Redemption of land LEVITICUS. and servants. them, shall be counted as the fields of begat in your land; and they shall be the country: they may be redeemed; your possession. and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any tune. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of 1s33 And if a man purchase of the Le-rael, ye shall not rule one over another vites, then the house that was sold,and with rigour. the city of his possession, shall go out 47 T And if a sojourner or stranger in the year of jubilee; for the houses wax rich by thee, and thy brother that of the cities of the Levitesaretheir pos-dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell session among the children of Israel, himself unto the stranger or sojourner 34 But the field of the suburbs of by thee, or to the stock of the stran their cities may not be sold; for it is ger's family: their perpetual possession. 48 After that he is sold be may be 35 T And if thy brother be waxen redeemed again; one of his brethren poor, and fallen in decay with thee, may redeem him: Then thou shalt relieve him; yea,| 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's though he be a stranger, or a sojourn-son, may redeem him, or any that is er; that he may live with thee. nigh of kin unto him of his family 36 Take thou no usury of him, or in-may redeem him; or if he be able, be crease but fear thy God; that thy may redeein himself. brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 ¶ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a boud-servant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 12 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond inen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with] rigour, but shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bond-men,and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-inaids. 45. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn anong you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of a hired ser vant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him; and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 51 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Isract are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XXVI. YE shall make you no lols not graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the Lord your God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and Blessings promised CHAP. XXVI. on obedience. reverence my sanctuary: I am the and ye shall be slain before your encLoad. mies: they that bate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee wher nolic pursueth you. 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments,and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 18 And if ye will not yet for all tn.a hearken unto me, then I will punisu you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 T And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; 1 will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, 22 I will also send wild beasts among and they shall fall before you by the you, which shall rob you of your chilsword. dren, and destroy your cattle, and 3 And five of you shall chase a hun-make you few in number; and your dred, and a hundred of you shall put high-ways shall be desolate. ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword, 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk coutrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and 25 And I will bring a sword upon bring forth the old because of the new. you, that shall avenge the quarrel of 11 And 1 will set my tabernaclej my covenant: and when ye are gathand my soul shall not ered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. among you abhor you. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, aud made you go upright. 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these com-unto me; mandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abbor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters sball ye eat. 16 I also will do this unto you: I will 30 And I will destroy your high even appoint over you terror, con-places, and cut down your images, and sumption, and the buruing ague, that cast your carcases upon thecarcases of shall consume the eyes, and cause sor-your idols,and mysoul shall abhor you. row of heart; and ye shall sow your] 31 And I will make your cities waste, seed in vain, for your enemies shall and bring your sanctuaries into deso eat it. lation, and I will not smell the savour 17 And I will set my face against you,!of your sweet odours. Obedience required. LEVITICUS. Nature of vows. 32 And I will bring the land into deso-jeast them away, neither will I abhor lation: and your enemies which dwell them, to destroy them utterly, and to therein shall be astonished at it. break my covenant with them: for 1 33 And I will scatter you among the am the LORD their God. heathen, and will draw out a sword after you and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it keth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. 45 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. CHAP. XXVII. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 35 As long as it licth desolate it shall rest because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall and say unto them, When a man shall chase them; and they shall fee, as make a singular vow, the person shall fleeing from a sword; and they shall be for the LORD, by thy estimation. fall when none pursueth. 5 And thy estimation shall be of the 37 And they shall fall one upon an-male from twenty years old even unto other, as it were before a sword, when sixty years old, even thy estimation none pursueth; and ye shall have no shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the power to stand before your enemies. shekel of the fanctuary. 38 And ye shall perish among the 4 And if it be a female, then thy esti heathen, and the land of your enemies mation shall be thirty sliekels. shall eat you up. 5. And if it be from live years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thyestimation 40 If they shall confess their iniqui- shall be of the male five shekels of ty, and the iniquity of their fathers, siiver, and for the female thy estimawith their trespass which they tres-tion shall be three shekels of silver. passed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy esti. mation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies: 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimaif then their uncircumcised hearts betion, then he shall present himself behumbled, and they then accept of the fore the priest, and the priest shall punishment of their iniquity; value him; according to his ability 42 Then will I remember my cove-that rowed shall the priest value him. nant with Jacob, and also my covenant 9 And if it be a beast, whereof men with Isaac, and also my covenant with bring an offering unto the LORD, all Abraham will I remember; and I will that any man giveth of such unto' remember the land. the LORD shall be holy. 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and be cause their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their eneniics, I will not 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: The estimation CHAP. 1. of vo109. 12 And the priest shall value it, junto the year of the jubilee: and he whether it be good or bad: as thou val- shall give thy estimation in that day ucst it,who art the priest, so shall it be. as a holy thing unto the LORD. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, 24 In the year of the jubilee the field Jhen shall he add a fifth part thereof shall return unto him of whom it was unto thy estimation. bought, even to him to whom the pos14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctify session of the land did belong. his house to be holy unto the LORD, 25 And all thy estimations shall be then the priest shall estimate it, according to the shekel of the sanctua whether it be good or bad: as the priest ry: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 26 T Only the firstling of the beasts, 16 And if he that sanctified it will which should be the LORD's firstling, redeem his house, then he shall add the no man shall sanctify it; whether it fifth part of the money of thy estima- be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's. tion unto it, and it shall be his. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto then he shall redeem it according to the LORD some part of a field of his thy estimation, and shall add a fifth possession, then thy estimation shall part of it thereto; or if it be not rebe according to the seed thereof: a deemed, then it shall be sold according homer of barley-seed shall be valued to thy estimation. at fifty shekels of silver. 28 Notwithstanding,no devoted thing, 17 If he sanctify his field from the that a man shall devote unto the LORD year of jubilee, according to thy esti-of all that he hath, both of man and mation it shall stand. beast,and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing ismost holy unto the Lonn. 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 19 And if he that sanctified the field, will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's; it is holy unto the LORD. 31 And if a man will at all redeem aught of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man,it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lond, as a field devoted; the posses- 33 He shall not search whether it be sion thereof shall be the priest's. good or bad, neither shall he change 22. And if a man sanctify unto theit; and if he change it all, then both LORD a field which he hath bought, it and the change thereof shall be holy; which is not of the fields of his posit shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments, session; 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto which the Lond commanded Moses, him the worth of thy estimation, even for the children of Israel inmountSinai. ¶ The Fourth Book of Moses, called NUMBERS. CHAP. I. 2 Take ye the sum of all the congre AND the LORD spake unto Moses in gation of the children of Israel, after the wilderness of Sinai, in the tab-their families, by the houses of their ernacle of the congregation,on the first fathers, with the number of their day of the second month,in the second names, every male by their polls; year after they were come out of the 3 From twenty years old and upward, land of Egypt, saying, all that are able to go forth to war in ... NUMBERS. The men of war numbered. Israel: thou and Aaron shall number that were numbered of them, accordthem by their armies. ing to the number of the names, by 4 And with you there shall be a man their polls, every male from twenty of every tribe; every one head of the years old and upward, all that were house of his fathers. able to go forth to war; 6 T And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shiedeur. 6 Of Simeon; Suclumiel the son Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son Amminadab. of of 8 Of Issachar; Nethancel the son of Zuar. 23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fity and nine thousand,and three hundred. 24 ¶ of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. 25 Those that were numbered of 10 Of the children of Joseph of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were Ephraim; Elishama_the_son of Am-forty and five thousand six hundred mihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the and fifty. son of Pedalızur. 26 T of the children of Judah, by 11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of their generations, after their families, Gideoni. by the house of their fathers, accord12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Am-ing to the number of the names, from mishaddai. 13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran. 14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel 17 ¶ And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names: twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand six hundred. 28 ¶ Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issacher, were fifty and four thousand and four 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by hundred. the house of their fathers, according to 30 T Of the children of Zebulun, by the number of the names, from twenty their generations, after their families, years old and upward, by their polls. by the house of their fathers, accord19 As the LORD commanded Moses, ing to the number of the names, from so he numbered them in the wilder twenty years old and upward, all that ness of Sinai. were able to go forth to war; them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand, and four hundred. 20 And the children of Reuben, Is- 31 Those that were numbered of rael's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. 32 T Of the children of Joseph,namey, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 22 ¶ of the children of Simeon, by 33 Those that were numbered of their generations, after their families, them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, by the house of their fathers, thosel were forty thousand and five hundred. |