Commentary on the Holy Bible

the tnitli of that word of the apostle, 1 Tim. v. 1. Nou ^ BHD of the coMMAMDHENT ia LOVE, otttqf ajture heart, Ae. See ihe wliolc of Ihe doctrine eonlained m dtis verse explained at targe on Matt. xxii. 38 — 40.

Verse 6. Shall be in thine heart] For where else can fov* bel if it be not in the heart, it Exists not.— And if these aorda be not in the heart / if they are not esteemed, prized, and received as a h^ wid most glorious inivilege, what hope is (here that ihw love shall erer reign Oiere i

8 "And tliou shalt bind them for a aignupoa thine hand, and they shall be aa rronUc»ts between thine eyes. -

9 "* And thou flhalt write them upon the posts of tliy house, and on thy gates.

10 And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the laiid which he sware unto thy fhthers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee ^eat and goodly cities, f which thouDuildedst not,

1 1 And houses full -of all sood tlUtufs, which thou fiiledst not, and wells dieted, wnioh thoo diggedst not, vineyards and oUve-treea, which thou plantedet not: 'when thou shaft hare eaten end be full-,

13 Then beware lest thou ibrget the Lord

Verse 7. Thou Aall teach them diligeiUiif] snuv ShinnaTitcTn, from rutr ehoTiah, to repeat, iierale, or do a thing again and again: hence to i^et or akarpen any instrument which is done by reiterated Jriction or grin^ ing. We see here the spirit of this divine injiuictian. God's testimonies mast be taught to our children; and the utmost diligence must be used to make them nridersiand them. This is a most difficult task; and it require* mucfa patience, much prudence, much judgment, and muehpieg' in the parents, to enable them to do Aia good, ihia most important work, in the best and most ene«Uial inaiiatr. Sea at the end of thia dmpler,

And^uMUdAttr'aumidunOdutitteatinlkimlinaa Thou riialt have religion at home, aa well as in the fcmpM and tabernacle.

And lehen IhouicaUeeat by the teay] 'Hiou shall be religious abroad, aa well as at home; and hot be ashamed to own God wheresoever fliou art.

When thou Heat down and when Sum riaeat up] Una shalt begin and end the day with God, and thus religien will be the great business of thy life. O liow geaa are these sayings I but how little r^arded I

Verse B. Hiou ahalt bind them for a sign iqxm Aina hand] Is not this an allusion to an ancient anil gsneral custom observed in almost every part of the world T When a person wi^tes to remember a thing of importance and is afraid to Irast to the common opentiionfl of memory, he Hea a knot on some part of bis clodtea, or a cor&oa his hand or finger, or places something out of its untal order, and in rf«r, that his memory taav be whetted to recollection, and his eye affeei his h^rt. bod who knows how slow of heart ws are to understand, graciously orders "US to make use of every help, and through the means oi thii^ aenaibte, to rise to things apirituat.

And they ahixll he aa frontleta] nteeMt^ihat seems to have Ihe same meaning as phylactery has in the New Testament; and for the meaning and descri^mi of these appendages to a Jew's dress, and to his rebgion, ses the note on Exod. xiiL 0. and od Matt, xxiii. K when asl^ lactery is partieuloriy described. See the aote on EzmL xtii. 9.

Verae 9. Upon lAeporia (die door-posta) of thy AMUa and on thy galea.} The Jem, forgetting the apirit and design of this precept, used these ddngs as superstitioai people do amweia and diarma i and supposed, if they bed these passages of Scripture written npan slipa of purs parchment, wrapt round their foreheads, tied to their arm, or nailed to their door-posts, that they then shonM be delivered &om every evil i ArKl how much better an maay Chriatian*, who keep a Bible tn their house, jawAj mt U may kdep the devil out I And Will have it in dieir rooms, or under their pillows, to ward off spirtls sail ghosts in the night! How ingenious ia the heeirt of ma to find out every wrong way, and to miss the right I

Verse IZ. Beware teat Ihou forget tha Lor4] la oaHUb prosperity, men ore i^rt to -forget heavenly things. While the animal senses hove every diiog they can wisb^ it is difiicult for the soul to urge iu way to heaven — asimal man is happy, and the desires of dM soul ara alisoibed in those of the Sesh. God knows this well; and ibevefotw, in his love to man, mokes comparative pover^ and &»- auent affliction, his gsneral lot Should not every md lerefore magnify God fbr this lot in life T Before 1 was afflicted, says David, I went astray — and had it not been for poverty and affliction, as instruments in the hands «f God's grace, multitudes of souls now heippy in bsav«s would have been wretched m hell. 4t is not too mutb lo speak thus far: because we ever see that die rich and ms wHuent an genendly Mgligent of CM and ibe is which brought thee forth out of the huid of JSgypL from the house of ' boiulage.

13 Thau ehiilt ' feur the Lord thy God, and serve him, and " shall swear by hia name.

1-t Ye ehall not ' go after other godB, " of the gods of the people which are rctuad about you:

15 (For ' the liORD thy God t« a jealous God among you) ' Ictit the anger of the Lord thy God be Kindled against thee, and deBtroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 ■ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, * asyc tempted hi/n in Massah.

17 Ye aliall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord vour God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

13 And thou ' shalt do that ichifJi is right and good in the sight of the Losp: that it may be well with thee, and that-thou mayest go in and posseuB the good land, which the Loan s'ware unto thy fathers,

19 ^ To cast out all thine enemies from before thee as the Lobd hatii spoken.

Eivertf if as iiuuriotu to religion u escewive affluence, ence the wiadom as welt sa pie^ of Agur'a prayer, Prop. XXX. 7—9. "Give me neitker povertv nor ndiea — lest I heJiiiL and Heny theej or leet I u poor, and tteai," &c.

Verse 13. T^ou Aaltfear Iht Lord thj/ God] Thou ■halt respect and reverence turn as thy hw^ver and judge: as thy creator, preserver, and the sole object of thy Feligioas sdoretlon.

jMd aene kim] Our bleaud Lord, in HatL iv. 10. Lidte iv. 6. (jnotes theae words dius: And kim ONLY (snru ficrw) Aalt thou sent. It appears, therefore, that ^13^ Ubado, was anciently in the Hebrew text, as it was and is in the Skptuaoint (««r(i> furcti) from which our Lord quoted iL "nie Como preserves the some reading; so do also the VuuiATS {iUi t(d%) and the Akglo-Saxoh (Seof a him anum.) Dr. ICennicott argues, that without the word only, the text would not have Seen conchwive for th^ purpose for which our Lord advanced it; for as we learn irom Scripture that same men worshipped lalse gods in conjuactiiMi with the true, the quotation here would not have heea fiill to dte point, without this exdutivc word. It may be proper to observe, that the omitted wonl Msh Ubado, retained in lbs ^love verwna, does not exist in the printed Hd>rew text, nor in any US. hitherto discovered.

Shall fitear byhit nanM] pavn Htht^^ from fsv ^tabA, he was^w, tali^JUd, or gave that whdeb vnt/uU or tatuja^ory. Hence an oa(/t and amarin^, because, SBpealing to God, and taking him for witness in any case el promise, &c. gave JvU aod nifflcient aeatrity for the perfurinance: and if done in evidence, or to the truth of uy particukr fact, it gave fuU ateurUy for the truth of thai evideoce. An oMb, therefore, is an appeal lo God, who knows all things, of the truth of the matter in question: and when a Teligioua man takes such an oath, he gives full and reasooalue satisfaction that the ttiUng is ao, da slated: for it is ever to be presumed, that no man, unless in a state of the deepest degradaiion, would make such an appeal falsely — for this would imply on attempt to make God aparhi in lJu deception.

Verse U. Ye Jtall not go t^/^er olher goda] The object of religious worship among every people, whedwr ihat object be true or false, is ever considered as the pattern or exomplor to his worshippers. Christians are termed the^^fficers of God: they take God for their pattern, and walk (act) as he does. Hence we see the meaning of the terms ja this verse— Yt sAoU not go a^«r — ye sluiU not take false gods for your paltema. Thi Canaonites, Greeks, Romans, &e. were a most impure people, because the ejects of their worship were impure; ana they teent after them, L e. were Uke Ineirgods. This serves to show u^ that such as our Redeemer is, such should we be: and indeed, this is the uniform language of God to man — Be ye holy, for lam Ao^ Lev. xxi. 8.—

Verse 16. A Jealaua Odd] Jehovah has betrothed yoa lo hiniacll OS a bride is to ner husltand. Da not he unfaithful, else that love whtuewidk he has now distinguished you, shall assume the form of Jeatouayt and so divorce aod conwiiae you.

20 M And * when tby eon ai^keth thee ' in time to come. Baying, What vtean the testirooniea, and the statutes, and the jmli^mentR, which the LoHD our God hath commiuined you?

21 Then thou Bhatt stiy unto thy eon. We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; ana the Lord brooght us out of Egypt c with a migh^ hand:

22 And the Lord showed signs and woodere, great and ' sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houscnotd, before our eyes:

23 And he brouKht us but from thenco, that he might bring us in, to give us the hmd which he sware unto our fathers.

24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these eiatulcs, to fear the Lord our God, i for our good always, that he might prcsc^e us alive, as it is at this day.

25 And ■> it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments beford the Lord our Qoi, as he hath coaimanded iia.

Versa 16. Ye akaU not tempt the Lard] Ye shall not provoke him by entertaining doubts of his mercy, goodness, providence, and truth.

A» ye templed him tn MassaH] How did they tempt him in Maasah 1 Hiey said, la the Lord among tta or not? Exod. xvii. 1 — 7. After such proofs as they had of his presence and his kindness, this was exceed! sgly provoking. Doubting God's kindness, where there are so many evidences of it, is highly insulting to God Almighty.

Verse 17. Ye dnQfently keep, Ac] On this and die fbllowiog verse, see the note on ver. 3.

Verse 20. Ani lAan Ay am aaketk Ihae, Ac] "Here," OB Mr. AiiisTvorth justly remarks, "followetn a brief calechitm, containing the grounds of religion."

Whal mean the tealimonica, &c.] Trie Hebrew language has no word to express to mean, or aigni/y, and therefore uses simply the substantive verb — What is, i. e. what mean, or signify* &c 7%« aeven thin eara amb, L e. aign\fy seven years famine, ^nds form of speech. fr^uentJy occurs.

