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15 stone him. Then speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt 16 say to them, Be the man who he may who shall curse a god, he shall contract guilt; but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among 17 them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die. And

whosoever smiteth another so that he die, let him be put to 18 death. And whosoever shall smite a beast, so that it die, let 19 him make compensation, beast for beast. And whosoever

shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to 20 him, so shall it be done to himself; bruise for bruise; eye for

eye; tooth for tooth; according to the blemish he hath given 21 the man, so shall it be returned to him. Whosoever shall smite 22 a man so that he die, let him be put to death, shall be one and 23 the same decision for the proselyte, and for the neighbour;

for I am the Lord your God. Thereupon Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him who had cursed, without the camp, and stoned him with stones.

And when the children of Israel had done as the Lord XXV. commanded Moses, The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, 2 When you are come into the land which I give you, the land 3 which I give you must rest sabbaths for the Lord. Six years

thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy 4 vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof. But in the seventh year there shall be sabbaths-there shall be a rest for the land-sabbaths for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor 5 prune thy vineyard, nor reap the spontaneous productions of thy field, nor gather the grapes of thy dedication. It shall 6 be a year of rest, for the land. And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man servant, and for thy maid servant, and for thy hired servant, and for the stranger 7 who sojourneth with thee; and for thy cattle, and the wild beasts in thy land, shall the whole product thereof be for food. 8 Moreover thou shalt reckon for thyself seven rests of years, seven times seven years, and these forty nine years, shall be 9 the seven weeks of years; and you shall make proclamation with the sound of a trumpet, throughout all your land, in the seventh month, and tenth day of the month-On the day of

the atonement, you shall make proclamation with a trumpet, 10 throughout all your land, and dedicate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land, to all the inhabitants thereof. And this shall be a year of rest, a Jubilee for you; and every one shall return to his possession, and every one shall go to his 11 family. This jubilee, this fiftieth year, shall be for you a general release, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the spontaneous productions thereof, nor gather the vintage which is 12 dedicated. Because it is a jubilee, it shall be holy to you. 13 From the fields you may eat the productions thereof. In this

year of release, proclaimed by the sound of trumpets, every 14 one shall return to his possession. Whether therefore thou sellest to thy neighbour, or purchasest of thy neighbour, let 15 no man take advantage of his neighbour. According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt purchase of thy neighbour; and according to the number of years of crops, he 16 shall sell to thee. In proportion to the greater number of years,

thou shalt rate his possession higher, and according to the few17 ness of the years, thou shalt rate it lower. For according to

the number of crops, so shall he sell to thee. Let no man take advantage of his neighbour. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy 18 God. I am the Lord your God, therefore you shall practise

all my rules of rectitude, and all my judgments, and keep and do them; so shall you dwell securely in the land, and the 19 land shall yield its productions; and you shall eat plentifully, 20 and dwell securely therein. Now if you should say, What shall

we eat in this seventh year, if we neither sow nor gather our 21 produce? I indeed will send my blessing for you, in the sixth year, and it will make the products thereof sufficient for the 22 three years. Though you are to sow in the eighth year, yet

on account of the produce, you shall eat the old, even to the ninth year, even till the products of that come in, you shall 23 eat of the old store. Now the land must not be sold forever; 24 for the land is mine. Because you are strangers, and sojourners before me, therefore in all the land of your possession, 25 you shall grant a right of redeeming the land. And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and sell any part of his possession; when he who is next of kin to him cometh, he shall 26 redeem what his brother hath sold. And if any person hath none Dd

