CHAP. XIV.

Tithes of divine service. manded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put 2 For thou art an holy people unto the the evil away from the midst of thee. LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of above all the nations that are upon the thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine earth.

own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let 3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable us go and serve other gods, which thou hast thing. not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of hand shall be first upon him to put him to them that chew the cud, or of them that dideath, and afterward the hand of all the vide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the people. hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

17 And there shall cleave nought of the 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that may turn from the fierceness of his anger, dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the and shew thee mercy, and have compassion stranger that is in thy gates, that he may upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien : for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD

thy God, in the place which he shall choose

God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor to place his name there, the tithe of thy

make any baldness between your eyes for corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the the dead. firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks;

Of the year of release;

DEUTERONOMY.

and of an Hebrew servant. that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy | 9 Beware that there be not a thought in God alway. thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year,

24 ¶ And if the way be too long for thee, the year of release, is at hand; and thine so that thou art not able to carry it; or if eye be evil against thy poor brother, and the place be too far from thee, which the thou givest him nought; and he cry unto LORD thy God shall choose to set his name the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

thee:
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and
25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, thine heart shall not be grieved when thou
and bind up the money in thine hand, and givest unto him: because that for this thing
shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy
God shall choose:
works, and in all that thou puttest thine

26 And thou shalt bestow that money hand unto.
for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for 11 For the poor shall never cease out of
oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong the land: therefore I command thee, say-
drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: ing, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto
and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy,
thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and in thy land.

thine household.

12¶ And if thy brother, an Hebrew 27 And the Levite that is within thy man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for he thee, and serve thee six years; then in the hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 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:

28 1 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: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out part nor inheritance with thee,) and the of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, of thy wine-press of that wherewith the which are within thy gates, shall come, and LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD give unto him. thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

CHAP. XV.

15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: there

At the end of every seven years thou fore I command thee this thing to-day.

shalt make a

2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought 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 it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release:

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 be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do like

wise.

4 Save when there shall be no poor 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when among you; for the LORD shall greatly thou sendest him away free from thee: for bless thee in the land which the LORD thy he hath been worth a double hired servant God giveth thee for an inheritance to pos- to thee, in serving thee six years: and the sess it: LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that

5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto thou doest. the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe 19¶ All the firstling males that come of to do all these commandments which I thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanccommand thee this day. tify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do

6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as no work with the firstling of thy bullock, he promised thee: and thou shalt lend un-nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD and thou shalt reign over many nations, but thy God year by year in the place which they shall not reign over thee. the LORD shall choose, thou and thy house

7¶ If there be among you a poor man hold. of one of thy brethren within any of thy 21 And if there be any blemish therein. gates in thy land which the LORD thy God as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates:

brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide the unclean and the clean person shall eat unto him, and shalt surely lend him suffi- it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. cient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood

thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground the Levite, the

as water.

OB

CHAP. XVI.

BSERVE the month of Abib, and
keep the passover unto the LORD thy

Idolaters must be slain. 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 God: for in the month of Abib the LORD which the LORD shall choose: because the thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt

LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine by night. increase, and in all the works of thine hands, 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the pass- therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. over unto the LORD thy God, of the flock 16 Three times in a year shall all thy and the herd, in the place which the LORD males appear before the LORD thy God in shall choose to place his name there. the place which he shall choose; in the

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; and they shall not appear before the LORD for thou camest forth out of the land of empty: Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst 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.

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judg

ment.

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.

THO

HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherethee: begin to number the seven weeks in is blemish, or any evil favouredness: from such time as thou beginnest to put the for that is an abomination unto the LORD sickle to the corn.

thy God.

10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks 2 ¶ If there be found among you, within unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a any of thy gates which the LORD thy God freewill-offering of thine hand, which thou giveth thee, man or woman that hath shalt give unto the LORD thy God, ac- wrought wickedness in the sight of the cording as the LORD thy God hath blessed LORD thy God, in transgressing his covethee: nant,

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the 3 And hath gone and served other gods, LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy and worshipped them, either the sun, or daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy moon, or any of the host of heaven, which maid-servant, and the Levite that is within I have not commanded;

thy gates, and the stranger, and the father- 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard less, and the widow, that are among you, of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, in the place which the LORD thy God hath it be true, and the thing certain, that such chosen to place his name there. abomination is wrought in Israel:

12 And thou shalt remember that thou 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt or that woman, which have committed that observe and do these statutes. wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and be put to death; but at the mouth of one thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and witness he shall not be put to death.