Verse 25. Jl ahaU be our righleouaneaa] The evidence Uiat we are imder the influence of the fear and love of God. Hoses does not say, that this righteousness could be wrought without the influence of God's mercy; nor does he say that they should purchase heaven by it; but God required them to be conformed to bis will in all things^ that they might be holy in heart, ai>d righteous in tvei; part of their moral conoueL

1. On a very important subject in this chapter it may be necessary to make some lartner observations.

A most injurious and destructive maxim has lately been advanced by a few individuals, which, it is to be hoped, is disowned liy the class of Christians to which they belong: though the authors aflect to be thought Chriatiana and rational ones too; the sum of the maxim is this; — "Children ought not to be taught reli^on, for fear of having their mmds biassed to some portioulor creed; but th^ uiould be left to therasetves, till they are capable of making a Aoiee, — and, chooae to make one." Ihis maxim is in flat opposition to the command of God i and those who teach it, show how little they are aflected bj the religion they profess. If thev felt it to be good for any tMiw, wey would certainly wish their children to possess it; bill they do not teach religion to their children, because they feel it to be of no use to themselves. Now the Christian religion, property applied, suves the soul — Gila the heart with love to God and moo; for the love of God is shed abroad in the heart of a genuine believer, by llie Holy Ghost given to him. These persons have no such love, becatue they have not llic religion that inspires it) and the spurious reUgion, which admits nf the maxim above-mentioned, is not the religion of God, and coa- ■equendy better untaught dian taught. But what can be said to those parents, who^ possessing a better failhf equally neglect the instruction of dieir children in dw thinn oS Godi They are highly criminal; and if their children perish dirough neglect, which is very probable, wliat a dreadful account must they give in the great day I Paksvts! hear what die Lord saith unto you — Ye i^Mdl diligently tnooh your children ditU dicre is one Lord, Jehovah, Elobimi die Pudicr, t)ic Sou, and tho Holy Ghost i that they must love him widi all their heart.

thou goeet to |)osse88 it, and hath cast oat many nations before thee, i* the Hittitce, and the Girgashites, and the Aniorites, and the Canaanires, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusitee, seven nations « greater and mightier than thou;

2 And when the Lord thy God shall ■'deliver Ihera before thee; thou ebalt smite them, and ' utterly destroy them, <■ thou shalt make no covenant I'ith them, nor show mercy unto them:

3 " Neither shalt thou malce marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor nis daughter ahsdt thou take unto thy son.

4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: * so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

5 But tlius shall ye deal with them: ye shall ' destroy their altars, and breakdown their ■ images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

6 U ' For thou art a holypeoote unto the Lobo thy Giod: »the Lord thy Gfod nath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, tUMve all people that ai-e upon the face <^ the earth.

with all their bouI, snd with all their might And td d)ild> ren are heedless, apt to forget, liable to at carried avay by Bcnsible thic^ j repeat ana re-repeat the instruction, and add tine npon line, precept upon precept, here a tittle, and there a little; carefully etudymg time, place, and ciraim-

. jfiinc*^ that yuur laonir be not in vain — show it in its atniidtlenet^ excite atUntim by exciting in^rat — Aow how good, mv useful, hov bleased, how ennobling, how glorious it is. Wfiet theae things on their hearts, till the

. keenest edge ii raised on the strongest desire— till they can say, " Whom hare I in heaven but thee! and there is none on earth I desire besides thee." 8ee the notes on chap. iv. 9. and on Gen. xvili. and ziz. at the end.

2. Wi(houtoff(aicetoany,Ihopeafewwonbnuimmay be sud on the nature of an oaA, in additi«n to the note on nr. 13. The matter isimportzuit, and perhaps not well tmderstood by many.

The making an appeal to the Supreme Being, and calling him to witness and record, cotutitutea the spirit and aamce Of an oath. It is no matter in what Jorm this appeal is made, whether by puttins die hand unoer the thigk, as among the paf WarcAs; by the water tif the Qangm^ as among the tnndoot; on a tarat, or diopter qf the Koi^m, a» among tlie Itblutmmedans; on a Hebrew Pentateuch, as among the Jem; on the form, tiu eroa», as among the iioman CalluUict; kissing the New Teetament, as amonff Protteatanis in eeneral; or maidn^ affirmation, aecordfing to a prescribed^^rrnt, (see cooeluding remarks od 'I Cor. i.) as among the people called Q,Kakera—tf\\\ the oalh is thc same, for the appeal it made to God. On this ground, and this is the true ground, the making t^rmo' tion in a court of justice, is as perfect, as substanuaJ, and as formal an oath, as kisHng thc New Teatamtnt Why, tfien, so many objections against taking an oath in a court of jiuticat^ any me partinuorj^nin, when dutauBS thing it done in spirit, essence, and auMtanee, when God iacalleet to witnessand record, though theform be difTerent? When Qod aays, Thou liuiUfear the Lord ttv Ood, and AtUt noear by kit name — he says, in effect, Iniou shalt have no god besides me— thou shalt eonidder me the Fountain of Truth, the Reworder of rifl^teouaneai, end the Puniaher of peindy and wickedness. Swear ov my nam«— bind thyself to m«: Ukenufbrwitmni to all thy actions; and act in all things u having me continually before ^)ur eyes, and knowing that fbr every act and word ye shall give Bccotint to me in the day of judgment. Our Lord's eom> inand, Sieear not at ail, can never relate to an oath in a civil cause, taken according to the definition abov« given t pro&ne am common swearing, With bH lighti imverent. 464

7 The Lord did not set his love upGO yon, nor choose you, because ye were more in nnnber than any people; for ye wer«*the fewest of all

8 But ''because the Losn loved you, and because he would keep > the oath which he had sworn unto your lathers, <* hath the Lord brongfat you out with a mi^ty hand, and redeoned yon out of the house of bondmen, from the bsna of Pharoah king of Egypt.

9 7 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he iff God, • the faithful God, ' which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations;

10 And Krepayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: ^ he will not be dack to him that hateth him, he wHl repay him to hW &ee.

11 Thoa shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statuteSj and the judgmeiUa, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12 IT i Wherefbre it shall come to pass, * if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that Lord thy God shall keep onlothee 1 the covenant and mercy which be sware unto thy Ikthers:

13 And he will "> love thee, and Mess thee, and multiply thee: " he will also bless the fruit of Ihy womb^ and the i'ruit of thy land, thy com, and thy wme. and thine oil, the increase of tlnr Idne, and the nocks of thy sheep, in the land mid be sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

oaths and imprecstions, and all such oaths as are not required by the civil magisumt^ in caaee where the Lord ia BUppoaea to be witneaa^ arsoeftainfyiateoded inoartdoMed Lord's pnhibitknk Seeoodnp. iv.38.

In several places of the £M>rew text, eatk of theae seven nations is not enumeiRted; some one or other being left ooC, which the Septungint in general sui»li\ How mese nations were distributed over the land at Minwm. pgwioady to the entering in of the Israelite^ die reads' see in the note on JoaL iit. 10.

VeiwtZ TTurndtalt smite Attn, Ac} IVse idolatnuB nations were to be attwly destroyed { aiid all the others whicii were contiguous to the boundaries of the Prombed Land, provided they did not renounce their idolatry, and receive the true failn; but if they did not, thei. no coveoaoi was to be made with them on any aecolBr or political con* rid^tton whatever: no mmy waa to be shown to ibem, because the eup of their iniquity also was now foil { and th^ muat either embrace^ hesroly enAnee, the me nligion, or be cut off.

Verse 3. Neilher sftatt Aon make marria^t*, Ac] The heart being naturally inclined to evil, (here is mon likelihood that me idolatrous wife should draw aside the beliering husband, than that the believing husband BhonW be able to brioKOver his idolatrous wife 10 the tnie bith.

Verse 6. T^oa art a holy peopiel And therefore should have no coimexion with the workers of iniquily.

A special peopUl rhio segupah, Septuagint Xmss rtmamrioir, a peculiar pernio— n pnvate pret ty. Ite worob as they stand in the S^rtuagint, are quotsd ay die ^osda^ 1 Pet. ii. 9.

VsrasS. Alt fteoaute As ZiontZosedyw] Itvssns good ill dim diat inJuoed Ood to dwoae nieni at dds tinw to be lUs peculiar people; he had hia reasons, but these sprang from his infinite goodneas. He intended to make ■ fidl discovery of his goodness to the world; and this moA have a commencement in some particuhv place, and matK some people Hediose that tinMs and ha chose fbeJewian peoplet but not becaun of tb«r goodneaa or holiness.

Verse 12. The Lord^-shaa keep unto Ass eueovenam/] So w« find their continusnee in the siaia of ftnour was to depend on theiiyoUft/u/neae to the grace Ood. If they should rebel, though God had chosen dtem tbrou^ hia lov, yet h^ would cast them off in bis Justice. The a^sc*, we see, may become unfaithful, and so beeome reprohmta. 80 it happened to 24,000 of diein, w^aecucMnei fell in

14 Thou shale be blessed above all people: ■ there shall not be male or female barren among you, or amoDf youreatUe.

15 And the JuoftD Till take awiqr from thecal! aickneas, and will put none of the >* evil diseases of Egypt, which ttou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

16 And ^thon shall consame all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee i ' thme eye ahall have no pity ujpon them j neither Bhatt thou serve their gods; for that will be • a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shalt say id thine heart. These nations are more than I; how can I tdisposBese them?

18 "Thou, shalt not be afraid of them: but sbalt well * remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Enrpt;

19 * The great temptations which thine eyes saw. and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, ana the etretched-ont arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid,

20 ' Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet amoug them, until they that are left, and bide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

31 Thou shalt not be adrighled at them: for the Lord thy God is r anwttgyoa, ■ amighty God and terrible.

22 ■ And the Lord thy God will >> put out those Dfttions before thee by little and little: thoumayest not consume them at once, lest the beast of the field increase upon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them * unto thce^ and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

24 And ^ he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name * from under heaven: 'there ehall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed

25 11 The graven images of their gods s shall ye burn with fi re: thou ^ shalt not desire the sUrer or gold that U on thetn, nor take it unto thee,

dts wiUernoas, becauH thty bad ainned: yet these were of ihe tUtt tk&t e&me out of ExypL Let him (hot alAndeth lake bead feet he

Verae 22. PiU oui tfioae nalioru — by lUUe and litlWi Th« laraelites were not lu yei eaifficiently numeroua to fill the whole Iftud occtrpied bj me aevea nations inentioaed ver. 1. And B« wild ftnd feiocious ftnimala miKfal bs expected to laultiply, where either there me no iohabitftnta, or the phu» is but badly peopled; thareEare God lella them, that Cfaoncfa ftt preaeat, by force af arms, they might be able to ospd them, that it would be impoUiio ao to do, leet th« beaatt of the field Kbould multiply upon ihem.

Verae 35. 7%ou aAcU not denre l/U nUtr or goH ihst ia •» tk»m\ Soene of the ancient idole were plated over vi^ sold; and Ood saw that the Tahie of the metal, and «xo<mDee of the workmanahip, miglit. be aa iadueenunt for the Ismelitfls to prettm thcmi aad ihia might lead, remotaly at leaat, to idolatry. As idoU wwe Mowaedi all thtMc who- had thanr, or any d^ng ^rpemuniog to Owm, vers aceoned alao, ver. 26.

Ver» 2. Than aftott rmtmber aU tht teayl The variooa dealing of Ood with yoa t the dansera and difficulties to which ye were expoaea, and from wnieh Ood delirered

So, togeuter with the various miraolea which he wrought -you, and hia lonfr- Buffering toward you. verae 3. H»-'^ffered fAea to kmu^er^ and fed Hue] God nmrer permits any tribulation to befall hia foUowera, wtdA he does tMK deaiga to torn to iheir advania^. When ha permits (IB to hunger, it iathathis mercy may be the more cibaervabia in providinK ua with dte necBBirifS of.life. PriwxUono in the way of Providenea are die fitrarauwrB of mercy and coodneaa abundant.

Verae 4. T%y raimmtwaxmtnotold^&c.] Theplun meaninc of ihio mnch-tctiored:ext spmra to me to ba Vol 1.-59

lest thou be 'snared therein: for it is ^ an abomination to the Lord thy God.

