The feast of tabernacles. LEVITICUS The law of blafphemy. II And the Ifraelitish woman's fon by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering and this fon of the Ifraelitish woman and a meat offering, a facrifice, and and a man of Ifrael ftrove together in drink offerings, every thing upon his the camp; day: 38 Befide the fabbaths of the LORD, blafphemed the name of the LORD, and befide your gifts, and befide all and curfed. And they brought him your vows, and befide all your free junto Mofes: (and his mother's name will offerings, which ye give unto the was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, LORD. of the tribe of Dan :) 39 Alfo in the fifteenth day of the 12 And they put him in ward, that feventh month, when ye have ga-the mind of the LORD might be fhewed thered in the fruit of the land, ye them. fhall keep a feaft unto the LORD 13 And the LORD spake unto Mofeven days: on the firft day ball befes, faying, a fabbath, and on the eighth day ball 14 Bring forth him that hath curfed be a fabbath. without the camp; and let all that 40 And ye shall take you on the heard him lay their hands upon his Brit day the boughs of goodly trees, head, and let all the congregation branches of palm trees, and the ftone him. boughs of thick trees, and willows of 15 And thou shalt fpeak unto the the brook; and ye shall rejoice before children of Ifrael, faying, Whofoever the LORD your God feven days. curfeth his God fhall bear his fin. 41 And ye fhall keep it a feaft unto 16 And he that blafphemeth the the LORD feven days in the year; it name of the LORD, he shall furely be ball be a ftatute for ever in your gene-put to death, and all the congregation rations: ye fhall celebrate it in the hall certainly ftone him: as well the feventh month. ftranger, as he that is born in the 42 Ye shall dwell in booths feven land, when he blafphemeth the name days; all that are Ifraelites born all of the LORD, fhall be put to death. dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of lfrael to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 17 And he that killeth any man fhall furely be put to death. 18 And he that killeth a beaft shall make it good; beaft for beaft. 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, fo 44 And Mofes declared unto the chil-thall it be done unto him; dren of Ifrael the feafts of the LORD. CHAP. XXIV. ND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, 2 Command the children of Ifrael, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to caufe the lamps to burn continually. 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caufed a blemish in a man, fo fhall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beaft, he thall reftore it; and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye fhall have one manner of law, 3 Without the vail of the teftimony, as well for the ftranger, as for one of in the tabernacle of the congregation, your own country: for I am the LORD fhall Aaron order it from the evening your God. anto the morning before the LORD 23 And Mofes fpake unto the chilcontinually it shall be a ftatute for dren of Ifrael, that they fhould bring ever in your generations. forth him that had curfed out of the 4 Hé fhall order the lamps upon the camp and ftone him with ftones. And pure candlestick before the LORD the children of Ifrael did as the LORD continually. commanded Mofes, 5 And thou shalt take fine flour,and bake twelve cakes thereof; two tenth deals fhall be in one cake. CHAP. XXV. ND the LORD spake unto Mofes in mount Sinai, faying, 6 And thou shalt fet them in two 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, rows, fix on a row, upon the pure and fay unto them, When ye come table before the LORD. into the land which I give you, then 7 And thou shalt put pure frankin-fhall the land keep a fabbath unto the cenfe upon each row, that it may be LORD. on the bread for a menorial, even an 3 Six years thou shalt fow thy field, offering made by fire unto the LORD. and fix years thou shalt prune thy 8 Every fabbath he thall set it in vineyard, and gather in the fruit order before the LORD continually, thereof: being taken from the children of lfrael 4 But in the feventh year fhall be a by an everlasting covenant. fabbath of reft unto the land, a fab 9 And it thall be Aaron's and his bath for the LORD: thou shalt neither fons'; and they fhall eat it in the fow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. holy place: for it is moft holy unto 5 That which groweth of its own him of the offerings of the LORD made accord of thy harveft thou shalt not by fire by a perpetual statute. reap, neither gather the grapes of thy 10 And the ton of an Ifraelitifh vine undreffed: for it is a year of reft woman,whofe father was an Egyptian,Junto the land. went out among the children of ifrael; 6 And the fabbath of the land frali Of compasson. be meat for you; for thee, and for thy, feffion ye fhall grant redemption for fervant, and for thy maid, and for thy the land. hired fervant, and for thy ftranger that fourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beats that are in thy land, fhall all the increase thereof be meat. 8 And thou fhalt number feven fabbaths of years unto thee, feven times feven years; and the fpace of the feven fabbaths of years fhall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then halt thou caufe the trumpet of the jubilee to found on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of acnement shall ye make the trumpet found throughout all your land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath told away fome of his poffeffion, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then hail he redeem that which his brother fold. 26 And if the man have none fo redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the fale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he fold it; that he may return unto his poffeffion. 