the first born of thy herds and cattle, and all things that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the first fruits of thy hands:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "but before the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them in the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and man servant, and woman servant, and the Levite, that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shall rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt extend thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "When the Lord thy God shall have dilated thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh, that thy soul desireth:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and if the place be far off, which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be there, thou shalt kill of the herds and cattle, which thou hast, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "As the doe is eaten and the hart, so shall thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat in common."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "This only beware, that thou eat not the blood, for their blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "but upon the earth thou shalt pour it as water,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which pleaseth in the sight of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But the things which thou hast sanctified, and vowed to our Lord, thou shalt take up, and shalt come to the place, which our Lord shall choose:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy hosts thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thyself shalt eat."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Observe and hear all things that I command thee, that it may be well with thee & thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt do that which is good & pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, that thou enterest in to possess, & thou shalt possess them, & dwell in their land:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "beware lest thou imitate them, after they be subverted at thy entering in, and thou require their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For all the abominations, that our Lord doth abhor, have they done to their gods, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "What I command thee, that only do to our Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "All idolatry, and whatsoever appertaineth thereto must be destroyed. 5. Sacrifices, tithes, and donaries must be offered in the special place. 15. Eating flesh they must not eat the blood. 29. In no case to imitate the idolatry of gentiles."
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If there rise in the midst of thee a Prophet, or one that saith he hath seen a dream, and foretell a sign and a wonder,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and it come to pass which he spake, and he say to thee: (a) Let us go, and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Novelty in Religion is a mark of idolatry or heresy."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "thou shalt not hear the words of that Prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God tempteth you, that it may appear whether you love him or not, with all your heart, and with all your soul."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And that Prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spake that he might avert you from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, and redeemed you from the house of servitude: that he might make thee to err from the way, that the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy soul, will persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "of all nations round about, that be nigh or far, from the beginning unto the end of the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "consent not to him, nor hear him, neither let thine eye spare him to pity and hide him,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "but (b) forthwith thou shalt kill him. Let thy hand be first upon him, and after thee all the people lay hand on him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Every private man is not commanded nor warranted by this to kill: but every one is bound to inform the Magistrate, and so by order of justice to proceed against the wicked."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, from the house of servitude:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "that all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like to this."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to inhabit, thou hear some say:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "There are gone forth (c) children of Belial out of the midst of thee, and have averted the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Such as will not endure discipline are called children of Belial, that is without yoke."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "inquire carefully, and diligently, the truth of the thing being looked into, if thou find it certain that is said, and that this abomination is in act committed,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "thou shalt forthwith strike the inhabitants of that city in the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, unto the very beasts."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "What stuff also soever there is, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn it with the city it-self, so that thou consume all things to the Lord thy God, and it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and there shall nothing stick in thy hand of that anathema: that our Lord may be turned from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he sware to thy fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "when thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayest do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God."
}
],
"summary": "False Prophets must be slain, 6. how near soever they be in kindred, or friendship. 12. The whole city that shall permit false doctrine must be utterly destroyed, men, beasts, and all moveables, and never be built again."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Be ye the children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make baldness for the dead."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Eat not the things that are unclean."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "This is the beast, that you ought to eat: The oxe, and the sheep, and the goat,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "the hart and the doe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygargue, the wild beef, the camelopard."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Every beast, that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, shall you eat."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But of them that chew the cud, and divide not the hoof, these you shall not eat, as the camel, the hare, the cherogril: because they chew the cud, & divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, and cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: Such as have fins and scales, eat:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "them that are without fins & scales, eat not, because they are unclean."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "All birds that are clean eat."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, & the osprey,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "the ringtail, and the vulture and kite according to their kind:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and all of the raven's kind,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and the ostrich, and the owl, and the stern, and the hawk according to his kind:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the herodian and the swan, and the stork,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and the diver, the porphirion, and nightcrow,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "the onocratal, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the lapwing also and the bat."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And all that creepeth and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "All that is clean, eat."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But whatsoever is dead of it-self, eat not thereof. (a) To the stranger, that is within thy gates, give it to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of our Lord thy God. Thou shalt (b) not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If these things were unclean by nature, they were not lawful for any nation to eat, but being only forbid to the Jews, sheweth that this prohibition was ceremonial, only for that time & people."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "All shew of cruelty to be avoided. Mystically this prefigured, that Christ (for the similitude of sinful flesh signified by a kid) should not be slain in his infancy S. Tho. 1. 2. q. 102. a. 6. ad 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The tenth part thou shalt separate of all thy fruits that spring in the earth every year,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and thou shalt eat in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place, which he shall choose, that his name may be invocated therein, the tithe of thy corn, and wine, and oil, and the first born of thy herds and sheep: that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God at all time."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But when the way, and the place which our Lord thy God shall choose, are far, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "thou shalt sell, and bring all into a price, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place, which our Lord thy God shall choose:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of herds, or of sheep, wine also and sicer, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before our Lord thy God, and shall feast, thou and thy house:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The third year thou shalt separate another tenth of all things, that grow to thee at that time: and shalt lay it up within thy gates."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And the Levite shall come that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and pupil and widow, that are within thy gates, and shall eat and be filled: that our Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do."
}
],
"summary": "Gentiles' manner of mourning for the dead is prohibited. 3. Likewise to eat things unclean, with mention of certain clean and unclean beasts, 9. fishes, 11. and birds. 21. Also precepts of piety, clemency, paying tithes, first fruits, 27. nourishing of Levites, strangers, orphans, and widows."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing of his friend or neighbour and brother, cannot ask it again, because it is the year of remission of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Of the sojourner and stranger thou shalt exact: of thy country man & neighbour thou shalt not have power to require it."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And (a) needy person and beggar there shall be none among you that our Lord thy God may bless thee in the land, which he will give thee in possession.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The Israelites were bound to do their endeavour that none should be needy among them: notwithstanding for exercise of love and charity, God's providence suffered some to be poor. v. 7. & 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Yet so if thou hear the voice of our Lord thy God, & keep all things that he hath bid, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt lend to many nations, & thyself shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no man shall have dominion over thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If one of thy brethren that abideth within the gates of thy city in the land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "but shalt open it to the poor man, and shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Beware lest perhaps an impious cogitation steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh: & turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to our Lord, and (b) it become a sin unto thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "He that can and will not feed his neighbour in extremity, killeth him. S. Amb. li. 2. de Offic. c. 7."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that our Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things whereunto thou shalt put thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "There shall not want poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee that thou open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the Land."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "When thy brother an Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and to whom thou givest freedom, thou shalt in no case suffer him to depart empty:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "but give him his wayfare of thy flocks, and of thy barn floor, and thy press, wherewith our Lord thy God shall bless thee."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Remember that thyself also didst serve in the Land of Aegypt, and our Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore do I now command thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But if he say: I will not depart; because he loveth thee, and thy house, and feeleth that he is well with thee:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, & he shall serve thee for ever. To thy woman servant also thou shalt do in like manner."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Turn not away thine eyes from them, when thou makest them free: because he hath served thee six years after the wages of an hireling: that our Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou doest."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Of the first born, that come forth in thy herds and sheep, whatsoever is of the male sex, thou shalt sanctify to our Lord thy God. Thou shalt not work with the first born of an oxe, and thou shalt not shear the first born of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "In the sight of our Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year in the place, that our Lord shall choose, thou and thy house."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But if it have blemish, and be either lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be immolated to our Lord thy God:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "but within the gates of thy city shalt thou eat it: as well the clean as the unclean in like manner shall eat them, as the doe, and the hart."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "This only shalt thou observe, that their blood thou eat not, but pour it out on the earth as water."