26 Neither shalt thou bring an abominatiott into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thouahalt utterly aUior it; > for it is a cursed thing.

roHObd k ihair pn^ii}'. in-IB^udW ibn *«ld nuibMc ifau pcnMriV io ihniKUrm, unl DM u> Uul, 17, IH. The iiiinnh lnliManihii iiill rillHMi

ALL the commandments which I eonunand thee this day " shall ye — observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply,, and go in and possess the uuid which the Loan swue unto your fathers.

2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God * led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, aTtd 'to prove thee, fto know what tco* in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

3 And he humbled thee, and isuffered thee to hunger, and 'fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth * not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

4 t Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, n«tber did thy foot swell, these forty years.

5 " Thou shalt also consider in thme heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Imkd thy God chasteneth thee.

6 Therdbre then shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, * to walk ui his waya. and to fear him.

7 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, ' a land of brooks ofwater, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys ami hills;

tbia: " Ood eo amply provided for tliem oil the npceasories of life, that they never were oblijjcd to wear jatlereJ garmenja, nor were their feet injurctifor lack of ehnea or sandala." If they had cancra, engravers, BlIverRiniths, and jewellers among them, as plainly appears from Uie account we have of the tabernacle and its utensila, is it to be wondered at, if dtey also had habbU and sandal -maktrt, dee. &C. aa we are oertatn ihey had xceavert, emhrvidercra, and auch like. And the Ite^ which we may suppose they carried on with the Moabiiea. or with travelling oordfia m Arabiana, doubtless supplied them with the mattriaU. Though, aa they had abundance of ahecp and neat cattle, they muat havenad much of die materials within themsclvca. It ia generally Bui^sed that God, I7 a miracle, preaerved their clothes uum wearing out; but if this sense De admiued, it will require not tme miracle, but a chain of Ibe most BOCceBsive ana aatoniahtn^miraclea ever wrought, to account for the thins: for, as there were not lesa than 600,000 malea bom in me wilderneBs. it would imply that the clothes of the in&nt grew up with the increase of hie body to manhood, which would require a miracle to be continually wrought OD every thread, and on every particle of matter of which that thread was composed. And this is not all, it would imply that the clothes of the parent became miraculoualy laaenedt to fit the body of die child, wth -wboae growth they were again to stretch and grow, ic. No auch miraculouB interference was necessary.

Veree a A land qf uAeoJ, Acj On the aubject of thia verae I aholl introduce the following remarkai which I find in Mr. Harmer's Obaerrations uo die Fertility of (he Land of Judea, vol. iii. p. 243.,

" Haaselqaist telU ua that ho ate olives at Joppa, (upoa Ins first arrival in die Holy Land) which were said to grow on the mount of Olives, near Jenualem; and that, independent of their oilinaat, they were of the beat Wnd he h»d 465 ^ I

9 A land wherein thou shalt eat brea<] without ocarceaess, thou ehalt not lack any thing' in it; a land ' whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

tuted ID the Levant. An olivea are frequentlj eateo in dteir reputs, the delic&c^ of thifl fruit in Judea ought not to be forgotten; and the oil that is gotten from tbeoe treei^ much 1m&, be«uiM atill mon often mado use of. In the prograat of hia jowtwy^he found bbvvbI fins valea, abounding with oliTC-treea. He aaw alio olive-treu in Galilee; but none farther, he aays, than the mountain where it is ■Dppoeed our Lord preached hia sermon.

'*'TbeJlg-treta in the neighbourhood of Joppo, Haaselquiat goea on to inform ua, were aa bewitiliil ai any he hod aeen in Levant.

" The reason why ponugranateM are distinctly menttoned, in (hia descrijMion of the productions of the land of promise, may be, their great usenilneM in fbrmiiig cooling drinks: for mey are used among die Asiatics nearly in the MUne way that we use lemons, see voL ii. p. 146.

"Hont^ is used in laive quantities in these countries; and Egypt was eelabratsd Rw the assiduity with which (he people tbera maooged thur bees. Maillet'a account of it a very amusing. "There are,' says he, ' abundance of beea in that countrv, and a singular manner of feeding them, introduced by the Egyptians of ancient timei^ still contmues there. Toward the end of October, when the Nile, upon its decrease, gives the peasants an opportunity of sowing the lands, aait^oin is one of the first things sown, and one of the moat profitable. As the ITpper Egypt is hotter than the Lower, and the inundation there goes sooner off the lands, the eaiafotn ^ipeara there first. Tbe knowledge they have of thia, causes (hem to send (heir bee-hires from all ports of EgypL that the bees may enjoy, as ao<m as may be, the lichneas of the fiowera which grow in this port w ^ country BQoner than in any other district of the kinedom. Trie hive^ upon their arrival at the &rther end of Bgypt, are placed one upon another, in the form of pyramids, in boats prepared for their reception, after having been numberedV the people, who place them in llie ooats. The beea feed in the fields dure Tor some days: afterward, when it is believed they have nearly collected the htmsy and wax, which were to be found for two or three leagues around, diey cause the boats to go down the stream, two or three leagues lower, and leave them there, in like manner such a proporttmi of time as they think to be necessary for the

Stheriitg up the riches « that canton. At len«h, about t beginning of February, after having gone the whole lei^of Egyp^ th^arriva at the#ea, fiom whence they Are eooduciso, each of them to their usual place of abode. For they take care to set down exactly, in a register, each district from whence the hives were carried in die beginning of the season, their number, and the names of the persona that sent them, as welt as the number of the boats, where they are arranged according to the places they are brought firom. what is astonishing in this aAiir is, that with the (raateat fidelity of that can be imagined, each bee

Bnds its own hive, atid never makes any mistake. That which is still more amazing to me ia, that the Eg^lians of idd should be so attentive to all the advantages deducible fraai the situation of their country; that after having observed that all things came to maturity sooner in Upper ^ypt, much later in Lower, which made a difference ofabove six weeks between the two extremities of their country, diey dumriit collecting the wax and the honey, ■0 as to lose none m tfaem, and hit upon thia ingenious method of making the bees do it suecesaively, according to the blossoming of the flowers, and the arrangement of nature.' " If this solicitude were as ancient as the dwelling of Israel in Egypt, they must have been anxious to know, whether hoiutif, about which they took such care in Egypt, was plentifiil in the land of promiset and (hey must Mve been pleased to have been asm red it was. It continuea to be produced there in large quantidea: Hesselquiat, in the progress of his journey from Acra to Nazareth, tells us that he found "great numbers of bees bred there^iouts, to the great advantage of the inhobitanu." He odd^ " they make their beehives, with little trouble, of clay, four bet long, and half a foot in diameter, as in EgypL They lay ten or twelve of them one on another, on the bare ground and buiM over every ten a little roof." Mr. Haunwv) observing also many beea in Holy Land, lakes notice diat by (heir means, the moat barren places of that country, io other respecu become useful, perceiving in many places of the great salt-plain near Jericho, a smell of honey and wax as strcHU as if he had been in on apiary. By KusMquist'a account it appears that (ha Present

10 ■ When thou has eaten and art ftiU, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy Qod,'fbr th«|oodl

inhabitanisof Palestine are not strangers to the use irfhirca They are constiveied of venr different matenajs from om^ but just the same with the t^yptian hives. They seem u be an ancient contrivance { and indeed so simple an invaih lion must be supposed to be as old as the days of Hosa^ when arts, as appears from his writit^ of a much mors elevated nature, were known in Egypt. I caniwt then welt persuade myself to adopt that o^nioa of some of the learned, that those words of Hoses, in DeuL xxxii. 13. He made him to tuck honey out of Ae rock, and oil wut <lf the Jlmty roek, are to be understood of his '•*'*""t Ibraet to dwell in a oooniry where sonetimas thtgr M^At find hon^Hxonb in htdes of the nek. It is very pnamite that, in thai hot eouQtry.ibeseiitfeet^ when not taken due care of^ may get into hollow places of the rodcs, and lam combs there, as they aomatimes construct them in ours, io h<^w trees, thot^h I do not remember to have met with any traveller that has made such an observation. Bm, wwild this have been mentioned with so much triumph by - Hoses in this pUce 1 The quantities of honey prooueed after this manner could be but small, compared with ^ist would be collected in hives properly managed i wbaa found it must often cost a gratt deal of pains is get die honey out of dteae Httle cavities is the hard s(ons: and much the sreateat part most be abaohiiely lost to the infa^ bitants. Tris iaieqitatalion is the moce strange beanse when it is said in the next clause "and oil out of the flinty rook," it is evidently mrant, that they should ham oil produced in abundance by olive-trees growii^ on trntf roeks{ and conaequeotly me sucking honey out of (be rock should only mean their enjoying greaX quantities of honey, produced by bees that eollecled it from flown growing among the rocks; die rocky motrntains of this country, it is well known, produce an abundanee of aromatic plants proper for the purpose.

Nor doea As^>h,.in the dose of the eig*»ty-fir*» pnte, speak, I apprehend, at honey found in cavities «f rocks; nor yet is he there describing it aa collected from tba ad*. riferouB planta diat grow In the rocky hiils ttf ' tboss countries, if the reaifii^ of our present Hebrew eopiea he ri^t: but the prophet tells Israel, that had they bsm o^dient, God would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with the todt of honey would he have satiafied ibea: that is, with the mostdehcious wheat and with the ridMSt, most invigorating honey, in large quantities, both for eating, and makir^ agreeable drinfc. Its reviving, strengthening quality, appears in the story of Jonamai^ Snd's son,! Sam. xix. 27.; as the using the tena roakto^ntfr strength, Ac wpcars in a multiiude of pistes. T>«Todk of a amrrd, Psal. Ixxxix. 43. for the aagt^rf t&c aissnl^ in which its enetgy lies^ i% perhaps, as attangsan sapsas sion to western ears.

I shall have oeeaalob to apeak of the exoelkncy «f ihs grapta ol Jtidea in a aoeoeeding chaster; and I may bs diqiensed with as to the pursuing the fartbef examtnaiioB of the productions of thia country, upon giviiw my resder a remark of Dr. Shaw's to this purpose, " that U is impossible for pulse, wheat or gmin of any kind, to be ricfaar or better tasted, than what is sold at Jerusalem. Only it may not be unias to add, with respect to this camaj'm being well watered, that the depth bt«i iahom, spokeB of in thia passage, seems to mean reservoira of watsr, SIM by the rains of winter, and of great use to make dHsr lands fertile, as the second word nm^yn U&lotiak, seeaw » mean wells, or some such sort of conveoieneea, aofiptied by springs, and the first word, rvmn naharoUmk, nvns or running streama whether caiiying a lamer or antaUir body of water. What an important part of this plisiis» description, especially ia the ears of those that faai wandered near forty years in a moat diy and parched wilder ncss 1 I will onfy add, without entermg into pwtiniJsnL that the present faceof the country answers this desoiptian.

Vene 9. A land vJtow WOkss are wwn] Not catlw meaning that there were iron minea throughout the la&o, but diat the loose stones were strmgly imprcmatad with iron— ores of ibiamelal (die most usShl trfalluispcodaeM of the mfaarof fcmgtlom) beiof every whsrs u gial plenty.