Election and duty of a king. DEUTERONOMY.

The Levite's portion.

7 The hands of the witnesses shall be his brethren, and that he turn not aside first upon him to put him to death, and af- from the commandment to the right hand terward the hands of all the people. So or to the left: to the end that he may prothou shalt put the evil away from among long his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. CHAP. XVIII.

you.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for

thee in judgment, between blood and blood, THE priests the Levites, and all the tribe
between plea and plea, and between stroke of Levi, shall have no part nor inherit-
and stroke, being matters of controversy ance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings
within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and of the LORD made by fire, and his inherit-
get thee up into the place which the LORD ance.
thy God shall choose;

2 Therefore shall they have no inherit9 And thou shalt come unto the priests ance among their brethren: the LORD is the Levites, and unto the judge that shall their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. be in those days, and inquire; and they 3 ¶ And this shall be the priest's due shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: from the people, from them that offer a 10 And thou shalt do according to the sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and sentence, which they of that place which they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and the two cheeks, and the maw. and thou shalt observe to do according to 4 The first-fruit also of thy corn, of thy all that they inform thee: wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the 11 According to the sentence of the law fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. which they shall teach thee, and according 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen to the judgment which they shall tell thee, him out of all thy tribes, to stand to ministhou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from ter in the name of the LORD, him and his the sentence which they shall shew thee, sons for ever. to the right hand, nor to the left.

6 ¶ And if a Levite come from any of 12 And the man that will do presump- thy gates out of all Israel, where he sotuously, and will not hearken unto the journed, and come with all the desire of his priest that standeth to minister there be- mind unto the place which the LORD shall fore the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man 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.

choose;

7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

14 When thou art come unto the land 8 They shall have like portions to eat, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and beside that which cometh of the sale of shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and his patrimony.

shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as 9 ¶ When thou art come into the land all the nations that are about me; which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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.

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with faEgypt, to the end that he should multiply miliar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromanhorses forasmuch as the LORD hath said cer. unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no 12 For all that do these things are an more that way. abomination unto the LORD: and because of

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to these abominations the LORD thy God doth himself, that his heart turn not away: nei- drive them out from before thee.

ther shall he greatly multiply to himself 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD silver and gold. thy God.

18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon 14 For these nations, which thou shalt the throne of his kingdom, that he shall possess, hearkened unto observers of times, write him a copy of this law in a book out and unto diviners: but as for thee, the of that which is before the priests the Le- LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so vites. to do.

19 And it shall be with him, and he 15 The LORD thy God will raise up shall read therein all the days of his life: unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, that he may learn to fear the LORD his of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him God, to keep all the words of this law and ye shall hearken. these statutes, to do them:

16 According to all that thou desiredst 20 That his heart be not lifted up above of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day

The cities of refuge.

CHAP. XIX, XX. Punishment of a false witness. of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear ments to do them, which I command thee again the voice of the LORD my God, nei- this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to ther let me se this great fire any more, walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add that I die not. three cities more for thee, beside these three:

17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from thee for an inheritance, and so blood be among their brethren, like unto thee, and upon thee.

will put my words in his mouth; and he 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, shall speak unto them all that I shall com- and lie in wait for him, and rise up against mand him. him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him."

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

21. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

14 ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land-mark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

15 One witness shall not rise up

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the against a man for any iniquity, or for any LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth not be afraid of him. of three witnesses, shall the matter be estaCHAP. XIX. blished.

WE

THEN the LORD thy God hath cut off 16 ¶ If a false witness rise up against the nations, whose land the LORD any man to testify against him that which thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest is wrong;

them, and dwellest in their cities, and in 17 Then both the men between whom the their houses; controversy is shall stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges, which shall be in those days;

2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hateth not in time past;

18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, down the tree, and the head slippeth from hand for hand, foot for foot. the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour,

CHAP. XX.

that he die; he shall flee unto one of these W HEN thou goest out to battle against cities, and live:

thine enemies, and seest horses, and 6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue the chariots, and a people more than thou, be not slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is him, because the way is long, and slay him; with thee, which brought thee up out of the whereas he was not worthy of death, inas- land of Egypt. much as he hated him not in time past.

7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

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 give unto thy fathers;

2 And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither 9 If thou shalt keep all these command-be ye terrified because of them;