The feast of tabernacles, Sc. Chap. xxiv. The law of blafphemy, &c. 113 faying, The fifteenth day of this feventh pure candlestick before the LORD conmonth, ball be the feast of tabernacles for tinually. leven days unto the LORD. $5 On the first day fall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no fervile work therein 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; two tenth deals shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt fet them in two rows, 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering fix on a row, upon the pure table before made by fire unto the LORD on the the LORD. eight day shall be an holy convocation 7And thou shalt put pure frankincenfe unto you and ye shall offer an offering upon eacbrow, that it may be on the bread, made by fire unto the LORD; it is a fol- for a memorial, even an offering made emo adembly; and ye shall do no fervile by fire unto the LORD. work berein. 37 Thefe are the feafts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering, a facrifice and drink-offerings, every thing upon his day: 8 Every fabbath he shall fet it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Ifrael by an everlast ing covenant 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his fons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place; for it is moft holy unto him of the offer38 Befide he fabbaths of the LORD,and Lings of the LORD made by fire by a perbende your gifts, and befde all your vows, [petual statute. and befide all your free-will-offerings, 10% And the fon of an Ifraclitish woman, which ye give unto the LORD. whofe father was an Egyptian, went out 39 Alfo in the fifteenth day of the fev-among the children of Ifrael; and this enth month, when ye have gathered in fon of the Ifraelitish woman, and a man the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast of Ifrael, ftrove together in the camp; unto the LORD feven days; on the firft 11 And the Ifraelitish woman's fon day ball be a fabbath, and on the eight blafphemed the name of the LORD, and day ball be a fabbath. curfed. And they brought him unto Mofes; and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall 12 And they put him in ward, that the rejoice before the LORD your God fev-mind of the LORD might be shewed them. en days. 13¶ And the LORD spake unto Mofes, faying, 41 And ye shall keep it a feaft unto the LORD feven days in the year. It shall be a ftatute forever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the feventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths feven days; all that are Ifraelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Ifrael to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 14 Bring forth him that hath curfed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation ftone him. 15 And thou shalt fpeak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, Whofoever curseth his God shall bear his fin. 16 And he that blafphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall furely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly ftone him; as well the ftranger, as 44 And Mofes declared unto the chil-he that is born in the land, when he blafdren of Ifrael the feasts of the LORD. phemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. CHAP. XXIV. 10 Shelomith's fon blafphemeth. 13 The 17¶ And he that killeth any man, shall law of blafphemy, 17 of murder, 18 of furely be put to death. damage 23 The blafphemer is foned. 18 And he that killeth a beaft shall AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes fay-make it good; beast for beast. ing, 19 And if a man caufe a blemishin his done to him; 2 Command the children of Ifrael, that neighbour; as he hath done, so shall itɔ: they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to caufe the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the veil of the teftimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually it shall be a statute forever in your generations He shall order the lamps upon the a 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caufed a blemish in man, fo shall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beaft, he shall reftore it; and he that killeth a ́man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the ftranger, as for one of your Own 114 The year of jubilee. LEVITICUS. Of oppreffion, &c. own country; for I am the LORD your after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy God. neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall fell unto thee. 23 And Mofes fpake to the children of Ifrael that they should bring forth him that had curied out of the camp, and ftone him with ftones And the children of Ifrael did as the LORD commanded Moíes. CHAP. XXV. 8 The jubilee. 14 Of oppreffion. 35 Ofcompaffion. 47 Of redeem ng fervants. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes in mount Sinai. faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and | fay unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you,then shall the land keep a fabbath unto the LoRD $ Six years thou shalt fow thy field, and fix years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewnefs of years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he fell unto thee. 17 Ye shall not therefore opprefs one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in fafety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therejin in fafety. 20 And if ye shall fay, What shall we 4 But in the feventh year thall be a fab-eat the feventh year? Behold, we shall bath of reft unto the land, a fabbath for not fow, nor gather in our increase: the LORD thou shalt neither fow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undreffed for it is a year of reft unto the land. 6 And the fabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy fervant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired fervant and for thy ftranger that fojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beafts that are in the land, shall all the increafe thereof be meat. 21 Then I will command my blefling upon you in the fixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall fow the eighth year, and eater of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old fore. 23 The land shall not be fold forever ; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and fojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your poffeffion ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and 8 And thou shalt number seven fab-hath fold away fome of his poffeffion, and baths of years unto thee, feven times fev-if any of his kin come to redeem it, then en years; and the fpace of the feven fab-shallhe redeem that which hisbrotherfold. baths of years shall be unto thee forty and 26 And if the man have none to redeem nine years. it, and himself be able to redeem it ; 9 Then shalt thon cause the trumpet of 27 Then let him count the years of the the jubilee to found, on the tenth day of fale thereof, and reftore the overplus unthe seventh month, in the day of atone-to the man to whom he fold it; that he ment shall ye make the trumpet found may return unto his poffeffion. throughout all your land. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is fold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the ju bilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his pofiellion. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his poffeffion, and ye shall return every man un'o his family.. 29 And if a man fell a dwelling house 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be in a walled city, then he may redeem it unto you; ye shall not fow, neither reap within a whole year after it is fold; withthat which groweth ofitfelfinit, nor gathin a full year may he redeem it. er the grapes in it of thy vine undreffed. 30 And if it be not redeemed within 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy the space of a full year, then the house unto you ye shall eat the increafe there-that is in the walled city shall be estabof out of the field. lished forever to him that bought it 13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall re-throughout his generations: it shall not turn every man unto his poffeflion. go out in the jubilee. 14 And if thou fell aught unto thy 31 But the houfes of the villages which neighbour, or buyeft aughtofthy neigh-have no walls round about them, shall be bour's hand, ye shall not opprefs one an-counted as the fields of the country; they other. may be redeemed, and they shall go out 32 Notwithstanding 15 According to the number of years in the jubilee, Of compaffion, &c. Chap. xxvi. 82 Notwithstanding the cities of the Le-, vites, and the houfes of the cities of their poffeffion, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was fold, and the city of his poffeffion, shall go out in the year of jubilee; for the houfes of the cities of the Levites are their poffeffion among the children of Ifrael. 34 But the field of the fuburbs of their cities may not be fold; for it is their perpetual poffeffion. Ableing promifed. 118 deemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him. 49 Either his uncle or his uncle's fon, may redeem hin, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family, may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was fold to him, unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his fale shall be accordingunto the number of years, according to the time of an hired fervant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him yea, though he be a ftranger, or a fojourner; that he may live 52 And if there remain but few years - with thee. unto the year of jubilee, then he shall 56 Lake thou no ufury of him, or in-count with him, and according unto his creafe; but fear thy God, that thy bro-years shall he give him again the price of ther may live with thee. his redemption. $7 Thou shalt not give him thy money 58 And as a yearly hired fervant shall upon ufury, nor lend him thy viduals for he be with him; and the orber shall not increase. rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 33 I am the LORD your God, which 54 And if he be not redeemed in thefe brought you forth out of the land of E-years, then he shall go out in the year of gypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and jubilee, both he and his children with him. to be your God. 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor,and be fold unto thee. thou shalt not compel him to ferve as a bondfervant ; 40 But as an hired fervant, and as a fo-1 journer, he shall be with thee, and shall ferve thee unto the year of jubilee. 55 For unto me the children of Ifrael are fervants; they are my fervants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; 1 am the LORD your God. CHAP. XXVI. Of idolatry. 3 A bleffing premised. 14 YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye fet up any image of ftone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God. 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family and unto the pollefion of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my fervants, which I 2 Ye shall keep my fabbaths, and revbrought forth out of the land of Egypt;erence my fanctuary: I am the LORD. they shall not be fold as bondmen. 31 If ye walk in iny ftatutes, and keep 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with my commandments, and do them; rigour, but shalt fear thy God. 4 Then I will give you rain in die fea 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bond-fon, and the land shall yield her increase, maids, which thou shalt have, fhall be of and the trees of the field shall yield their the heathen that are round about you; fruit. of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the fowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land fafely. 45 Moreover, of the children of the ftrangers that do fojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that arewith you, which they begat in your 6 And I will give peace in the land, land; and they shall be your poffeffion. and ye shall lie down, and none shall make 46 And ye shall take them as an inher-you afraid; and I will rid evil beafs out itance for your children after you, to in- of the land, neither shall the fword go herit them for a poffeffion; they shall be through your land. your bondmen forever; but over your 7 And ye shall chafe your enemies,and brethren the children of Ifrael, ye shall they shall fall before you by the fword. not rule one over another with rigour. 8 And five of you shall chafe an hun47 And ifa fojourner or ftranger wax dred, and an hundred of you shall put rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelten thou fand to flight; and your enemies letb by him wax poor, and fell himfelf shall fall before you by the fword. unto the stranger or fojourner by thee, or to the flock of the ftranger's family 48 After that he is fold he may be re 9 For I will have re pect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you,and eftablish my covenant with you. 10 And 116 Plagues threatened LEVITICUS. 10 And ye shall eat old ftore, and bring forth the old because of the new. for disobedience. 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you alfo in fury; and I, even 1, will chaftife you feven times for your fins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your fons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 11 And I will fet my tabernacle among you; and my foul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you,and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13. I am the LORD your God, which 30 And I will destroy your high places, brought you forth out of the land of E- and cut down your images, and caft your gypt, that ye should not be their bond-carcaffes upon the carcaffes of your idols, men; and i have broken the bands of and my foul shall abhor you. your yoke, and made you go upright. 