Out^viheaehUUAottmayeftdigbraM] Aatbersis no such thinr in nature as a bra— mine, die word nsrra neduMhetfi, should be translated comtr; of which, hy the addition of die lofria ealamituiiM, ftrssa is lemm^ — Sse on Ezod. xzr. I-

Chid, in not keepioff his commandments, and hia jodnnentB, and his statutes, which I commaad

12 * Lest vken thou hast eaten and art rull, and hast built ^>odly houses, and dwelt therein^

13 And tcken thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy yold is multiplied, axn ail that thou hast is raaltipliedt

14 ^ Then thine heart be lined up, and thou • fbrset the Lou tfar Chid, which h-oiwht thee forth out of the Jand of Bgypt, from the house of bondage;

15 Who ''led thee through that great and terrible wilderness. ■ wJkerein were nery serpents, and aeorptons, and droagbt, where there was no water: ' who thought uiee lortli water out of the ro«k of flint;

16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with € manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he mi^it homble thee, and that be might prove thee. ^ to do thee good at thy latter end;

17 ■ And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mme hand hath gotten me this wealth.

18 Bttt thou shalt remember the Lobd thy God: ^ for tl tf he Uiat giveth thee power to get wealth, itliat he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, Baitit this day.

19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LwD-tby Clod, and wtdk after other Koda, and •enre ttkm^ and worship them, " I testify against you this day that ye shall sorely perish.

30 As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before voar ihee, ' so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voiee of the Loan your God.

HEAR, O Israel: Thou art to 'pass over Jprdan this day, to go m to poasess nations r greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and « fenced up to heaven:

2 A people great and tall, ' the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and </ wAom thoa haat heard soy, Who can stiuid before the ^Odren of Anakt

3 Understand therefore this day. that the Loan thy God is he which * goeth over belbre thee; at a > consuming fire <■ he shall destroy them.

Tsrss 16. W>M Ud Ike* Ikrmtfh ItuU—UrribU vUtUriMssI Sea dn account of their loumsying in the notes on boo. zvi 1, &C. Numb. zxL AC.

#\<ry ttrpmU] Serpent*, whoao trite occaeioDad a BMMt violoat infliimmitlion, Meompanied with an unqoSBchable Mrtt; and which ttrmutaled in death. Sea on Numb. xxi. S.

VsraelS. Gad-^ittlhaM p&iMr ta gavtatai Who asssng the rioh and wealthy believaa this aayingf Who givca wiadom, undeniandkiff, abill, bodily Krength, and Eeslthi la it not Oodi Aod without thaae how oan wealth faa ae^iirad 7 TVhoie is providence I Who gives itrtiUgr to the earth t And who brings every proper purpssetoarigfatisHiel laitnotOodl And widuxu Qteaa also can wealth be aMuirad 1 No. Then the propoaitiMi iadu Mtt iaaBir-avidimii it is God diat gfveui pow to gnt iMsttft— and to Ood die wealthy nun mtist aeeoent fer na naiuter in which he ha« ttpttded tfaa rtdtea iriiidt

Verse 1. T%ou art to poM oa<r Jordan tUt day] am kaj/oTo, tkit tinui ihty had cone, Odrtif-eijfht yeara Wore thi% nsarly to iha nirga of dM promiaed laifd, bat vera

and he shall bring them down before thy Ihce; so shall thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord halh said unto thee.

4 " Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brou^t me in to possess this land: but 'for the wickedness of tbeec nations the Lord doth drive them out from belbre thee.

5 Not for thy righteousncea, or for the uprightness of ihlne heart, dost thou go to possest their land: but for the wickedness of theee nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, aiid that he may perform 'the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand tberefbre, that the Lord thj God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art ' a stiff-necked people.

7 T Remember, and forget not, how thou provokeost the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: ^ from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, untU ye came unto this place, ve have been rebellious against the Lobo.

8 Auo ' in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, 8o that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9 * When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then * I abode in the mount forty days and Jorty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water r

10 'And the Lobd deitvered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to ail the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, ' In the day of thv assembly.

11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables orstone, «pen the tables of the covenant

12 And the Lord said unto me, ^ Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast l»^ught forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves •* they ere ' quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded thm i they have made them a molten image.

14 ' Let me alone that I may destroy them, and "blot out their name from under heaven:

not pennined. at that day, or time, to paaa over, beeauaa of their rebetliona; but tM» time they ahatl certainly paaa over, "niia wae apokeo about the tletentk month of iha farHtOijw of their journeying i and il was on the first monih of the following year they paaaed over t aod duriag tfaia interim Hoaea died.

Yerae 6. Fitr the wickediun of AeM natitmt} So the* it was not by any tovertign act of Ood that tbaae paopla were cast out; Mt lor their wMadiuat-'they had trana* rreaaed the law of their Creator— they bad retlated his spirit and could no longer be loleiated. The laraelitaa were to poeaeM thair wid, not becauae they deaerved i^ but ftrat, becauae ihey were Ut* wicked than the otbera i and aecondly, becauae Ood thua choae lo btfin the great workofhtaaalvationamon^meo. Thua (hen the Cinwmitet were cut oW, and the braeUta, irerc grafltd m — and the AroaNfej', Moauae of their wiekednea% were aftarward ewf f^and the QmtUet mt^lAf In— let the lalM- not ba high-minded, but fear; l(f aod tpartd nst the nofurol brattdua. take kttd lett hi tpart not Ihet.

Terae 12. T^y Mopfe— AoM eom^ifeff ihamaehraa] Debaaed themaelvea by making and wonh^vinv mi Egj^tiaa idol. See on Esod. xsxii.

•.and I will make of thee a nation mightier anfl greater than they.

15 pSo I turned and came down from the mount, and "> the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant -were in my two hands.

16 And ""T looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lohd your God, ana had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickie out of the way which the Lobd had commanded you.

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

IS And I 'fell down before the Lord, as at the firat: forty days and forty nighta: I did neither cat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sina which ye sinned, in doii^ wickedly in the Right of the Lord, to provoke nim to anger.

19 'For I was afraid of the anger anohot displeasure, wherewith the Lohd was wroth against you to destroy you. " But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

20 And tlie Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21 And • I look your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and grouiid it very smaJI, even until it was as ■maU as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

23 And at • Taberah, and at 'MasBah, and at ' Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lobd to wrath.

23 Likewise ' when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnca, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you: then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lobd your God; and * ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

24 0 Ye have been rebelUoos against the Lord front the day that I knew you.

25 ■ Thus 1 fell down before the Lord, forty i&ya and forty nights, aa I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

26 I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord Goo, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, whi<^ thou haxt redeemed through thy greatness; which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighpr hand.

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, lenac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

28 Lest • the land whence thou broughtest ns out, say, ' Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

29 » Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy ^mighty power and by thy Btretched-out arm.

' Yene 37. Rmemher tky aertmt; Abraham, hatu, and Jacob] As if hehsdnid: "TbeM an their desc«ndanlsi tad the oovarauit wna nad« vidi thoH patriarchB in behftlf of diese." God bosUnra maiw bissmnga on compMvtively wordiiMS peraona, either for the sake of their piMU anceatora, or ob account of the religioua people vilh whom they are eonaeetad: therefore union widi the diurch of (SodkabteMingof neeommonnuffnitude. The reader will fiiMi ihe grand aahjeet sf thia oi^Ker explained at largs In the^oiea on Exod. xxzi. and uidi. to wUeh he ia partieulariy desired to refer.

yoraa I. Htvtiue two bAUn^aimu} Sss tlis aolea on Exod. xxxiv. 1.

Ll"- Lirk.il-S. Th.- Imd.u-. JuTiTjiTTfWNn Htmlti in i— l.m 1. n. uirl fMtaihrnciiel'wii.-ix^aA.miid.'MiaM.I. jttUiIttiMlMa Ulr lliir oi fur ilx pUTur o( ijit unrliivr, i.S. Ilov ImMm Hu^

like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and ' make tliee an axK of wood.

2 And I will write on the tables, the words that were in the Rrst tables which thou tvakedst^ and I thou shalt put them in the ark.

3 And I made an ark OC "> shittim wood, and " hewed two tables of stooe, like onto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

4 And * he wrote on the two tables, according to the first writing, the ten f commandmentc 1 which the Lord spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire * in the day of the assembly: and the Lord save them unto me.

5 And I turned myself, and ■ came down frosa the mount, and ' put the tables in the ark which I had made; " and there they be, as Uie Lena commanded me.

6 ^ And the children of Israel look their join<- ney, from Beeroth *of the children of Jaakan, to * Moserah: ' there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Bleazar his son ministered ia the priest's office in his steed.

7 y From thence they journeyed tmto Gudgodah; and fVom Gndgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters,

8 If At that time * the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, ■ to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, » to stand before the LoBO, to nvnister unto him, and ^ to bless his name unto

9 <■ Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his br^ren, the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lobd thy God promised

10 IT And I • staved in the mount, n»;cHrding to the ' first time, forty days and fbrty nignta; and s the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would notdestnnr thee.

11 '■And the Lord said to me. Arise, * take. thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware lutD their fathers to give unto them,

IS IT And now, Israel, ^what doih the Low thy God require of thee, but i to fear the L>o<u> thy God, " to walk in his ways, and ■ to love bim, and to serve the Lord thy God with all ilty heart and with all thy souL

13 To keep the commandments of the Loan, and his statntes, whif h I command thee this day ° for thy ^ood?

Verae 6. Aitd Ou children vf leraet took their JemmtK &cj On this, and tf» three following veraes, cee Kamf coir* remarka at the of thia tdiapter.

Verae IZ Now, Israel, -what doth the Lord — reyitirt ^ Hue] An answer ia immediately given. God ramirea,

2. "Thai ye walk in all kit vaye; that having received hia precept% jOJ of which are good and exceUent, ye obey the whole; walking in God'a ways, not your owB| nor ia the inwa of the people oi the land.

3. rniatye love him, have confidence in him aa yoor ft* ther and Iriend, have recourse to him in all your aessMitk^ and love him in return for bis love.

t4 Behold, vthe hearen, and the heaven of heavens i« the Lord's thy God, ■> the earth atso, with all that therein i».

15 ' Only the Loro had a delight in thy fathers to foTB them, and he chose their seed after them, even you shove all people, as it is

16 Circumoise therefore ■ the foreskin of your lieart, and be no more * stiff-necked.

17 For the Lord your Ood ia ■ Qod of gods, and 'Lord of lords, a great God, "a mighty, and a terrible, which 'regard^th not persons, nor taketh reward:

18 ' He doth exeoote the judgment of the fahe reouirea; perfbrmine ft with aXl thy heart, the whole of Af unetiont; Bnd.wiui «dl thy totU, thy will, undemasdiag, ani judgment. In • word, putting forth ihv whole Tengih Kod energy of body «nd muI' to the wered work.

Tene 14. Bduta, th» Aeavnt) and (ftc hiatat <^ Aeo. iwu] All tbeae wonle io Ihe wiginal, are in Uie plural number: i=r>evn D^ovn jn A^AtMibAamayinHuWiemey ha^i^iamayim s hthaid, tht hao^mt ana Uu Ami- WiM qf heatena; but whu do they mesa? To lay ihu die ftnt meana the atntosphsre, the teoond the planetary syfttCD), and the third the region of the UesMd, is aaying MM venr little ia the way of explnnMioB, The word* were prabalify iaiended to point oat the immoin^ of Qod'a erettion, in whidt we may readily eonceiTa one mtem of heavenlf bodies and others boyond them, aud otfien still in endleaa prograosion, through the whole vortex of apaoe I Rvery atar in the Taat abyas of aalun being a attn, with its peculiar and numflnus attendant worMs. Urns then be ■yateniB of. syatans, in anflsBa gmdstios, up totl» throne of God.

