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with the materials; though, as they had ὁ γὰρ κύριος ὁ θεός σου εἰσάξει σε εἰς γῆν abundance of sheep and neat cattle, they ἀγαθὴν καὶ πολλὴν, οὗ χείμαῤῥοι ὑδάτων, καὶ must have had much of the materials within | πηγαὶ ἀβύσσων ἐκπορευόμεναι διὰ τῶν πεδίων themselves. It is generally supposed that kai dià Twv opéwv.

Au. Ver.-7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills.

Ged., Booth.—7 When Jehovah thy God hath brought thee to a good and spacious [Sam., LXX] land; a land of water-brooks, of fountains and lakes that spring, &c. Depths.

Rosen., Ged., Booth.-Lakes.
Bp. Patrick.-Depths.]

The Hebrew

God, by a miracle [so Pool, Bp. Patrick], preserved their clothes from wearing out: but if this sense be admitted, it will require, not one miracle, but a chain of the most successive and astonishing miracles ever wrought, to account for the thing; for as there were not less than 600,000 males born in the wilderness, it would imply, that the clothes of the infant grew up with the increase of his body to manhood, which would require a miracle to be continually wrought| on every thread, and on every particle of word tehom, which we translate deep, and matter of which that thread was composed. in the plural number depths, signifies someAnd this is not all; it would imply that the times those great caverns of water that are clothes of the parent became miraculously within the ground, which were made by the lessened to fit the body of the child, with plentiful rains, which God sent upon this whose growth they were again to stretch country while they were obedient to him; and grow [so the Jews], &c. No such which both made it fruitful (though now miraculous interference was necessary. So barren), and abounding also with water for their cattle (Ps. lxxviii. 15; Ezek. xxxi. 4). But it is here commonly interpreted lakes, or

Rosen.

Neither did thy foot swell. So Rosen., Gesen., Lee.

Bp. Patrick.-Swell, or, as some translate it, grow callous. There are those that refer this last clause not to their feet, but to their shoes; according to what we read, xxix. 5. Ver. 5.

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καὶ γνώσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, ὅτι ὡς εἴτις ἄνθρωπος παιδεύσῃ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, οὕτω κύριος ὁ θεός σου παιδεύσει σε.

Au. Ver.-5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Thou shalt also consider, &c.

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Honey. See notes on Gen. xliii. 11.
Ged.-Palm-honey.

Bp. Patrick. The same word debas, which signifies honey, signifies also dates. And so De Dieu thinks it most reasonable to translate it here, being joined with four other sorts of fruits; and so Kimchi saith, the ancient Jews expounded it in this place, and in 2 Chron. xxxi. 5, where it is said, that "Israel brought in abundance, the firstfruits of corn, wine, oil, and honey, or dates," as we there translate it in the margin.

Au. Ter.-Brass.

Ver. 9.

Rosen., Ged., Booth.-Copper. See notes on Exod. xxv. 3.

Ver. 11.

Au. Jer.-Commandments-judgements: oppa menee cu statutes. See notes on Lev. xviii. 4; and Numb, xxxv. 13.

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Rosen., Ut tandem tibi benefaceret in sequenti vita tua.

Ver. 18.

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τοῦ ἀγαγόντος σε διὰ τῆς ἐρήμου της μεγάλης καὶ τῆς φοβερᾶς ἐκείνης, οὗ ὄφις δάκνων, καὶ σκορπίος, καὶ δίψα, οὗ οὐκ ἦν ὕδωρ. τοῦ ἐξαγαγόντος σοι ἐκ πέτρας ἀκροτόμου πηγὴν ὕδατος.

Au. Ver.-15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were

Au. Ver.-18 But thou shalt remember
LORD

thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Unto thy fathers.

Ged., Booth.—To thy fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob [Sam.].

CHAP. IX. 3.

וְיָדַעְתָּ הַיּוֹם כִּי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ הוּא,fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought הָעֹבֵר לְפָנֶיךָ אֵשׁ אֹכְלָה הוּא יַשְׁמִידָם where there was no water ; who brought thee

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forth water out of the rock of flint.

Fiery serpents. See notes on Numbers

xxi. 6.

καὶ γνώσῃ σήμερον, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός σου οὗτος προπορεύσεται πρὸ προσώπου σου.

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Drought. Patrick, Rosen., Ged., Booth., Gesen., καταναλίσκον ἐστίν. οὗτος ἐξολοθρεύσει αὐτ Lee.-Dry places. ώπου σου, κ.τ.λ. τοὺς, καὶ οὗτος ἀποστρέψει αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ

The Hebrew word tsimmon signifies a dry place, as we translate it, Ps. cvii. 33; Isa. xxxv. 7. And that best agrees with what here follows, where there was no water. -Bp. Patrick.

Prof. Lee.-is, m. A thirsty land, i. e., a land parched for want of water. Deut. viii. 15; Ps. cvii. 33; Is. xxxv. 7.

