DEUTERONOMY. The priests' portion. The great Propnet. shall read therein all the days of his 12 For all that do these things are an ife; that he inay learn to fear the abomination unto the LonD and beLORD his God, to keep all the words cause of these abominations the LORD of this law, and these statutes, to do thy God doth drive them out from bethein; fore thee. 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. THE CHAP. XVIII. HE priests the Levites,and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by Sre, and his inheritance. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lond thy God. 14 For these nations which thou shalt possess bearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lond thy God hath not suf fered thee so to do. 15 T The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken : 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb, in the 2 Therefore shall they have no in-day of the assembly, saying, Let me heritance among their brethren: the Lond is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice,whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,and the maw. 4 The first-fruit also of thy coru, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. ō For the Lord thy God hath chosen nim out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 ¶ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose ; 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 said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 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 them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my naine, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, which shal presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the naine of other gods, even that prophet shall dic. 7 Then he shall minister in the name 21 And if thou say in thy heart,How 8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 9 T When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or LORD hath not spoken ? 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 LORD bath not spoken, the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. CHAP. XIX. his daughter to pass through the fire, WHEN the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the or that useth divination, or an observer Load thy God giveth thee, and thou of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, succeedest them, and dwellest in their 11 Or a charner, or a consulter with cities, and in their houses; familiar spiria, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Cities of Refuge. CHAP. XX. False witness punished. the LORD thy God giveth thee to pos-which thou shalt inherit in the land sess it. that the Lono thy God giveth thee to 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way,and possess it. divide the coasts of thy land, which 15 ¶ One witness shall not rise up the LORD thy God giveth thee to in-against a man for any iniquity, or for herit, into three parts, that every any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at slayer may flee thither. the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. And this is the case of the slayer which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ig. norantly, whom he hated not in time East; 16 T If a false witness rise up against any man, to testify against him that which is wrong; days : 5 As when a man goeth into the wood 17 Then both the men, between with his neighbour to hew wood, and whom the controversy is, shall stand his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe before the LORD, before the priest and to cut down the tree, and the head slip-the judges, which shall be in those peth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall 18 And the judges shall make dili flee unto one of these cities, and live gent inquisition: and, behold, if the 6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue witness be a false wi ness, and bath the slayer, while his heart is bot, and testified falsely agains, his brother; overtake him, because the way is long, 19 Then ye shall do into him, as he and slay hin; whereas he was not had thought to have done unto his worthy of death, inasmuch as he ba-brother: so shalt thou put the evil ted him not in time past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. away from among you. 20 And those which main shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evn among you. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth fathers, and give thee all the land for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. which he promised to give unto thy fathers; CHAP. XX. WHEN thou goest out to battle 9 If thou shalt keep all these com- against thine enemies, and seest mandinents to do them, which I com-horses, and chariots, and a people mand thee this day, to love the LORD more than thou, be not afraid of thein: thy God, and to walk ever in his way; for the Lord thy God is with thee, then shalt thou add three cities more which brought thee up out of the land for thee, besides these three: of Egypt. 10 That innocent blood be not shed| 2 And it shall be, when ye are come in thy land, which the LORD thy God uigh unto the battle, that the priest giveth thee for an inheritance, and so shall approach, and speak unto the blood be upon thee. people, 11 But if any man hate his neigh-3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O bour, and lie in wait for him, and rise Israel, ye approach this day unto batup against him, and smite him mor-tle against your enemies: let not your tally that, he die, and fleeth into one hearts faint, fear not, and do not trem of these cities; ble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 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. 4 For the LonD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but 5 T And the officers shall speak un thou shalt put away the guilt of inuo-to the people, saying, What man is cent blood from Israel, that it inay go there that hath built a new house, and well with thee. bath not dedicated it ? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is he that hath plant 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of oic time have set in thine inheritance, Exhortation DEUTERONOMY. before vattie ed a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten 19 T When thou shalt besiege a city of it? let him also go and return unto a long time, in making war against it his house, lest ye die in the battle, to take it, thou shalt not destroy the and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest be die in the battle, and another man take her. trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege. 20 Only the trees which thou knowS And the officers shall speak further est that they be not trees for meat,thou unto the people, and they shall say, shalt destroy and cut them down; and What man is there that is fearful and thou shalt build bulwarks against the faint hearted? let him go and return city that maketh war with thee, until unto house, lest his brethren's it be subdued. heart fans well as his heart. CHAP. XXI. F one be found slain in the land 9 And hall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. 10 ¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim him : peace unto it. thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain 2 Then thy elders and thy judges 11. And it shall be, if it make thee an-shall come forth, and they shall mea swer of peace, and open unto thee, sure unto the cities which are round then it shall be, that all the people about him that is slain : that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it : 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it unto thy hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword : 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in 5 And the priests the sons of Levi the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt|shall come near; for them the LORD thou take unto thyself: and thou shalt thy God bath chosen to minister unto 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. 