}
],
"summary": "Remission of debts in the seventh year to the Israelites, but not to strangers. 4. Albeit there will always be some poor, yet they must so lend to their needy brethren, that none be forced to beg. 12. A bought servant that is an he desire to serve still. 19. The first-born in all cattle must be consecrated to God, without making private profit thereof."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Observe [1] the month of new corn, and the (a) first of the spring time, that thou mayest make the [2] Phase to our Lord thy God: because in this month our Lord thy God brought thee out of Aegypt by night.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Here only three of the principal."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The rest of the feasts are mentioned Levit. 23. Num. 28. & 29."
},
{
"label": "2",
"text": "1. Pasch."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And thou shalt immolate the Phase to our Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen in the place which our Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Thou shalt not eat in it leavened bread: Seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because in fear didst thou come out of Aegypt: that thou mayest remember the day of thy coming out of Aegypt all the days of thy life."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Leavened shall not appear in all thy coasts for seven days, and there shall not remain of the flesh of that which was immolated at even the first day until morning."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Thou canst not immolate the Phase in every one of thy cities, which our Lord thy God will give thee;"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "but in the place which our Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the Phase at even at the going down of the sun, when thou camest out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And thou shalt boil, and eat it in the place, which our Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy tents."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Six days shalt thou eat azymes: and in the seventh day, because it is the collection of our Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "[1] Seven weeks shalt thou number thee from that day wherein thou didst put the sicle to the corn,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "2. Pentecost."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and thou shalt celebrate the festival day of weeks to our Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of our Lord thy God:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and thou shalt feast before our Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man servant, and thy woman servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and pupil and widow, which abide with you: in the place which our Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Aegypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "[1] The solemnity also of Tabernacles thou shalt celebrate seven days, when thou hast gathered thy fruit of the barn floor and the press:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "3. Feast of Tabernacles."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and thou shalt feast in the festivity, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant and woman servant, the Levite also and stranger, and pupil and widow that are within thy gates."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Seven days shalt thou celebrate the feasts to our Lord thy God in the place which our Lord shall choose: and our Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Three times in a year shall all thy male appear in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the solemnity of Azymes, in the solemnity of weeks, and in the solemnity of Tabernacles. There shall not appear before our Lord any empty:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "but every one shall offer according to that he hath, according to the blessing of our Lord his God, which he shall give him."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Judges and masters shalt thou appoint in all thy gates, which our Lord thy God shall give thee, in every of thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and not decline to either part. Thou shalt not accept person, nor gifts: because that gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just. (b)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It is not enough to do that is just, except it be done justly, to a good end, for love of justice."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Justly shalt thou pursue that which is just: that thou mayest live and possess the Land, which our Lord thy God shall give thee."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Neither shalt thou make nor set to thyself a statue: which thing our Lord thy God hateth."
}
],
"summary": "Three more solemn feasts to be kept every year, Pasch, 9. Pentecost, 13. and the feast of tabernacles. 18. Just Judges to be appointed in every city. 21. All occasions of Idolatry to be avoided."
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Thou shalt not immolate to our Lord thy God a sheep, and an oxe, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: because it is abomination to our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "When there shall be found with thee within one of thy gates, which our Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of our Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "that they go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which things I commanded not,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "thou shalt bring forth the man and the woman, that have committed that most heinous thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he perish that is to be slain. Let no man be killed, one only giving testimony against him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The hand of the witnesses shall be first to kill him, and the hand of the rest of the people shall be laid on last: that thou mayest take away the evil out of the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If thou perceive that the judgment with thee be hard and doubtful between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which our Lord thy God shall choose.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And thou shalt come to the Priests of the Levitical stock, and to (a) the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, who shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In the Councel of Priests one supreme Judge, which was the High-Priest. v. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And thou shalt do whatsoever they, that are (b) presidents of the place which our Lord shall choose, shall say and teach thee,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "There were not many Presidents at once, but in succession, one after another."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "according to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But he that shall be proud, refusing to obey the commandment of the Priest, which at that time ministereth to our Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and the whole people hearing shall fear, that none afterward swell in pride."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "When thou art entered the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, and dost possess it, and dwellest in it, and sayest: I will set a king over me, as all nations have round about:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "him shalt thou set, whom our Lord thy God shall choose of the number of thy brethren. A man of another nation that is not thy brother, thou canst not make king."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when he is made, he shall not multiply to himself horses, nor lead back 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 return any more the same way."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He (c) shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor huge weights of silver & gold.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Plurality of wives is not here forbid; for King David transgressed not this precept having more than one or two: but Salomon offended in multiplying many wives. S. Aug. q. 27. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And after he shall sit in the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy to himself the Deuteronomy of this Law in a volume, (d) taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Temporal good Princes take the law, and word of God, at the Priest's hands."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "& he shall have it with him, & shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear our Lord his God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And that his heart be not lifted up into pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right side or the left side, that he may reign a long time, and his sons over Israel."
}
],
"summary": "Perfect hosts, not maimed nor defective, must be offered to God, Idolaters stoned to death. 8. When inferior judges differ, the cause must be decided by the High Priest in consistory, who is warranted not to err therein, & all are bound to obey his sentence. 14. The duty also of a King (whom in future time God will condescend to give them) is described, with special charge to receive the law of God at the Priest's hands."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The Priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of our Lord, and his oblations,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and nothing else shall they receive of the possession of their brethren: for our Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath spoken to them."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "This shall be the right of the Priests from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they immolate oxe, or sheep, they shall give to the Priest the shoulder and the maw:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "the first fruits of corn, of wine, and oil, and a part of the wool of their sheep-shearing."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "For him hath our Lord chosen of all thy tribes, that he might stand and minister to our Lord, he and his sons for ever."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If a Levite go out of one of thy cities of all Israel in the which he dwelleth, and would come desiring the place which our Lord shall choose,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "he shall minister in the name of our Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, that shall stand at that time before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He shall receive the same portion of meats that the rest do: beside that, which in his own city is due to him by succession from his fathers."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "When thou art entered the Land, which our Lord thy God shall give thee, beware thou be not willing to imitate the abominations of those nations."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Neither let there be found in thee any that shall expiate his son, or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that demandeth of soothsayers, and observeth dreams and divinations, neither let there be a sorcerer,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "nor enchanter, nor that consulteth with python, or diviners, and seeketh the truth of the dead."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "For all these things our Lord abhorreth, and for these abominations will he destroy them at thy entering in."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt be perfect & without spot with our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hear soothsayers, and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed of our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Aprophet of thy nation & of thy brethren like unto me, will our Lord thy God raise up to thee: him thou shalt hear,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "as thou didst request of our Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered, and saidst: I will no more hear the voice of our Lord my God, and this exceeding great fire I will see no more, lest I die."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "A Prophet will I raise up to them out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak all things that I shall command him."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And the Prophet that being depraved with arrogancy will speak in my name, the things (a) that I did not command him to say, (b) or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This sort of false prophets signified Heretics, that preach false things in Christ's name."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These prefigured Apostates, which renouncing Christ, expressly profess false gods."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And if in secret cogitation thou answer: How shall I understand the word, that our Lord spake not?"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "This sign thou shalt have: That which the same Prophet foretelleth, in the name of the Lord, & cometh not to pass: that our Lord hath not spoken, but by the arrogancy of his mind the Prophet hath forged it: and therefore thou shalt not fear him."
