The devoted cities. DEUTERONOMY. Of uncertain murder. 4 For the LORD your God is he that go- long time in making war against it to take eth with you, to fight for you against your it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof enemies, to save you. by forcing an ax against them; for thou 5 ¶ And the officers shall speak unto the mayest eat of them: and thou shalt not cut people, saying, What man is there that hath them down (for the tree of the field is man's built a new house, and hath not dedicated life) to employ them in the siege : it? let him go and return unto his house, 20 Only the trees which thou knowest lest he die in the battle, and another man that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt dedicate it. destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt 6 And what man is he that hath planted build bulwarks against the city that maketh a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? war with thee, until it be subdued. let him also go and return unto his house,| lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. IF CHAP. XXI. F one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to pos7 And what man is there that hath be- sess it, lying in the field, and it be not trothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let known who hath slain him': him go and return unto his house, lest he 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall die in the battle, and another man take come forth, and they shall measure unto her. the cities which are round about him that 8 And the officers shall speak further is slain: unto the people, and they shall say, What 3 And it shall be that the city which is man is there that is fearful and faint-heart- next unto the slain man, even the elders of ed? let him go and return unto his house, that city shall take an heifer which hath lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his not been wrought with, and which hath heart. not drawn in the yoke; 9 And it shall be, when the officers have 4 And the elders of that city shall bring made an end of speaking unto the people, down the heifer unto a rough valley, which that they shall make captains of the armies is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike to lead the people. off the heifer's neck there in the valley; 10 ¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein, shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near, (for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD,) and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried; 6 And all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then the valley: thou shalt besiege it; 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay 14 But the women, and the little ones, not innocent blood unto thy people of Isand the cattle, and all that is in the city, rael's charge. And the blood shall be foreven all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take given them. unto thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy 16 ¶ But of the cities of these people God hath delivered them into thine hands, which the LORD thy God doth give thee and thou hast taken them captive, for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive 11 And seest among the captives a beaunothing that breatheth: tiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, thine house, and she shall shave her head, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God and pare her nails: hath commanded thee: . 13 And she shall put the raiment of her 18 That they teach you not to do after captivity from off her, and shall remain in all their abominations which they have thine house, and bewail her father and her done unto their gods; so should ye sin mother a full month: and after that, thou against the LORD your God. shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, 19 ¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a and she shall be thy wife. Inheritance of the first-born. CHAP. XXII. Punishment of adultery. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no de- 5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that light in her, then thou shalt let her go whi- which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall ther she will; but thou shalt not sell her a man put on a woman's garment: for all at all for money; thou shalt not make mer- that do so are abomination unto the LORD chandise of her, because thou hast hum- thy God. bled her 6 ¶ If a bird's nest chance to be before 15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one be- thee in the way in any tree, or on the loved, and another hated, and they have ground, whether they be young ones, or born him children, both the beloved and the eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, hated; and if the first-born son be hers or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the that was hated: dam with the young: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may may not make the son of the beloved first- be well with thee, and that thou mayest born, before the son of the hated, which is prolong thy days. indeed the first-born : 8 When thou buildest a new house, 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of then thou shalt make a battlement for thy the hated for the first-born, by giving him roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine a double portion of all that he hath: for he house, if any man fall from thence. is the beginning of his strength; the right 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard of the first-born is his. with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened 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; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. CHAP. XXII. THO 10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of the vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasion of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her. 17 And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 Ånd the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hun2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto dred shekels of silver, and give them unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou the father of the damsel, because he hath shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it brought up an evil name upon a virgin of shall be with thee until thy brother seek af- Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may ter it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. not put her away all his days. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his 20 But if this thing be true, and the toass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; kens of virginity be not found for the damand with all lost things of thy brother's, sel: which he hath lost, and thou hast found, 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide to the door of her father's house, and the thyself. men of her city shall stone her with stones 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or that she die; because she hath wrought folhis ox fall down by the way, and hide thy-ly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's self from them: thou shalt surely help him house: so shalt thou put evil away from to lift them up again. among you. Uncleanness to be avoided. DEUTERONOMY. Of vows and trespasses. 22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a wo- 8 The children that are begotten of them man married to an husband, then they shall shall enter into the congregation of the both of them die, both the man that lay with LORD in their third generation. the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou 9 ¶ When the host goeth forth against put away evil from Israel. thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 10 If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness 24 Then ye shall bring them both out that chanceth him by night, then shall he unto the gate of that city, and ye shall go abroad out of the camp, he shall not stone them with stones that they die; the come within the camp: damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth 25¶ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay abroad: with her shall die: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do thy weapon: and it shall be when thou wilt nothing; there is in the damsel no sin wor- ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therethy of death for as when a man riseth with, and shalt turn back, and cover that against his neighbour, and slayeth him, which cometh from thee: even so is this matter: 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. 