Verse 16. Ofmmieaas— Ma AreaUn^yoiirikearf] A plain proof from Ood bimaell that dda preeept pomted out qnntiial thinn; and that it waa not tM et^nin^ aftsay a part ^ the JIm, ttwt was tlM obieet of the divine eommandment, but die ptarijkation ^ Ma aotd; without which sit ftnns and ceremonies are of no avail. Loving Ood with all the heart, aoul, ntiBd, and atrength, the heart being circumcised td enable diein w do it; was, from the beginning, the end, deaign, and folfilment of (he whole law.

Verse 17. Ood qf gwb, amd Lord qf IotiIm] That is, he ia the source whence oil beiiig and power proceed: Wfry agent is finite bat himself; and he can counteract, suspendT or deairoy aH the actiona of sll creaturea, whensoever he pleaeea. If he determine to aave, none can destroy 1 if he purpose to deatrov, none can aave. How absolutely nec^aary to have aut^ a God for our friend I

A rrtat Chd — mighty\ lam Sto Ao-el Ao-giUor, Iht tnigftty Oodt this ia the very title that ia given to oar blMed Lord and Saviour, Isai, ix. 6.

Verae 21. He ia tiiy praite] It ia on eternal hoiKur to ony aoul to be in the Ihendahip of Ood. Why are people nahamed of being thought rehgioua l Becsoae they know TK)(hiogof religion, nt who knowa hia Maker may glory in his God — for without him, what has any soul but diagrae^ p^n, ahame, and perdition I How strange is it that Those who fear God ahould be ashamed to own it; while sinners boldlyproclaiin their relationship to £Luaa I

Verae 22. With three$eore and ten p«reoiu\ And now, from so imall a lieginning they were multiplied to more «han 600,000 sonlai and this indeed in the apace of 40 yeora; for the 603,000 which came out of Egypt, were at ihis tine all dead, bat Mokm, Joriioa, and Cueb. Hew essHy ess Ood increaae and multiply, and how eoaily dimi- -nuh attd briiw low I In all things, because of hia unliniMd power, he tan do whatsoever 1m wUL And he vttt Jo whataoever is WgA/.

Oir a very importoat sufeject in tbia dimpter. Dr. Esanicott has the foltowing padicioua obaervationa.

" Ite book of /)tu/eron«Siy con taina the aeveral apeefihea nade to tfn Israelites by Hosel^ just before hia desdi; recqiitalatisg the chief nroomaaweas of their Usioiy, from Ibeir delivnttiws out of Egypt, lo dwir arrival on the banks of Jordan. What in diia Mok he hsa reeorded, aa tnokm, wfll be beat understood by oonparisg h with what oe haa recorded, as tfoiw, in (be previous hwtorr; and this, whish Is very useful as to Ois adMr|«rtse( ads book, ia absolotely necesaaiy, sstoibepsnor dHtsnth^tepMrbessto bt consideied.

'*The prsvkma eireonwUnMos ct lbs history neeasasry lobe here sBandsd to, sie ihew: la JEcsA cbi^k sx. Ood speaks lbs Im eesuDsadBWMh b ch^fc niv. Moma, oo

therless and widow, and loveth the Btranger, in

giving him food and raimont.

19 'Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were Btrangers in the land of Egypt.

20 ' Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; hun shuh thou serve, and to him sliatt thou cleave, « and swear by his name.

21 ' He is thy praise, and he is thy God, • that hath done for thee these great and terrible thingis, which thine eves Imve seeiL

23 Thy fittbere went down into Egypt 'with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee 'as the stars of the b^ven for multitude.

mount Sinai, receives the two tablet; antl is there 40 days and nights. In chaps, xxv. xxvi. xzvii. God apnoioiji the service of the tabernacle. In ixviii. separatee Aaron and hia sons, for the prieat'e office; by a statute for ever, to htm and his seed after him. In xzxii. Moses, incenaed at the golden cal^ breaka die t^les; yet he preva for the people t and Ood orders him to lead them toweru Canaan. In xxxiv. Moses carriea gp tieo other tablet, and slavs again 40 daya and nighta. In Numb. chap. iii. the tribe of Levi aelected; viii. consecrated; z. and xi. the Isnielilea march from Sinai, on the tventielk day of the aeamd month in the aaeond yw. In xiii. apiea sent. In xiv. the men are aoatenoed to die in lbs wilderneao during the 40 years. Id xviii. the Leviles are to have no lot nor large district, in Canaan; but to be the Lord's inheritance. In XX. Aaron dies on mount Hor. Lastly, in the complete catalogue of the whole march (chap, xxziii.) we are told, that tMy went from Moetroth to Bene-jaakan; tltenee to Bor-hagidgad I to Jotbaihah; to Ebrmah; to Ezian.- B^^t lo 2tn, (which ia Kadeeh) and thence to mount Bsr i vbsfs Auoa died, in the fmiMh and last year. In I>eat. ix. Hoses tells the Jsrselttea (ver. 7.) that ihey liad been cebela^ from Egyot even to Jordan; particulerly at Horeb— (ver. 8 — 29.) whilathe was with Ood, and received the tablea at the end of 40 days and nighta — end that, afier breaking the tablea, be faaied and interceded for his brethren, during a sectwf period of 40 daya and nighta — and this ninth ehoiHsr ends wUb the prayer which w then msde. Chaptsr ibetoiAbq^ thus: MOuU time the Lord aaid itnto ma, He» Out Pm bMe* qf etone, like unto thejir^ and come tfp^ &c. And from ver. 1. to Ihe end of ver. 5. ha describes the eeeond copy of the ten commandtneats; ss written also by God, and deposited by himself in the ark.

" AfW this we have now four verses (6, 7, 8, and 9,) which not only have no kind of coni>exion wiih the verses before and after them; but alao, as they stand in the present Hebrew text, directly contradict that very text: uul the tioo first of these verses have not, in our Hd>rew Text, the leavt connexion with the Ivo lost of lliem. Our Hebrew text (ver. 6.) says, that Israel journeyed J'rom Bene-jaakan to Moaerah. Whereas that very text, ia the complete catalogue (Numb, xxxiii. 31.) says, they ^cuiDeym J'rom Mbaeroth to Bau-jaaican. Again: Aaron IS here said to have died at Moaerah; whereas he died on mount Bor, the sMenA atolion afterward: see Numb, xxxiii. 38. And again, they are here aoid to go from Beno-jaaJtan to Moeerah; thence to Qudgodah; and thence 10 Jothath! whereaa the complete catalogue aays, Moaerah to Bene-jaakan; thence to Hor-hagidrad / and theoce to Jotbathah. BuL if the marches could possibly be true, aa they now atond in theae ttfw verees; yet what connexion can there be between Jotbath, and Ibe bxpakanoM or THS TusB of uevi 1 It is very baffy that these aeveral difficulties in die Hebrew text, arc removed by tbe SAHABrruf Pentateuch. For text tells us here rightly, that the march waa from Moaerolh to Bene-jaakan i to Hagidgady to Joibalhah, to Ebronah,, to EziongAer, to Zin, (which ia fiuleaA) and thence to mount Hot, where Aaron died. Again: aa the regular deduction of theae stations enda wiih mount Hor, and Aaron's daaihs we have then, what we had not buiiire, • regular oonaaxion with the tioo next versesi and Ibe oonnexion is ihia — Tbht when Aaron, the aoo of Amram, the aon of KahaOif tbe son of Lsvi died: neither the tribe qf Leoi. nor the prieathoad, waa deaertsd. But Ood still aupportsd the latter, by maintaining the former: and diia, not oy aj< lotting that tribe any one lorse part of Canaan, but aepsr rste cities among the other tribes; and by allowtDg them to live upon tboae offeriui^ which wm nsds by tbs other tribes to Ood hisualb Umbo fimr verses dienfiMfc 7, 8, sod 9;) 10 tbs sosaa text, slsnd Uuis: (ver. &)

2 And know ye this day: i'or I tpeak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen ^ the chaatisement of the Lord your God, ihis greatnesB, "his mighty hand, and his stretched-out arm,

3 "And bis miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

Wrss Ou ehUdrm qf /trad jourruyed from Moaemth, Wkd encamped in Btne-jaakan,* from theooe they journeyed and encamped ai Hagidead; from thence they journey ed and encamped to Jotbai/uth, a land of riven of water: (7.) from thence they joumeyed and enoomped in Bbronah; in Ezion-gtber; in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadeah; and then at mount Hart And Aabon dixd TBXBK, and then ke imu buriedi and EUaxar hi» mm, mintMtered aa priut in hit stead. (8L) Al that tinte,-lht ZiOTd RAP aeparated the tribe of Lai, to bear the ark iff the cotcnant qf the Lord, to atand before the Lord, to minister unto him, andtobUaainhisnameMTUothitaat/. (9.) Wherefore Levi hath no part, nor inherHanee, with hit brelhrm; the Lord it hit ivherUanee, according at the Lord Oaf God promiaed him. But however eonsiateni these /(wr verses are now widi themselves, it will be still demanded, v^iat connexion have thc^ with the Jlflh verse be^yre them; and with the tetiOv verse q/br them 1 I confess I cannot dtsoover their least pertinency here: because AaxoVb beatr, and Levi's skfautioit, seem totally foreign to the speech of Hoses in this place. And this speech mAout theaejatr verses is a regularly eooneeiea admonition from Hmm. to this purpose — thai his were for ever to consider themselves as indebted to him, under God, for the renewal of the too tables; and also to. his intercession, for rescuing them from deslniotiotL The words are these: (x. 4.) The Lord wrote agai)^ the ten commandmaita, and gave them tmio me. (5.) And I came down from the mmmt, and put the tabUa in the ark, which I had made. (10.) TTitw J tlaid in the mount according to the firtt time, 40 dayt and 40 nigUa: and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time atao s the Lord tpoutd not destroy thee. (U.) And the Lord aaid unto me, aritt, lake thy Journey before the people, that they may go in and poatet* Ihelana, Ac

"But dien, if these Jinir verses were not, at Arat, a part «f this diapter, but are evidently iMerpolaKd: there artsea another inquiry. Whether they ara am tnsertibn mOreif tpurimut or a gmuine part m Ae Sberad Text, Mougn Temo9td hither out <^ tome other dutpttr. As they eontain nothing singular or peculiar, are of no psirtieular importance, and relate to oo subject of disputation, they are not likely to have arisea from fraud or desien; but perfectly coinciding in sense with other passages, tn^ may safely be conaidered as another iostaim of a large traaBpoaition [8S words] in the present text, arising from accident and want of care. Ana the only remaining question therefore ii, Whdher we can diaeaeer, though not to demonstration, yet with any considerable degree of jtrobabiiily, the original place Of these four verses: that so they may be at last rertored to that neighbourhood and connexion, from which tbw have been, for so many ages, separated.

"It was natural for Moses, m the course of these seversd meches to his brethren, in DetUeranomy, to embrace the bat qpportonity of impresaii^ on their memories, a matter of such particular tmporlaitce, at the eonOmuUion qf the priealhood among the LeriUea,aJlerAaron'a death. Aitd the first proper place seems to be in the aoeond chapter, after the^rsf verse. Atchap.i. 19. he speaks of their march from 'Boreb to Kadeah-barnea, whence they sent die spies into Canaan. He then seu forth their murmurings, and Gtod's sentence, that they should die in the wiMemess: and he ends the first chapter'with their being cfe/ialctffty tte Amoritea, their twepfng b^ore the Lord, and abiding many daw In Eadml wfaieh is EAiNWHAunjL, Bear Caaaaa.

