The place of God's worship. DEUTERONOMY. way which I command you this day, to go after Before other gods which ye have not known. Blood forbidden, &c. Before in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy. burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. CHRIST CHRIST 29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Josh. 8. 33. mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, "beside the plains of Moreh? Z ch. 27.12, a Gen.12.6. Josh. 1. 11. 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to 6 ch. 9.1. possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes cch. 5. 32. and judgments which I set before you this day. TH CHAP. XII. & 12. 32. 1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed. 16, 28 Blood is forbidden. b ch. 4. 10. c Ex. 34.13. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, where-40. in the nations which ye shall possess served their ch. 7. 5. gods, "upon the high mountains, and upon the and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with and ye shall hew down the graven images of gods, and destroy the names of them out of place. d2 Kings hills, inherit. and fire; their that Jer. 3. 6. 52. 10, 11. + Heb. break down. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: f ver. 31. ver. 11. ch. 26. 2 Josh. 9. 27. 1 Kings 8. 29. 12. h Lev. 17. 6 And "thither ye shall bring your burnt-offer-2 Chron. 7. ings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of herds, and of your flocks: and S. 78. 68. and 3, 4 your 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD God, and 'ye shall rejoice in all that ye put hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. ch. 14. 22, i ver. 17. 23. & 15. 14.26. your your ch. 14. 26. ver. 12,18. ch. 16. 11, Lev. 23. 40. do 14, 15.& 26. 11. & 27.7. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we here this day, "every man whatsoever is right in m Judg.17. his own eyes. m Judg.17. 18, 21, 26. & 15. & 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when "ye go over Jordan, and dwell in n ch. 11.31. the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety: 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD over. 5,14, ver. 25. your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell ch.14.23.& there; thither shall ye bring all that I command 2 20.4 17. you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all † your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thyr burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest: x 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. b 20 TWhen the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou mayest eat flesh,whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only 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 the earth as water. it pour upon 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou. shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD, 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: h 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, 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 of the LORD 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 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself "that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; tion of the. for every †abomination to the LORD which he hateth IF a F there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, 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 LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath †spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6 T'If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, 'which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 21.12. Jer. 32. 35. Ezek.23.37 qch. 4. 2. & 13. 18. Josh. 1. 7. What may and what may not be eaten. 17. And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may "turn from ch. 7. 26. the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, Josh. 6. 18. and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, devoted. "as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; Or, aJosh.6.26. b Gen. 22. 17. & 26.4, 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the 24. & 28.14. LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which ch12.25, I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. Prov. 30.6. 2 2 24. aZech.10.2. Matt. 24. Thess.2.9. ch. 18. 22. Matt. 7.22. c See Jer. 28. 9. See d ch. 8. 2. Matt.24.24. Thess. 2. ev. 13.14. 2 Kings 1 Cor.11.19. 11. 23.3. Chron. ch.10.20. 34. 31. & 30. 20. g ch. 18.20. Zech 13.3. fleb. spoken re the LORD. e Lev. 11.2, volt against dishon. & 22.21,22, 24. 9 But "thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand n ch. 17. 5. shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards 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 Egypt 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. 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, Acts 7. 58. 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, 'are gone or, out from among you, and have 'withdrawn the in-naughty habitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve 1,22 other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, "destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. r 1 John 2. Jude 19. 17. 21, 8 2 Kings t ver. 2, 6. Ex.22.20. Josh. 6. 17, 21. Lev. 27. 28. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn Josh.6.24. with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be heap for ever; it shall not be built again. an iss. 17.1. yJosh.3.28. & 25. 2. Jer. 19. 2. 26, 27. 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallowdeer, 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 cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall Lev. 11. not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. 9 T These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you. g Lev. 11.9. h Lev. 11. 13. iLev.11.20. 11 ¶Of all clean birds ye shall eat. h 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the. cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,d. 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unSee Lev. clean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21. T'Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of Ezek. 4. 14. itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: "for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy n Ex.23.19. God. "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy ch. 12,6,17. seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. Before Of Hebrew servants' freedom. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that CHRIST CHRIST open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be 1451. too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall ch. 12.21 choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:itater 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul †desireth: 'and thou shalt eat there before +Heb. the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for "he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: asketh of thee. 8 ch. 12. 7, 18. & 26.11. 18, 19. 20. ch. 12.12, Num.18. ch. 18. 1, 2. ch. 26.12. Amos 4. 4. ver. 27. 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no party ch. 26.12. nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and ch. 12. 