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of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the Lord; you shall keep my law.

Thou shalt not let the cattle gender with one of another kind, nor plant thy vineyard with different sorts of seed; nor put on unscoured, a woven garment made of flax and wool. If any man lie carnally with a woman, and she be a servant betrothed to a man, and hath not been redeemed, nor had her freedom granted her, they shall be chastised, but shall not be 21 put to death, because she was not set free. And for his tres- . pass against the Lord, he shall bring to the door of the taber22 nacle of the testimony, the ram of a trespass offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for the sin which he hath committed; and the sin which he hath committed shall be forgiven him.

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23 Now when you come into the land which the Lord your God giveth you, you may plant all sorts of trees for food; but 24 you must purge away their impurity. The fruit thereof shall

be three years unclean to unclean to you, and shall not be eaten: and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be hallowed, to praise 25 the Lord; and in the fifth year, you may eat the fruit. The products thereof will be an additional supply to you.

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I am the Lord your God; you must not eat on the moun27 tains, nor practise divination, nor augury by birds. You shall not make a rounding of the hair of your head, nor disfigure 28 the appearance of your beard. You shall not make gashes in your body for the dead, nor any fixed marks on you.

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I am the Lord your God; thou shalt not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to commit whoredom, that the country may not fall into whoredom; and that the land may not be fil30 led with iniquity. You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my holy things.

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I am the Lord your God: you shall not go after belly speak. ers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them. I am the Lord your God: you shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of an elder, and fear thy God. I am the Lord your God; if any stranger come among you 34 in your land, you shall not afflict him. The stranger who cometh to you, shall be as one born among you; and thou

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shalt love him as thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

I am the Lord your God; you shall not do injustice in the exercise of judgment, nor in measures, nor in weights, nor in .balances. You shall have among you just balances, just weights and a just measure.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, therefore you shall keep all my law and all my statutes and do them. I am the Lord your God.

XX. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Thou shalt 2 also say to the children of Israel, If any of the children of Is-`. rael, or of those who have become proselytes among Israel,

shall give any of his seed to an Archon let him be put to death. 3 The people of the land shall stone him with stones: and as for me I will myself set my face against that man, and destroy him from among his people, because he hath given of his seed to an Archon, to pollute my holy things, and to profane the 4 name of those who have been hallowed to me. And though

those born in the land may, upon seeing him, connive at that 5 man when he giveth of his seed to an Archon, and not kill

him, I will indeed set my face against that man, and against his family, and destroy him, and all who encourage him, to go 6 a whoring after the Archons, from among their people. And

with respect to the person who shall follow belly speakers and sorcerers, so as to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and destroy him from among his people. 7 You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord your God am 8 holy. And you shall keep my statutes and do them. It is I 9 the Lord who hallow you. Be the man who he may who cur

seth his father or his mother, let him be put to death. He hath 10 cursed his father or his mother, he shall be held guilty. Whosoever committeth adultery with the wife of a man who is head of a family, or who shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let both the adulterer and the adulteress be put to 11 death. And if any one lie with his father's wife he hath un

covered his father's nakedness, let them be put to death: they 12 are both guilty. And if any man lie with his daughter in law,

let them both be put to death; for they have committed wick13 edness, and are guilty. And if any man lie with man as with

14 woman, they have both committed an abomination; let them be put to death. They are guilty. And if any man take to wife a mother and a daughter it is a violation of law, they shall burn him and them with fire that there may be no transgres15 sing of law among you. And whoever shall lie with a beast, 16 he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the beast. And if

any woman approach to any beast to be pressed under it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. Let them be put to death. 17 They are guilty. Whoever shall take his sister by the same father, or the same mother, and see her nakedness, and she see his; it is a disgraceful act. They shall be excommunicated in the presence of the children of their family. He hath uncover18 ed the nakedness of his sister. They shall bear their sin. And if any man lie with his wife during her infirmity, and uncover her nakedness, he hath uncovered her fountain, and she hath discovered her menstrual efflux; they shall both be cut off 19 from their family. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister or thy mother's sister: for when one un20 covereth his near of kin they shall bear their sin. Whoever

hath lain with his near of kin, he hath uncovered the naked21 ness of his near relation, they shall die childless. If a man take his brother's wife, it is an act of uncleanness. He hath uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall die childless. 22 You shall keep all my statutes and my judgments and do them,