Scorpions, and drought, &c.

Ged., Booth.scorpions; and who, in dry places, where there was no brought water for thee out of the flinty rock. water,

Ver. 16.

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Au. Ver.-3 Understand therefore this

day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the

LORD hath said unto thee.

that Jehovah thy God, who goeth over before Ged., Booth.-3 Know then this day, comfit them, and subdue them before thee, thee, is as a consuming fire; he shall dis

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out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Egypt.

28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised

Ged. The land of [LXX, Arab., and them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilder

five MSS.] Egypt.

A molten image.

Ged., Booth.-A molten calf [Sam., and three MSS.].

Ver. 17-29.

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

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

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

21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

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

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24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty

days and forty nights, as I fell down at the

ness.

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

17, 18, 21, Geddes and Boothroyd insert verse 21 between verses 17 and 18.

Rosen.-21 Notandum hic est vσTepov Tрóтepov, nam ista vituli combustio (Ex. 32) antecessit secundum Mosis ascensum in montem.

20 Geddes and Boothroyd place this verse at the end of the chapter.

22, 23, 24, Geddes and Boothroyd insert these verses between verses 11 and 12 of chapter x.

19, 25, Geddes and Boothroyd connect these two verses together.

25 Au. Ver.

Thus I fell down. Ged., Booth.-For I fell down. For the above transpositions they do not seem to have any authority.

28 Au. Ver.-Lest the land, &c. Houb., Horsley, Ged., Booth.- Lest the people of [Sam., LXX, Vulg.] the land, &c. CHAP. X. 5.

Au. Ver. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

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6 καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπῆραν ἐκ Βηρὼθ υἱῶν The previous circumstances of the history, Ιακὶμ Μισαδαΐ. ἐκεῖ ἀπέθανεν ̓Ααρών, καὶ necessary to be here attended to, are these. ἐτάφη ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἱεράτευσεν Ελεάζαρ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ (Exodus, chap. xx. God speaks the Ten ἀντ ̓ αὐτοῦ. 7 éκεîðεν άπýраv eis Tadyád. Commandments: (xxiv.) Moses, on Mount καὶ ἀπὸ Γαδγὰδ εἰς Ἐτεβάθα, γῆ χείμαῤῥοι Sinai, receives the two tables; and is there ὑδάτων. 8 ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ διέστειλε forty days and nights: (chap. xxv., xxvi., κύριος τὴν φυλὴν τὴν Λευὶ, αἴρειν τὴν κιβωτὸν xxvii.) God commands the tabernacle : τῆς διαθήκης κυρίου, παρεστάναι ἔναντι κυρίου, (xxviii.) separates Aaron and his sons, for λειτουργεῖν καὶ ἐπεύχεσθαι ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι the priest's office; by a statute for ever, to αὐτοῦ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης. 9 dià TOUTO οὐκ ἔστι τοῖς Λευίταις μερὶς καὶ κλῆρος ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτῶν, κύριος αὐτὸς κλῆρος αὐτοῦ, καθότι εἶπεν αὐτῷ.

him and his seed after him: (xxxii.) Moses, incensed at the golden calf, breaks the tables; yet he prays for the people, and God orders him to lead them towards Au. Ver.-6 And the children of Israel Canaan: (xxxiv.) Moses carries up two took their journey from Beeroth of the chil- other tables, and stays again forty days and dren of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron nights. (Numb. chap. iii.) Tribe of Levi died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar | selected: (viii.) consecrated: (x. and xi.) his son ministered in the priest's office in his Israelites march from Sinai on the twentieth stead. day of the second month in the second year: (xiii.) spies sent: (xiv.) the men sentenced to die in the wilderness, during the forty years: (xviii.) Levites to have no lot, or large district, in Canaan; but to be

7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the cove- the Lord's inheritance: (xx.) Aaron dies nant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

on Mount Hor. Lastly; in the complete catalogue of the whole march (chap. xxxiii.) we are told, that they went from Moseroth to Bene-jaakan--thence to Horhagidgadto Jotbathah-to Ebronah-to Ezion-geber

to Zin (which is Kadesh)—and thence to Mount Hor, where Aaron died, in the fortieth and last year.