}
],
"summary": "Instead of other inheritance Priests and Levites have provision by Sacrifices and oblations. 9. All superstition to be avoided. 15. Perpetuity of Prophets, and finally one special PROPHET (to wit CHRIST) is promised. 20. False Prophets must be slain."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "When our Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou dost possess it, and dwellest in the cities and houses thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "three cities shalt thou separate to thee in the midst of the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee in possession,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "(a) preparing diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole province of thy Land equally into three parts: that he which for murder is a fugitive, may have near at hand, wither to escape.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The way to the cities of refuge were paved, and marks set for direction, that he which fled might not err in his way."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "This shall be the law of the murderer that flyeth, whose life is to be saved: He that striketh his neighbour unwitting, & that is proved yesterday & the day before to have had no hatred against him,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "but to have gone with him simply unto the wood to cut wood, and in cutting of wood the axe slipped out of his hand, & the iron falling from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall fly to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "lest perhaps the next kinsman of him, whose blood was shed, pricked with sorrow, pursue, and apprehend him if the way be too long, and strike his life that is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before, against him that was slain."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities of equal distance one from another."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when our Lord thy God shall have dilated thy borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the Land that he promised them,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "(yet so, if thou keep his commandments, & do the things which I command thee this day, that thou love our Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at all time) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of the three cities aforesaid:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he fly to one of the cities aforesaid,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "the ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him, whose blood was shed, & he shall die."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "(b) Thou shalt not pity him, & thou shalt take away the guilty blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This was said to the whole people, who must not entreat for the murderer's pardon: but the kinsmen of him that was slain, might remit the punishment."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Thou shalt not take, and transfer thy neighbour's bounds, which thy predecessors did set in thy possession, which our Lord thy God will give thee in the Land, that thou shalt receive to possess."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "One witness shall not stand against any man, whatsoever sin, or wickedness it be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of prevarication,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "both of them, whose the cause is, shall stand before our Lord in the sight of the Priests and the judges that shall be in those days."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And when searching most diligently, they shall find that the false witness hath said a lie against his brother:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "they shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "that others hearing may have fear, and may not be bold to do such things."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "(c) Thou shalt not pity him, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot shall thou exact.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This pertained to the Judge, who without partiality must do justice."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Certain cities of refuge must be assigned for casual manslaughter. 11. Willful murder punished by death without remission, 15. so it be convinced by two or three witnesses. 16. False witnesses punished with the pain, which the crime objected deserveth."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If thou go forth to war against thine enemies, and see the horse men and chariots, and the multitude of the adversary's host greater than thou hast, thou shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when the battle is now at hand, the Priest shall stand before the army, and shall speak to the people thus:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Hear Israel, you this day join battle against your enemies, let not your heart fear, be not afraid, retire not, neither dread them:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "because our Lord your God is in the midst of you, & will fight for you against your adversaries, to deliver you from danger."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The Captains also through every band in the hearing of the host shall proclaim: (d) What man is there that hath built a new house, & hath not dedicated it? Let him go, & return into his house, lest perhaps he die in the battle, & another dedicate it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Men possessed with such desires have not like valor to good soldiers: And by word or example often discourage others. So in spiritual war-fare, we must not be addicted to worldly profits, or pleasures."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "What man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, whereof all men may lawfully eat? Let him go, and return into his house: lest perhaps he die in the battle, and another man execute his office."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "What man is there, that hath despoused a wife, and not taken her? Let him go, and return into his house, lest perhaps he die in the war, and another take her."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "These things being said they shall add the rest, and shall speak to the people: What man is there fearful, and faint-hearted? Let him go, and return into his house, lest he make the hearts of his brethren to fear, as himself is frighted with fear."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when the Captains of the host shall hold their peace, and make an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to fight."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If at any time thou come to win a city, thou shalt first offer peace."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that is therein shall be saved, and shall serve thee under tribute."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But if they will not make peace, and shall begin battle against thee, thou shalt assault it."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when our Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hand, thou shalt strike all that is therein of the male sex, in the edge of the sword,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "excepting women and children, the cattle and other things, that are in the city. All the prey thou shalt divide to the army, and thou shalt eat of the spoils of thine enemies, which our Lord thy God shall give thee."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "So shalt thou do to all cities, that be very far from thee, and be not of these cities, which thou shalt receive in possession."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "but shalt kill them in the edge of the sword, to wit, the Hetheite, & Amorrhite, & Chananite, the Pherezite, and Heveite, and Jebusite, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "lest perhaps they teach you to do all the abominations, which themselves did work to their gods: & you sin against our Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hast compassed it with munition to win it, thou shalt not cut down the trees, that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes: because it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of warriors against thee."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But if there be any trees not fruitful, but wild, and apt for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the city, which fighteth against thee."
}
],
"summary": "How to seek out a secret murderer. 10. Women taken in battle may be married: and afterwards cannot be sold nor made bond women. 15. The eldest son may not be"
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"text": "deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. 18. A stubborn son must be stoned to death. 22. When one is hanged on a gibbet, he must be taken down the same day, and buried."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "When there shall be found in the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and he that is guilty of the murder is not known,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "thy ancients and judges shall go forth, and measure from the place of the corpse the distance of every city round about:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, the ancients of that city shall take an heifer out of the herd, that hath not drawn yoke, nor ploughed the ground,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and shall bring her to a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor received seed: and in it they shall strike off the neck of the heifer:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and the Priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom our Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and at their word every matter dependeth, and whatsoever is clean or unclean must be judged."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the ancients of that city shall come to the slain person, and shall wash their hands over the heifer, that was strucken in the valley,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood (a) nor our eyes see it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By this ceremony & abjuration they purged themselves, that they were not negligent in doing justice."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "be merciful to thy people Israel whom thou hast redeemed, o Lord, & impute not innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done that which our Lord hath commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If thou go forth to fight against thine enemies, and our Lord thy God deliver them in thy hand and thou lead them away captive,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "thou shalt bring her into thy house: who shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and put off the raiment wherein she was taken: and sitting in thy house, shall mourn her father and mother one month: and afterward thou shalt enter unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But if afterward she content not thy mind, thou shall let her go free, neither canst thou sell her for money, nor oppress her by might: because thou hast humbled her."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have begotten children by him, & the son of the hated be the first-born,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he cannot make the son of the beloved the first-born, and prefer him before the son of the hated,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "but the son of the hated he shall acknowledge for the first-born, and shall give to him of those things which he hath, all double: for this is the beginning of his children, & to this are due the first birth rights."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "If a man beget a stubborn and froward son, that will not hear the commandments of his father and mother, and being chastened, contemneth to be obedient:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "they shall take him, and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and shall say to them: This our son is froward and stubborn, he contemneth to hear our admonitions, he giveth himself to comessation, and to riot and banquetings:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "the people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "When a man hath offended so that he is to be punished by death, & being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "his body shall not remain upon the tree, but the same day shall be buried: because he is (b) accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not contaminate thy Land, which our Lord thy God giveth thee in possession.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Mystically, he is cursed that persisteth in sin, as it were hanging on the tree, by which our first parents sinned."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"text": "towards birds. 8. Battlement about the roof of a house. 9. Things of diverse kinds not to be mixed. 12. cords in the hems of a cloak. 13. Trial and punishment of adultery and of deflowering virgins. 30. The son may not marry his step mother."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's oxe or sheep straying, and pass by: but shalt bring it back to thy brother,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "although thy brother be not nigh, and thou know him not: thou shalt bring them unto thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing of thy brother's, that shall be lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If thou see thy brother's ass or oxe to be fallen in the way, thou shalt not contemn it, but shalt lift it up with him."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Awoman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he is abominable before God that doeth these things."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If walking by the way thou find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or the eggs: thou shalt not hold her with her young,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "but shalt let her go, taking the young and holding them: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make (a) a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, another slipping, and falling headlong.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Their houses had flat roofs as many of our church's palaces, and castles, where battlements are necessary for danger of falling, when any walk thereon."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed: lest both the seed which thou didst sow, and the things that grow of the vineyard (b) be sanctified together.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "For correction of so covetous a mind the whole fruit must be offered to pious uses. Theodoret. q. 23. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Thou shalt not plough with an oxe and ass together."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of wool and linen."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Thou shalt make little cords in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If a man marry a wife, and afterward hate her,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and seek occasions to put her away, objecting unto her a very ill name, and say: I took this wife, and companying with her: I found her not a virgin:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "her father and mother shall take her, and shall carry with them the signs of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: whom because he hateth,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "he layeth unto her a very ill name, so that he saith: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the signs of my daughters virginity. They shall spread the vesture before the ancients of the city:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and the ancients of that city shall take the man, and beat him,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the wench's father, because he hath infamously spread a very ill name upon a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and cannot put her away all the days of his life."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But if it be true which he objected, and virginity be not found in the wench,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "they shall cast her forth without the doors of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, & she shall die: because she hath done wickedness in Israel, to fornicate in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If a man lie with another's man's wife, both shall die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "If a man have despoused a maid that is a virgin, and some man find her in the city, & lie with her,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "thou shalt bring forth both of them to the gate of that city, & they shall be stoned: the maid, because she cried not, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But if the man find the maid that is despoused in the field, and taking her lie with her, he alone shall die:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "the maid shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a thief riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the maid suffer."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to deliver her."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "If a man find a maid that is a virgin, which hath not a spouse, and taking her lie with her, and the matter come into judgment,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "he that lay with her, shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he cannot put her away all the days of his life."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "No man shall take his father's wife, nor reveal his covering."