4 And what he did unto the army aT Egni, unto their horses, and to their cbariota; "now he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued aller you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto thU day;

5 And what he did unto you in the wiraeraeat, until ye came unto this place;

6 And f what he did onto Dathan and AUram, the sons of Eliah, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her moatfa, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tent*, and all the « anbetance that ' was in their poaeession in the midst of all Israel:

7 But * yotir eye* have seen all the great acta of the Lord which he did.

S Therefore shall ye keep all the commaiidmenta which I command you thia d^, that ye may ' be strong, and go in and posaeBS the land, whither ye go to poaaeaa it;

9^ And " that ye may prolong your daya in the land, ' which the Loan aware unto your fathers

"Chap. 2d begins thus t—T^hen we temsti andlooJromr }0«mey uUo ^ witfsmsss by th« tsoy ^ the Red mo, as the Lord apaie unto ma: aikd w> coMVAMao mouxt Sna HAKT DATS. Now, tfao many days, or long time, wfaicli tbej sprat in eompaating mount Sctr, that is^ going round on the touihwttt coasts of Sdom, in order to proceed Twrthea^ from Edom, throu^ MeKtb to AntoR, must inclnds teteral of tbe^r stations t besides that eminent ooe at mount Bar, where Aarvn diad. And as pan of their nod, during thia long compass, Itif throng Exion-geber, (which was on l£e eastern lor^aa of the Red sea, sjh ths aoulh boundary <tf Edom }) tfaenee to SSiti, (whicn is Ea- DSsn, diat is, Mff*" Kadmh) and tbenee to mount Hor, as they marched to the northeast: so it is probable, thai the five stations preceding that of Exiwgaher, were oo the extremity of mount Stir, to the soumscsf. Aad if their first station at entering the southwest borders of Edom, and beginning to compaaa mount Stir, was lUooerotk, this gives the reason waotsd, why Moses begins thia pasMgs at AfeserofA, and ends -it wini Aaron's death at mount Hot, And this will diaeover a vtoftr eoimexioa between the four dislocated verses, and tns context here. — DeuL i. 4& <& y< abodo in Sadetk (BameiO mmmgdaift. ii. I. TTien w« turned and took our journey into au wUdtntaia by the way iff the Bed tea; at the Lord tpai* unto mti and wm coMPAsnD jtovirT Sna many sAva.

J'br the ehUdren 1^ bradjoumntd from MaoeroA, and pitdtad in Ban4-jaakan ifrom theme they journeyed and pitched in Bagidgad: Jrom thence Buy Joumrytd and piidud in Jothatnaih, a land of river* ^ watar from thence Ouy journeyed and pUdud in Ebronah fromlheace th^ journeyed and vitdud in B'ii'^'gebtr from thence Oiey journeuad. and piidud %» the wUderneaa of SUn, imtak is itadeah.- from thence Ouy journeyed and piidud in tnount Hor, and Aaron died tiura, tttia there ha waa buried I and Bliazar hit ten miniwiored a» prittt in hit ttoad. Ai that lime tiu Lord had t^araUd the tribe qfLttit to bear Uu ark ^ the ttvtnmnt ^ the Lard, to atand t^re As I^ord to wiimUter mis him, and to bleat in kit name unto thit dam. Whir*- forLL&vihathnopartnorinkeFtlamaeiBiAmabrtlhrmt Ike Lord it hit imheritanot, aecording aa the Lord tky Chdpromieedhian,

"And this paragn^ being thus finished, at the end of the first verse, the seeood verse begin* a new paragnjii^ thoa: Aiuf tte Lord opaJc* unto mt, toying. Ye Jws* eoM^osserf Ais *M«afate fong enoug*; turn you; wont— through the east side of Seir (or Edom) ir Hoab on the north.— See vwaos 4, 5^ 6, 7, 8."— J cotft Remarkt, p. 74. These remarics riumld aot be faastilr reiseted,

^OTES ON CBAPTOR XI. Versa 1. TTwu thall love the Lord] Because wiibfU this there could be no obedianee to the divine teatiiMais^ and no happiness in the souli for the heart that is dssiimia of the love <if God, is empty of aQ good, and oonM^Mady miserable. — See the note on chap, x 1%

Verse 8. Therefrre akalt ye hetp all Che eommamdmsfUs] Because Qod can execute suob t«ribla jodgmsDlsi and because he has given such proofs of his power ana justioe; and beoausa, in similar provocatiaD^ be nay be axpedsd to aotiaaaimilar way, thcrcfcaakaap hiachaiyt that he nay keep you unto evarlaaiiag liis.

10 1[ For the land, whither thou goest in to pewesfa it, U oot m the land of Egrpt, wtience ym came out, ' wbere thou lowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

11 ' But the land, whither yc go tojwweHS it, w-a land of hilU and vaUeys, ana drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

12 A land which the Low> thy God » «areth for; • the eyes of the Lord tby God ore always upon it, from the begumioe of tbe year even unto the end of the year.

13 IT And it ahall come to pass, if ye ahall hearken dilij^ently unto say cgonmandmenta which I command you thie da/. *to love the Lob* your God, and to eerve tum with all your heart and with all your soul.

14 That ■* I wiU j?ive you the raiaof yow land in his due season, * the first rwn and the latter rain, ^t thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oiL

• 15 ' And I will « aeod grass in thr fields for tbv cattle, that thou mayest >> eat and be Aill.

16 Take heed to yourselves, < Uiat youc heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, ojid * scave other rods, and woranip them;

17 And then Uhe Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he " shut up the heaven, that t&ere be no rain, end that the land yidd net her fruit; and lett ■ ye perish quickly from off the good Uuid which the Loan giveth you.

18 If Therefore « shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in floor soul, and ' bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may he as frontlets between yoor eyea.

19 '•Aad ye shall teach thun^our children, speaking of them when thou utteat in thine bouHe, nod iHien tium walkest by the way,

V«ne 10. Wateradtl it vUk Oiy /oof] Rata BCarccly ever Iklla in Egypt; and God auppliu the lack of it by the inundatioiM of the Nile. In oroer to water the giounde vbera the inundaiiooi do not extend, water ii oolleoted in pooda, aad dtrecled in atreainiets to difierent psrta of ibo ncM iriiere irrigation ia oecMSuy. It ia no uouaual thing in the esat, to see a man, widi a amall mattock, makinr a little trench for the water to run by, and aa he opens (he paaaage, the water foUowincj be uaea hia foot to raise up the mould againat the aide m thia little cbanoel, to prevent the water Crwa being ahed unnecaaaarily, before it readiea the place of ita deatiuation. Tiou be may be aaid to water the cnxtnd with hia foot. See aeveral useful obaervatiooa no uiia subfect ia Mr. Bamur, vol. i. p. ^^26. and vol. iii. p. 411. Bat after all, the expreaaioI^ vattritvUh Vty foot, may mean AO more than doins it by labour: for aa in the laad of ^ypt there ia acaroe^ any ram, the watering of ^ardena, &c. must have been all artiflciaL But iji Judea i[ was different, aa there t^<y had their proper aeasooa of rain. The compound word Vru htregtl, with, vnder, or by ihe foot, is used to signify any thing under the ^wer, authority, etc of a person: and thia very meaning It has in the aizth verse, all the tuk*tance that wu in lAair poaaeaaton, i% liierally, all the subatance that waa undtr their Ibei, Bn<Sra htngUtyhemt that ia. in ibeir power, pameMion. or what they had acquired by (heir loAtnir.

Verse 14. The rain — in hi* due aeaton, ihe Jlrii rain and the tatter rain} By the Srtt or former ravn, we are to nndentand that which (ell in Judea about Pf ovember, when tbey sowed their aeed, sod thia served to moisten and prepare the ground for the ventatioo of the seed. The Jaffer ra*a ftU about April, when the oom waa well grown np^ and served to fill the ear^ and rmder them phin^ and psrfect Rain rarely fell in Judea at any other season, dian these. If theyifrmer rain were withheld, or not sent in due aeason, there could be no ve^tation: if the UMer rain were withheld, or not aent in its due seasoo, there Gpold be no full com in Ihe ear, and consequently no harvest. Of what consequence men was it that ih^ should have their rain in due tea$ml Ood, by promiauw thia, pravided they were obedient, and threatemng to withhold itsboald thsybedisobediant,abow^ lhatitiaaotageiwai pnsitimM loet diMctatheae thin^—^iitt that dw very w

30 And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

21 That *your days may be muTtiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lopn sware unto your&thers to give them, ' aa the days of h^v«n upon the earth.

22 T ^or if <■ ye shall diligently keep all these comnuuidments which I command you, to do them, to love the Loao your God, to walk in all hlB ways, and ' to cleave imto him;

23 Then will the Lord "drive oat all these nations from before you, and ye shall ' possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

24 ' Every place whereon tiie soles of yonr feet shall treed, shall be yours } ■ from the wKderiwss and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

25 ■ There shall no man be able to stand before you: fir die Loan your God shall >> lay the fear of you and the dread of you, upon alt the land that ye shall tread upon, ' as he hath said umoypu.

36 IT Behold, I set before you this day a Measiocand a curse;

S7 ■ A Messing,' ifye obey the eommandmentfl of the LojtD your God, which I command you this day;

88 Aiid a curse if ye will not obey the oommandmei^ of the Loiui your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you diis day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

29 And it Blmll come to pass when the Lord thy God hath brought thee m unto lAe land whither thou goeet to possess it, that thou shalt pot ' the Messing upon monot Gerizim, and the curse upon mooot Ebal.

of heaven &na by parliettJar direction, aad ths ahowsrs are regulated bf an etpedat Providence.

Verse 24. JVoM ihe rtMr] Euphrates, whidi was OB: the eoi^ to the uttemmt mo, the Hedimvanean, whidi lay mattBard of the promiMd land. This promise, notwtthatanding the many provocations of the laraelitea, waa fulfilled in the time of Solomon, for "he reigned oyer all the kmsra A-om the river (Euphratca) even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt." See 3 Cbmn. ix. 26. — See the note on Humb. xxjtiv. 12.

Verae Z6. Bdiold, I nt b^ore you — a blading and a atree] If Ood had not put it ma pmaer of ihia peopls either to obey or di»betf t if Ae>y had not had a frio vtU over which they had complete auihoriiy, to uae it eiAer in the way of itiliing or niUinf, coon God, with any proprie^, have given auch precepts as these, sanetioned wito such promisee and ihretUemn^'? If they were not' free agent* they could oot be pumaAad for dieobeditnoef nor could they, in any sense of the word, have b6ea rf wardabte for obedience. A aroits ia not rtioardable, because in obedience to the laws of graoitatim, it o^im^ iendt to Oie centre; iwr ia it punitMUa^ because in being removed from that centre, in ita tending or falling (owsM it again, it taltea away the life of a man.

