Beasts clean and unclean.

CHAP. XIV, XV.

The year of release. LORD may turn from the fierceness of dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have stranger that is in thy gates, that he may compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

CHAP. XIV. 23 T And thou shalt eat before the WE are the children of the LORD your LORD thy God, in the place which he shall

Yood: ye shall not cut yourselves, choose to place his name there, the tithe

nor make any baldness between your eyes of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, for the dead. and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy

2 For thou art a holy people unto the flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen LORD thy God always. thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, 24 And if the way be too long for thee, above all the nations that are upon the earth. so that thou art not able to carry it; or if 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable the place be too far from thee, which the thing. LORD thy God shall choose to set his name 4 These are the beasts which ye shall there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat, thee:

5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the allow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the P/garg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household.

7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and be hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; there- 27 And the Levite that is within thy fare they are unclean unto you. gates; thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their Besh, nor touch their dead carcass.

9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto

you.

11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall teat: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the spray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the

vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,

16 The little owl, and the great owl, nd the swan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, ad the cormorant,

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV.

AT the end of every seven years thou

shalt make a release.

2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.

3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release:

4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to

18 And the stork, and the heron after erkind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. possess it: 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe

The year of release.

DEUTERONOMY.

to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

The feast of the passover.

19 T All the firstling males that come d thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanc tify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt de no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep

hold.

21 And if there be

any

blemish therein.

20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which If there be among you a poor man the LORD shall choose, thou and thy houseof one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy as if it be lame, or blind, or have any il heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto brother: the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: 8 But thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him suffi- the unclean and the clean person shall ea cient for his need, in that which he wanteth. it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. 9 Beware that there be not a thought 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground of release, is at hand; and as water. year, the year thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry keep the passover unto the LORD thy

unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

CHAP. XVI.

BSERVE the month of Abib, and

God: for in the month of Abib the LORI thy God brought thee forth out of Egyp by night.

2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, say- with it; seven days shalt thou eat unlea ing, Thou shalt open thy hand wide un-vened bread therewith, even the bread o to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the needy, in thy land. land of Egypt in haste:) that thou mayes remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days o thy life.

12 And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh. which thou sacrificedst the first day al even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the pass over within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in 15 And thou shalt remember that thou there thou shalt sacrifice the passover al wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, even, at the going down of the sun, at the and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: season that thou camest forth out of Egypt therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the 16 ¶ And it shall be, if he say unto thee, place which the LORD thy God shal I will not go away from thee; because he choose: and thou shalt turn in the mornloveth thee and thy house, because he ing, and go unto thy tents.

is well with thee;

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and bread: and on the seventh day shall be a thrust it through his earunto the door, and he solemn assembly to the LORD thy God shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thou shalt do no work therein. thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 9¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unt 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, thee: begin to number the seven weeks when thou sendest him away free from from such time as thou beginnest to put the thee: for he hath been worth a double sickle to the corn. hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tr bute of a free-will-offering of thy hand,

The feast of tabernacles, &c

CHAP. XVII.

Idolaters must be slain. which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy any of thy gates which the LORD thy God God, according as the LORD thy God hath giveth thee, man or woman that hath blessed thee: wrought wickedness in the sight of the 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, in transgressing his coveLORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy nant,

daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy 3 And hath gone and served other gods, maid-servant, and the Levite that is with- and worshipped them, either the sun, or in thy gates, and the stranger, and the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which fatherless, and the widow, that are among I have not commanded; you, in the place which he LORD thy God 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast hath chosen to place his name there. heard of it, and inquired diligently, and 12 And thou shalt remember that thou behold, it be true, and the thing certain, wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt that such abomination is wrought in Israel: observe and do these statutes. 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man

13 ¶ Thou shalt observe the feast of or that woman, which have committed tabernacles seven days, after that thou that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine. that man or that woman, and shalt stone 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, them with stones, till they die. thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of and the Levite, the stranger, and the fa- death be put to death; but at the mouth of therless, and the widow, that are within one witness he shall not be put to death. thy gates: 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be

Sa

15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn first upon him to put him to death, and affeast unto the LORD thy God in the place terward the hands of all the people. which the LORD shall choose: because the thou shalt put the evil away from among LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine you.

increase, and in all the works of thy 8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. thee in judgment, between blood and 16 Three times in a year shall all thy blood, between plea and plea, and between males appear before the LORD thy God in stroke and stroke, being matters of controthe place which he shall choose; in the versy within thy gates: then shalt thou feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast arise, and get thee up into the place which of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: the LORD thy God shall choose; and they shall not appear before the LORD 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests empty: the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment;

17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

10 And thou shalt do according to the 18 Judges and officers shalt thou sentence, which they of that place which make thee in all thy gates, which the the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy and thou shalt observe to do according to tribes: and they shall judge the people all that they inform thee:

with just judgment.

11 According to the sentence of the law 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou which they shall teach thee, and accordshalt not respect persons, neither take a ing to the judgment which they shall tell gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline wise, and pervert the words of the right- from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

eous.

20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII.

HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD

in is blemish, or any evil favouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

12¶ And the man that will do presump. tuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shali die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein,

like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall 2T If there be found among you, within choose one from among thy brethren shalt