}
],
"summary": "Piety towards neighbours. 5. Neither sex may use the apparel of the other. 6. Cruelty to be avoided even"
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "An (a) Eunuch that hath his stones broken, or cut off, and his yard cut away, shall not enter into the Church of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Such as are barren in good works cannot enter into God's house. Theod. q. 25. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Mamzer, that is to say, one born of a common woman, shall not enter into the Church of our Lord, until the tenth generation."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The (b) Ammonite and the Moabite yea after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of our Lord, for ever:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These nations not able to hurt the children of Israel, neither by denying ordinary courtesies, nor by force, nor by hiring Balaam to curse them, yet inveigling them with carnal sins, signified obstinate perverse sinners, that never amending can never be rightly received into the Church of God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "because they would not meet you with bread & water in the way, when you came out of Aegypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor of Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "& our Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, for that he loved thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither do thou seek their good all the days of thy life for ever."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Thou shalt not abhor the Idumeite, because he is thy brother: nor the Aegyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "When thou goest forth against thine enemies to battle, thou shalt keep thyself from all evil thing."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If there be among you a man, that is polluted in a dream by night, he shall go forth without the camp,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and shall not return, before he be washed with water at even: and after sun set he shall return into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Thou shalt have a place without the camp, whither thou mayest go to the necessities of nature,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "carrying on thy girdle a piked instrument. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, & with the earth that is digged up shall cover"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "that which thou art eased of (for our Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies unto thee) and let thy camp be holy, & let no filthiness appear therein, lest he forsake thee."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt not deliver the servant to his master, that is fled to thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "he shall dwell with thee in the place, that shall please him, and in one of thy cities shall he rest: vex him not."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel nor whoremonger of the sons of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of our Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both is abomination before our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "(c) but to the stranger. And to thy brother thou shalt lend that which he needeth, without usury: that our Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy work in the Land, which thou shalt enter to possess.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Only lawful enemies are here called strangers: where therefore is just cause of war, there only it is lawful to exercise usury. S. Amb. li. de Tobia c. 15."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "When thou hast vowed a vow to our Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: because our Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be reputed to thee for sin."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "(d) If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "vows bind where otherwise was no obligation."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, & shalt do as thou hast promised to our Lord thy God, & hast spoken with thy proper will and thine own mouth."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Entering into thy neighbour's vineyard, eat grapes as much as shall please thee: but carry none out with thee."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If thou enter into thy friend's corn, thou shalt break the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but with a sickle thou shalt not reap."
}
],
"summary": "Eunuchs, bastards, Moabites, & Ammonites, may not enter into the Church. 7. Idumeans and Aegyptians may be admitted. 9. Observation of spiritual and corporal cleanness. 15. Other precepts concerning fugitives, 17. fornication, 19. usury, 21. vows, 24. and eating other men's grapes or corn."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not grace before his eyes for some loathsomeness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and dismiss her out of his house.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And being departed, when she shall have married another husband,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath dismissed her out of his house, or is dead:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "the former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is polluted, and is made abominable before our Lord: lest thou make thy Land to sin, which our Lord thy God shall deliver thee to possess."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go forth to battle, neither shall any public necessity be enjoined him, but he shall attend to his own house without fault, that one year he may rejoice with his wife."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt not take for a pledge the nether or the upper millstone: because (a) he hath pledged his life to thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "this Hebrew phrase signifieth, that pledging the thing wherein the means of life consisteth is as if he pledged his life."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If any man be taken soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, & selling him take a price, he shall be slain, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Observe diligently that thou incur not the plague of leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the Priests of the Levitical stock shall teach thee, according to that, which I have commanded them, and fulfill thou it carefully."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Remember what our Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "but thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring forth to thee that which he hath."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "but forthwith thou shalt restore it to him before the going down of the sun: that sleeping in his raiment, he may bless thee, and thou mayest have justice before our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Thou shalt not deny the hire of the needy, and poor man thy brother, or the stranger, that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "but the same day thou shalt pay him the price of his labour, before the going down of the sun, (b) because he is poor, and there-withal sustaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to our Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In case the labourer sustaineth his life by his daily wages, then not to pay him is in effect to kill him: and such sin cryeth to God for revenge."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The fathers shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger and the pupil, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Remember that thou didst serve in Aegypt, & our Lord thy God delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee that thou do this thing."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "When thou hast reaped the corn in the field, and forgetting hast left a sheaf, thou shalt not return 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 bless thee in all the work of thy hands."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If thou have gathered the fruits of thy olive trees, whatsoever remaineth on the trees, thou shalt not return to gather it: but shalt leave it to the stranger, the pupil, and the widow."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "If thou make vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall go to the uses of the stranger, the pupil, & the widow."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Remember that thou also didst serve in Aegypt, and therefore I command thee that thou do this thing."
}
],
"summary": "Divorce permitted to avoid greater evil. 5. The newly married must not go to war. 7. He that treacherously selleth a man must be slain. 8. Disobedience to Priests incurreth leprosy. 10. Such things may not be taken to pledge, as cannot be well spared. 14. Poor labourers must be presently payed. 16. Not one punished for another's fault, but right judgement to all, 18. and liberal alms to the poor."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If there be a controversy between some, & they call upon the judges: whom they shall perceive to be just, to him they shall give the prize of justice: whom impious, him they shall condemn of impiety."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes, they shall cast him down, & shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart foully torn before thine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Thou shalt (a) not muzzle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out thy corn in the floor.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "S. Paul expoundeth this of the spiritual labourer in God's Church that he must have his maintenance for his travail. 1. Cor. 9. & 1. Tim. 5. It was also meant of oxen, so it hath two literal senses. Theo. q. 31. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "When brethren shall dwell together, and one of them die without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: But his brother shall take her, & raise up the seed of his brother:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "& the first born son of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But if he will not take his brother's wife, that by law is due to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother will not raise up his brother's seed in Israel: nor take me to his wife."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And forthwith they shall cause him to be sent for, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "the woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and (b) spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man, that buildeth not his brother's house.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "He that disdaineth to honour his brother is justly despised."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And his name shall be called in Israel (c) The house of the unshod.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Alazy family & unprofitable to the commonwealth. Mystically, Pastors must beget spiritual children to Christ, not to themselves; & so they are called Christians, not Paulians, whom S. Paul converted. And he that is elected by the Church to spiritual function, & neglecteth his duty, is worthy of reproach and infamy. S. Aug. li. 32. c. 10. cont. Faust. Manich."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "If two men fall at words betwixt themselves, and one begin to brawl against the other, and the wife of the one willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, put forth her hand, and take his privities:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity upon her."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt not have diverse weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt have a weight just and true, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the Land, which our Lord thy God shall give thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For thy Lord abhorreth him, that doth these things, and detesteth all injustice."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Remember what (d) Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Aegypt:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Amalec first impugned Israel after they had passed the red sea. Exod. 17."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "how he met thee, & struck the hindmost of thy army, which being weary rested themselves, when thou wast spent with famine and labour, and he feared not God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Therefore when our Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and subdue all nations round about in the Land, which he hath promised thee, thou shalt destroy his name under heaven. Beware thou forget it not."
