Chap. xviii. Chrift a Propcer. Cities of refuge. It According to the sentence of the law 5 For the LORD thy God hath chofen which they shall teach thee, and according him out of all thy tribes, tostand to minico the judgement which they shall tell thee ster in the nar e of the LORD, him and thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from his fons for ever. the sentence which they shall shew thee, 6 And if a Levite come from any of to the right hand nor to the left. thy gates out of all Ifrael, where he fo12 And the man that will do prefumptu- journed, and come with all the delire of oufly, and will not hearken unto the Priest his mind, unto the place which the LORD (that standeth to minifter there before the shall choote LORD thy God) or unto the judge, even 7 Then he shall minister in the Name of the the LORD his God, asall his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Ifrael. 13 And all the people shall hear, and LORD. fear, and do no more presumptuouily. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, 14 When thou art come unto the land beside that which cometh of the fale of his which the LORD thy God giveth thee, patrimony. and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell there-9 When thou art come into the land in, and shalt say, I will fet a king over me, which § LORD thy God giveth thee, thou like as all the nations that are about me: shalt not learn to do after the abomina- 15 Thoushaltin any wise set bim king tions of those nations. over thee whom the LORD thy God shall to There shall not be found among you choose, one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not fet a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 Butheshall not multiply horses to himfelf, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horfes: foraímuch as the LORD hath faid 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 filver and gold. 5 any one that maketh his fon or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uleth divination, or an observer of times, or enchanter, or a witch. Ora charmer, or a confulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 Forall that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of thoseabominations, the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 Forthese nations which thou shalt 18 And it shall be when hefitteth upon poffefs, hearkened unto observers of 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, times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not fuffered thee so to do. 15 The LORD thy God will raise ap unto thee a Prophet from the midst of 19 And it shall be with him, and heshall read therein all the days of his life: that thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto he may learn to fear the LORD his God, him ye thall hearken. to keep all the words of this law and thefe flatutes, to do them: 20 Thathis heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn notafide from the commandment to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong bis days in his kingdom; he, and his children in the midst of Ifrael. CHAP. XVIII. The Lord is the Priests and the Levites inberitance. 15 Cbrift to be beard. 22 The presumptuous propbet is to die. T He Priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shallhaveno part nor inheritance with Ifrael: they shalleat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath faid unto chem. 16 According to all that thou defiredit of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the affembly, faying, 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 faid unto me, They have well Spoken that & they havespoken. 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 themall that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that who foever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in myname, I wil require it of him. 20 But the Prophet which shall prefume to speaka word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speale, or, that shall speak in the nanie of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thousay in thine heart, How 3 And this shall be the Priests due from the people, from them that offer a facrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall we know the word which the LORD shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and hath not spoken: the two cheeks, and the maw. 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name 4 The first-fruit also of thy corn, of thy of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor wine, and of thy oyl, and the first of the come to pass, that is the thing which the fleece of thy sheep shalt thou give him. G4 Cities of refuge. Deuteronomy A false witnes LORD hath not fpoken, but the prophet 16 If a falie witness rite up against hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt any man to testifieagainst him that which not be afraid of him. CHAP. XIX. 1 The cities of refuge. 14 Tbeland-marknot to be removed. 16 The punishment of false witness. is wrong: 17 Then both the men between whom the controverdie is shall stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges which shall be in those days, 18. And the judges shall make diligent inquifition, and behold, , if the witness against his brother: W Hen the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou fucceedest be a falfe witness, and hath testified fallly them, and dwellelt in their cities, and in their houtes 3 19 Thenshall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so fhalt thou putevilaway from among you. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any fuch evil among you. 2 Thou shalt feparate thee cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to poffefs it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, && divide the coalt of thy land (which LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit) into three 21 And thine eye shall not pity, but life Parts, that every flayer may flee thither. shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for 4 And this is the cafe of the flayer, tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. CHAP. ΧΧ. which shall flee thither, that he maylive: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, t The priests exbortation to encourage the whom he hated not in time paft. people to battel. To How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclama tion of peace. As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour, to hew woods and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head flippath from thine enemies, and feest hories and the heive, and light upon his neighbour, chariots, and a people more then thou, that he dieshe shall flee unto one of those be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy cities, and live: God is with thee, which brought thee up 6 Leit the avenger of the blood pursue out of the land of Egypt. the layer, while his heart is hot, and over- 2 And it shall be when ye are come nigh take him, because the way is long, & flay unto the battel, that the priest shall aphini, whereas he was not worthy of death, proach and speak unto the people, inasmuch as he hated him not in time palt 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O 7 Wherefore I commanded thee, faying, rael, you approach this day unto battel Thou shalt feparate three cities for thee. against your enemies: let not your hearts 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge taint, fear not and do not trenible, neither hy coalt (as he hath sworn unto thy fa- be ye terrified because of them. thers) and give thee all the land which he 4 For the LORD your God is he that promifed to give unto thy fathers3 goeth with you, to fight for you againft 9 (If thou shalt keep all these com- yourenemies, to fave you. mandments to do them, which I command 5 And the officers shall speak unto thee this day, to love the LORD thy God the people, faying, What man is there and to walk ever in his wayes) then shalt that hath built a new house, and hath not thou add three cities more for thee, belide dedicated it? let him go and return to his these three, 12 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth houfe, left he die in the battel, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is be thathath planted thee for an inheritance, and fo blood be a vineyard, and hath not yeteaten of it? let him also go and return unto his houfe, lest he die in the battel, and another man tipon thee. 11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against eat of it. him, and fimite him mortally that he die, y And what man is there that hath beand fleeth into one of these cities: trothed a wife, and hath not taken her? 12 Then the elders of his city shall fend let him go & return unto his houfe, left he &fatch him thence, and deliverhiminto die in batte!, and another man take her. hand of avenger of blood, y he may die 8 And officers shall (peak further unto 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou the people; & they shall fay, What man halt put away the guilt of innocent blood there that is fearfulland faint-hearted; let from Ifrael, that it may go well with thee. him goand return unto his houfe, left his 14 Thou shalt not removethy neigh- brethrens heart faint as well as his heart. bours land-mark, which they of old time 9 Andit shall be when the officers have have fet in thine inheritance which thou madean end of speaking unto the people, fhalt nherit, in the land that the LORD that they shall make captains of the arthy God giveth thee to possess it. mies to lead the people. 15 One witness shall not rife up a- το When thou comest nigh unto a gainit a man for any iniquity, or for any city to fight againftit, then proclaim fin, in any tin that he finneth: at the mouth peace unto it. of two witnelles, or at the mouth of three And it thall be, if itmake thee anwitnesses shall the matter be established. fwer of peace, and open unto thee, then it Thall The people encouraged. Chap. xxi. Expiation of uncertain murar. shall be that all the people that is found 6 And all the elders of that city that are therein, shall be tributaries unto thee, and next unto the flain man, shall wash theit they shall ferve thee... hands over the heifer that is beheaded in 12 And if it will make no peace with the valley. thee, but will make war against thee, then 7 And they shall answer and fay, Our thou shalt besiege it. hands have not shed this blood, neither 13 And when the LORD thy God hath have our eyes seen it. delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt 8 Be mercifull, O LORD, unto thy peosmite every male thereof with the edge of ple Ifrael, whom thou hast redeemed, and the fword. lay not innocent blood unto thy people 14 But the women, and the little ones, of Ifraels charge. And the blood shall be and the cattel, and all that is in the city, forgiven them. even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of inunto thy felf: and thou shalt eat the fpoil nocent blood from among you, when thou of thine enemies which the LORD thy shalt do that which is right in the fight of God hath given thee. the LORD. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the ci- to When thou goest forth to war against ties which are very far off from thee, thine enemies, and the LORD thy God which are not of the cities of these nations hath delivered them into thine hands, and 16 But of the cities of thele people thou haft taken them captive. which the LORD thy God doth give thee It And feest among the captives a beaufor an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: 17. But thou shalt utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. tifull woman, and haft a defire 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 her nails. 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in 18 That they teach you not to do after thine house, and bewail her father and her all their abominations, which they have mother a full moneth: and after that thes done unto their gods, so shouldyefin a- shaltgoin unto her, and be her husband, gain't the LORD your God. and she shall be thy wife. 19 When thou shalt befiege a city a 14 And it shall be if thou have no delong time, in making war against it to take light in her, then thou shalt let her go it, thou shalt not destroy the trees there- whither the will, but thou shalt not fen of by forcing an ax against them for herat all for money, thou shalt not make thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt merchandise of her, because thou har not cut them down (for tree off field humbled her. CHAP. XXI. mans life) to employ them in the fiege. 