LEVITICUS. fced pafs through the fire to Molech, neither halt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not ke with mankind, as with womankind : it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beat to defile thyfelf therewith: neither hall any woman ftand before a beat to lie down thereto : it is confufion. divers laws. 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither fhalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,neither fhalt thou gather everygrape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and tranger: I am the LORD your God. 11 Ye shall not fteal, neither deal falfely, neither lie one to another. 24 Defile not ye yourfelves in any of thefe things: for in all thefe the nations are defiled which I caft out before you : 12 And ye shall not fwear by my name 25 And the land is defiled; therefore falfely, neither shalt thou profane the I do vift the iniquity thereof upon it, and name of thy God: I am the LORD. the land itfelf vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my ftatutes and my judgments, and fhall not commit any of these abominations; neither any! of yourown nation, nor any firanger that fojourneth among you : 27 For all thefe abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled; 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him : the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 14 Thou shalt not curfe the deaf. nor put a tumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD. 15 Ye shall do no unrighteoufnefs in judgment: thou shalt not refpect the perfon of the poor, nor honour the perfon of 28 That the land fpue not you out alfo, the mighty but in righteoufnefs shalt when ye defile it, as it fpued out the na-thou judge thy neighbour. tions that were before you. : 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people; neither shalt thou ftand againff the blood of thy 29 For whofoever shall commit any of thefe abominations, even the fouls that commit them fhall be cut off from among neighbour: I am the LORD. their people. : 17 hou shalt not hate hy brother in 30 Therefore fhall ye keep mine ordi-thine heart thou shalt in any wife renance, that ye commit not any one of thefe buke thy neighbour, and not suffer fin abominable cuftoms, which were commit- upon him. ted before you, and that ye defile not yourfelves therein: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XIX. A repetition of fundry lars. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, ing, 181 hou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge againft the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf: I am the LORD. 19 Ye shall keep my ftatutes. Thou fay-shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverfe kind: thou shalt not fow thy field with mingled feed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. S Ye hall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my fabbaths: 1 am the LORD your God. 20 And whofoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be 4turn ye not unto idels, ner make to scourged: they shall not be put to death, yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD becaufe she was not free. your God. 121 And he shall bring his trefpafs-of5 And if ye offer a facrifice of peace-fering unto the LORD, unto the door of offerings unto the LORD, ye thall offer it, the tabernacle of the congregation, even at your own will. a ram for a trefpafs-ofiering. 6 It shall be eaten the fame day ye of fer it, and on the morrow and if aught remainuntil the third day,it shall be burnt in the fire. 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it fhall not be accepted. 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trefpafs-offering before the LORD, for his Gin which he hath done and the fin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. : 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner Therefore every one that eateth it of trees for food, then ye shall count the fball bear his iniquity, becaule he hath fruit thereof as uncircumcifed: three profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: years shall it be as uncircumcifed unte and that foul fhall be cut off from among you it shall not be eaten of. his people. 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thercot Of giving feed to Malech: Chap. xx. Of curfing parents, &c. 109 thereof shall be holy, to praise the LORD witbal. 25 And in the fifth year thall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. 26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood neither shall ye ufe enchantment, nor obferve times. 27 Ye thall not round the corners of your heads, neither fhalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye thall not make any cuttings in your fleth for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 5 Then I will fet my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off: and all that go a whoring after him, to commit horedom with Molech, from among their people. 6 And the foul that turneth after fuch as have familiar fpirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even fet my face against that foul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 Sanctify yourfelves therefore, and be ye holy for I am the LORD your God. 8 And ye thall keep my ftatutes, and do them: I am the LORD which fanétify you. 9 For every one that curieth his fa29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to ther or his mother thall be furely put to caufe her to be a whore; left the land fall | death: he hath curfed his father or his to whoredom, and the land become full mother; his blood ball be upon him. of wickedness. 30 Ye shall keep my fabbaths, and rev-tery with another man's wife even be that rence my fanctuary I am the LORD. 31 Regard not them that have familiar fpirits, neither feek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 32 Thou shalt rife up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: 1 am the LORD. 33 And if a stranger fojourn with thee in your land, ye fhall not vex him. 10 And the man that committeth adul committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulterefs hall furely be put to death. 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered her father's nakedness both of them hall farely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughterin-law, both of the hail furely be put to death: they have wrought confusion, their blood shall be upon theat. 34 But the ftranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thy felf; 13 If a man alto lieth with maukind, as for ye were ftrangers in the land of E-he lieth with a woman, both of them have gypt: I am the LORD your God. committed an abomination: they shall furely be put to death, their blood ball be upon them. $5 Ye hall do to unrighteoufnefs in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Juft balances, just weights, a juft ephah, and a juft hin, shall ye have; I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: 37 Therefore fhall ye obferve all my fatutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. CHAP. XX. 1 Of giving feed uuto Molech. 6 Ofwiz. 14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickednefs: they shail be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickednefs among you. 15 And if a inan lie with a beaf, he shall furely be put to death: and ye shall flay the beast. 