}
],
"summary": "Punishment afflicted according to the fault, but so that he which is beaten have not above forty stripes. 4. The oxe's mouth not be muzzled that treadeth corn. 5. A married man dying without issue, his brother must marry the widow. 11. The wife that taketh her husband's adversary by his privities must lose her hand. 13. No false weights nor measures to be kept: 17. Amelicites must be utterly destroyed."
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] when thou art entered into the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee to possess, and hast obtained it, and dwellest in it:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third lesson in Mass on Imber Saturday in whitsunweek."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "thou shalt take first of all thy fruits, and put them in a maund, and shalt go to the place, which our Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and thou shalt go to the Priest, that shall be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before our Lord thy God, that I am entered into the Land, for the which he sware to our fathers, that he would give it us."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the Priest taking the maund at his hand, shall set it before the altar of our Lord thy God:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and thou shalt speak in the sight of our Lord God: (a) The Syrian persecuted my father, who descended into Aegypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Laban pursued Jacob, when he parted from Mesopotamia of Syria. Gen. 27."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the Aegyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on most grievous burdens:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and we cried to our Lord the God of our fathers: who heard us, and respected our affliction, and labour, and distress:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and brought us out of Aegypt in a strong hand, a stretched out arm, in great terror, in signs and wonders:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and brought us into this place, and delivered to us this Land flowing with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And therefore now I offer first fruits of the Land, which our Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of our Lord thy God, adoring our Lord thy God,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "[1] And thou shalt feast in all the good things, which our Lord thy God hath given to thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first lesson in Mass on Imber Saturday in Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "When thou hast finished the tithe of all thy fruits, in (b) the third year of tithes thou shalt give to the Levite, & the stranger, & the pupil, & the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The people payed every year two tithes: the first to the Levites: the second for entertaining travelers to & from Jerusalem: & every third year a third tithe for relief of the poor inhabitants."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "& thou shalt speak in the sight of our Lord thy God: I have brought that which is sanctified out of my house, & have given it to the Levite, and the stranger, and the pupil, and the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments nor forgotten thy precepts."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them in any uncleanness, nor spent of them any thing in funerals. I have obeyed the voice of our Lord my God, and have done all things as thou didst command me."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the Land, which thou hast given us, as thou swarest to our fathers, a land flowing with milk & honey."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This day our Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: that thou keep and fulfill them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. (c)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Mutual pact between God & his people; that they serving him, he will reward them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou hast chosen our Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgements, & obey his commandment."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And our Lord hath chosen thee this day, that thou shouldst be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou shouldst keep all his commandments:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and make thee higher than all nations which he created, to his praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of our Lord thy God, as he hath spoken."
}
],
"summary": "First fruits must be offered in special place assigned to God's service, professing of gratitude for the land possessed according to God's promise. 12. Likewise tithes of the third year, 16. with conclusion, that the people promise to observe all the precepts of God, and so doing he will protect and prosper them."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Moyses and the ancients of Israel commanded the people, saying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third part. God's promises & threats, for keeping or breaking his commandments."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when you are passed over Jordan into the land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt erect great stones, and shalt polish them with plaster."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "that thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou hast passed over Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as he sware to thy fathers."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "When therefore you are passed Jordan, erect the stones, which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt polish them with plaster:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and thou shalt build there an altar to our Lord thy God of stones, which iron hath not touched,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt put upon it holocausts to our Lord thy God,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and shalt immolate pacific hosts, and eat there, and feast before our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law plainly and clearly."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Moyses and the Priests of the Levitical stock said to all Israel: Attend, and hear Israel: This day thou art made the people of our Lord thy God:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices, which I command thee."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Moyses commanded the people in that day, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "(d) These shall stand to bless the people, upon mount Garizim, when you are past Jordan: Simeon, (e) Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, & Benjamin.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The ancients of every tribe."
},
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The Levites' proper office was to bless."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And over against them these shall stand to curse on mount Hebal: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephthali."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the (f) Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a high voice:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "But by occasion of sin their office was also to pronounce curses."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of our Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, & shall put it (g) in secret, and all the people shall answer, and say: Amen.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "Though the sins were secret, yet the offenders were cursed: public sins were also publicly punished."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's bounds. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go amiss in his journey. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the pupil and the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Cursed be he that sleepeth with his father's wife, and revealeth the cover of his bed. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Cursed be he that lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Cursed be he that sleepeth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Cursed be he that sleepeth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Cursed be he that secretly striketh his neighbour. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to kill the soul of innocent blood. And all the people shall say: Amen."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work, and all the people shall say: Amen."
}
],
"summary": "God's commandments must be written in plastered stones. An Altar erected, and Sacrifices offered. 12. Observers of the commandments must be blessed, and transgressors cursed. 14. With the form of cursing of idolaters, and diverse other enormous sinners."