In Deut. ix. Moses tells the Israelites (verse 7) that they had been rebels, from Egypt even to Jordan, particularly at Horeb (ver. 8-29), whilst he was with God, and received the tables at the end of forty days and nights; and that, after breaking th

Houbigant, Le Clerc, Kennicott, Horsley, Geddes, Boothroyd, and others, suppose that these verses are an interpolation. Kennicott supposes that their proper place is between verses 1 and 2 of chap. ii. In the arrangement of the stations he follows the Samaritan, which agrees with the parallel places, Numbers xxxiii. 31, &c. Rosen- tables, he fasted and interceded for his müller supposes that the Samaritan text has been altered, in order to make it agree with the parallel passages, Num. xxxiii. See below. Kennicott.-6-9 The book of Deuteronomy contains the several speeches made to the Israelites by Moses, just before his death; recapitulating the chief circumstances of their history, from their deliverance out of Egypt to their arrival on the banks of Jordan. What in this book he has recorded, as spoken, will be best understood, by comparing it with what he has recorded, as done, in the previous history; and this, which is very useful as to the other parts of this book, is absolutely necessary, as to the part of the tenth chapter here to be considered.

brethren, during a second period of forty days and nights: and this ninth chapter ends with the prayer which he then made. Chapter the tenth begins thus: "At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone, like unto the first, and come up," &c. And, from verse 1 to the end of verse 5, he describes the second copy of the Ten Commandments, as written also by God, and deposited by himself in the ark.

After this we have now four verses (6 and 7, 8 and 9), which not only have no kind of connexion with the verses before and after them; but also, as they stand in the present Hebrew text, directly contradict that very text; and the two first of these verses have not, in our Hebrew text, the least con>

nexion with the two last of them. Our rated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of Hebrew text (verse 6) says, that Israel the covenant of the Lord, to stand before journeyed from Bene-jaakan to Mosera. the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless Whereas that very text, in the complete in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore catalogue (Numb. xxxiii. 31), says, they Levi hath no part, nor inheritance, with his journeyed from Moseroth to Bene-jaakan. brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, acAgain: Aaron is here said to have died at cording as the Lord thy God promised him. Mosera; whereas he died on Mount Hor, But however consistent these four verses the seventh station afterwards: see Numb. are now with themselves, it will be still xxxiii. 38. And again they are here said demanded, What connexion have they with to go from Bene-jaakan to Mosera-thence the fifth verse, before them, and with the to Gudgodah—and thence to Jotbath; tenth verse, after them? I confess, I canwhereas the complete catalogue says, Mo- not discover their least pertinency here; seroth to Bene-jaakan-thence to Horha- because Aaron's death and Levi's separation gidgad-and thence to Jotbathah. But, if seem totally foreign to the speech of Moses the marches could possibly be true, as they in this place. And this speech, without now stand in these two verses, yet what connexion can there be between Jotbath and the separation of the tribe of Levi?

these four verses, is a regularly-connected admonition from Moses, to this purposethat his brethren were for ever to consider 'Tis very happy, that these several diffi- themselves as indebted to him, under God, culties in the Hebrew text are removed by for the renewal of the two tables and also the Samaritan Pentateuch. For that text to his intercession, for rescuing them from tells us here rightly, that the march was destruction. The words are these, x. 4:from Moseroth to Bene-jaakan-to Hagid- The Lord wrote again the ten commandgad-to Jotbathah-to Ebronah-to Ezion-ments, and gave them unto me. 5 And I geber-to Zin (which is Kadesh)-and came down from the mount, and put the thence to Mount Hor, where Aaron died. tables in the ark, which I had made.". Again as the regular deduction of these 10 Thus I stayed in the mount according to stations ends with Mount Hor and Aaron's the first time, forty days and forty nights; death, we have then, what we had not and the Lord hearkened unto me at that before, a regular connexion with the two time also; the Lord would not destroy thee. next verses; and the connexion is this, that 11 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take when Aaron (the son of Amram, the son of thy journey before the people, that they Kohath, the son of Levi) died, neither the may go in, and possess the land," &c. tribe of Levi nor the priesthood was deserted. But God still supported the latter, by maintaining the former; and this, not by allotting that tribe any one large part of Canaan, but separate cities among the other tribes; and by allowing them to live upon those offerings, which were made by the other tribes to God himself.

But, then, if these four verses were not at first a part of this chapter, but are evidently interpolated, there arises another enquiry, Whether they are an insertion entirely spurious, or a genuine part of the sacred text, though removed hither out of some other chapter. As they contain nothing singular or peculiar-are of no particular These four verses therefore (6, 7, 8, 9) in importance-and relate to no subject of disthe Samaritan text stand thus:-6 When putation, they are not likely to have arisen the children of Israel journeyed from Mo- from fraud or design; but, perfectly coinseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan; from ciding in sense with other passages, they thence they journeyed, and encamped at may safely be considered as another inHagidgad from thence they journeyed, stance of a large transposition (eighty-six and encamped in Jotbathah, a land of rivers words) in the present text, arising from of water; 7 From thence they journeyed, accident and want of care. And the only and encamped in Ebronah-in Ezion-geber- remaining question therefore is-Whether in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh- we can discover, though not to demonstraand then at Mount Hor. And Aaron died tion, yet with any considerable degree of there, and there he was buried; and probability, the original place of these four Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his verses; that so they may be at last restored stead. 8 At that time the Lord had sepa- to that neighbourhood and connexion from

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