28 But if he be not able to reftore it to him, then that which is fold fhail 10 And ye fhall hallow the fiftieth remain in the hand of him that hath year, and proclaim liberty throughout bought it until the year of jubilee: and the land unto all the inhabitants in the jubilee it fhall go out, and he thereof; it fhall be a jubilee unto you; fhall return unto his poffeffion. and ye shall return every man unto his poffeffion, and ye thall return every man unto his family, 11 A jubilee fhall that fiftieth year be ento you: ye thall not fow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undreffed. 29 And if a man fell a dweiling houfe in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is fold; within a full year may he re deem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the fpace of a full year, then the houfe that is in the walled city fhall 12 For it is the jubilee; it fhall be be eftablished for ever to him that boiy unto you: ye thall eat the in-bought it throughout his generations: create thereof out of the field. it fhall not go out in the jubilee. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye fhall return every man unto his poffeffion. 14 And if thou fell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyeft ought of thy eighbour's hand, ye fhall not opprefs one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou fhait buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he fhall Sell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increafe 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 fruite doth he fell unto thee. 17 Ye fhall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye fhall do my tatutes, and keep my judgments, and do them and ye thail dwell in the land in fafety. 19 And the land fhall yield her fruit, and ye fhall eat your fill, and dwell therein in fafety. 20 And if ye thall fay, What fhall we eat the feventh year? behold, we fhall not fow, nor gather in our Increase: 21 Then I will command my bleffing upou you in the fixth year, and it fhall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye thall fow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye fhall eat of the old store. 23 The fand fhall not be fold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are Arangers and iojourners with me. 31 But the houfes of the villages which have no walls round about them fhall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they fhall go out in the jubilee. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities. of their poffeffion, may the Levites redeem at any time, 33 And if a man purchafe of the Levites, then the house that was fold, and the city of his poffeffion, half 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. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou fhalt relieve him: yea, though he be a ftranger, or a fojourner that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no ufury of him, or increafe: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon ufury, nor lend him thy victuals for increafe. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 Andif thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be fold unto thee; thou fhalt not compel him to ferve as a bond-fervant: 40 But as an hired fervant, and as a fojourner, he shall be with thee, and hallferve thee unto the year ofjubilees 41 And then hall he depart from 24. And in all the land of your pof-thee, both he and his children with Redemption of fervants. LEVITICUS. Biefings promifed. him, and fhall return unto his own to bow down unto it: for I am the family, and unto the poffeffion of his LORD your God. fathers fhall he return. 2 Ye shall keep my fabbaths, and 42 For they are my fervants, which reverence my fanctuary: 1 am I brought forth out of the land of LORD. Egypt: they fhall not be fold as bond-31f ye walk in my ftatutes,and keep my commandments, and do them; then. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but fhalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bond men and thy bond maids, which thou fhalt have, ball de of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bond men and bond maids. 45 Moreover, of the children of the ftrangers that do fojourn among you, of them fhall ye buy, and of their fa milies that are with you, which they Degat in your land; and they fhall be your poffeffion: 4 Then I will give you rain in due feafon, and the land fhall yield her increafe, and the trees of the field fhall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing fhall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage fhall reach unto the fowing time: and ye fhall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land fafely." 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye fhall lie down, and none fhall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beafts out of the land, neither shall the fword go through your land. 46 And ye fhall take them as an Inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a poffeffion; they fhall be your bond men for ever: but over your brethren the children of 8 And five of you fhall chafe an Ifrael, ye thall not rule one over ano-hundred, and an hundred of you shall ther with rigour. put ten thoufand to flight: and your enemies fhall fall before you by the fword. 7 And ye fhail chafe your enemies, and they fhall fall before you by the fword. 