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "But if thou wilt hear the voice of our Lord thy God, that thou do and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, our Lord thy God will make thee higher than all nations, that be on the earth."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And (a) all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Temporal blessings belonged to sensual people of the old testament: now the poor in spirit are blessed, that mourn, and suffer persecution for truth and justice."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the troops of thy herds, & the folds of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Blessed shall thy barns be, and blessed (b) thy remains:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The poor being relieved of thy superfluity shall bless thee."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Our Lord will give thine enemies, that rise up against thee, to fall down in thy sight: one way they shall come against thee, and seven ways they shall fly from thy face."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Our Lord will send forth blessing upon thy cellars, and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land, that thou shalt receive."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Our Lord will raise thee up unto himself to be a holy people, as he sware to thee: If thou keep the commandments of our Lord thy God, and walk in his ways."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of our Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Our Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of thy womb, & the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers that he would give thee."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Our Lord will open his most excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain to thy land in due season: and will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and thyself shalt take loan of no man."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord shall make thee (c) the head, and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not under: (d) yet so, if thou wilt hear the commandments of our Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep & do them,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Thou shalt rule over others & none over thee."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Yet always with this condition: if thou serve God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "& decline not from them, neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor serve them."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if thou wilt not hear the voice of our Lord thy God, to keep & do all his commandments & ceremonies which I command thee this day, (e) all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Thus most commonly sinners were cursed in the old Testament, but such as now serve not God rightly, and yet prosper in this world, shall in a moment descend into hell. Job. 21."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Cursed shall thy barn be, and cursed thy remains."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Our Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, & rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, wherein thou hast forsaken me."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Our Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt enter in to possess."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Our Lord strike thee with poverty, with the fever and cold, with burning and heat, & with corrupt air and blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Be the heaven that is over thee, of brass, & the ground that thou treadest, of Iron."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Our Lord give dust for rain upon thy land, and ashes descend from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Our Lord deliver thee to fall down before thine enemies. One way go thou forth against them, & fly seven, and be thou dispersed throughout all the Kingdoms of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And be thy carcass meat to all the fowls of the air, & beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Our Lord strike thee with the boyle of Aegypt, and the part of thy body, by the which dung is cast out, with scab also and itch, so that thou canst not be cured."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Our Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "& grope thou at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and direct not thy ways. And at all times sustain thou wrong, and be thou oppressed with violence, neither have thou any to deliver thee."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Take thou a wife, and another sleep with her. Build thou a house, and dwell not therein. Plant thou a vineyard, and take not the vintage thereof."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Be thy oxe immolated before thee, and thou not eat thereof. Be thy ass taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. Be thy sheep given to thine enemies, and be there none to help thee."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Be thy sons and thy daughters delivered to another people, thine eyes seeing, and dazzling at the sight of them all the day, and be there no strength in thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "The fruits of thy land, and all thy labours let a people eat, which thou knowest not: and be thou always sustaining calumny, and oppressed all days,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and astonished at the terror of those things, which thine eyes shall see."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Our Lord strike thee with a very sore botch in the knees and shanks, and be thou uncurable from the sole of the foot unto the top of thy head."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Our Lord shall bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt appoint over thee, unto a nation, which thou and thy fathers know not: & there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And thou shalt be destroyed for a proverb and fable to all peoples, unto whom our Lord shall bring thee in."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall devour all things."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig, and the wine thou shalt not drink, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Thou shalt have olives in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: because they shall drop away, and perish."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "All thy trees and the fruits of thy ground the blasting shall consume."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "(f) The stranger that liveth with thee in the Land, shall ascend over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt descend downward, and be inferior.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "After many other plagues and punishments, at last the Jews refusing and persecuting Christ were rejected, and Gentiles called into the Church, and advanced above them. Theod. q. 34. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "He shall lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And all these curses shall come upon thee, and pursuing shall overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heard not the voice of our Lord thy God, nor kept his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "And they shall be in thee as signs & wonders, and in thy seed for ever:"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "because thou didst not serve our Lord thy God in joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "Thou shalt serve thine enemy, whom our Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and all penury, and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Our Lord will bring upon thee a Nation from a far, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, in likeness of an eagle that flyeth with vehemency: whose tongue thou canst not understand:"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "a very malapert Nation, that will attribute nothing to the ancient, nor have pity on the little one,"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "and will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy Land: until thou perish, and will not leave thee wheat, wine, and oil, herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep: until it destroy thee,"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "and consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high walls be destroyed, wherein thou hadst confidence in all thy Land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee:"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "and thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons & of thy daughters, which our Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and vastation wherewith thine enemy shall oppress thee."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "The man that is delicate in thee & very riotous, shall much envy his own brother, and his wife that lieth in his bosom,"
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "so that he shall not give them of the flesh of his children, which he will eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and penury, wherewith thine enemies shall waste thee within all thy gates."
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground; nor set down her foot for over-much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband, that lieth in her bosom, upon the flesh of her son, and daughter:"
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "and the filthiness of the after births, that come forth from the midst of her thighs, and upon the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly, because of the penury of all things, in the siege and vastation, wherewith thine enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates."
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "Unless thou keep and do all the words of this law, that be written in this volume, and fear his name glorious and terrible, that is, Our Lord thy God:"
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "our Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, great plagues and continuing, sore infirmities and perpetual."
},
{
"verse": 60,
"text": "And he shall turn upon thee all the afflictions of Aegypt, which thou didst fear, and they shall cleave to thee."
},
{
"verse": 61,
"text": "Moreover also all the diseases, and plagues, that be not written in the volume of this law, our Lord will bring upon thee, till he consume thee:"
},
{
"verse": 62,
"text": "& you shall remain few in number, which before was as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardest not the voice of our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 63,
"text": "And as before our Lord rejoiced upon you, doing good to you, & multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and subverting you, so that you may be taken away from the Land, which thou shalt enter to possess."
},
{
"verse": 64,
"text": "Our Lord shall disperse thee into all peoples, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone."
},
{
"verse": 65,
"text": "In those nations also thou shalt not be quiet, neither shall there be resting for the step of thy foot. For our Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and dazzling eyes, & a soul consumed with pensiveness:"
},
{
"verse": 66,
"text": "and thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, and thou shalt not trust in thy life."
},
{
"verse": 67,
"text": "In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? And at evening: Who will grant me morning? For the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 68,
"text": "Our Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Aegypt by the way, whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be sold to thine enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
}
],
"summary": "Diverse blessings are promised to the observers of God's commandments, 15. and curses threatened to transgressors."
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the words of the covenant which our Lord commanded Moyses to make with the children of Israel in the Land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Moyses called all Israel, and said to them: you saw all things, that our Lord did before you in the Land of Aegypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "the great tentations, which thine eyes have seen, those mighty signs, and wonders,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and our Lord (a) hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that can hear, unto this present day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "For sins past God letteth some run into reprobate sense, permitting them to their own freewill, who being void of grace willfully obdurate themselves. Theod. q. 37. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "He hath brought you forty years by the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Bread you have not eaten, wine and sicer you have not drunk: that you might know that I am the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And you came to this place: and there came forth Sehon the king of Hesebon, and Og the king of Basan, meeting us to fight. And we struck them."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and took their land, and delivered it in possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfill them: that you may understand all things that you do."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "You stand this day all before our Lord your God, your Princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "your children and your wives, and the strangers that abide with thee in the camp, besides the cutters of wood, and them, that carry water:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "that thou mayest pass in the covenant of our Lord thy God, and in the oath which in this day our Lord thy God maketh with thee:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "that he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "but with all that be present & absent."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For you know how we dwelt in the Land of Aegypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, which passing through"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "you have seen their abominations & filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Lest perhaps there be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from our Lord God, to go and serve the gods of those Nations: and there be among you (b) a root bringing forth gall & bitterness.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Amind secretly infected with idolatry."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he bless himself in his heart, saying: I shall have peace, and walk in the pravity of my heart: and the (c) drunken take to her the thirsty,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The appetite drunken with pleasures thirsteth still more."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "& our Lord forgive him not: but then his fury most specially fume, and his zeal against that man, and all the curses sit upon him, that be written in this volume: & our Lord abolish his name under heaven,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and consume him unto perdition out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the Book of this law & covenant."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And the generation following shall say, and the children that shall be born from thence-forth, and the strangers that shall come from a far, seeing the plagues of that Land, & the infirmities, wherewith our Lord hath afflicted it,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "burning it with brimstone, and heat of the salt, so that it can no more be sown, nor any green thing spring thereof, after the example of the subversion of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama, and Seboim, which our Lord subverted in his wrath & fury."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And all the Nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this Land? What is this exceeding wrath of his fury?"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the Land of Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and to whom they had not been designed:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "therefore the fury of the Lord was wrath against this Land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and he hath cast them out of their land, in wrath and fury, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as this day it is proved."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Things hidden, (d) to our Lord God, which are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Law.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Secret things are known to God, manifest things to men. Theod. q. 38. in Deut."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "A covenant and oath is made between God and his people (with commemoration of sundry benefits by them received) that keeping his law they shall be more blessed: and breaking the same shall sustain the threatened punishments."
