A13203:1751
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Book Deuteronomy › Body of book › Chapter 11: The .xi. Chapter.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If thou shalt hearken therefore unto my commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the Lord your God and serve him with all your hearts and with all your souls: then he will give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and the later, and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil. And he will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle: and thou shalt care and fill thy self.
Yf thou shalt herken therfore vnto my commaundementes which I commaunde you this daye, that ye loue the Lorde youre God and serue him with all youre hertes and with all youre soules: then he will geue rayne vnto youre londe in due season, both the fyrst rayne and the later, and thou shalt gather in thy corne, thy wyne and thyne oyle. And he will sende grasse in thy feldes for thy catell: and thou shalt care and fyll thy selfe.
But beware that your hearts deceive you not that ye turn aside and serve strange gods and worship them, and then the wrath of the Lord wax hot upon you and shot up the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye peresh quickly from of the good land which the Lord giveth you.
But bewarre that youre hertes disceaue you not that ye turne asyde and serue straunge goddes and worshepe them, and thē the wrath of the Lorde waxe hote vpon you ād shott vp the heauen that there be no rayne and that youre londe yeld not hir frute, and that ye peresh quickly from of the good lōde which the Lorde geueth you.
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