15 I a man have two wives, one be20 Onely the trees which thou knowest loved and another hated, and they have that they be no trees for meat, thou shalt born him children, both the beloved and destroy, and cut them down; & thou shalt the hated: and if the first-born fon be hers build bulwarks against the city that ma- that was hated keth war with thee, untill it be subdued. 16 Then it ihalt be, when he maketh his fons to inherit that which he hath, that 1 The expiation of uncertain murder. 1 5 The he may not make the son of the beloved first-bornnot to bedif-inberited upon pri-first-born, before the fon of the hated vate affection. 18 A stubborn fon is to be which is indeed the first-born: loned to death. 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of Fone be found lain in the land which the hated for the first-born, by giving him the LORD thy God giveth thee to pof- a double portion of all that he hath, for sess it, lying in the field, and it be not he is the beginning of his strength, the known who hath flain him: right of the first-born is his. Then thy elders and thy judges shall Ifaman have a stubborn andre come forth, and they shall meature unto the cities, which are round about him that is lain. 3 And it fhat be that the citie which is next unto the lain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. bellious fon, which will not obey ý voyce of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chaftened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place: 4 And the elders of that city shall bring 20 And they shall say unto the elders of down heifer unto a rough valley, which his city, This our fon is stubborn and reis neither eared nor fown, and shall strike bellious, he will not obey our voice be off the heifers neck therein the valley, a giutton and a drunkard. 5 And the priests the fons of Levi shall at Andall the men of his city shall stone come near (for them the LORD thy God him with stones, that he die: fo shait thou hath chosen to minister unto him, and to put evil away from among you, and all blefs in the Name of the LORD and by Ifrael shalt hear, and fear. their word shallevery controverfie and e- 23 Andit a man have committed a fo very Aroke berried. G worth soward brethren.. Of humanity Deuteronomy. worthy of death, and he be to be put to 16 And the damfels father shall fay un death, and thou hang him on a tree: to the elders, I gave my daughter unto 23 His body shall not remain all night this man to wife, and he hateth her, upon the tree, but thou shalt inany wife 17 And to, he hath given occafions of bury him that day (for he that is hanged is speech against ber, saying, I found not thy accursed of God) that thy land be not de- daughter a maid; and yet these are the tofiled, which the LORD thy God giveth bens of my daughters virginity: and they thee for an inheritance.. hall ipread the cloth before the elders of CHAP.XXII. the city, 1 Of bumanity towards brethren. 20,23 of 18 And the elders of that city shall take adultery. 25 Of rape, 28 and offornica-that man and chattisehim. cation. 30 Incest. 19 And they thall amerce him in an hunHou shalt not fee thy brothers ox or dred shekels of filver, and give them unto and hide thy felf the father of the damsel, because he hath fromthem: thou shalt in any cafe bring brought up an evil name upon a virgin of them again unto thy brother. Ifrael: and she shall be his wife, he may And if thy brother be not nigh unto not put her away all his days.. thee, or if thou know him not, then thou 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens fhalt bring it unto thine ownhouse, and of virginity be not found for the damfel: it shall be with thee untill thy brother feek 21 Then they shall bring out the damafter it, and thou shalt restore it to him sel to the door of her fathers house, and again. the men of her city shall stone her with In like manner shalt thou do with his stones & the die, because she hath wrought afs, and so shalt thou do with his rai- folly in Ifrael, to play the whore in her fament, and with all loft thing of thy brothers house so shalt thou putevil away. thers, which he hath loft, and thou hast from among you. found, fhalt thou do likewife: thou may- 22 If a man be found lying with a woeft not hide thy felf. man married to an husband, then they 4 Thou shalt not fee thy brothers ass shall both of them die, both the man that or his ox fall down by the way, and hide lay with the woman, and the woman: fo chy felf from them: thou shalt furely shalt thou put away evil from Ifrael. help him to lift them up again. 23. If a damfel that is a virgin be be The woman shall not wear that which trothed unto an husband, and a man find pertaineth untoa man, neither shalla man her in the city, and lie with her: put on a womans garment for all that do 24 Then ye shall bring them both our 10 are abomination unto LORD thy God untoy gate of that city, and ye shall stone. 6If a birdsnest chance to be before them with stones that they die; the damthee in y way in any tree, or on y ground, fel, because she cried not being in the city; whether they be young ones, oregs, and and the man, because he hath humbled dam fitting upon young, or upon egs his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put khou shalt not take the dam with young, away evil from among you, 7 Butthou shalt in any wife let the dam 25 7 But if a man find a betrothed go, and take the young to thee, that it damfel in the field, and the manforce her:, may be well with thee, & that thou mayest and lie with her: then the man onely that prolong thy days. lay with her, shall die. 8 When thou buildest a new house, 26 But unto the damsel thou shait de chen thou shalt make a battlement for thy nothing, there is in the damsel no fin worroof that thou bring not blood upon thine thy of death: for as when a man riseth house, ifany man fall from thence. against his neighbour, and flayeth him, Thou shalt not fow thy vineyard even so is this matter. with divers feeds: leaft the fruit of thy leed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and with an afs together. 