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Foreword.

After "Luther's Great Interpretation of the First Book of Moses" has been included in the first two volumes of our edition, "Luther's Sermons on the First Book of Moses" from the y

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Content

Open this section of Luther's works.

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The third part of Luther's complete writings.

(Continued.)

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B. D. M. Luther's Sermons on the 1st Book of Moses,

Preached from March 15, 1523, to the fall of 1524; edited in 1527. Martinus Luther to the Christian readers grace and peace in Christo.

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An instruction on how Christians should send themselves in Moses,

preached by Martin Luther. (Preached after May 15, 1525, issued in 1526.)*)

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Preface to *) the sermons on the first book of Moses.**)

1. Since it is to be so ordered in Christianity that God's Word is always preached and practiced, and is daily kept alive (because all power lies in it alone, and souls cannot live

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The first chapter.

1 This is the beginning of this book, and it has truly begun on a high note. But we do not want to go too deep into it. It is enough if we can teach faith from it and understand Go

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The first day.

V. 3-5. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light as good. Then God separated the light from the darkness, and called the light Day, and the dark

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The other day.

V. 6-8. And God said, Let there be a firmament between the waters; and let it be a difference between the waters. Then God made the stronghold and separated the water under the str

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The third day.

1) Wittenberg and Erlangen: den. 2) Erlanger: "and" instead of: which.

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The fourth day.

V. 14-19. And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, dividing day from night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years, and let t

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The sixth day.

V. 24-27. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures, every one after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, every one after his kind. And it

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The other chapter.

V. 1-3. So the heavens and the earth were finished with all their host. And so on the seventh day God finished all his works which he had made. And rested on the seventh day from a

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The third chapter.

V. 1-6. And the serpent was more cunning than all the beasts of the earth, which God the Lord had made, and said unto the woman, Yea, should God have said, Ye shall not eat of ever

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The fourth chapter.

V. 1.2 And Adam slept with Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said: I have overcome 2) the man of the Lord. And she went on, and bare Abel his brother. And Abel be

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The fifth chapter.

This is the book of man's birth, at the time when God created man and made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name man,

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The sixth chapter.

V. 1-4. But when men began to multiply on the earth, and to beget daughters unto them, the children of God looked upon the daughters of men, how they were fair, and took them wives

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The seventh chapter.

There you see the right judgment of the Almighty God, which is terrible to hear, but much more terrible to see. St. Peter also quotes it, and moves it up: "God did not spare the fo

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The eighth chapter.

V.1-12. Then God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the box, and caused the wind to come upon the earth, and the waters fell, and the we

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The ninth chapter.

V. 1-3. And God blessed Noah and his sons, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Let your fear and dread be upon all the beasts of the earth, upon all the fowls of

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The tenth chapter

V. 1-12. This is the birth of the children of Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth; and they begat children after the flood. The children of Japheth are these: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thub

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The eleventh chapter.

V.1-9. Now all the world had one tongue and language. As they journeyed toward the east, they found a plan in the land of Sinear, and dwelt there. And they said one to another, Com

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The twelfth chapter.

And the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy father's country, and from thy friendship, and from thy father's house, unto a land which I will shew thee. And I will make thee a

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The thirteenth chapter.

(vv. 1-18) So Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife, and with all that he had, and Lot also with him, toward the south. Abram was loaded with cattle, silver and gold. And he wen

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The fourteenth chapter.

V. 1-16. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Elassar, and Kedorlaomor king of Elam, and Thideal king of the Gentiles, that they warred wi

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The fifteenth chapter.

After these things it came to pass, that the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a cloak, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy very great reward. And Abram said, Lord,

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The sixteenth chapter.

1-16 Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him nothing; but she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar, and said unto Abram, Behold, the Lord hath shut me up, that I should bear nothing. L

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The seventeenth chapter.

V.1-27. When Abram was nine and ninety years old, the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be without change; and I will make my covenan

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The eighteenth chapter.

V.1-20. And the Lord appeared unto him in the grove of Mamre, as he sat by the door of his tabernacle, when the day was hottest. And when he lifted up his eyes, and looked, there s

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The nineteenth chapter.

(vv. 1-38) The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. And when he saw them, he stood up to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to

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The twentieth chapter.

(vv. 1-12) And Abraham departed thence into the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and was a stranger in Gerar. And he said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then

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The twenty-first chapter.

V.1-5. And the Lord sought Sarah home, as he had spoken, and did unto her as he had spoken. And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the time which God had sp

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The twenty-second chapter.

1. there we have once again a piece of the legend of the holy old archfather. It is quite a fine piece, who could get it with words. Now we have heard how the good Abraham has stoo

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The twenty-third chapter.