16 And if a woman approach unto any beaft, and lie down thereto, thou shait kill the woman and the beaft: they shall furely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 17 And if a man shall take his fifter his 2 Again, thou shalt fay to the children father's daugher, or his mother's daugh of Ifrael, Whofuever be be of the children ter, and fee her nakednets, and she fee h ́s of Ifracl, or of the ftrangers that fojourn nakedness; it is a wicked thing : and they in Ifrael, that giveth any of his feed unto shall be cut off in the fight of their pers Molech; he fhall furely be put to death:ple: he hath uncovered hishifters nakedthe people of the land shall ftone him with uefs; he shall bear his iniquity, 13 And if a man shall le with a woman 3 And I will fet my face against that having her fickpefs, and shall uncover her man, and will cut him off from among nakedness; he hath difcovered her founhis people; because he hath given of his tain, and she hath uncovered the fountain feed unto Molech, to defile my fanétua-of her blood: and both of them shall be ry, and to profane my holy name. cut off from among their people. 4 And if the people of the land do any 19 And thou shalt not tincover the naways lude their eyes from the man, whenkednefs of thy mother's fifter, nor of thy he giveth of his feed unto Molech, and father's fter: for he uncovereth his near kill him not: kin; they shall bear their iniquity. 110 Ordinances touching priests' LEVITICUS. mourning, and marriages. 20 And if a man shall lie with his un-take a woman put away from her huf. cle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's band: for he is holy unto his God. nakedness: they shall bear their fin; they shall die childlefs. 8 Thou shalt fanctify him therefore: for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for the LORD, 21 And ifa man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath un-which fanctify you, am holy. covered his brother's nakednefs: they 9 And the daughter of any prieft, if she shall be childless. profane herfelf by playing the whore, she 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my ftat-profaneth her father: she shall be burnt utes, and all my judgments, and do with fire them; that the land, whither I bring you 10 And he that is the high priest among to dwell therein, ipue you not out. his brethren, upon whofe head the anoint25 And ye shall not walk in the man- ing oil was poured, and that is confecrated ners of the nations which I caft out be-to put on the garments, shall not uncover fore you for they committed all thefe his head nor rend his clothes; things, and therefore I abhored them. 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead 24 But I have faid unto you, ye shall body, nor defile himself for his father, or inherit their land, and I will give it unto for his mother; you to poffefs it, a land that floweth with 12 Neither shall he go out of the fancmilk and honey: I am the LORD your tuary, nor protane the fanctuary of his Cod, which have separated you from oth-God; for the crown of the anointing oil er people. of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. 25 Ye shall therefore put difference be- 13 And he shall take a wife in her vir tween clean beats and unclean, and be-ginity. tween unclean fowls and clean and ye : shall not make your souls abominable by beaft, or by fowl, or by any manner of Iving thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have feparated from you as unclean. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, thefe shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his feed among his people: for I the LORD do fanctify him. 16 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 26 And ye shall be holy unto me for Ithe LORDam holy, and have fevered you from other people,that ye should be mine. 27 A man alio or a woman that hath a 17 Speak unto Aaron, faying, Whofofamiliar fpirit, or that is a wizard, shall ever be be of thy feed in their generations, furely be put to death: they shall ftone that hath any blemish, let him not apthem with fones: their blood ball be up-proach to offer the bread of his God. on them. CHAP. XXI. iOf the priest's mourning, 7 marriages, 16 and blemishes. AND the LORD faid unto Mofes, Speak unto the priests the fons of Aaron, and fay unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people : 13 For whatfoever man be be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach; a blind man, or a lame or he that hath a flat nofe, or any thing fuperfluous, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crook backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be fcurvy, 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, for fcabbed, or hath his stones broken; that is, for his mother, and for his father, 21 No man that hath a blemish of the and for his fon, and for his daughter, and seed of Aaron the priest, shall come nigh for his brother, to offer the offerings of the LORD made 3 And for his fifter a virgin, that is by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not nigh unto him, which hath had no huf-come nigh to offer the bread of his God. band; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himfelf, being n chief man aniong his people, to profane Limfelf. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he 5 They shall not make baldness upon hath a blemish; that he profane not my their head, neither shall they shave off fanctuaries: for I the LORD do fanctify the corner of their beard, nor make any them. cuttings in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy unto their God and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do ofier: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife that is 3 whore, or profane; neither shall they 24 And Mofes told it unto Aaron, and to his tons, and unto all the children of Ifrael. CHAP. XXII. 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his fons, : The priests when to abftain Chap. xxiii. that they feparate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in afe things which they hallow unto me I am the LORD. 3 Say unto them, Whofoever be be of all your feed among your generations. that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Ifrael hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleannefs upon him, that foul fhall be cut off from my prefence: I am the LORD. 4 What man foever of the feed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running iffue; he fhall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whofo toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whofe feed goeth from him; from boly things. 11 fay unto thein, What foever be be of the house of Ifrael, or of the ftrangers in Ifrafel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill-offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offering; 19 Ye shall offer at your own will amále without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatfoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be ac ceptable for you. 21 And whofoever offereth a facrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomplish bis vow, or a freewill-offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or 5 Or whofoever toucheth any creeping having a wen, or fcurvy, or fcabbed, ye thing, whereby he may be made unclean, shall not offer thefe unto the LORD, nor or a man of whom he may take unclean-make an offering by fire of them upon nefs, whatsoever uncleannefs he hath; the altar unto the LORD. 6 The foul which hath touched any fuch thall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wath his Beth with water. 