47 And if a fojourner or ftranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and fell himself unto the ftranger or foJourner by thee, or to the flock of the ranger's family: 48 After that he is fold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's fon, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him: or, if he be able, be may redeem himself. So And he fhall 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 fhall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of an hired feryant fhall it be with him. 9 For 1 will have refpect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with 11 And I will fet my tabernacle among you: and my foul fhall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye thall be my people." 131 am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye fhould not be their bond men; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all thefe com mandments; 51 If there be yet many years bebind, according unto them he fhall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 15 And if ye fhall defpife my ftatutes, 52 And if there remain but few or if your foul abhor my judgments, years unto the year of jubilee, then fo that ye will not do all my commandhe fhall count with him, and accord-ments, but that ye break my covenant ing unto his years fhall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired fervant fhall he be with him: and the other fhall not rule with rigour over him in thy fight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in thefe years, then he fhall go out in the year of jubilee, both la, and his children with him." 16 l'alfo will do this unto you;I will even appoint over you terror, con funption, and the burning.ague, that hall confume the eyes, and caufe forrow of heart: and ye fhall fow your feed in vain, for your enemies thall eat it. 17 And I will fet my face againft you, and ye fhall be flain before your enemies: they that hate you fhall 55 For unto me the children of reign over you; and ye fhall flee when Ifrael are fervants; they are my fer-none purfueth you. vants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XXVI. rear Y graven Dankee 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punifa 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: as wen; and youll 20 And your ftrength fhall he spent lin vaja: for your land shall not yield her increafe, neither fall the trees of the hand yield their fruits. of vows. 38 And ye fhall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies 21 Andif ye walk contrary unto me, thall eat you up. and will not hearken unto me; I will 39 And they that are left of you fhall tring feven times more plagues upon pine away in their iniquity in your you according to your fins. enemies' lands; and alfo in the ini quities of their fathers fhall they pine away with them. 221 will also fend wild beafts among you, which fhall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your bigh ways fhall be defolate. 40 If they fhall confefs their ini quity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trefpafs which they tref 23 And if ye will not be reformed paffed againft me, and that alío they by me by thefe things, but will walk have walked contrary unto me; contrary unto me; 41 And that I alfo have walked 24 Then will 1 alfo walk contrary contrary unto them, and have brought unto you, and will punish you yet them into the land of their enemies; feven times for your fins. if then their uncircumcifed hearts 25 And I will bring a fword upon humbled, and they then accept of the you, that shall avenge the quarrel of punishment of their iniquity: my covenant: and when ye are ga 42 Then will I remember my cove. thered together within your cities, Inant with Jacob, and alío my covenant will fend the peftilence among you with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant and ye fhall be delivered into the hand with Abraham will I remember; and of the enemy. I will remember the land. 26 And when I have broken the ftaff 43 The land alfo fhall be left of of your bread, ten women fhall bake them, and fhall enjoy her fabbaths, your bread in one oven, and they fhall while the lieth defolate without them: deliver you your bread again by and they fhall accept of the punish. weight and ye shall eat, and not be ment of their iniquity: because, even fatisfied. becaufe they defpifed my judgments, 27 And if ye will not for all this and because their foul abhorred my hearken unto me, but walk contrary flatutes. unto me; 44 And yet for all that, when they 28 Then I will walk contrary unto be in the land of their enemics, I will you alfo in fury; and I, even 1, will not caft them away, neither will I chaile you feven times for your fins. abhor them, to deftroy them utterly, 29 And ye fhall eat the fleth of your and to break my covenant with them: Sona, and the flesh of your daughters for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will for their fakes remem fall se eat. 30 And I will deftroy your high ber the covenant of their ancestors, places, and cut down your images, whom I brought forth out of the land and cast your carcafes upon the car-of Egypt in the fight of the heathen, cafes of your idols, and my foul fhall that I might be their God: I am the abhor you. LORD. 31 And I will make your cities wafte, 46 Thefe are the ftatutes and judg and bring your fanctuaries unto de-ments and laws, which the LORD made folation, and I will not fmell the between him and the children of Ifrael favour of your fweet odours. in mount Sinai by the hand of Mofes. CHAP. XXVII. 12 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which faying, dwell therein fhall be aftonished at it. A Nay the LORD fpake unto Mofes, 33 And I will featter you among the 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, heathen, and will draw out a fword and fay unto them, When a man shall after you and your land fhall be make a fingular vow, the perfons ball defolate, and your cities wafte. be for the LORD by thy effimation. 