V. 1-20. Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old, as long as she lived, and died in the capital city, which is called Hebron, 1) in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham cam

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The twenty-fourth chapter.

Abraham was old and well-born, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. And he said unto his eldest servant of his house, which had charge of all his goods, Put thine hand under

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The twenty-fifth chapter.

V.1-10 Abraham took a wife again, whose name was Keturah, and she bore him Simeon and Jaksau, Medan and Midian, Jezbak and Shuah. And Jaksan begat Seba and Dedan. And the children

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The twenty-sixth chapter.

(vv. 1-33) And there came a tempest into the land above that which was in the days of Abraham: and Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar. Then the Lord appeare

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The twenty-seventh chapter.

Cap. 26:34, 35 When Esau was forty years old, he took wives, Judith the daughter of Beri the Hittite and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, both of whom disobeyed Isaac and

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The twenty-eighth chapter.

Then Isaac called Jacob his son, and blessed him, and commanded him, saying unto him, Take not thee a wife of the daughters of Canaan, but arise, and go into Mesopotamia unto Bethu

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The twenty-ninth chapter.

V.1-8. Then Jacob lifted up his feet, and went into the country that lieth toward the east. And he looked, and, behold, there was a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of shee

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The thirtieth chapter.

(vv. 1-13) And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob nothing, she envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, Bring me forth children also, or else I die. And Jacob was very wroth with R

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The thirty-first chapter. *)

V.1-10. And the words of the children of Laban came before him, saying: Jacob has brought all our father's goods to himself, and from our father's goods he has brought such riches.

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The Thirty-Second Chapter.

And Jacob sent messengers before him unto Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir in the field of Edom, and commanded them, saying, Thus say ye unto Esau my lord, Thy servant Jacob

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The Thirty-Third Chapter.

1-20 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and saw Esau his brother coming with four hundred men. And he divided his children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maidservants, and set

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The Thirty-Fourth Chapter.

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went forth to see the daughters of the land 1). And when she saw Shechem the son of Hemor the Hivite, who was lord of the

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The Thirty-Fifth Chapter.

V.1-8. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, and go to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto God, which appeared unto thee, when thou fledst from thy brother Esau. Then s

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The Thirty-Sixth Chapter.

V. 1-43. This is the family of Esau, who is called Edom. Esau took wives of the daughters of Canaan, Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Ahalibamah the daughter of Ana, the

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The Thirty-Seventh Chapter.

V.1-36: Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. And these are the generations of Jacob: Joseph was seventeen years old, when he became a

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The thirty-eighth chapter.

V.1-30. About the same time Judah went down from his brothers and stayed with a man in Odollam whose name was Hira. And Judah saw there the daughter of a Cananite man, whose name w

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The Thirty-Ninth Chapter.

Joseph was brought down into Egypt, and Potiphar, an Egyptian man, Pharaoh's chamberlain, bought him of the Ishmaelites, which brought him down. And the Lord was with Joseph, and h

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The fortieth chapter.

vv. 1-23 And it came to pass afterward, that the steward of the king's taverns in Egypt, and the steward of the bakers, sinned against their lord the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was ang

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The Forty-First Chapter.

After two years Pharaoh had a dream that he was standing by the water and saw seven of his oxen coming up out of the water, all of them skinny, walking by the pasture in the meadow

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The Forty-Second Chapter.

(vv. 1-38) When Jacob saw that grain was on sale in Egypt, he said to his sons: Why do you watch? Behold, I hear that there is corn for sale in Egypt; go down and buy us corn, that

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The Forty-Third Chapter.

V.1-34: The land was oppressed by the famine. And when all the goods had been brought out of Egypt, Jacob their father said unto them: Go again, and buy us a little food. And Judah

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The Forty-Fourth Chapter.

(vv. 1-34) And Joseph commanded him that was over his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with meat, as much as they may carry, and put every man's money in the top of his sack. An

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The Forty-Fifth Chapter.

(vv. 1-28) Then Joseph could not refrain himself from all that stood round about, and he cried unto every man, Depart from me: and there stood no man with him, when Joseph confesse

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The Forty-Sixth Chapter.

Israel went with all that was his. And when he was come to Beer-saba, he offered sacrifices unto the God of Isaac his father. And God said unto him by night in a vision, Jacob, Jac

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The Forty-Seventh Chapter.

V. 1-3i. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father and my brethren, their flocks and their herds, and [all] that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, beho

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The forty-eighth chapter.

V.i-22. And Joseph was told, Behold, thy father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. And it was told Jacob, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee. An

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The Forty-Ninth Chapter.