That God has given man a free, uff -determining will, which cannot be forced bv any power but that whieh is omnipotent and which Gfod himaelf neeer leiU force, is declared in the ntoel formal manner through the whole of the Saered Writings. No argument can affect diia, whila the Bible is considmdss a divine revclMioo! aoaefMafry can ezphun away iM evEdencei aa long as ths aeemaitahtt neee of man for his conduct ia adnmed i and as lowv the eternal bounds of moral goed uid evil reiaain, ana the eeeential diatinetume between vice and viriue cziat. If ye wttf obey (for God ia«ver *taiym asaiat) ye rtiall livat if ye teili disobey, aad refuse that help, jt mil die. So ham Jehovah spokeiy and man eannol reverse it.

Verse 29. 7%m ihatt put Ihe Maaafar man moumt Oerizim^ and Ihe mrae tipon motmt Bbal.} The ctymol- «7 of these nsnwa may be sinipoaBd 10 east snne li^ on iSa institution, bktu gwimim, tram ru goroa^ to mi—

' SO Are they not on the other side Jordan, hy

the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over agairiet Gilgal, >■ beeide the plains of Moreh 1

31 ' For ye eholl pasB over Jordan to go in to pOBseaB the land which the Lobd your God giveth you, and ve shall poesesa it, and dwell theriq.

32 And ye shatl observe ^ to do all the statutes ud judgments, which I set before you. this day.

■^■LULLii'Bkni, la AIL illtn tlbUlt rtlaf faitBlBa, Irdllhr IjIvJ luul t. llund S^i&MB, Ub wDiia -4 Owl,

^'E^'* * rpHESB lare the statutes and X judgmentB, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord Qod of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that relive upon the earth.

2 "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall ■^poBBess served their gods, f upon the high mountains, and upon the nills, and under fevery green tree:

3 And lye shall ' overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire: and ye shall hew down the graven images of their godjst and destroy the names of them out of that place.

4 IT ■ Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your

5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall <■ cbooee, out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation snail ye 9eek, and thither thou shall come:

6 And ■ thither ye sbfdl bring jour barnt-offerings, and yotlr sacrifices, and your * tithes, and

beave-ofierings of yodr hand, and your vow«, and your free-will-^fferjngs. and the HrsUiogsof your herds and of your fiocks-

7 And « there ye sbaU eat betbre the Lord your God, and ' ye shall rejoice in all timt *• put your hand unto, ye ana vour houseboldi, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

8 Ye shall not do afler all the tluitg* that we do here this day, r every man whiUaoever if right in his ovm eyee.

9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth yoq.

10 But tohen * yejgo over Jordan, aod dwell in the land «duch the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you restTrom all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in saietv;

1 1 Then there shall be ■ a place which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring ail that I comnmnd you; your' bumt-onerings, and yow sacriQces, your tithes and the heave-offeriiig Of your hand, and all ^ your dioice Towa which ye vow unto the Lord: *

12 And * ye shall rejoice befm-e the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-Bervants, and the Levite that is within yoar gates: forasmuch, as ' he hath no part nor uthentance with you.

13 * Take heed to thyself that thou ofier not thy bnrnt-ofierings in every place that thou seest;

14 ' But in the place wtiich the Lord shall choose in one of tny tribes, tiiere thou shalt of&r thy burnt-ofieringB, and there thou ahalt do all that I commaiid thee.

15 It Notwithstanding 'thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to whatsoever thy soul Insteth after, according to the blessing of the htmo thy GJod which be bath giveo thee: ^ the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, I as of the roebuck, and as of the nart.

cut ttff—aU d&ten — ber»c« anti gn-ixim, the cutUrt tUnen, JeUcT*, and TMpsn Of Karv t»i-m«n — thin mounUun being supposed to have its came from il> great fertiHty, or die abundance of the crcrpa it yielded, which is a poMime oaae.

tbal, or tybal, the root is not found in Hebrev; but in Arabic dbida, rignifiea rough, ragged, eurUd, Ac, and Jl^F abalo, from the same root, m^ifus vAUt «tonu; aiid a wmrUain in which siich stonea are found, di^syf olataftf, tlu ntoutUafn qf lahSie «ton<*.— See Qi^givM ana Qoliua. And as it ia aupposed that the mountain nad diia ' name becwise of its barrmiuu, on this metaphorical fnterpretation, tlie nnac of the paaaage would appear to be the foUovin^: — God will bo Euperintend the land, and have it continually under the eye of hia watchful povidence, that no change can happen in it, but according to bis divine counael; so that its JtrtilUy shall ever he the oooaequence of the faitl^tU obmUnee of its inhabitants; and a proof of the bleaaing nf Ood upon it. On the contrary, Its barren nat ifaall be a proof that the people have eUparttd from their God: and that his cum hea, in eonaequenoe, fallen upon the land. — See (he manner of placing theae btenings and cursea, chap, xxvii, 12, &c That Gerizim U very fruitful; and that Ebal t* very barren, ia the united testimony of all who have travelled in those parta: see Ludol^ Heland, Rab. Benjamin, and Mr. Maundrel. Sjrehem lies in the valley between theae two mountains.

That the land of Judea was naturally very ftrtile, can •earcely be auppoaed by any who oonaiders the aceounta given of it by travellera: with the exception of a few diatricta, the whole land ia dry, atony, and barren, and par-' timlarly all the southern parts of Judea, and all die envi* Tons ot JeruaoJem: moat of which ia represented aa abaolulely incapable of cultivation. How men could it ever support ita vast number of inhabitants 1 By the eapecial providence of God. While Qod kept that people under his eonlinual proieetion, their land was a parauiae — they lent to all nations and borrowed from none: what has it been since? a demi solitude — becauaethatespecial blessing no looser deaccnds upon it. No land, says Calmet, was more teriile while under tho benediction of God| none more barren when under his eurae. Its present stale is a pnwf of the declaration of Moaea, chap, zxviiu 23. The fuaeai over their head i« braet; the earth under their feet, irmu Tin land itself in its present xaie, ia an ample proof of die Buthentioity of the Penlaieaeh. Sbould nets of this bind be lost sight ot, by any one who reads (he Saered Writings T

Veise3. Ye sftaHoeeriAroiotteiraltor^l Where unholy saoriflcas have been sflfered. Ye ihaU brtaJt tkeir yilfars probably meaning statues and representations of tbdr cods cut out of stone. — Ta sAolf bum their grovt* ' soda as (hose about the temple of AahtaroA, the OanaanHidi IV nua, whose impure rites were practised in difierent pans of the enclosures or groves round her temples. — Yt Jtall km down tiie gmvm ImsKes — prctebly implying all imasei carved out qf wood. — And akall destrvy the nosut o/'ncm— which were no doubt at first graven en Ae Btones, and carved on the trees, and then amlied to the' surrounding districts. In variooa instances^ toe names of whole mountains, valleys, and districts, were borrowed from the gods worshippM there ^

Verse 14. TTie place ahidi the Lord sAo/I cAooa*] prevent idolatry, and bring about a perfect unifonaity ia the divine worship, which at that time wMassentialtv necessary; beeauM every rite and ceremony had a dettrminate meaning, and poiotsd out the good ddngs which were to come; therefore on* pfucs muU be estalblisbed where those rites and ceremonies should he car«Ai]]y sua punctually observed. Had it not been so, e\-ery man woaM nave formed hia worship according to his own mind, and the whole beauty and importance of the grand rapr^seHistite system would have aeea destroyed; and the Mewah and the glories of hia kingdom could not have been seen through the medium of the Jewidk ritual. For unilbrmitr in every part of the divine worship, tho' sann neeeaJy does not now exist; because that which was tyiMfied M come, and the ahadowB ha^e all fled away. Tet wben it can ht obtained, how (ieairable is it, that all sincere Christiana should, with one mouth, as well as with ana heart, glorify their common Lord and Saviour! I Verse 15. Thou mayetl kill and eat Jte^ in all By

16 * Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

17 Tl Thou mayest not eat within thy ^ates the titbe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or at thy oil, or the firstiiogs of thv herda, or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-oft'eringB, or hcave-oftering of thine hand:

18 1 But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the pbice which the Lord thy God shall chooae, thou, and thy son, and thy aaughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant. Biul Uie Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shall rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thouputtcst Uiine hands unto.

19 1 " Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite " as long as thou livest upon the

20 ^ When the Lord thy God shall enlarge Ihy border, ■ as he hath promised thee, and thou «halt say, I will eat flesh, (because thy soul longeth to eat flesh;) thou mayest eat nesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

21 If the place which the Lord thy God hath «hosen to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord bath griven thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou ahalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth afler,

22 *Kven as the roeUick and the hart is eaten, so thou shatt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23 1 0nly ■'be sure that thou eat not the blood: * for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

24 Thou shalt not eat it, thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

25 Thou shalt not eat it; ' that itmay go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, ■> when thou shalt do that whi6h is right in the si^t of the Lord.

26 IT Only ihy ' holy things which thou bast, and " thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the idaee which the Lobd ahall cho(«e:

37 And > thou sludf oBar thy burntrofferings,

r(] With the prorno ihttt the blood be poured out on ground. 1. The blood should not be eaten. 2. It diouH be poured out by way of eacrifice. I think tbie ii the meaning; and not, that they should pour out the blood with aa liuic ceremony and respect oa ihey poured water opon the eround; which is tne meaning according to C^ilmet and others.

TTu Totbuek—and the Aarf.] It ia very likely (hat by m Uebi, the enlebrptia meant; and by ayal, the luirt or deer. This is tbe opinion of Dr. Snav -. and from the report of travellers, we Icam that both these animals are fmnd in that de§er[ to the present day. See Harmer, vol. iv. p. 25, &c. Of the propriety of eating clean animals, there could be no question; but the blood must be poured out; yet there were cases in which they might kill and eat in all their gates, (cities and dwellings,) such as tbe roebuck and the hart, or all clean wUd beasla, for these being taken in hunting, and frequently shot Iqr arrows, their blood could not be poured out at the altar. Therefore the command appears to take in only such tame beasts as were used for food.

Verse 19. Forioke not the LevUt\ These had no inheritnace, and were to live by the iHQctuary— if therefore the offerings were withheld by which the' Levilea were supported, they of course must ^nsh. "Riose who have devoted thcnuelvea to tbe service of God in ministering to the salvation of (he souls of men, should certainly be furnisbed at least with all the rueeaaariea of life. Those who withhold this from them, sin against their own mercies; and that ordinance of God by which a ministry is established for the salvatian of souls.

Terse 23. For the blwMi is Uu l^e] And the life baing offered as an aionement, oonsM|uently the blooa should not be eaten: see the notes on Levit. xvii. 11. where the fliAieet of the vitality of the bkiod ia largely conaidered.

Verse 31. Thejr torn and their daughiert they lunt tnimttn lhefire\ Almost UI tbe nationa in the world Vou I.-60

the flesh and the blood, upon the altar~ of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar ol' the Lobd thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, ' that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

29 H When > the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou 'aueceedest tnemi and dvellest in their land:

30 TaJte heed to thyself *■ that thou be not snared < by following them, afler that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, sm'mg, How did these nations serve their gods? even so wilt 1 do Ukei wise.