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to redeem, and his own hand hath attained, and found a suffici27 ency, he shall have the right of redemption. And he shall compute the years of his sale, and pay back what is still due to the man to whom he sold it. So shall he return to his possession. 28 But if his hand cannot attain a sufficiency to repay him, the sale shall be good to him who purchased, until the last sixth year of the jubilee, and in the jubilee, he shall quit, and the 29 seller shall return to his possession. And if any person sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he shall have the right of re30 deeming it till the term expire. The term for redemption shall be a year. And if it be not redeemed till the whole year expire, the house which is in a walled city, shall be confirmed for ever to the purchaser. And he shall not go out in the ju31 bilee. But the houses which are in villages, unsurrounded with walls, shall be accounted as the fields in the country, and shall be always subject to redemption, and go out in the 32 jubilee. And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, shall always be redeemable by the Levites; and whoever among the Levites shall redeem, the intermediate purchase of the houses of the city of their possession shall 33 terminate in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the

Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34 And the fields set apart for their cities shall not be sold; for 35 this is their perpetual possession. And if thy brother who is

with thee become poor and distressed in his circumstances when near thee, thou shalt help him, as a proselyte or a so36 journer, and thy brother shall live with thee. Thou shalt not

take from him usury or increase, but thou shalt fear thy God, 37 I the Lord; and thy brother shall live with thee. Thou shalt

not lend him thy money on usury, nor give him thy victuals 38 for an increase. I am the Lord your God who brought you

out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, and 39 to be your God. And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be

humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. 40 He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the 41 year of the release he shall work for thee, and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family-to his paternal possession he shall 42 haste away. Because they are my servants, whom I brought

43 out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. Thou

shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy 44 God. The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have,

must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may pur45 chase a male or a female slave; or of the children of strangers

who sojourn among you-of them you may purchase and of 46 their relations who may be born in your land. Let them be

your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with ri47 gour. And if a proselyte, or a sojourner who is with thee, prosper, and thy brother, being poor, be sold to the proselyte, or to the stranger who is with thee, or to the descendant of 48 the proselyte; after he is sold he shall have a right to be re49 deemed. One of his brethren may redeem him, his uncle, or

his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any of his blood relations, of the same tribe, may redeem him; and if he be able he may 50 redeem himself. In which case he shall settle with him who

purchased him, from the year he sold himself, to the year of the release, and the price of his purchase shall be as the yearly wages of a hired servant for the years he is to be with him. 51 And if any one hath many years to serve, for them he shall pay the rates of redemption, on account of the money paid for him; 52 and if but few years remain to the year of release, he shall set

tle with him according to those years, and pay the rates of his 53 redemption. As a servant hired from year to year, he shall be

with him; and thou shalt not suffer him to be oppressed with 54 labour in thy sight. If he be not redeemed in any of these ways, in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him; for the children of Israel are my domestics-they are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt.

XXVI. I am the Lord your God; you shall not make for your

selves carved or graven images, nor set up a pillar for your2 selves, nor place a watch stone in your land to worship it. I am

the Lord your God, you shall keep my sabbaths, and rever3 ence my holy things. I am the Lord; if you walk in my sta4 tutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give

you rain in its season; and the land shall yield its productions; 5 and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; and the thresher

shall overtake the vintager; and the vintager shall overtake the sower; and you shall eat your bread in plenty; and dwell in your land securely, and war shall not pass through your land. 6 I will indeed give you peace in your land; and you shall lie 7 down to rest; and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will destroy the wild beasts out of your land; and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with destruction. 8 Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before 9 you by the sword. And I will watch over you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat the last year's crops, and the of the year 11 before, and remove old stores out of the way of new. And I will fix my tabernacle among you, and my soul will not abhor 12 you. And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be my people.

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13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land

of Egypt. When you were slaves, I broke the bond of your 14 yoke, and led you out in confidence: Now if you will not heark15 en to me, nor perform these my commandments, but disobey

them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, I will 16 deal with you in this manner-I will send against you distress,

and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your 17 enemies shall eat it: and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing 18 you. And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will pro

ceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, and break 19 the haughtiness of your pride.-I will make the heaven for

you as iron, and your land as brass; and your strength shall be 20 spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall 21 the trees of the field yield you their fruit. And after all these

things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will 22 bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins-I

will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few 23 in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. And if by

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