7 And when the fun is down, he shall be clean, and fhall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food. 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing fuperfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayeft thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruifed, or crushed, or brokThat which dieth of itself, or is torn en, or cut; neither shall ye make any ofwith beafts, he shall not eat to defile him-fering thereof in your land. felf therewith: I am the LORD. 25 Neither from a ftranger's hand shall 9 They hall therefore keep mine ordi-ye offer the bread of your God of any of nance, left they bear fin for it, and die thefe because their corruption is in them, therefore if they profane it: I the LORD and blemishes be in them: they shall not do fanctify them. be accepted for you. 10 There fhall no ftranger eat of the holy thing: a fojourner of the priest, or an hired fervant, fhall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if the prieft buy any foul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his houfe: they shall eat of his meat. 12 If the prieft's daughter alfo be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no ftranger eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it un-! to the priest with the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Ifrael, which they offer unto the LORD: 16 Or fuffer them to bear the iniquity of trefpafs, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do fanctify them. 17 And the Lord fpake unto Mofes, faying, 13 Speak unto Aaron, and to his fons, and unto all the children of Ifracl, and 26 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be feven days under the dam and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And whether it be cow orewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 29 And when ye will offer a facrifice of thank(giving unto the LORD, offer ir at our own will. 80 On the fame day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments,and do them: I am the LORD. 32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Ifrael: I am the LORD which hallow you, 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD. CHAP. XXIII 10ffundry feafts. 26 The day of atonement. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, Concerning the feafts of the LORD, 112 Of fundry jeafts LEVITICUS. and offerings. LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy | year, and one young bullock, and two convocations,ven thefe are my feafts. rams they shall be for a burnt-offering 3 Six days shall work be done but the feventh day is the fabbath of reft, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work there in; it is the fabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings unto the LORD, with their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings,even an offering made by fire, of fweet favour unto the LORD. 19 Then ye shall facrifice one kid of the 4 Thefe are the feafts of the LORD.even goats for a fin-offering, and two lambs of noly convocations, which ye shall pro-the first year for a facrifice of peace-ofclaim in their feafons ferings. 5 In the forecenth day of the fame 20 And the priest shall wave them with month at even, is the LORD's pallover.the bread of the firft fruits, for a wave-of6 And on the fifteenth day of the fame tering before the LORD, with the two month is the feaft of unleavened bread lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD unto the LORD: feven days ye mult cat for the grieft. unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no fervile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD feven days in the feventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no fervile work therein 9 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 21 And ye shall proclaim on the felfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you ye shall do no fervile work therein: it shall be a ftatute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapet, neither shalt thou gather any 10 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave and fay unto them, When ye be come in-them unto the poor, and to the stranger: to the land which I give unto you, and I am the LORD your God. shall reap the harvelt thereof, the ye shallbring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harveft unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the fabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish of the first year, for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 23 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 24 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, In the feventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a fabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no fervile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 26% And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying. 13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled) 27 Alfo on the tenth day of this feventh with oil, an offering made by fire unto the month, toere shall be a day of atonement: LORD for a fweet favour: and the drink-it shall be an holy convocation unto you; offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth and ye shall afflict your fouls, and offer part of an hin. an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor 28 And ye shall do no work in that parched corn, nor green ears, until the fame day : for it is a day of atonement, felfsame day that ye have brought an of-to make an atonement for you before the fering unto your God; it shall be a itat LORD your God. ute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 29 For whatfoever foul it be that shall not be afflicted in that fame day, he shall 15 And ye shall count unto you from be cut off from among his people. the morrow after the fabbath, from the 30 And whatfoever foul it be that doeth day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-any work in that fame day, the fame foul offering; fevenfabbaths shall becomplete; will I deftroy from among his people. 16 Even unto the morrow after the fev.) 31 Ye shall do no maner of work: it enth fabbath shall ye number fifty days: shall be a ftatute forever throughout your and ye shall offer a new meat-onering un-generations in all your dwellings, to the LORD. 17Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-leaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firft fruits unto the LORD. 18 And ye shall offer with the bread, feven lambs without blemish, of the firfi 32 It shall be unto you a fabbath of reft. and ye shall afflict your fouls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your fabbath. 33 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 34 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, |