34 Then thall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it leth defolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then hall the land reft, and enjoy her fabbaths. 35 Asiongas it lieth defolate,it fhall ret; because it did not reft in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 3 And thy eftimation fhall be of the male from twenty years old even unto fixty years old, even thy eftimation thall be fifty fhekels of lver, after the fhekel of the fanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy efti mation fhall be thirty fhekels. 5 And if it be from five years old 36 And upon them that are left alive leven unto twenty years old, the of you I will fend a faintnefs into their thy eftination fhall be of the male bearts in the lands of their enemies; twenty fhekels, and for the female and the found of a fhaken leaf fhall ten fhekels. chafe them; and they fhall fee, as) 6 And if it be from a month old even Sving from a fword; and they fhall unto five years old, then thy eftima fall when none purfueth. tion fhall be of the male five fhekels 37 And they fhall fall one upon of filver, and for the female thy another, as it were before a fword,eftimation ball be three fhekels of when none perfueth: and ye fhali filver. have no power to ftand before your 7 And if it be from fixty years old land above; if it be a male, then th God commandeth Mofes NUMBERS. to number the people. eftimation fhall be fifteen fhekels,, 21 But the field, when it goeth out and for the female ten fhekels. in the jubilee, fhall be holy unto the 8 But if he be poorer than the LORD, as a field devoted; the pofeftimation, then he fhail prefent feffion thereof fhall be the prieft's. bimfeif before the priest, and the prieft fhall value him; according to bis ability that vowed hall the priest value him. 9 And if it be a beaft, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD fhall be holy. 22 And if a man fanctify unto the Loan 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 fhall give thine eftimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 10 He fhall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for al 24 In the year of the jubilee the field good and if he thall at all change hall return unto him of whom it was beaft for beaft, then it and the ex-bought, even to him to whom the pof. change thereof fhall be holy. feffion of the land did belong. II And if it be any unclean beaft, of which they do not offer a facrifice unto the LORD, then he fhall prefent the Deaft before the pricft: 25 And all thy eftimations shall be according to the fhekel of the fanc tuary: twenty gerahs fhall be the fhekel. 12 And the priest fhall value it, 26 Only the firfling of the beafts, whether it be good or bad: as thou which fhould be the LORD's firftling, valueft it, who art the preft, fo fhailino man fhall fanctify it; whether it be ox, or fheep: it is the LORD'S. it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he thall add a fifth part thereof unto thy eftimation, 27 And if it be of an unclean beaft, then he fall redeem it according to thine eftimation, and fhall add a fifth 14 And when a man shall sanctify part of it thereto; or if it be not his houfe to be holy unto the LORD, redeemed, then it shall be fold accordthen the priest faali eftimate it, whe-ing to thy eflimation. ther it be good or bad: as the prieft 28 Notwithtanding no devoted fball eftimate it, fo fhall it ftand. thing, that a man fhall devote unto the 15 And if he that fanctified it will LORD of all that he hath, both of man redeem his house, then he fhall add and beaft, and of the field of his poi the fifth part of the money of thy efti-feffion, fhall be fold or redeemed: mation unto it, and it fhall be his. every devoted thing is moft holy unto the LORD. 16¶And if a man fball fanctify unto the LORD fome part of a field of his poffeffion, then thy eftimation fhall be according to the feed thereof: an homer of barley feed fhall be valued at fifty fhekels of filver. 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, thali be redeemed; but fhall furely be put to death. 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the feed of the land, or of 17 If he fanctify his field from the the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: if year of jubilee, according to thy efti-is holy unto the LORD. mation it fhall ffand, 18 But if he fanctify his field after the jubilee,then the priest fall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it fhall be abated from thy flimation. 19 And if he that fanctified the field will in any wife redeem it, then he fhall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it fhall be affured to him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have fold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemned any more. 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he fhall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatfoever paffeth under the rod, the tenth fhall be holy unto the LORD. 33 He fhall not fearch whether it be good or bad, neither fhall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. 34 Thefe are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Mofes for the children of Ifrael in mout Sinai. THE FOURTHI BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED NUMBERS. CHAP. I. gregation of the children of Ifael, ND the LORD fpake unto after their families, by the houte Mofes in the wilderness of of their fathers, with the number Sinai,in the tabernacle of the of their names, every male by their congation, on the first polls day of the fecond month, in the fecond 3 From twenty years old and upyear after they were come out of the ward, all that are able to go forth to fand of Egypt, faying, war in Ifrael: thou and Aaron hall 2 Take ye the fum of all the con-number them by their armies.. |