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore when all these words shall be come upon thee, the blessing or cursing, which I have set forth before thee: and thou be touched with repentance of thy heart in all nations, into which our Lord thy God dispersed thee,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I this day command thee, with thy children in all thy heart, & in all thy soul:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "our Lord thy God will bring thee again from thy captivity, and have mercy upon thee, and gather thee again out of all the peoples, into which he dispersed thee before."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If thou be dispersed as far as the poles of heaven, thence will our Lord thy God draw thee back."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and will take thee to him, and bring thee into the Land, which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt obtain it: and blessing thee will make thee to be (a) of a greater number, than were thy fathers.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Some sinners through great repentance become more virtuous, & are more rewarded than some that offended less."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Our Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayest love our Lord thy God in all thy heart, and in all thy soul, that thou mayest live.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And all these curses he will turn upon thine enemies, & them that hate and persecute thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of our Lord thy God, & shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and our Lord will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the issue of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fertility of thy ground, and in the plenty of things. For our Lord will return to rejoice upon thee in all riches, as he rejoiced in thy fathers:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "yet so, if thou hear the voice of our Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to our Lord thy God in all thy heart, and in all thy soul."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "This commandment, that I command thee this day, is not above thee, nor so far off,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "nor situated in heaven that thou mayest say: Which of us is able to ascend unto heaven to bring it to us, that we may hear and fulfill it in work?"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "nor placed beyond the sea: that thou mayest pretend, and say: Which of us can pass over the sea and bring it even unto us, that we may hear, & do that which is commanded?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But the word is very near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, to do it."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and contrarywise death and evil:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "that thou mayest love our Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments: and thou mayest live, and he multiply thee, and bless thee in the Land which thou shalt enter to possess."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But if thy heart be averted, and thou wilt not hear, and deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Iforetell thee this day that thou shalt perish, & abide a little time in the Land, which passing over Jordan, thou shalt enter to possess."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "I call for witnesses this day heaven & earth, that I have proposed to you life and death, blessing and cursing. (b) Choose therefore life, that both thou mayest live, and thy seed:",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God gave man liberty to choose what he would follow. S. Amb. in Psal. 40. v. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and mayest love our Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and cleave to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days) that thou mayest live in the Land, for the which our Lord sware to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it them."
}
],
"summary": "If the children of Israel, offending and falling into the foresaid curses shall repent, God will restore them to his blessings again: 11. leaving it in their power to serve him if they will, 17. and therefore warneth them that the impenitent shall assuredly perish, because having life and death, blessing and cursing proposed, they choose the worse."
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Moyses Therefore went, and spake all these words to all Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and said to them: I am this day an hundred and twenty years old, I cannot (a) go out & come in any longer, especially whereas our Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He meaneth that he cannot exercise the office of a captain general, and bring the people into the promised land."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Our Lord therefore thy God will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall pass over before thee, as our Lord hath spoken."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Ammorrheites, and to their land, and shall destroy them."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Therefore when our Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Do manfully, & be strengthened: fear not, neither tremble ye at their sight: because our Lord thy God himself is thy conductor, & will not leave nor forsake thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Moyses called Josue, & said to him before all Israel: Take courage, & be strong: for thou shalt bring in this people into the Land, which our Lord sware that he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord that is your conductor, himself will be with thee: he will not leave, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither dread thou."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses therefore wrote this law, & delivered it to the Priests the sons of Levi, which carried the ark of the covenant of our Lord, & to all the ancients of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he commanded them saying: After seven years, in the year of remission, in the solemnity of tabernacles,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "when all come together out of Israel, to appear in the sight of our Lord thy God, in the place which our Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the words of this law before all Israel, they hearing,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and the people being assembled together, as well men as women, children, & strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear our Lord your God, and keep, and fulfill all the words of this law."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Their children also who now are ignorant; that they may hear, and fear our Lord their God, all the days that they live in the Land, which passing over Jordan you go to obtain."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of testimony, that I may command him. Moyses therefore and Josue went, & stood in the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and our Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entering of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will fornicate after strange gods in the Land, to the which it entereth to dwell therein: there will they forsake me, and will make the covenant, which I have made with them, of none effect."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And my fury shall be wrath against them in that day, & I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth because God is not with me, these evils have found me."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But I will hide, and keep close my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Now therefore write unto you (b) this canticle, & teach the children of Israel: that they know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, & this song be unto me for (c) a testimony among the children of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Meter is more easily kept in memory than prose."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "And so by this Canticle they are convinced that they were aboundantly forewarned, not to break covenant with God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "For I will bring them into the Land, for the which I sware to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey: And when they have eaten, and are full, and fat, they will turn away to strange gods, and serve them: and will detract from me, and make my covenant of none effect."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "After that many evils and afflictions shall have found them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their cogitations, what things they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the Land which I have promised them."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "[1] Moyses therefore wrote the canticle and taught it the children of Israel:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The eleventh prophecy in the office before Mass on Easter eve. And the third on Whitsuneve."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the Land which I have promised, and I will be with thee."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore after that Moyses wrote the words of this law in a volume, and finished it,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "he commanded the Levites, that carried the ark of the covenant of our Lord, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of our Lord your God: that it may be for a testimony against thee."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "For I know thy contention, and thy most stiff neck. Whiles I yet live and go in with you, you have done always contentiously against our Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Gather to me all the ancients by your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will invocate against them heaven and earth."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "For I know that after my death you will do wickedly, and will decline quickly from the way, that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the later times, when you shall do evil in the sight of our Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Moyses therefore spake in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song, and finished it even to the end."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses substituteth Josue his successor in temporal government 9. delivereth the law to the Priests. 16. God foretelleth that the people will often forsake him, and that he will punish them, 19. commandeth Moyses to write a canticle (an abridgement of the Law) easy to be remembered. 25. And in further testimony against them, the Levites must put this book in the ark of covenant. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fourth part. An exhortation to serve God, with prediction of their often sins & punishments."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Hear ye (a) heavens what things I speak, the earth hear the words of my mouth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "All things in heaven and in earth testify that God dealeth well with his people."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "My (b) doctrine grow together as rain, my speech flow as the dew, as it were a shower upon the herb, and as it were drops upon the grass.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Doctrine doth fructify in good souls as rain & dew in the ground."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Because I will invocate the name of our Lord: give magnificence to our God. (c)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Man's first duty is to praise God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The works of God be perfect, and all his ways judgments: God is faithful, and without any iniquity, just and right."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "They (d) have sinned to him, and not his children in filthiness: a froward and perverse generation,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The next, to acknowledge his own sins & defects."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "These things doest thou render to our Lord, thou foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made, and created thee?"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Remember the old days, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders, and they will tell thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "When the highest (e) divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of people according to (f) the number of the children of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "At the tower of Babel."
},
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Israel being but one people possessed the inheritance of seven other nations."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But our Lord's part is his people: Jacob the cord of his inheritance."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "He (g) found him in a desert land, and a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "God chose Israel to be his peculiar people of mere grace, and protected them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "As the eagle provoking her young to fly, and hovering over them hath he spread his wings, and he hath taken him, and carried him on his shoulders."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Our Lord only was his guide: and there was not with him a strange god."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "He placed him over an high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck (h) honey out of the rock, and (i) oil out of the hardest stone.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "Bees without men's industry made honey in the rocks."
},
{
"label": "i",
"text": "Olive trees prospered in stony places."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Butter from the herd, and milk of the sheep, with the fat of lambs, & of rams of the sons of Basan: and buck-goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the blood of the grape most pure."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The (k) beloved was made gross, and spurned: made gross, fatted, dilated, he left God his Maker, and departed from God his salvation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "k",
"text": "Temporal prosperity occasion of the Jews' revolting from God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "They provoked him in strange gods, and in abominations stirred him to anger."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "They immolated to devils and not to God, to gods, which they knew not: there came (l) new and fresh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "l",
"text": "Novelty allureth carnal people to idolatry and heresy."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "God that begat thee thou hast forsaken, and hast forgotten our Lord thy creator.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Our Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his sons and daughters provoked him."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And he said: (m) I will hide my face from them, and will consider their last: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "m",
"text": "For their perverseness God withdrew his help from them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "They (n) have provoked me in that, which was no God, and have angered me in their vanities: & I will provoke them in that which is no people, and in (o) a foolish nation will I anger them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "n",
"text": "God first loveth, before any man loveth him, but men first forsake God, before he forsake them."