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none, to fave her. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, Sc lay hold on Thoushalt not wear a garment her, and lie with her, and they be found: of divers forts, as of woolien and linnen 29 Then the man that lay with her shall. together. give unto the damfels father fifty shekels 121 Thou shalt make thee fringes of filver, and she small be his wife, because he hath humbledher, he may not put her away all his days.. ampon the four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 Ifany man take a wife, and goin unto her, and hateher, 14 And give occafions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and lay, I took this woman, and when came to her, I found her nota maid. 15. Then thall the father of the damfel, and her mother, take and bring forth the Pekens of the dammfels virginity for ets of the city in the gare. 30 A man shall not takehis fathers. wife, nor difcover his fathers skirt.. CHAP. XXIII. 2 Wbo may, or who may not enter into the Hathamber o Ethat is wounded in the ftones, or Chap. xxiv. Divers laws and ordinances Of adultery. A bastard shall not enter into the con- 20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend gregation of the LORD, even to his tenth upon ufury, but unto thy brother thou generation shall he not enter into the con-shalt not lend upon ufury, that the LORD gregation of the LORD. thy God may bless thee in all that thou 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not fettest thine hand to, in the land whither enter into the congregation of the LORD, thou guest to poffef's it. even to their tenth generation shall they 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto not enter into the congregation of the the LORD thy God, thou shalt not flack tor LORD for ever: pay it: for LORD thy God will furely re 4. Because they met you not with bread quire it of thee:& it would be sin in thee. and with water in the way, when ye came 22 But ifthou shalt forbear to vow, ic *forth out of Egypt, and because they shall be nofin in thee. hired against thee Balaam the fon of Beor. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips, of Pethor of Mefopotamia, to curse thee thou shalt keep and perform; even free5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God will-offering, according as thou haft vowwould not hearken unto Balaam: but the ed unto the LORD thy God: which thou LORD thy God turned the curse into a haft prom sed with thy mouth. bleffing unto thee, because the LORD thy 24 When thou comest into thy neigh. God loved thee. bours, vineyard, then thou mayeft eat 6. Thou shalt not feek their peace, nor grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure, their profperity all thy days for ever. but thou shalt not put any in thy velfel. 7 Thou shalt notabhor an Edomite, 25 When thou comest into the fland for he is thy brother: thou shalt notab-ing-corn of thy neighbours, then thou hor an Egyptian, because thou wast a mayeft pluck the ears with thine hand: but stranger in his land. thou shalt not move a fickle unto thy 8 The children that are begotten of neighbours standing-corn. them, shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in the third generation. 9. When the host goeth forthagainst thine enemies: then keep thee from every wicked thing. CHAP. XXIV. 1 Ofdivorce. 6, 10. Of pledges. 7 Of monftealers. 8 Ofleprofie. 14. The bire is to be given. 16 Of justice. W Hen a man hath taken a wife and 10.1 If there be among you any man married her, and it come to pais that is not clean, by reason of uncleanness that she find no favour in his eyes, because that chanceth him by night, then shall he he hath found fome uncleanness in her: go abroad out of the camp, he shall not then let him write her a bill of divorce come within the camp. ment, and give it in her hand, and fend But it shall be when evening cometh her out of his house. on, he shall wash bimself with water: and 2 And when she is departed out of his when thesun is down, he shall come into house, she may go & be another mans wife the camp again. 3. And if the latter husband hate her 12'Thou shalt have place also withouty and writehera bill of divorcement, and camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. giveth it in her hand, and fendeth her our 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon of his house, or if the latter husband die, thy weapon, and it shall be when thou wilt which took her to be his wife cafe thy felf abroad, thou shalt dig there- 4 Her former husband which fent hera. with, and shalt turn back and cover that way, may not take her again to be his wife which cometh from thee, after that she is defiled: for that is abomi nation before the LORD, and thou fhale not cause the land to fin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shallthy camp beholy, that he 5 When a man hath taken a new wife, fee-no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master, the servant which is escaped from his mafter unto thee. he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged withany business, but he shall be free at home one year, and shall chear up his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the nether or 16 Heshall dwell with thee, even among the upper milftone to pledge: for he taketh you, in that place which he shall choose, a mans life to pledge. evil away from among you. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire ofa, 81 Takeheed, in the plague of lepro whore or the price of a dog into the house fie that thou obfèrve diligently, and do of the LORD thy God for any vow: for according to all that the Priests the Le even both these art abomination unto the vites shall teach you: asl commanded LORD thy God. them, fe ye shall obferve to do 1917 hou shalt not lend upon ufury to Remember what the LORD thy God thy brother, ufury of money, ufury of did unto Miriam by the ways after that yo victuals, ufury of any thing that is lent were come forth out of Egypt. 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