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 shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from 28 ¶ If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold thee. on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his mas29 Then the man that lay with her shall ter the servant which is escaped from his give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels master unto thee: of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 ¶ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. CHAP. XXIII. 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the HE that is wounded in the stones, or sons of Israel. hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 18 ¶ Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even 2 A bastard shall not enter into the con- both these are abomination unto the LORD gregation of the LORD; even to his tenth thy God. generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 19 ¶ Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 3 ¶ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not 20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upenter into the congregation of the LORD for on usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to 5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely not hearken unto Balaam : but the LORD require it of thee; and it would be sin in thy God turned the curse into a blessing thee. unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a free7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, will-offering, according as thou hast vowed for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger promised with thy mouth. in his land. 24 ¶ When thou comest into thy neigh Sundry laws CHAP. XXIV, XXV. and ordinances. bour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure; but are in thy land within thy gates: thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 15 At his day thou shalt give him his 25 When thou comest into the standing- hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it, corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon pluck the ears with thine hand: but thou it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's and it be sin unto thee. standing corn. CHAP. XXIV. HEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore command thee to do this thing. I 19¶When thou cuttest down thine har3 And if the latter husband hate her, vest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in and write her a bill of divorcement, and the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherof his house; or if the latter husband die, less, and for the widow: that the LORD thy which took her to be his wife; God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 4 Her former husband which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inherit ance. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: 5 ¶ When a man hath taken a new wife, it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherhe shall not go out to war, neither shall he less, and for the widow. be charged with any business: but he shall 22 And thou shalt remember that thou be free at home one year, and shall cheer wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt: up his wife which he hath taken. therefore I command thee to do this thing. CHAP. XXV. 6¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. IF [F there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 ¶ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house 5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, and one to fetch his pledge: of them die and have no child, the wife of 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man the dead shall not marry without unto a to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the stranger: her husband's brother shall go in pledge abroad unto thee: unto her, and take her to him to wife, and 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt perform the duty of an husband's brother not sleep with his pledge : unto her. 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him 6 And it shall be, that the first-born the pledge again when the sun goeth down, which she beareth, shall succeed in the that he may sleep in his own raiment, and name of his brother which is dead, that his bless thee; and it shall be righteousness name be not put out of Israel. unto thee before the LORD thy God. 7 And if the man like not to take his 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired brother's wife, then let his brother's wife servant that is poor and needy, whether he go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, Amalek to be blotted out. DEUTERONOMY. Of the third year's tithes. My husband's brother refuseth to raise up 4 And the priest shall take the basket unto his brother a name in Israel, he will out of thine hand, and set it down before not perform the duty of my husband's bro- the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before ther. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to him, and speak unto him: and if he stand perish was my father, and he went down to it, and say, I like not to take her, into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 6 And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression : 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of 11 ¶ When men strive together one with Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an another, and the wife of the one draweth out-stretched arm, and with great terriblenear for to deliver her husband out of the ness, and with signs, and with wonders; hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth 9 And he hath brought us into this place, forth her hand, and taketh him by the se- and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. crets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small : 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me: and thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and thing which the LORD thy God hath given just weight, a perfect and just measure unto thee, and unto thine house, thou and shalt thou have; that thy days may be the Levite, and the stranger that is among lengthened in the land which the LORD thy you. God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, 17 ¶ Remember what Amalek did unto the fatherless, and the widow, that they thee by the way, when ye were come forth may eat within thy gates, and be filled: out of Egypt; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD 18 How he met thee by the way, and thy God, I have brought away the hallowed smote the hindmost of thee, even all that things out of mine house, and also have were feeble behind thee, when thou wast given them unto the Levite, and unto the faint and weary: and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. CHAP. XXVI. AND it shall be, when thou art come in stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have unto the land which the LORD thy done according to all that thou hast comGod giveth thee for an inheritance, and manded me. possessest it, and dwellest therein; 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring and the land which thou hast given us, as of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt floweth with milk and honey. go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this the LORD sware unto our fathers for to day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, give us. and to keep his statutes, and his command |