},
{
"label": "o",
"text": "The Jews reputed most Gentiles foolish yet now they are inferior to all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Afire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest parts of hell: and shall devour the earth with her spring, and shall burn the foundations of mountains."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "I will heap evils upon them, and mine arrows I will spend in them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "They shall be consumed with famine, & birds shall devour them with most bitter biting: the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the fury of those that trail upon the ground, and creep."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Without shall the sword devour them, and within fearfulness, the young man and the virgin together, the sucking child with the old man."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Isaid: Where are they? I will make their memory to cease from among man."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But (p) for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, & would say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "p",
"text": "For just causes God sometimes deferreth punishment."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Anation without counsel is it, and without wisdom."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "O that they were (q) wise, and understood, and would provide for their last!",
"notes": [
{
"label": "q",
"text": "True wisdom considereth things past, understandeth"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "How should one pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? Was it not therefore, because their God sold them, and our Lord inclosed them?"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "For our Lord is not as their gods: (r) our enemies also are judges.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "r",
"text": "All infidels confess more Majesty in the true God and in his Religion, than in their own."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the clusters most bitter."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "The gall of dragons their wine, and the venom of Asps, uncurable."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Are not these things laid up with me, and signed in my treasures?"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in time, that their foot may slide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make haste to be present."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Our Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, & (s) the shut-up also have failed, and the residue be consumed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "s",
"text": "Even such offenders as think themselves secure, escape not."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they had confidence."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Of whose victims they did eat fat, and drank the wine of their libaments: (t) Let them arise, and help you, and protect you in necessity.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "t",
"text": "It is unpossible that false gods should help their followers in necessity."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "See ye that I am only, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live for ever."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, & my hand take judgment: I will repay vengeance to mine enemies, and them that hate me will I requite."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "I will imbrue my arrows with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and captivity, of (u) the bare head of the enemies.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "u",
"text": "The vain counsel of the wicked being detected shall be punished."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "You gentiles praise his people, because he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will repay vengeance upon their enemies, and will be propitious to the land of his people.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Moyses therefore came and spake all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, he and Josue the son of Nun."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And he finished all these words, speaking to the children of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "& he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: that you command them to your children to keep and to do, and to fulfill all things of this law that are written:"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "for not in vain are they commanded you, but that every one should live in them: which doing you may continue a long time in the Land, which passing over Jordan you enter to possess."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Go up into this mount Abarim, that is to say, of passages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab against Jericho: and see the Land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to obtain, and die thou in the mount."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "Which going up unto thou shalt be joined to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was laid to his people:"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "because you did prevaricate against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "Over against shalt thou see the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I will give to the children of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "A Canticle of the Law, wherein the people are exhorted to serve God, for his perfect goodness, for his singular benefits, for their former ingratitude, and for his mercy still mixed with his punishments. 44. All which being earnestly commended to them to remember and teach their children, 48. Moyses is commanded to go into a mountain, whence he shall see the promised land, but not enter into it. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The Canticle at Lauds on Saturday."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "This is (a) the blessing, wherewith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The ancient fathers expound these blessings rather of the Church of Christ, than of the Jews' Synagogue. S Aug. q. 56. Theod. q. 44. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he said: Our Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir is he risen to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of Saints. In his right hand a fiery law.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "He hath loved the peoples, all the Saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet shall receive of his doctrine."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Moyses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "He shall be king with the most right, the Princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Live Ruben, and die he not, and be he little in number."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "This is the blessing of Judas: Hear Lord the voice of Judas, and bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his adversaries."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in tentation, and judged at the Waters of contradiction."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He that (b) said to his father and to his mother: I know you not; and to his brethren: I know you not: and they knew not their children. These kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Priestly tribe must especially prefer God's service before their nearest kindred."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "thy judgments, o Jacob, and thy law, o Israel: they shall put incense in thy fury, and holocaust upon thine altar."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Bless Lord his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and they that hate him, let them not rise up."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of our Lord (c) shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride-chamber all the day shall he abide, and between his shoulders shall he rest.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Temple was built in the tribe of Benjamin, which God more specially protected, and so they dwelt more securely. Theod. q. 45. in Deut."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of our Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and the dew, & the depth lying underneath."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Of the pomes of the fruits of the sun and moon,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "of the tops of the old mountains, of the pomes of the eternal hills:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and of the fruits of the earth, and of the fullness thereof. The blessing of him, that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "His beauty as of the first born of an oxe, his horns the horns of an unicorn: in them shall he winnow the Nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of (d) Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasses.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Ephraim is preferred before his elder brother, agreeable to their grandfather's prophetical blessing. Gen 48."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice Zabulon in thy going out, and Issachar in thy tabernacles."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "They shall call the peoples to the mountain: there shall they immolate the victims of justice. Who shall suck the inundation of the sea as milk, and the hidden treasures of the sands."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in breadth: as a lion hath he rested, and taken the arm and the top of the head."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he saw his principality, that in his part the doctor was reposed: which was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of our Lord, and his judgment with Israel."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "To Dan also he said: Dan a lion's whelp, he shall flow largely from Basan."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And to Nephthali he said: Nephthali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of our Lord: the sea and the south he shall possess."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "To Aser also he said: Blessed be Aser in children, be he acceptable to his brethren, and dip he in oil his foot."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "His shoe iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also thy old age."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "There is no other God as the God of the rightest: the mounter of heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "his habitation is above, and under the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from thy face, and shall say: Be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "(e) Israel shall dwell confidently, and alone. The eye of Jacob in the land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The sin of Zambri a Prince of Simeon's tribe, in fresh memory (Nu. 25.) seemeth to be the cause, why this tribe is not particularly blessed, but only in general with all Israel."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Blessed art thou Israel: who is like to thee, o people that art saved in our Lord, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory? Thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread their necks."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses blessing the tribes of Israel (Simeon omitted) prophesieth particularly of every one. 26. Again exhorteth them, that as God hath chosen them his peculiar people, so they love and honour him their only God."
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Moyses therefore went up from the champion of Moab upon mount Nebo, into the top of Phasga against Jericho: and our Lord shewed him (a) all the land of Galaad as far as Dan,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God elevated his visive power above nature to see so far."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and all Nephthali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all the Land of Juda unto the utmost sea,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho, a city of palm-trees as far as Segor."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: This is the Land, for the which I sware to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed will I give it. Thou hast seen it with thine eyes, and shalt not pass over to it."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Moyses the servant of our Lord died there, in the land of Moab, our Lord commanding it:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and he buried him in the valley of the Land of Moab against Phogor: and (b) no man hath known his sepulchre until this present day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Only Angels (whose ministry God used herein) knew the place of his burial: lest the Jews prone to idolatry might have honoured him for God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Moyses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the children of Israel mourned him in the champion country of Moab thirty days: & the days of their mourning that mourned for Moyses were accomplished."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Josue the son of Nun was replenished with the spirit of wisdom, because Moyses did put his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as our Lord commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And there rose no more a Prophet in Israel as Moyses, whom our Lord had known face to face,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "in all signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the Land of Aegypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole Land,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and all the strong hand, and great marvels, which Moyses did before all Israel."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to go into it. 5. He dieth at the age of 120. years. God burieth his body secretly, and all Israel mourn for him thirty days. 9. Josue replenished (by imposition of Moyses' hands) with the spirit of God, succeedeth. 10. But Moyses for his special familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles is commended above all other Prophets. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fifth part. The death, burial, and singular praise of Moyses."
}
]
}
]
}