31 ' Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord Ihy God: for every * abomination to the Lord which he hateth, have they done unto their eods; for ' even their sons and their daughters they nave burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 What thing soever I command you, ol^ serve to do it: t thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

pinnSiii tad lUr IriM Jm. t-K OTiImi

Wi t» UmOT, t6» puiiMmt af • ilo para wonUp of (lad, 19—14. Hoar li

IF there arise among you a prophet, or a >■ dreamer of dreams, i and ■, giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

2 And ^ the sign or the wonder come to pam, whereof he spake unto thee, saying. Let us go after other goda, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lobd your iproveth you, to know whether ye love the Loim your God with ail your heart, and with all your bouI.

agree in oSering human victims to their gods, oa extraordinary ocoasiona; which it is evident (hu nwe of thon nations had emy right notion of the divine nature. How necessary then was the book of Revelation, to teach men what that religion is with which Ood can be well pleased 1 The HindooM, to this day, offer human victinu to their goddess Cali, and at the temple of JaggrnimUi and yet, notwithstanding this, there are found certain persona who, while they profess Christioaity, an abecriutely unwilling to send the Hindoos the Ooepel of Christ, because they think it would not be paliticauy wise 1 But the wi«- dom of this world has ever been foolishoesi widi Oodt and in spite of all this infidel policvj the wend of the Lord shall have fi-ce course, and be glorified.

Verse 1. there ari— among you a prmhet] Any pretending to have a divine infiuMtce, so sa to n me par> tiMily to direct others tn the way of salvation — or « dreamer qf dreams, one who pretends that some deity has spoken to him in the night seaaoD — and gitetk thee a aign niN oth, what appears to be a mifttculouB proof of his mission, or a wndir, ntm mophetk, some type or representation of what Ite wishes to brieg you over t*>-M some have pretended that tbn had received a ooDsocrated tmags frmn heaven — henee ate oiiffin of the Pailadium, Numa'e SAield^ and many of tbe omtiee among tbe His* doos — but here the word seems to mean some porUnioue sign — such as an eelipre, which ha who knew when it would take place, migfit predict to the people who knew nothing of the matter, and thereby accredit his pretensiona.

Verse 3. T%e Lord your Ood prtweth you] Ood per* mite such impostors to arise to try the faith of his faiSiHrers, and to put their religious ezperiRDce to the lest; far be who experimentally knows Ood, cannot be draws awnr aftet idoU. He who has no experiiMntat knovledge of Ood may believe any thing.^^£j]Mrimc« of lbs ttvAm

4 Yc shall " walk after the Lord your God. and fear him, and keep his commandmenta, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and "cleavR unto him.

5 And • that prophet, or that dreamer or dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath p spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you oat of the land of Egypt, and redeemed yoa out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk m. 4 So shalt thou put the evU away from the midst of thee. ^ ^

6 TI ' If thy brother, the son of thy motter, or thy son, or thy daughter, or • the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, ' which is as thine own eoul, entice thee secretlv, saying, Let us so and serve other goda, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;,,.._

7 Namely, of the gode of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or fkr ofi fVom thee, from the one end of the earth even imto the other end of the earth;

8 Thou shalt "not consent tmto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity hnn, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

9 But * thou shalt surely kill him; * thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die: because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of £gypt, from the house of ■ bondage.

11 And ' all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

13 il ' If thou shalt hear aav in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God nath given thee to dwell there, saying,

13 Certain men, ' the children of Belial, ''are gone out from among you, and have ' withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, ' Let us go and serve other gods, which ye nave not known;

14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search.

eontained io the word of God can alone preserve any nun from Deism, or a false religion. They who have not this, are a prey to the pretended pnq>he^ and to the dreamer of dreanu.

Veree 6. ^ thy brother — or thy wn] ITw teacher of idolatry wms to be put to death; and bo strict vru this order, that a man roust oeither spare nor coDoeal his brother, ton. iauMer, nor fnend^-h^eaxaa this was (he

' hignest otKnce that could be committed against Ood, and the most deatructiTe to eociety; hence the severest laws were enacted against it

Verse 13. ChUdren. qf Beliat^ 'jr^s from Va, baL nol, and 'jv y^oA profit, tuiptt rM«M)Mt, lawleas men, {Sept.) persons goodjor nothing to themselvtts or others and capable of nothintir but mischief.

Venn 16. Hunt, OtaU turely mitt the inhabUantt] If ose eity were permitted to practice tdolatry, the evil would spmad; therefore the contagion must be destroyed ID ifi birth.

Terae 17. And there AaU cleave nought of the euraed Atnj'] As God did not permit them to take ibe spoils of these idolatroas cities, tMv could be under no temptation Io nuke war upon ihun. It could only be done through a nenfy religious motive, in obedience to the comroaod of Qod, as iwfr could have no profit by the subversion of mcfa pbteea. How few relinous wars would there ever him Men In the world, had they been regulated by this priooiple: " llioa abak neither extend ihy territory, nor tika any spcnia."

Versel. 7« are dWUren o/* <A< Lord] Theveryhig^- eat charaeler that can be eon&rred on any created oeings. YtehaUnUeut ywtrsetwer i. a. their Aair, for it was a tMomuKng idtriatnaa iiMkins to eonseoau tiadrUair and ask diligently; and, beh<^, if it be ixvOit and the thing certain, thai such abomination is wrou^t among you;

15 Thou shut surely smite the iohahitanto «f that city with the edge of the sword, * destroying it utterly, aiid all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt ' burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shaD be s a heap for ever; it shall not be buUt a^^ain.

17 And >■ there shall cleave nought of the 1 cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may k turn from we fierceness of his anger> and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon theer and multiply thee, > as he hath sworn onto tb^ fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commanilments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right m the eyes of the Loan thy God.

your Gfod: " ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 p For thou art a holy people unto the Lovd thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nsr tions that are upon the earth.

4 ' These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the * pygarg, ■ and the wild ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the clel^ into two claws, andcheweth the rud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them

Verse 4. Jlteee are the beasie iMfcA ye ehaU eoll On Lev. xi. I have entered into a considerable detail nlative to the clean an3 unclean animals here mentioned. Poc the general subject, the reader is referred to the nona on out chapter; but as there are paniculan mentkKwd here, which Hoees does not introduce in Levitiou% k wiU be necessary to connder them in diis place,

TTie oj] 11W Shor: bos, fifth order Pecoro, of the gf nuB MAUMALiA, species 41. 'Riia term include* all clean animals of the beevc kind: not only the or, properly w called, but also the bull, the coir, heifer, and etxff.

The iheep\ rm SA.- ovis, fifUi order Pecora, ai tba genus HAMMALU, species 40. Including the ram, the wether, the ewe, and the lamb.

The goal] >jr iU.* CAPra, fifth order Pttora. of ike genus MAHBiALiA, species 39. Including the he-gaoL Ae-goat, and kid. The words in the text, 0'3V3 tw *ek keeabim, signifies the lamb or young of sheep: mad cnp nr eeha^im, the young or kid of goaU; but tfakis a Hebrew idiom, which sifnifiee every creature of dM genui^ aa vnim p ben Bnoeh, and em la ben Adamt ««a o^ man, signify any human being. See Paal- cjtliv. X Jobzxv.6.

The flesh of these animals is universally allowed to be the most wholesome and nutritive. Utey live on the very best vegetables; and having several stomaclu^ ifaetr ftna is well concocted, and the chyle formed from it the moat pure, because the best elaborated, as It is wall lefinad before it enters into the blood. Of nuninating, or chswios the cud, see the note on Lev. xi S.

AaX chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof: as the camel, and the hare, and the coner; for they chew the cud, but divide not tta hoof; therefore they are uneleao UBto you.

S And the swine, becauBe it divideth the hoof, Jit chcweth not the cod, it is nnclean unto you: ye shall not eat of thdr flesh, ■ nor touch their dead carcoM.

' 9 If * These yfl shall eat of all that are in the waters; all that have 8m and scales shall ye eatr

10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales jB may not eat; it tf nnclean unto you.

12 * But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifraffe, and the oapn^,

13 And the glede, and the Idte, and the vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind,

15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the coekow. and the hawk after his Idnd,

16 The little owt, and the great otH, and the swan,

17 And the pellean, and toe fper eagle, and the cormorant,

13 And 'the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat,

19 And ■ every creeping thing that flieth is andean unto you: ' they shall not be eaten.

31 If »Ye ehatl not cat of any thing that dieth «f itself: thou ahalt give it unto the stranger Aat is in th;r gates, that he may eat it; or tnou mayest sell it unto an alien: * for thou arl a holy

eakUiopc, belongii^ to the lirth order Peeora, ^nm mammalia, and Bpeeiea 38. It has round, iwivted, epiml homa, hni^ tinta on the kne««, browae> 00 tender rfiootf, lives in hilly countrieg, ia ftnid of etimbinffrockB, and is remarkable for its beaudftit black eyes. The flesh is good and veil fiaTOiired.

Thf Jathw <Ua-] yron> Yachmw, from cAomar, to bs tnnAUd, dutttrlMd, diaorcUrad: this is suposcd to nwBO, not the faUma tUcr, but the bvbalu; or bujala, which is represented by Dr. Shavr, and other travellers and Bftturalisl^ as & tuiltii, malevolent, and tpUefal aiiimij; eapridoua, ferocioua, and every way bnUnl. AoeordtQK to the Linntenn classifirAlion, tlie bufTalo beloags to the genus Mammalia, fifili order Pecora, species Bm. According to 1 Kings iv. 23. this was one of the urimals which was daily served up at the table of Solomon. Though the flesh of the buffalo is not considered as vary delieioui^ jut, in the countries where it abounds, it ia euen as fieaucntly by oil elsssw of penoM u ths a* ia in Bogland. "ITie yodunur is not memioned in the pomUel ptam. Lot. xi.

Tk* wild goai\ ypH Akke. It is not easy to telt what cmuure is intended by the akko. Dr. Shaw supposed it to be a kind of very timorous goat, known in the cast by the vmmK JUklaU and §eruee; and bears a reaembluicc both to the ^t and the slog, whence the propriety the nasae given it by the Septuoi^t and Yulgaie, tragelaptu, the goat'ttag I probably the rupieapra. or roac-goat. Th» word is toand nowhere else in the Beb rew Bible.

7Tu PIfgarg] tv^i DuAmt. As this word is nowhere dae tned, we eannot tell what animal is meant by it. The word py^rff'irvyaf)^<, literally signifies tMU-buttoda, and is ^plied to a kind of eagU, with a teAi/e tail i but here it evidently meaiH a quadruped. It was probably some kind of goat, oommon and wall known ia JwI«l

Tha wUd ex\ wn 7%eo. This is sapposed to be die 0rj« at the Oneks, which is a species crTIarM Oag. It may be the same with the bekker el wosA, described ny Dr. Sfaftw as "a species of the deer kind, whose horns are eza«tlj in the nahion of our etag, but whose size is only between the nd and faiioie deer." In IsaL li. 20. a creatara of the nanie oi kid Uum, is ntenliooed, which we Ifsrtste wiU bull f it may be the svae creature intemled abtrra, with the intadtange of the two last letters.

The Atmotei] 'tot Zamer. Has was probably a species of gxteU or deer, but of what kind we know not— that tt imanf iBsaa the Aomois is evident from this circum- Muaa^ "ifaaiibeehwnotaiidHbilaon^Awrei^oasof snow and ioe^ mnd eannot bear the heat" Bt^gon. The Sep- people unto the Lord thy Grod. *■ Thou shalt not eeethe a kid in iiis mother's milk.

33 IT ' Thou Bhalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, ttiat the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 Tf And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place hia name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the • firstiinge of thy herds and of thy flocKS; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God alwave.

24 If And if the way be too long for thee, bo that thou art not able to carry it; or 'if the place b» too far f>om thee, which tlie Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: