The expiation of murder, Chap. xxi, xxij. A ftubborn fon to be ftoned. 20 Only the trees which thou knoweft light in her, then thou fhalt let her go that they be not trees for meat, thou fhalt whither the will, but thou shalt not foll deftroy and cut them down, and thou her at all for money, thou shalt not make halt build bulwarks against the city that merchandife of her, because thou haft maketh war with thee,until it be fubdued. humbled her. CHAP. XXI. Fone be found flain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to poffels it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath flain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges fhall come forth, and they fhall measure unto the cities which are round about him that Dain. 3 And it fhall be that the city which is next unto the flain man, even the elders of that city fhall take an heifer which hath 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 fown, and hall frike off the heifers neck there in the valley: $ And the priests the fons of Levi fhall come near (for them the LORD thy God hath chofen to minifter unto him, and to blefs in the name of the LORD) and by their word fhall every controverfie and every ftroke be tried. 6 And all the elders of that city that are gext unto the flain man, fhall wafh their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley. 7 And they fhall anfwer and fay, Our and have not hed this blood, neither have our eyes feen it. Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy peoIfrael, whom thou haft redeemed, and not innocent blood unto thy people ofreis charge. And the blood thall be forven them. So fhalt thou put away the guilt of ocent blood from among you, when on felt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD. 10 When thou goeft forth to war and God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou haft taken them captive, And feeft among the captives a beauiful woman, and haft a defire unto her, at thou wouldst have her to thy wife: 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to the houfe, and the fhall have her head and pare her nails. And the fhail put the raiment of her vity from off her, and fhall remain in thine houfe, and bewail her father and her mother a full menth: and after that, thou alt goin unto her, and be her husband and he fell be thy wife. 14 And it shall be if thou have no des Is Ifa man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firft-born fon be hers that was hated: 16 Then it fhall be, when he maketh his fons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the fon of the beloved, firft-born, before the fon of the hated, which is indeed the firft-born: 17 But he fhall acknowledge the fon of the hated for the first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his ftrength, the right of the firft-born is his. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious fon, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chaftned him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then fhall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unro the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place: 20 And they fall fay unto the elders of his city, This our fon is ftubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city fhall ftone him with ftones, that he die: fo fhalt thou put evil away from among you, and all Ifrael fhall hear and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a fin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body fhall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wife bury him that day (for he that is hanged, is accurfed of God) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. CHAP. XXII. Houfhalt not fee thy brothers oxfor his fheep go aftray, and hide thy. felf from them: thou fhalt in any cafe bring them again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou fhalt bring it unto thine own houfe, and it fhall be with thee until thy brother feek after it, and thou shalt restore it to hims again. In like manner fakt thou do with his afs, and fo fhalt thou do with his raiment, and with all loft thing of thy brothers which he hath loft, and thou haft found fhalt thou do likewife: thou maye! hide sky, fol£ Divers laws Deuteronomy. and ordinances 4 Thou shalt not fee thy brothers afs tokens of virginity be not found for or his ox fall down by the way, and hide damfel: thy felf from them: thou fhalt furely help him to lift them up again. s The woman thall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither thall a man put on a womans garment: for all that do fo are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 6 If a birds neft chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam fitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young. 7 But thou shalt in any wife let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildeft a new houfe, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine houfe, if any man fall from thence. 9 Thou shalt not fow thy vineyard with divers feeds: left the fruit of thy feed which thou haft fown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an afs together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers forts, as of woollen and linen to gether. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vefture, wherewith thou covereft thy felf. 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occafion of speech againft her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and fay, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Is Then fhall the father of the damfel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damfels virginity, unto the elders of the city in the gate. 16 And the damfels father fhall fay unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her, 21 Then they shall bring out the da fel to the door of her fathers houfe, a the men of her city fhall ftone her w ftones that the die: because the h wrought folly in Ifrael, to play the wh in her fathers houfe: fo fhalt thou put away from among you. 22 If a man be found lying wi woman married to an husband, then th fhall both of them die, both the man t lay with the woman, and the woman: halt thou put away evil from Ifrael 231fa damfel that is a virgin be trothed unto an husband, and a man her in the city, and lie with her: 24 Then ye shall bring them both unto the gate of that city, and ye ftone them with ftones that they die, damfel, because the cried not, being in city; and the man, because he hath h bled his neighbours wife: fo thou put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed d fel in the field, and the man force her, lie with her: then the man only that with her fhall die. 26 But unto the damfel thou fhal nothing, there is in the damfel no worthy of death: for as when a man againft his neighbour, and flayeth even fo is this matter. 27 For he found her in the field, the betrothed damfel cried, and there none to fave her. 28 If a man find a damfel tha virgin, which is not betrothed, an hold on her, and lie with her, and be found: 29 Then the man that lay with her give unto the damfels father fifty of filver, and the fhall be his wife, be he hath humbled her, he may not p away all his days. 30A man fhall not take his fa wife, nor difcover his fathers skirt. CHA P. XXIII. E that is wounded in his fton 17 And lo, he hath given occafions of H hath his privy member cu fpeech against her, faying, I found not thy daughter a maid and yet thefe are the shall not enter into the congregati Bokens of my daughters virginity: and they the LORD. fhall fpread the cloth before the elders of 2 A baftard fhall not enter into the the city. 18 And the elders of that city fhall take that man and chaftife him. 19 And they fall amerce him in an hundred fbekels of filver, and give them unto the father of the damfel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Ifrael and the fhall be his wife, he may not put her away all his days. gregation of the LORD: even to his generation fhall he not enter into the gregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite tha enter into the congregation of the L even to their tenth generation fhal not enter into the congregation o LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with But if this thing, be true, and the and with water in the way, when ye Chap. xxiv. Divers Law and ordinances. forth out of Egypt, and because they on ufury, but unto thy brother thou shalt hired against thee Balaam the fon of Beor not lend upon ufury, that the LORD thy of Pethor of Mefopotamia to curfe thee. God may blefs thee in all that thou fetteft Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would thine hand to, in the land whither thou not hearken unto Balaam: but the LORD goeft to poffefs it. thy God turned the curfe into a bleffing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not feek their peace, nor their profperity all thy days for ever. 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not flack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will furely require it of thee, and it would be fin in thee. 22 But if thou fhalt forbear to vow, it fhall be no fin in thee. 7 Thou halt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou waft a stranger 23 That which is gone out of thy lips, in his land thou shalt keep and perform, even a free8 The children that are begotten of will-offering, according as thou haft vowthem, thall enter into the congregation of ed unto the LORD thy God, which thou the LORD, in their third generation. haft promifed with thy mouth. 9 When the hoft goeth forth against 24 When thou comeft into thy neighthine enemies, then keep thee from every bours vineyard, then thou mayeft eat wicked thing. grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure, but thou shalt not put any in thy veffel. 10 If there be among you any man that is not clean by reafon of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp. 11 But it shall be when evening cometh on, he fhall wash himself with water: and when the fun is down, he shall come into the camp again. 12Thou shalt have a place alfo without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon: and it shall be when thou Wilt eafe thy felf abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back, and cover that which cometh from thee. 25 Whenthou comeft into the ftandingcorn of thy neighbours, then thou mayeft pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou fhalt not move a fickle unto thy neighbours ftanding-corn. CHAP. XXIV. When ried her, and it come to pafs Hen a man hath taken a wife and that the find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found fome uncleannefs in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and fend her out of his houfe. 2 And when he is departed out of his houfe, the may go and be another mans wife. 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in 3 And if the latter husband hate her, the midft of thy camp, to deliver thee, and write her a bill of divorcement, and and to give up thine enemies before thee: giveth it in he hand, and fendeth her out therefore fhall thy camp be holy, that he of his hoe or if the latter husband die, fee no unclean thing in thee, and turn which took her to be his wife away from thee. Is Thou shalt not deliver unto his mafer, the fervant which is efcaped from his mafter unto thee. 、 16 He fhall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he thall choofe, in one of thy gates where it liketh him beft: thou shalt not oppress him; 4 Her former husband which fent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that the is defiled: for that is abomination before the LORD, and thou shalt not caufe the land to fin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. When a man hath taken a new 17 There fhall be no whore of the wife, he shall not go out to war, neither daughters of Ifrael, nor a fodomite of the fhall he be charged with any business: 2 but he fhall be free at home one year, and 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a fhall cheer up his wife, which he hath whore, or the price of a dog into the taken. fons of Ifrael. houfe of the LORD thy God for any vow:: 6 No-man fhall take the nether or the for even both thefe are abomination unto upper milftone to pledge: for he taketh 4. the LORD thy God. mans life to pledge. 19 Thou shalt not lend upon afury to 7. If a man be found ftealing any of thy brother: ufury of money, ufury of his brethren of the children of Ifrael, and viduals, ufury of any thing that is lent up- maketh merchandife of him, or fellet on ufury. Chim; then that thief fhall die, and t 20 Unto a franger thou mayeft lend up-thalt put evil away from among you. H 6 847 Deuteronomy. Divers laws and ordinances. 8 Take heed in the plague of lepro- that the judges may judge them, then they Lie, that thou obferve diligently, and do fhall juftifie the righteous, and condemn according to all that the priefts the Le- the wicked. vites fhall teach you: as I commanded them. fo ye fhall obferve to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou doft lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his houfe to fetch his pledge. II Thou shalt ftand abroad, and the man to whom thou doft lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou fhalt not fleep with his, pledge. 13 In any case thou skalt deliver him the pledge again when the fun goeth down, that he may fleep in his own raiment, and bless thee and it fhall be righteoufnefs unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 Thou shalt not opprefs an hired fervant that poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy ftrangers that are in thy land within thy gates. Is At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither hall the fun go down upon it, for he is poor, and fetteth his heart upon it: left he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be fin unto thee. 16 The father shall not be put to death for the children, neither fhall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man fhall be put to death for his own - fin. > 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the franger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widows raiment to pledge. 18 But thou fhalt remember that thou wafte bond man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 2 And it fhall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge fall caufe him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty ftripes he may give him, and not exceed: left if he should exceed and beat him above thefe with many ftripes, then thy brother fhould feem vile unto thee. 4Thoufhalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. S¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a ftranger: her husbands brother fhall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an huf bands brother unto her. 6 And it fhall be, that the firft-born which the beareth, fhall fucceed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Ifrael. 7. And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and fay, My husbands brother refufeth to raife up unto his brother a name in Ifrael, he wil not perform the duty of my husbands bro ther. 8 Then the elders of his city fhall call him, and fpeak unto him: and if he ftand to it, and fay, I like not to take her: 9 Then hall his brothers wife come unto him in the prefence of the elders, and loofe his fhoe from off his foot, and fpit in his face, and shall anfwer and fay, So fhall it be done unto that man that will no build up his brothers houfe. 19 When thou cutteft down thine Io And his name fhall be called in I harveft in thy field, and haft forgot a fheaf rael, The house of him that hath his fhoe in the field, thou shalt not go again to loofed. fetch it: it fhall be for the ftranger, for 11 When men ftrive together one the fatherless, and for the widow; that with another, and the wife of the one the LORD thy God may bless thee in all draweth near for to deliver her husband the work of thine hands. out of the hand of him that finiteth him, 20 When thou beateft thine olive tree, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh thou shalt not go over the boughs again: him by the fecreus it fhall be for the franger, for the father-12 Then thou help cut off her hand, lefs, and for the widow. thine eye fhall not pity her. 21 When thou gathereft the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward it fhall be for the ftranger, for the: fatherless, and for the widow 22 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bond man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. CHA P. XXY... E there be a controverfie between 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag di vers weights, a great and a fmail. 14 Thou fhalt not have in thine hou divers meafures, a great and a fmall. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and juf weight, a perfect and juft measure tha thou have that thy days may be length ned in the land which the LORD thy Go giveth thee. 16. For all that do fuch things, and a th Of offering the firft-fruits. Chap. xxvi, xxvij. Gods covenant with his people. that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt: 18 How he met thee by the way, and fmote the hindmoft of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou waft faint and weary, and he feared not God, 19 Therefore it fhall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee reft from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to poffefs it, that thou halt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. CHA P. XXVI. Nd it fhall be when thou art come thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and poffeffeft it, and dwelleft therein: That thou halt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and fhalt put it in a basket, and fhalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God fhall choose to place his Bame there. 3 And thou fhalt go unto the prief that fhall be in thofe days, and fay unto him, I profefs this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD fware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the prieft fhall take the basket out of thine hand, and fet it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. And thou fhalt fpeak and fay before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to prit was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and fojourned there with a few, and became there a nation great, mighty, and populous. 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 oppreffion. 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-ftretched arm, and terrible II And thou fhalt rejoyce in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine houfe, thou and the Levite, and the ftranger that is among you. 12 When thou haft made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and haft given it unto the Levite, the ftranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled: 13 Then thou shalt fay before the LORD thy God,I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine houfe, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the ftranger, to the fatherlefs, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments, which thou haft commanded me: I have ther have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any un lean fe, nor gi ven ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkned to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou haft commanded me. Is Look down from thy holy habitation from heaven, and blefs thy people Ifrael, and the land which thou haft given us, as thou fwareft unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and hony. 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do thefe ftatutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy foul. 17 Thou haft avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice.. 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promifed thee, and that thou shouldft keep all his commandments: 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praife, and in name, and in honour, and that thou mayeft be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath (poken. CHAP. XXVII. Nd Mofes with the elders of mes, and with gas, and with warders. A commanded the people, faying, 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even aland that floweth with milk and hony. To And now behold, I have brought the firft-fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, haft given me: and thou shalt fet it before the LORD thy God, and worthip before the LORD thy God." Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2. And it shall be on the day when you fhall pafs over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou fhalt fet thee up great ftones, and plaifte them with plaifter. 3 And thou shalt write upon the |