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In Deuteronomy Chapter 4. verse 33. is a like fault to this,¹ but something worse in your latin translations. Moses saith, did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of a fire, ⟨p. 295⟩as thou hast heard, and lived? ²your translations all have thus, As thou hast heard and seen. In some copies you have given us a marginal correction, but that is not much truer then the corruption of the text, save that this speaketh of living, and the other of seeing. So in the. 15. Chap. 10. v. in stead of these words, God shall bless thee in all thy works, ³your translation hath, God shall bless thee at all times: first taking time ⁴for works, & then leaving out the affix, thine. In the. 33. Chap. 10. v. a word of weighty and necessary force is omitted by your translator in declaring the office of the Levites, which especially consisted in teaching the people the law of God: and so saith the true text.⁵ They shall teach Jacob thy judgements, & Israel thy Law. But in your latin books, the word that signifieth to teach, which was most to be respected, and whereupon dependeth that which followeth, is both in the text and margin of your translations wanting, and thus stand the words; They have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant, thy judgments O Jacob, and thy law O Israel. Now I appeal to the conscience of all the learned, whether this be not a notorious depraving of ⟨p. 296⟩Gods word, where it is prescribed that the Levites should teach Jacob and Israel the judgements and law of God, to leave out the word whereby they were charged to teach: and whereas the duty of teaching Jacob Gods judgements, and Israel his law was laid upon them, to make thereof an other sense so much repugnant, that they have observed the judgements of Jacob, and the law of Israel.