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : 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, shail wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley : 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it, 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy 8 Be merciful, O Lono, unto thy peothem; namely, the Hittites, and the ple Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, Amorites, the Canaanites, and the and lay not innocent blood unto thy Perrizzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb-people of Israel's charge. And the usites, as the LORD thy God hath blood shall be forgiven them. commanded thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they bave done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lonn your God. 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 Lono. 10 When thou goest forth to war A stubborn son CHAP. XXII. to be stoned. against thine enemies, and the Loan sm worthy of death, and he be to be thy God hath delivered them into thy put to death, and thou hang him on a hands, and thou hast taken them cap-tree: tive, 23 His body shall not remain all night 11 And seest among the captives a upon the tree, but thou shalt in any beautiful woman, and hast a desire wise bury bim that day: (for he that unto ber, that thou wouldest have ber] is hanged is accursed of God;) that to thy wife; thy land be not defiled, which the 12 Then thou shalt bring her home load thy God giveth thee for an into thy house; and she shall shave her heritance. head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, aud bewail her father and her mother a full mouth: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,and be her husband, and she sball be thy wife. CHAP. XXII. HOU shalt not see thy brother's TH ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then 14 And it shall be, if thou have no thou shalt bring it unto thine own delight in her, then thou shalt let her¦bouse, and it shall be with thee until go whither she will; but thou shalt thy brother seek after it, and thou not sell her at all for money, thou shalt | shalt restore it to him again. not make merchandise of her, because 3 In like manner shalt thou do with thou hast humbled her. his ass; and 60 shalt thou do with his 15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one raiment; and with all lost things of beloved, and another bated; and they thy brother's, which he hath lost, and bave born him children, both the be thou hast found, shalt thou do like-` loved and the hated; and if the first-wise; thou mayest not hide thyself. Boru son be hers that was hated: 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh ass or his ox fall down by the way, and his sous to inherit that which he bath,Į hide thyself from them; thou shalt that he may not make the son of the surely help him to lift them up again. beloved first-born before the son of the 5 ¶ The woman shall not wear tha hated, which is indeed the first-born :¦ which pertaineth unto a man, neither 17 But he shall acknowledge the son shall a man put on a woman's garof the hated for the first-born, by giv-ment: for all that do so ùre abomining him a double pórtim of all that he ation unto the LORD thy God. hath: for he is the beginning of his 6 T. If a bird's nest chance to be bestrength; the right of the first-born is fore thee in the way in any tree,or ou lis. the ground, tokether they be young ones, or eggs,and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs,thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; aud them: that it may be well with thee, 19 Then shall his father and bis that thou mayest prolong thy days mother lay hold on him, and bring| 8 ¶ When thou buildest a new house, him out uuto the elders of his city, then thou shalt make a battlement for and unto the gate of his place ; thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. 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 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our 9¶ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard voice; he is a glutton,and a drunkard, with divers seeds; lest the fruit of thy 21. And all the meu of his city shall seed which thou hast sown, and the stone him with stones, that he die: soffruit of thy vineyards, be defiled. shalt thou put evil away from among 10 T Thou shalt not plow with an you; and all Israel shall hear,and fear. Jox and an ass together. 22 ↑ And if a man have committed a] 11 ¶ Thou shalt not wear a garment. Of adultery, &c. DEUTERONOMY. Divers Latii's. Of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen; the damsel, because she cried not, betogether. ing in the city; and the man,because 12 ¶ Thou shalt make three fringes he hath humbled tis neighbour's wife· upon the four quarters of thy vesture, so thou shalt put away evil from wherewith thou coverest thyself. among you, 13 ¶ any man take a wife, and go] in unto her, and hate her, 25 T But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force 14 And give occasion of speech her, and fie with her; then the mai against her,and bring up an evil name only that lay with her shali die: upon her, and say, I took this woman, 26 But auto the damsel thou shalt do and when I came to her, I found her nothing; there is in the damsel no sin not a maid: worthy of death: for as when a man 15 Then shall the father of the dam-riseth against his neighbor, and slaysel, and her mother, take and bring eth him, even so is this matter: forth the tokens of the damsel's vir- 27 For he found her in the field,and ginity unto the elders of the city in the betrothed damnsel cried, and there. the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and be bateth her; was none to save her. 28 T a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and he with her, and they be found; 17 And, lo, he hath given occasion 29 Then the man that lay with her of speech against her, saying, I found shall give unto the damsel's father fifnot thy daughter a maid; and yet ty shekels of silver, and she shall be hese are the tokens of my daugther's his wife; because he bath humbled virginity. And they shall spread the her, he may not put her away all his cloth before the elders of the city, days. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that inan and chastise him; 19 Aud they shall amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be bis wife: he may not put her away all his days. 30 ¶ A man shall not take bis father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. CHAP. XXIII. HE that is wounded in the stones. or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the 20 But if this thing be true, and the congregation of the LORD; even to tokens of virginity be not found for his tenth generation shall he not enter the damsel: into the congregation of the LORD. 21 Then they shall bring out the 3 An Ammonite, or Moabite shall not da nsel to the door of her father's enter into the congregation of the house, and the men of her city shall Lond: even to their tenth generation atone her with stones that she die:shall they not enter into the congrebecause she bath wrought folly in Is-gation of the Lord for ever; rael, to play the whore in her father's 4 Because they met you not with house: so shalt thou put evil away bread and with water in the way, from among you 22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; 80 shalt thou put away evil from Israel. when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the Lond thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man fod her in the city, and lie with her; 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor 24 Then ye shall bring them both out their prosperity all thy days for ever. unto the gate of that city,and ye shall 7 Thou shalt not abbor an Edom stone thein with stone that they die;[ite: for he is thy brot: er: thou shalt |