12. the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that "the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the a ch.15.10. work of thine hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV. 1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor. 19 All firstling males of cattle to be sanctified unto the Lord. a Prov. 3. 9, 10. See Mal. 3. 10. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant. thou shalt do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee: for he hath been. worth 'a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. 19 "All the firstling males that come of thy herd AT the end of every seven years thou shalt make 22.10.11. Lev. 27.26 and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voiced ch.28. 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. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. Lev. 25. Luke 6.34, 35. † Heb. word. † Heb. Belial. s i ch. 28.54, & 28. 22. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in twicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine 'eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and "he cry Pro 23.6 unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Matt.20.15. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and "thine heartMatt. 25. shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: m 2 Cor. 9. because that "for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 3, 6, 7. & 34. 18. g Ex. 13.7. Ex.12.10. & 34. 25. Or, kill. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread there. with, even the bread of affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; "neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not Il sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth The feast of weeks. the passover 'at even, at the going down of the sun, CHAP. XVII. The punishment of idolatry. CHRIST CHRIST any evil favouredness, for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 9. 1451. Ex. 12.6. 2 Chron. 12 Kings John 2. 13, 23. 23. 23.& 11.55. sufficiency. 1 Cor. 16.2. 12, 18. ver. 14. 1451. b ch. 13. 6. c Josh. 7. 16. Judg.2.20. 12. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and wor 2 Kings 18. shipped them, either "the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of Jer 7.22, it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be true, 5.& 32.35. and the thing certain, that such abomination is ch.13. 12, wrought in Israel: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy pch. 12.7, Lev. 24. God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a 7 ch. 15.15. bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy † corn, and thy wine. 15 'Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast Lev. 23. unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD 39, 40. shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, accord- 2 ing to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13.1. 1 Tim.5.19. i ch. 13. 9. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon Heb. 10.28. him to put him to death, and afterward the hands Acts 7.58. of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. k ver. 12. Hag. 2. 11. m See Mal. 2. 7. & 22. 2. 11, 16, 19. & 19. 17. n ch. 12. 5. o See pch.19.17. q Ezek. 44. 24. r Num. 15. Ezra 10. 8. k 8 T'If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, "between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, "and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and "unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the Sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, † and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt ch. 18. 5, put away the evil from Israel. † Heb. giveth 29. 7. 6. a Ex. 23. 2, 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt follow, that thou mayest "live, and inherit the which the LORD thy God giveth thee. thou Justice. 5, 9. any God, image; 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. 15.& 16.33. 2 Kings17. 3. Lev.26.1. Or, statue, or, pillar. t ch. 13. 5. u ch. 13.11. & 19. 20. 13 "Ånd all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 TWhen thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and 21 Sam. 8. shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 5, 19, 20. y See 10. z Jer.30.21. a1 Kings 4. 26. & 10. 26, 28. Ps. 20.7. 15. 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply "horses to himself, Ezek. 17. nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the Ex.13.17. end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as Num. 14. the LORD hath said unto you, "Ye shall henceforth dch. 25.68. return no more that way. 3, 4. Hos. 11. 5. See Jer. 42. 15. any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, oror, goat. e See 13, 14. с 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 "The first-fruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, dEx.22.29. and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. c 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 TAnd if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind "unto the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, 'as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. Num. 18. 12, 21. Ex. 28.1. Num. 3.10. & 17. 12. a ch. 12.29. 1 The cities of refuge. W CHAP. XIX. 15 Two witnesses at the least. 16 The punishment of a false witness. a THEN the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth inheritest, thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; † Heb. or possess est. 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not fin time past; 5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his third day. neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the thead slippeth from the thelve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of these cities, and live: iron. † Heb. the fathers. † Heb. 12. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 9 TWhen thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, 'thou shalt not learn his sales by indeth. to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter "to pass through the fire, "or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 1 Lev. 18. ch. 12. 29, 30, 31. n Lev. 19. o Lev. 20. 7. 9 Lev. 18. 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and † slay him; whereas smile him he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not tin time past. † Heb. † Heb. third day. eGen. 15. 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar 27 spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. TENSE OR 12 For all that do these things are an abomina-isam.28. ch. 12. 20. tion unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from 21, 25, before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 10r, 14 For these nations, which thou shalt || possess, sincere. hearkened unto observers of times, and untodi-on, 17.1. viners but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath inherit. not suffered thee so to do. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9-If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; Josh. 20. then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: 7, 8. g Ex.21.12, Num. 35. Prov.28.17. sch. 9. 10. † Heb. in life, Heb. 12.19. 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. |