31 And I will make your cities wafte, 14 But if ye will not hearken unto and bring your fanctuaries unto defolame, and will not do all these command-tion, and I will not fmell the favour of your fweet odours. ments; 15 And if ye shall defpife my statutes, 32 And I will bring the land into defoor if your foul abhor my judgments, folation; and your enemies which dwell that ye will not do all my commandments, therein shall be aftonished at it. but that ye break my covenant : 33 And I will scatter you among the 16 I alfo will do this unto you; I will heathen, and will draw out a fword after even appoint over you terrour, confump-you; and your land shall be defolate, and tion, and the burning ague,that shall con-your cities wafte. fume the eyes, and caufe forrow of heart: and ye shall fow your feed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will fet my face against you, and ye shall be flain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none purineth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you feven times more for your fins. 19. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brafs: 20 And your ftrength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it lieth defolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land reft, and enjoy her fabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth defolate it shall reft; because it did not reft in your fabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you, I will fend a faintnefs into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the found of a shaken leaf shall chale them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a fword; and they shall fall when none purfueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a fword, when none purfueth and ye shall have no power to 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me,ftand before your enemies. and will not hearken unto me; I will bring feven times more plagues upon you according to your fins. 58 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 22 I will alfo fend wild beafts among 39 And they that are left of you shall you, which shall rob you of your chil-pine away in their iniquity in your enedren, and destroy your cattle, and make mies' lands; and alfo in the iniquities of you few in number; and your high ways their fathers shall they pine away with shall be defolate. them. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contra ry unto me; 24 Then will I alfo walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your fins. 40 If they shall confefs their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trefpafs which they trefpaffed against me, and that alfo they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I alfo have walked contra25 And I will bring a fword upon youry unto them, and have brought them inthat shall avenge the quarrel of my cove-to the land of their enemies; if then their nant; and when ye are gathered together uncircumcifed hearts be humbled, and within your cities, I will fend the pefti- they then accept of the punishment of lence among you; and ye shall be deliv-their iniquity; ered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have broken the ftaff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven; and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be fatisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and alfo my covenant with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land alfo shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her fabbaths, while she lieth Concerning vows. Chap. xxvii. Sanctifying boufes and fields. 11 lieth defolate without them; and they the LORD, then he shall present the beaft shall accept of the punishment of their before the priest; iniquity; because, even becaufe, they defpiled my judgments, and because their foul abhorred my ftatute. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not caft them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Los D their God. 12 And the priest shall value it whether it be good or bad as thou valuest it, who art the priest, fo shall it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy eftiation 14 And when a man shall fanctify his houfe to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall eftimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall eftimate it, fo shall it stand. 45 But I will for their fakes remember the covenant of their ancestours, whom I 15 And if he that fanctified it will rebrought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the fight of the heathen, that I might deem his house, then he shall add the fifth be their God: I am the LORD. part of the money of thy ettimation unto 46 Thefe are the statutes, and judg-it, and it shall be his. ments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Ifrael in mount Sinai by the hand of Mofes. CHAP. XXVII. 1 Concerning vows. 28 No devoted thing may be redeemed. 32 The tithe may not be changed. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael,and fay unto them, When a man shall make a fingular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy eftimation. 16 And if a man shall fanétify unto the LORD some part of a field of his poffeffion, then thy estimation shall be according to the feed thereof an homer of barley feed shall be valued at fifty shekels of filver. 17 If he fanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall frand. 18 But if he fanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy efti 3 And thy eftimation shall be, of the male from twenty years old even unto fix-mation. 19 And if he that fanctified the field ty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of filver, after the shekel of will in any wife redeem it, then he shall the fanctuary. add the fifth part of the money of thy efti 4 And if it be a female, then thy efti-mation unto it, and it shall be affured to mation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy eftimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of filver, and for the female thy eftimation shall be three shekels of filver. 7 And if it be from fixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy eftimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have fold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the poffeffion thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if a man fanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his poffeffion; 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy eftimation, even unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall 8 But if he be poorer than thy eftima-give thine eftimation in that day, as a hotion, then he shall prefent himself before ly thing unto the LORD. the priest, and the priest shall value him; 24 In the year of the jubilee, the field according to his ability that vowed, shall shall return unto him of whom it was the priest value him. bought, even to him to whom the posses9 And if it be a beaft, whereof mention of the land did belong bring an offering unto the LORD,all that any man giveth of fuch unto the LORD fhall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad or a bad for a good and if he shall at all change beat for beat, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 25 And all thy eftimations shall be according to the shekel of the fanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 26 Only the firstling of the beafts, which should be the LORD's firftling, no man shall fanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S. 27 And if it be of an unclean beaft, 11 And if it be any unclean beaft, of then he shall redeem it according to thine which they do not offer a facrifice unto eftimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto; |