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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Book is called DEUTERONOMY, which signifies a SECOND LAW, becauseit repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai,with other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the firstwords in the book, call it ELLE HADDEBARIM.
Deuteronomy Chapter 1
A repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the people'smurmuring and their punishment.
1:1. These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond theJordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, beetweenPharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very muchgold.
1:2. Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir toCadesbarne.
1:3. In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of themonth, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord hadcommanded him to say to them:
1:4. After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt inHesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,
1:5. Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expoundthe law, and to say:
1:6. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed longenough in this mountain:
1:7. Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to theother places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the valestowards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites,and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.
1:8. Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it,concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, andJacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.
1:9. And I said to you at that time:
1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hathmultiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, formultitude.
1:11. (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands,and bless you as he hath spoken.)
1:12. I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of youand your differences.
1:13. Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and suchwhose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appointthem your rulers.
1:14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
1:15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, andappointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers overfifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.<