DEUT. XXXIII:26-29 B. C. 1451 26¶ There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? † 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust 10 Who can count the dust of out the enemy from before thee; Jacob, and the number of the and shall say, Destroy them. fourth part of Israel? Let me die *28 Israel then shall dwell in the death of the righteous, and safety alone: the fountain of Ja- let my last end be like his! cob shall be upon a land of corn GENESIS XLIX:28-33— and wine; also his heavens shall B. C. 1689 drop down dew. 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. NUMB. XXIII:7-10-B. C. 1452 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 30 In the cave that is in the 7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab field of Machpelah, which is behath brought me from Aram, out fore Mamre, in the land of Caof the mountains of the east, say-naan, which Abraham bought with ing, Come, curse me Jacob, and the field of Ephron the Hittite for come, defy Israel. a possession of a buryingplace. *Deut. 33:28—“And Israel dwelleth in safety. The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of corn and wine; yea, his heavens drop down dew." R.V. +Numb. 23:9-"For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him; lo, it is a people that dwell alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations." R. V. These texts mean no mingling of the seed of "The House of Israel." 31 There they buried Abraham EXOD. XVIII:24-26—B. C. 1491 and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. EXOD. XVIII:17-21-B. C. 1491 17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou are not able to perform it thyself alone. 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 20 And thou shall teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds. rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. DEUT. VII:1-11-B. C. 1451 1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the nations greater and mightier than Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven thou; shall deliver them before thee, and 2 And when the LORD thy God thou shalt smite them; and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt 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 nst you, and destroy thee sud- DEUT. XIV:1-2-B. C. 1451 y. But thus shall ye deal with m; ye shall destroy their altars, break down their images, and down their groves, and burn r graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people o the LORD thy God; the LORD - God hath chosen thee to be a cial people unto himself, above people that are upon the face of earth. The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because were more in number than any ople; for ye were the fewest of people: DEUT. XV:1-6—B. C. 1451 1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lend8 But because the LORD loved eth aught unto his neighbour shall -u, and because he would keep release it; he shall not exact it of e oath which he had sworn unto his neighbor, or of his brother; beur fathers, hath the LORD cause it is called the LORD's reough you out with a mighty lease; nd, and redeemed you out of the ouse of bondage, from the hand Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD y God, he is God; the faithful od, which keepeth covenant and ercy with them that love him nd keep his commandments to a housand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate im to their face, to destroy them: e will not be slack to him that ateth him, he will repay him to is face. 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand shall release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. DEUT. XXVI:16-19—B. C. 1451 16¶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments; thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. JUDGES II:1-5—B. C. 1425 1 And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you: 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. 4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these the children of words unto all Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD. DEUT. XXVIII:1-14-B. C. 1451 1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandnients which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. The LORD shall command the ssing upon thee in thy storeises, and in all that thou set: thine hand unto; and he shall ss thee in the land which the RD thy God giveth thee. ) The LORD shall establish thee holy people unto himself, as he th sworn unto thee, if thou shalt ep the commandments of the RD thy God, and walk in his ys. 10 And all people of the earth all see that thou are called by name of the LORD; and they all be afraid of thee. 11 And the LORD shall make thee enteous in goods, in the fruit of y body, and in the fruit of thy ttle, and in the fruit of thy ound, in the land which the ORD Sware unto thy fathers to ve thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto nee his good treasure, the heaven give the rain unto thy land in is season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou halt lend unto many nations, and hou shalt not borrow. JOSH. XXIII:1-16—B. C. 1427 1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age. 2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for and for their officers, and said their heads, and for their judges, unto them, I am old and stricken in age: LORD your God hath done unto all 3 And ye have seen all that the these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you. 4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward. 5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your |