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Chapter 1A repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the people's murmuring and their punishment.
Chapter 2They are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites. Their victory over Sehon king of Hesebon.
Chapter 3The victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh receive their possession on the other side of Jordan.
Chapter 4Moses exhorts the people to keep God's commandments: particularly to fly idolatry. Aappoints three cities of refuge, on that side of the Jordan.
Chapter 5The ten commandments are repeated and explained.
Chapter 6An exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.
Chapter 7No league nor fellowship to be made with the Canaanites: God promises his people his blessing and assistance, if they keep his commandments.
Chapter 8The people is put in mind of God's dealings with them, to the end that they may love him and serve him.
Chapter 9Lest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are put in mind of their manifold rebellions and other sins, for which they should have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Chapter 10God gives the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear and serve the Lord.
Chapter 11The love and service of God are still inculcated, with a blessing to them that serve him, and threats of punishment if they forsake his law.
Chapter 12All idolatry must be extirpated: sacrifices, tithes, and firstfruits must be offered in one only place: all eating of blood is prohibited.
Chapter 13False prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities destroyed.
Chapter 14In mourning for the dead they are not to follow the ways of the Gentiles: the distinction of clean and unclean meats: ordinances concerning tithes, and firstfruits.
Chapter 15The law of the seventh year of remission. The firstlings of cattle are to be sanctified to the Lord.
Chapter 16The three principal solemnities to be observed: just judges to be appointed in every city: all occasions of idolatry to be avoided.
Chapter 17Victims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain. Controversies are to be decided by the high priest and council, whose sentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is to receive the law of God at the priest's hands.
Chapter 18The Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish abominations are to be avoided. The great PROPHET CHRIST is promised. False prophets must be slain.
Chapter 19The cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false witnesses must be punished.
Chapter 20Laws relating to war.
Chapter 21The expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest son must not be deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. A stubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet, he must be taken down the same day and buried.
Chapter 22Humanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the other. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof of a house. Things of various kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of him that slanders his wife, as also of adultery and rape.
Chapter 23Who may and who may not enter into the Church: uncleanness to be avoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows, and eating other men's grapes and corn.
Chapter 24Divorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the newly married must not go to war: of men stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers' hire, of justice, and of charity to the poor.
Chapter 25Stripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to be muzzled. Of raising seed to the brother. Of the immodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of destroying the Amalecites.
Chapter 26The form of words with which the firstfruits and tithes are to be offered. God's covenant.
Chapter 27The commandments must be written on stones: and an altar erected, and sacrifices offered. The observers of the commandments are to be blessed, and the transgressors cursed.
Chapter 28Many blessings are promised to observers of God's commandments: and curses threatened to transgressors.
Chapter 29The covenant is solemnly confirmed between God and his people. Threats against those that shall break it.
Chapter 30Great mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is feasible. Life and death are set before them.
Chapter 31Moses encourages the people, and Joshua, who is appointed to succeed him. He delivers the law to the priests. God foretells that the people will often forsake him, and that he will punish them. He commands Moses to write a canticle, as a constant remembrancer of the law.
Chapter 32A canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up into a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not enter into it.
Chapter 33Moses before his death blesses the tribes of Israel.
Chapter 34Moses sees the promised land, but is not allowed to go into it. He dies at the age of 120 years. God buries his body secretly, and all Israel mourn for him thirty days. Joshua, replenished (by imposition of Moses' hands) with the spirit of God, succeeds. But Moses, for his special familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles, is commended above all other prophets.

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