(vv. 1-33) And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the latter days. Come in multitudes, and hear, ye children

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The fiftieth chapter.

(vv. 2-14) And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to anoint his father. And the physicians anointed Israel until forty days were expired: for so long were the days of ano

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of the second book of Moses. *)

[From the 1st to the 18th chapters.] Preached at Wittenberg from October 2, 1524 to 1526.

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The first chapter.

(1) In this chapter we hear of various things, especially how God began to help His people out of the bondage of Pharaoh, where they were in Egypt, and how He appointed Moses as du

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The second chapter.

V. 1-4: And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him thre

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The third chapter.

The third chapter teaches how Moses wandered in the desert when he left Egypt, where he saw a bush with fire, from which God spoke to him and commanded him to lead the people of Is

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Another sermon by D. M. Luther on the text Ex. 3, 1-6,

Gethan at Wittenberg in the parish church, on Easter Tuesday, afternoon, April 3, 1526.*) 1. since you, dear friends, have heard enough of the two days from the New and Old Testame

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The fourth chapter.

v. 1-9. Moses answered and said, Behold, they will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is it tha

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The fifth chapter.

Then Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may prosper in the wilderness. Pharaoh answered, Who is the L

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The sixth chapter.

V. 2-5. And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord, and appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, to be their Almighty God: but my name, O Lord, have I not

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The seventh chapter.

I. We have heard in the fifth and sixth chapters of this book how God the Lord strengthens and comforts these two, Moses and Aaron, so that they accept the office of speaking to Ph

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The eighth chapter.

1-7 The Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, `This is what the Lord says: Let my people serve me. If thou refuse, behold, I will plague all thy border with frogs,

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The ninth chapter.

(1) In the eighth and last chapter we have seven plagues that came upon the land of Egypt. First, that the rivers of water became full of blood; then, how God sent over the land fr

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The tenth chapter.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, whom I have hardened the heart of, and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of mine among them, and that thou

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The eleventh chapter.

V.1-3. And the Lord said unto Moses, I will bring another plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, and after that he shall send you away, and shall not only send all things away, but shall a

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The twelfth chapter.

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, This moon shall be the first moon with you, and from it ye shall take the moons of the year. Tell all the congregation

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The thirteenth chapter.

V.1-4. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, which all the mothers of the children of Israel bring forth, both of men and of cattle: for they a

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The fourteenth chapter.

V.1-4. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say that they turn about, and pitch their tent toward the valley of Hiroth, between Migdol and

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The fifteenth chapter.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying: I will sing to the Lord, for he has done a glorious thing; he has cast horse and chariot into the sea. We

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The sixteenth chapter.

Cap. 16:2, 3 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said unto them: Would to God that we had died in the land of

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The seventeenth chapter

(1) The previous chapter speaks of the great miracle that God performed for the children of Israel, feeding them with the bread of heaven in the wilderness for forty years, even th

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The eighteenth chapter.

V.1-8. And when Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' brother-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt, he t

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B. Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

1526. Printed in 1528. In these two chapters you will hear how God gave the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel and practiced them as follows. 1)

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The nineteenth chapter.

In the third month after the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they came that day into the wilderness of Sinai. For they departed from Raphidim, and went into the wilderness of

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The twentieth chapter.

V. 1. And the Lord spoke all these words. 001 Now when Moses had commanded the people that which the Lord had commanded him, that they should stand at the bottom, when he had set u

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The other table of Mosi.

The commandments in the other tablet descend to the neighbor, and indicate how one man should behave toward another. Thus follows the first commandment of the other tablet: The fir

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C. The Ten Commandments

preached to the people of Wittenberg by Father Martin Luther, Augustinian. *) Preached from the end of June 1516 to February 24, 1517. Printed in 1518.

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The first commandment. *)

You will not have other gods. 1) First, the question arises, why does he not command in an affirmative manner, namely: You shall have the right (proprium) or the One God, or: Worsh

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The other commandment.*)

This commandment (as well as all others) flows from the first commandment. For if the first one is kept, this one is also kept easily. Yes, it is already held. For it is for this r

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The third commandment.

"This is my commandment, that ye love one another," John 15:12. "Love is the fulfillment of the law," says the apostle, Romans 13:1O. If one has this, no law is necessary; without

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The fourth commandment.

The Jews have made this commandment powerless (irritum) by their statutes, as well as all other [commandments], because they have interpreted this honor only on words and signs and

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The fifth commandment.

1 ) It has been said of the commandments which refer to God, both to Himself and to those who are in His stead. Now the following six refer to the neighbor. And behold the admirabl

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The sixth commandment.

1 ) O a very short word, but a very far-reaching opinion, therefore it needs interpretation. Therefore let us listen to Christ who says Matth. 5, 27. f.: "You have heard that it wa

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The seventh commandment.

You shall not steal. 2) We have heard that the fifth commandment: "Thou shalt not kill" forbids the harm (offensionem) of the neighbor to his own person, but the sixth: "Thou shalt

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The eighth commandment.

2) This is the vice of the tongue, which the apostle James calls a world of iniquity. It is the most sinful member after the heart, and no member sins in so many ways except the he

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The ninth and tenth commandments.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house. Neither shall you covet his wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is his. 1) This is included in th

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D. The Ten Commandments of God

Made by D. Martin Luther, Augustinian.*) To have one God, that is, to have one from whom he provides, to be promoted in all good, to be helped in all evil; that wants to be, and is

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III. interpretations on the fourth book of Moses.

Deut. 6:22-27 And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron and unto his sons: Thus shall ye bless the children of Israel, saying: The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord make

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IV. Interpretations about the fifth book of Moses.

Presented to his monastic brothers from February 23, 1523 to the beginning of 1525. Published before May 1525. Newly translated from the Latin.

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Notes by M. Luther on the Fifth Book of Moses.

This book is called Deuteronomy, that is, the other law. For this is what Moses himself calls it in Deut. 17:18 ff, where he commands the one who would be king in Israel to take th

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The first chapter.

V. 1. 2. These are the words etc. This is a description of the land. The Hebrews use one and the same word "beyond" [XXXX, trans] when they want to say on that (ultra) or on this (c

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The second chapter.

This is (as he himself says in the text) thirty-eight years, so that the godless murmurers would perish gradually and the Gentiles would be given room to repent, and the unbelievin

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The third chapter.

Again, a promise is made beforehand, when they are to fight with Og, the king of Bashan, so that the history may be sanctified by the word of God, and the cause may be directed by

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The fourth chapter.

After the narration and short repetition is finished, he has addressed an exhortation to the hearers of the law in this chapter, which he will begin in the following chapter. But i

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The fifth chapter.

Here you have it that Moses, in order to complete Deuteronomy, preaches various sermons and calls the people together several times. Therefore, he always repeats on the following d

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The sixth chapter.

It seems to be peculiar to this Shebrew] language that it says "the fear of God" where. we say worship or reverence of God or Greek θεοσέβεια, as Moses here connects the two pieces

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The seventh chapter.

Moses goes on to indicate other occasions of ungodliness against the first commandment, and enters into the outward work in a very proper order; having first corrected the heart, t

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The eighth chapter.

This is a new and different sermon, as I said that Moses completed this book in many days and with many sermons. But in this chapter he deals with the occasion for breaking the fir

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The ninth chapter.

In this chapter, Moses cuts off another opportunity to transgress the first commandment, which is called spiritual pride, which boasts of righteousness and merit. This is the trust

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The tenth chapter.

What Moses says here about the second tablets belongs to the previous chapter, to make the sin that they had worshiped the calf great. For the chapters are not properly divided; as

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The eleventh chapter.

This chapter is a kind of conclusion (epilogus) of all the previous exhortations about the first commandment. For he repeats and inculcates the benefits they received in Egypt and

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The twelfth chapter.

Now that the spiritual explanation of the first commandment has been completed and the heart instructed, Moses moves on to the works and outward worship in works and ceremonies, an

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The thirteenth chapter.

To confirm what he said at the end of the previous chapter: "You shall do nothing to it," etc., Moses sets this whole chapter by wanting us to adhere to the word of God with such gr

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The fourteenth chapter.

After the place of worship is set, here he specifies the persons or the customs that pertain to the person, namely, what they should be like in their bodies. But he forbids three t

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The fifteenth chapter.

Because in the previous chapter he had begun to deal with the tithes in every third year for the provision of the poor, on the occasion of the annual tithes due to the Levites for

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The sixteenth chapter.

After the place and the persons are described and provided for, he makes here an order in relation to the times and feasts, particularly over the three main feasts, which concerned

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The seventeenth chapter.

After the first commandment of faith in God has been interpreted, with which both the internal and the external worship has been taught, Moses now comes to the second commandment,

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The eighteenth chapter.

This chapter also belongs to the preceding one and forms, as it were, the conclusion of the speech about the provision of the ministers of the word, of whom he spoke in the 16th ch

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The nineteenth chapter.

After the provisions on worship and authority are completed, Moses continues with the second part of the Law, namely love, which is contained in the second tablet. Therefore, this

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The twentieth chapter.

Moses still remains with the matter of the death stroke up to the 23rd chapter. Therefore, so that everything in this people would be guided by a certain word, he also gives them a

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The twenty-first chapter.

V. 1. ff. If you find a slain man in the land that is yours etc. Moses remains in this chapter still with the things, which concern war and blood. First, he introduces a great cerem

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The twenty-second chapter.

Up to this point, Moses has taught love almost only insofar as it belongs to the fourth and fifth commandments, namely, obedience to parents and the avoidance of death by which the

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The twenty-third chapter.

Cap. 22, 30. No one shall take his father's wife etc. 1) Moses continues to teach the commandments of love, and still presses with various laws on the sixth and seventh commandment

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The twenty-fourth chapter.

That the law of divorce is only a secular law, and that it was left out because of the hardness of the common people, is sufficiently proven by Christ (Matth. 19, 8). Therefore we

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The twenty-fifth chapter.

First, a law is given concerning the punishments of transgressors, that those who are not to be punished by death or money, but by beatings, shall be punished according to the meas

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The twenty-sixth chapter.

After the explanation of the holy ten commandments is finished, he concludes in this chapter all the sermons that have been preached about the commandments by adding, as it were, a

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The twenty-seventh chapter.

What he commanded here about the altar that was to be erected on Mount Ebal from unhewn stones and about the law that was to be written on it is a temporal commandment that was to

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The twenty-eighth chapter.

As this chapter is the longest, it is also the easiest, for it contains nothing more than a large heap of blessings and curses, by which he continues the previous chapter. and expl

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The twenty-ninth chapter.

This chapter with the two that follow is, as it were, the last sermon that Moses preached to the people, and it contains exhortations and reminders and other things of this kind to

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The thirtieth chapter.

In this chapter, Moses attaches the hope of repentance and the promise of forgiveness of sins if they repent, so that those who would recover through the instruction of the tribula

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The Thirty-First Chapter.

"He went away after the preaching of the law, the exhortation, the threat, and the way of fulfilling the law were finished, and everything that his ministry required of the people

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The Thirty-Second Chapter.

The Song of Moses is full of rebuke and reproach because of the so many and so great benefits that have been shown by God to the ungrateful and wicked people. And he clearly indica

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The Thirty-Third Chapter.

This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death, saying, "The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up to them from Seir; he came forth fr

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The Thirty-Fourth Chapter.

Moses did not write this chapter, but Joshua or Eleazar, unless you want to say that he described his death in this way, since he knew it beforehand. But that no man was able to fi

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B. D. Martin Luther's interpretation of some chapters [Cap. 1. 4-9] of the fifth book of Moses. *)

Preached at Wittenberg in 1529. (1) We have now read four books of Moses the prophet, in which we have seen how he gave many beautiful laws to the ancient Jewish people, and how he

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The first chapter.

1 Here he indicates the place where Moses preached this sermon, and it is said that this sermon or book was preached beyond the Jordan, because Moses did not cross the Jordan. The

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The fourth chapter.

V. 1. 2. And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and the statutes which I teach you, that ye do them, that ye may live, and come in, and possess the land which the Lord God of you

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The fifth chapter.

(1) Hitherto we have heard in the fourth chapter the beginning, or preface, which Moses set before the preaching which he would do of the ten commandments. For this is a book where

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The sixth chapter.

1. there we see that moses begins to strike out the first commandment masterfully and diligently. So he said: "I am the Lord, your God" etc. What does this mean? To this he answers:

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The seventh chapter.

V. 1-4. When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shalt cut off many nations from before thee, the Hittites, the Girgothites, the A

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The eighth chapter.

I. This chapter is a new sermon on the first commandment. For Moses, as we know, preached many sermons on this first commandment. But in this chapter he wants to admonish and urge

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The ninth chapter.

In the beginning of this fifth book of Moses [Preface § 2. 3.I have said that it is nothing else than a beautiful, delicious sermon or interpretation of the ten commandments of God

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C. D. Mart. Luther's Interpretation of the Song of Moses, Deut. 32.

Laid out in 1530 or later, issued in 1532. Translated from the Latin by Justus Jonas.

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The Song of Moses, Deut. 32.

(1) In this song (although he should speak in a friendly manner at the end), the prophet Moses does not need many gentle words, but speaks everything with great, excellent, hard ea

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V. Interpretations on the Second Book of Samuel.

1 St. Jerome writes that he was moved to reinterpret the Biblia from Hebrew into Latin, that the enemies of Christ, the Jews, mock us Christians, as if they had we do not have the

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Interpretation of David's last words, 2 Sam. 23:1-7.)

1 He means such last words, on which he wants to die and go away, as one says: Thereby I will leave it and remain forever. For these are not the last words of his life or regiment,