DELIERONUMY. 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk, after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. again: but that which is thine ith thy bro- 4 Save when there shall be no poor among 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandinents which I command thee this day. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is C For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as anciean unto you: they shall not be eaten. he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that di- many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; eth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stran- and thou shalt reign over many nations, but ger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; they shall not reign over thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy one of thy brethren within any of thy gates, God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother; mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly the all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficiert 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first-the year of release, is at hand; and thine lings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy sou! lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shait eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine househoid, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: thou givest him nought, and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest anto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee,saying, Thou shalt thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. open 12 ¶ And if thy brother, an Hebrew man. or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath: blessed thee thou shalt give untohim. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no the LORD thy God redeemed thee: there part nor inheritance with thee,) and the fore I command thee this thing to-day. Stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and rhall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; (because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee ;) 17 Then thou shalt take an awl and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall At the end of every seven years thou re thy servant for ever: and also unto thy shalt make a 2 And this is the manner of the release: very creditor that lendeth cught unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact ill maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in ail that thou doest. 194 Ali the firstling males that come of thy herd, and of thy flock, thou shalt sane-which the LORD thy God hath chosen to tify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do place his name there. no work with the firstling of thy bullock, 12 And thou shalt remember that thou nor shear the firstling of thy sheep wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year, in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill bleish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. 25 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. CHAP. XVI. BSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bles thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands; therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the pass-place which he shall choose; in the feast of over unto the LORD thy God, of the flock unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and the herd, in the place which the LORD and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall choose to place his naine there. shall not appear before the LORD empty. 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction (for thou camest forth out of the land of 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make Egypt in haste) that thou mayest remem-thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy ber the day when thou camest forth out of God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes. and the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. they shall judge the people with just judgment. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificed the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment: thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. THOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish, or any evil-favouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, 2¶ If there be found among you, within and on the seventh day shall be a solemn as-any of thy gates which the LORD thy God sembly to the LORD thy God; thou shalt do giveth thee, man or woman that hath no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. wrought wickedness in the sight of the LOR thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard free-will-offering of thine hand, which thou of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it shalt give unto the LORD thy God, accord-be true, and the thing certain, that such aboing as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:mination is wrought in Israel; 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh- that woman, which have committed that ter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-ser-wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man vant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, or that woman, and shalt stone them with and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the stones, till they a r. widow, that are among you, in the place! 6 At the mout of two witnesses, or three witnewes, shall he that is worthy of death days in his kingdom, he, and his children, be put to death, but at the mouth of one in the midst of Israel. witness he shall not be put to death. CHAP. XVIII. The hands of the witresses shall be first it, shall have no part nor inheritTHE priests the Levites, and all the tribe upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people: s, thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy, within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD by God shall choose: 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment. 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand nor to the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that nan shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me: 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his ance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire,and his inheritance. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto thein. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The first-fruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons, for ever 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates, out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind uuto the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Lcvites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that use.h divi nation, or an observer of times, or an en chanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. 151 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredest of the LORD thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he 14 ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighhall speak in my name, I will require it of bour's land-mark, which they of old time Lim. have set in thine inheritance, which the 20 ¶ But the prophet which shall presume shalt inherit in the land that the LORD tiny to speak a word in my name, which I nave God giveth thee to possess it. pot commanded him to speak, or that shall 15 One witness shall not rise up against speak in the name of other gods, even that a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any prophet shall die. sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two wit hath not spoken? 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How nesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, hall we know the word which the LORD shall the matter be established. 16 ¶ If a false witness rise up against When a prophet speaketh in the name any man, to testify against him that which of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor is wrong; eone to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. CHAP. XIX. 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shail be in those days: 18 And the judges shall make diligent inTHEN the LORD thy God hath cut off the quisition: and, behold, if the witness be a nations, whose land the LORD thy God false witness, and hath testified falsely against giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and his brother; dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 19 Then shall ye do unto him as he has 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee thought to have done unto his brother: so the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy shalt thou put the evil away from among you. God giveth thee to possess it. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and di-fear, and shall henceforth commit no more ride the coasts of thy land, which the LORD any such evil among you. thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life parts, that every slayer may flee thither. shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, 4 And this is the case of the slayer which hand for hand, foot for foot. thall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso CHAP. XX. WHEN thou goest out to battle against killete his neighbour ignorantly, whom he Whine enemies, and seest horses and hated not in time past; 2 And shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, As when a man goeth into the wood with chariots, and a people more than thou, be his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand not afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is Cacheth a stroke with the axe to cut down with thee, which brought thee up out of the the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, land of Egypt. and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; be shall dee unto one of these cities, and live; 6 Les the avenger of blood pursue the gaver, while his heart is hot, and overtake Dim, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel; Ye approach this day unto baule against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye tercified because of them: 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeta with you, to fight for you against your ene mics, to save you. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to 5 And the officers shall speak unto the give unto thy fathers: people, saying, What man is there that hath 9 If thou shalt keep all these command-built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? ments to do them which I command thee this let him go and return to his house, lest he die dav, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk in the battle, and another man dedicate it. ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three 6 And what man is he that hath planted cities more for thee, besides these three: vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy him also go and return unto his house, lest he land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee die in the battle, and another man eat of it. for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 7 And what man is there that hath betroth11 But if any man hate his neighbour, ed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him and lie in wait for him, and rise up against go and return unto his house, lest he die in him, and smite him mortally that he die, and the battle, and another man take her. fleeth into one of these cities; 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the band of the avenger of blood,that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him: but thou ghalt put away the guilt of innocent blood trom Israel, that it may go well with thee, 8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies the name of the LORD;) and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be to lead the people. tried. 10 ¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley : 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eves seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's 13 And when the LORD thy God hath de-charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. livered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine eneinies, which the Loun thy God hath given thee. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are pot of the cities of these nations. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of inno cent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 10% When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare 13 And she shall put the raiment of her 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing her nails; that breatheth: 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; captivity from off her, and shall remain in namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God. thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long her, because thou hast humbled her. 15 If a man have two wives, one belotime, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by ved, and another hated, and they have born forcing an axe against them: for thou may-him children, both the beloved and the hated; est eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them and if the first-born son be hers that was down, (for the tree of the field is man's life,) hated: to employ them in the siege : 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his 20 Only the trees which thou knowest sons to inherit that which he hath, that he that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt may not make the son of the beloved firstdestroy and cut them down; and thou shalt born before the zon of the hated, which is build bulwarks against the city that maketh indeed the first-born: war with thee, until it be subdued. CHAP. XXI. 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, by giving him a I one be found slain in the land which the double portion of all that he hath: for he is LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, the beginning of his strength; the right of lying in the field, and it be not known who the first-born is his. hath slain him; 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebel 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall lious son, which will not obey the voice of come forth, and they shall measure unto the his father, or the voice of his mother, and cities which are round about him that is slain: that, when they have chastened him, will not 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next hearken unto them; 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer which hath not been hold on him, and bring him out unto the elwrought with, and which hath not drawn in ders of his city, and unto the gute of his place: 20 And they shall say unto the elders of the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring his city, This our son is stubborn and rebeldown the heifer unto a rough valley, which tious, he will not obey our voice; he is a is neither cared nor sown, and shall strike off glutton and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone 5 And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou come near; (for them the LORD thy God hath put evil away from among you; and all is chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in rael shall hear, and fear 152 |