that the land to which I am leading you to dwell therein, may 23 not become your mortal enemy. You must not walk in the

customs of the nations which I drive out from before you. 24 Because they did all these things, therefore I held them in ab

horrence, and said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession-a land flowing with milk 25 and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all the nations, you shall therefore keep yourselves separate by making a distinction between the clean beasts, and the beasts which are unclean; and between the clean birds, and the birds which are unclean; and you shall not pollute yourselves with the beasts, or the birds, or any of the reptiles of the earth which I have distinguished for you, by uncleanness, and 26 you shall be consecrated to me. Because I the Lord your God am the Holy One, who hath separated you from all the na

tions, that
you should be mine, therefore the man, or the wo-
man, among you, who hath become a belly speaker, or a sor-
cerer, shall be put to death. Stone them with stones. They are
guilty.

XXI. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say unto them, They must not defile themselves for the dead in their family, except 2 only for their nearest of kin. For a father, or a mother, or for 3 sons, or daughters, or for a brother, and for a virgin sister who

dwelleth with him, and who hath not been betrothed to a hus4 band; for these he may defile himself. He must not defile him5 self unexpectedly among his people, to occasion their defile

ment. You shall not shave the head to make it bald, for the dead. Nor shall they shave their beard, nor make gashes in 6 their flesh. They shall be consecrated to their God, and shall not profane the name of their God, for they are to offer up the sacrifices of the Lord-the gifts to their God; therefore they 7 shall be holy. They shall not take to wife a harlot, nor a woman who hath been defiled, nor a woman divorced from her husband. Because he is consecrated to the Lord his God, 8 therefore thou shalt hallow him. He offereth up the gifts of the Lord your God, he shall be hallowed. Because I the Lord am 9 the holy one who halloweth them, therefore if the daughter of a priest profane herself by whoredom, she profaneth the name 10 of her father, she shall be burned with fire. And with regard to the priest, who is great above his brethren, the oil of the anointed one having been poured on his head, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, he must not take the 11 tiara from his head, nor rend his garments, nor go near any 12 dead person, nor defile himself for his father, nor for his mo

ther, nor go out of the holy places, nor defile the sanctuary of his God; because the holy oil, the anointing of his God, is up13 on him. I am the Lord. He shall take to wife a virgin of his 14 own family. A widow, or a woman divorced or defiled, or a 15 harlot, these he shall not take. He shall take none to wife, but a virgin of his own tribe; and he shall not profane his seed among his people. It is I the Lord who hallow him.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Say to Aaron, 17 be the man who he may of thy family, throughout your gene

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rations, who hath any blemish about him, he shall not come 18 near to present the gifts of his God. No man who hath any

blemish, who is blind, or lame, or hath a hare lip, or a slit ear; 19 nor any man who hath a contortion in the hand, or a splay foot, 20 or who is hump backed, or dim sighted, or blear eyed, nor any 21 man who hath the scurvy, or the itch, or a rupture-No per

son of the seed of Aaron the priest, who hath any blemish about him, shall come near to offer the sacrifices of thy God. Because he hath a blemish he shall not come near to offer the gifts 22 of God. With regard to the gifts of God, even the most holy, 23 of these he may eat; but he shall not approach to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he hath a blemish. And he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because I am the Lord 24 who halloweth them. XXII. And when Moses had spoken to Aaron and his sons, and 2 to all the children of Israel, then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons and let them take heed not to profane my holy name, in respect to any of the holy things of the children of Israel, which they dedicate to me. I am the 3 Lord; say unto them, What man soever of your seed, through. out your generations, shall come near to the holy things which the children of Israel may dedicate to the Lord, and have any uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from me. 4 I am the Lord your God; though a man be of the seed of Aaron the priest, yet if he be a leper, or hath a gonorrhea, he shall not eat of the holy things until he be cleansed. And with repect to him who toucheth any uncleanness of the dead, or the man from whom seminal matter may proceed; or who may 5 touch any unclean reptile which may defile him; or any man, by whom he may be defiled, whatever his uncleanness may be; 6 the person who shall touch such things shall be unclean until evening. He shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash 7 his body with water, and the sun be set. When he shall be clean, then he may eat of the holy things; for it is his food. 8 What died of itself, or is torn by wild beasts, he shall not eat 9 to pollute himself therewith. I am the Lord, therefore they shall keep my statutes, that they may not, on the account of 10 those things, contract guilt, and die because of them, when they profane them.

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