open.

5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Ifrael!

6 As the vallies are they fpread forth, as gardens by the river's fide, as the trees of lign-aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedartrees befide the waters.

7 He fhall pour the water out of his buckets, and his feed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom fhall be exalted.

8 God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the ftrength of an unicorn: he fhall eat up the nations his enemies, and fhall break their bones, and pierce them through with arrows.

9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Bleffed is he that bleffeth thee, and curfed is he that curfeth thee.

10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he fmote his hands together:

II Therefore now flee

thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour, but lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from

honour.

12 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Spake I not alfo to thy meffengers which thou fenteft unto me, faying,

13 If Balak would give me his house full of filver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord faith, that will I fpeak?

14 And now, behold, I go unto my people; come therefore, and I will advertife thee what this people fhall do to thy people in the latter days.

15 ¶ And he took up his parable, and faid, Balaam the fon of Beor hath faid, and the man whofe eyes are open, hath faid:

16 He hath faid, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Moft High, which faw the vifion of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but

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having his eyes open:

17 I fhall fee him, but not now; I fhall behold him, but not righ there fhall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre fhall rife out of Ifrael, and fhall fmite the corners of Moab, and deftroy all the children of Sheth.

18 And Edom fhall be a poffeffion, Seir alfo fhall be a poffeffion for his enemies, and Ifrael fhall do valiantly. 19 Out of Jacob fhall come he that fhall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the firft of the nations, but his latter end fhall be

that he perish for ever.

21 And he looked on the Kenites; and took up his parable, and faid, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou putteft thy neft in a rock.

22 Nevertheless, the Kenite fhall be wafted until Asfhur fhall carry thee away captive.

23 And he took up his parable, and faid, Alas, who fhall live when God doeth this!

24 And fhips fhall come from the coaft of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and fhall afflict Eber, and he also fhall perish for ever.

25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

CHAP. XVI.

ed bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou cameft forth out of the land of Egypt in hafte: that thou mayeft remember the day when thou cameft forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 And there shall be no leavened bread feen with thee

in

in all thy coafts feven days: neither fhall there any thing of the flesh which thou facrificedst the first day at even remain all night until the morning.,

5 Thou mayeft not facrifice the pass-over within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the Lord thy God fhall choose to place his name in, there thou fhalt facrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the fun, at the feafon that thou cameft forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou fhalt roaft, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God fhall choose and thou fhalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou fhalt eat unleavened bread and on the feventh day shall be a solemn affembly to the Lord thy God; thou fhalt do no work therein.

9 Seven weeks fhalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the feven weeks from fuch time as thou beginneft to put the fickle to

the corn.

thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God according as the Lord thy God, hath bleffed thee.

II And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chofen to place his name there.

12 And thou fhalt remember that thou waft à bondman in Egypt: and thou fhalt obferve and do these ftatutes.

13 Thou fhalt obferve the feaft of tabernacles feven days, after that thou haft gathered in thy corn and thy wine.

14 And thou fhalt rejoice in thy feaft, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, and the Levite, the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

crease,

16 Three times in a year fhall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he fhall choofe; in the feaft of unleavened bread, and in the feaft of weeks, and in the feaft of tabernacles: and they fhall not appear before the Lord empty:

17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the bleffing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

19 Thou fhalt not wreft judgment; thou fhalt not refpect perfons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether juft fhalt thou follow, that thou mayeft live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou fhalt make thec.

CHAP. V.

THE

God of Ifrael.

ing,

2 Praife ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered

themselves.

3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will fing unto the Lord; 1 will fing praife to the Lord

and the heavens dropped, the clouds alfo dropped water.

5 The mountains melted from before the Lord: even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Ifrael.

6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied,

way.

11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water; there fhall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Ifrael: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.

12 Awake, awake, Deborah awake, awake, utter a fong: arife, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou fon of Abinoam.

13 Then he made him that remaineth have domipion over the nobles among

the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.

14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin among thy people: out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

15 And the princes of Iffachar were with Deborah; even Iffachar, and also Barak: he was fent on foot into the valley. For the divifions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

16 Why abodeft thou among the fheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks for the divifions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Afher continued on the fea-fhore, and abode in his breaches.

18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no gain of money.

20 They fought from heaven: