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216 Book of Deuteronomy

and in the earth beneath, and there is no other. Chapter 5

40 Keep his precepts and commandments,
And Moses called all Israel, and said to them:
which I command thee: that it may be well with
Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments,
thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst
which I speak in your ears this day: learn them,
remain a long time upon the land, which the
and fulfil them in work.
Lord thy God will give thee.
2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us
41 Then Moses set aside three cities beyond in Horeb.
the Jordan at the east side, 3 He made not the covenant with our fathers,
but with us, who are now present and living.
42 That any one might flee to them who
4 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out
should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was
of the midst of fire.
not his enemy a day or two before, and that he
5 I was the mediator and stood between the
might escape to some one of these cities:
Lord and you at that time, to shew you his
43 Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in
words, for you feared the fire, and went not up
the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in into the mountain, and he said:
Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan
6 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee
in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
44 This is the law, that Moses set before the bondage.
children of Israel, 7 Thou shalt not have strange gods in my
sight.
45 And these are the testimonies and cere-
8 Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven
monies and judgments, which he spoke to the
thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in
children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath,
46 Beyond the Jordan in the valley over or that abide in the waters under the earth.
against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Se- 9 Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt
hon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hes- not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a
ebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
Israel coming out of Egypt, upon their children unto the third and fourth
47 Possessed his land, and the land of Og king generation, to them that hate me,
of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, 10 And shewing mercy unto many thousands,
who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising to them that love me, and keep my command-
of the sun: ments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
48 From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank
thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished
of the torrent Arnon, unto mount Sion, which is
that taketh his name upon a vain thing.
also called Hermon,
12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify
49 All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
side, unto the sea of the wilderness, and unto the 13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all
foot of mount Phasga. thy works.