row, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening. 14 And when Moses's father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening? 15 And Moses said to his father-inlaw, Because the people come to me to inquire of God: 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between 5 one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17 And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 6 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; a thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 19 Hearken now to my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people toward God, that thou mayest bring the causes to God: 5 Heb. a 6 Heb. Fa- 2 For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. 71 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered to20 And thou shalt teach them ordi- a Deut. 1. 9. gether, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to the LORD. nances and laws, and shalt show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 9 And the LORD said to Moses, Lo, I come to thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every Acts 7. 38. small matter they shall judge: So shall 11 And be ready against the third day: for on the third day the LORD will come it be easier for thyself, and they shall & Deut. 29. 2. down in the sight of all the people upon bear the burden with thee. mount Sinai. 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God 12 And thou shalt set bounds to the command thee so, then thou shalt be able Deut. 5. 2. people round about, saying, Take heed to to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he d Deut.10.14. put to death: yourselves, that ye go not up upon the mount, or touch the border of it: & whoever toucheth the mount shall be surely Ps. 24. 1. had said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. CHAP. XIX. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Rev. 1. 6. sc. 24. 3. 7. Deut. 5. 27. & 26. 17. 13 There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through: whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the 1 trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud Heb. 12.20. upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding 'loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled. 11. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether in a smoke, because the LORD descend ed upon it in fire: and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses to the top of a Deut. 5. 6. against thy neighbor. the mount; and Moses went up. Ps. 81. 10. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break 1 Heb. serthrough to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 24 And the LORD said to him, Away, go down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: But let not the priests and the people break through, to come up to the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. 25 So Moses went down to the people, and spoke to them. CHAP. XX. 1 The ten commandments. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatry is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the altar should be. A ND God spoke all these words, saying, 2 a I am the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of 1 bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: vants. 6 Lev. 26. 1. Ps. 97. 7. Lev. 19. 12. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said to Moses, Speak Matt. 5. 33. thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. c. 23.12. Luke 13. 14. Ezek. 20.12. e Gen. 2. 2. Deut. 5. 16. Matt. 5. h Rom. 77. 21. 20 And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. 22 And the LORD said to Moses, Thus thou shalt say to the children of Israel; Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make to you gods of gold. 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make to me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings erings, thy sheep, and thy oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to thee, and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not 2 build it of hewn stone: for if thou shalt lift up thy tool 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to Heb. 12. 18. upon it, thou 3 hast polluted it. them, nor serve them for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Deut. 5. 24. &18. 16. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. men. CHAP. XΧΙ. 1 Laws for men-servants. 5 For the servant whose ear is bored. 7 For women-servants. 12 For man-slaughter. 16 For stealers of 17 For cursers of parents. 18 For smiters. 22 For a hurt by chance. 28 For an or that goreth. 33 For him that is an occasion of harm. Now these are the judgments which thou set 2 If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing. 3 If he came in 1 by himself, he shall depart by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall depart with him. 4 If his master hath given him a wife, and she hath borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall depart by him self. 2 Heb. say- 5 And if the servant 2 shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free: 6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door-post: and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 71 And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do. Before CHRIST, 1491. 3 Heb. be evil of, &c. 8 If she 3 shall not please her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then & Lev. 24. 17. shall he let her be redeemed to sell her to a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he hath betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he shall take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish. Deut, 19. 3. d Lev. 20. 9. Prov. 20. 20. Mat. 15. 4. Mark 7. 10. 11 And if he shall not perform these three to her, then shall she depart free 4 or, revileth. without money. 121 He that smiteth a man, so that 5 or, his he dieth, shall be surely put to death. neighbor. 13 And if a man shall not lie in wait, but God shall deliver him into his hand; 6 Heb. his then I will appoint thee a place whither ceasing. he shall flee. avenged. 14 But if a man shall come presump- 7 Heb. tuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from my altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he shall be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And dhe that 4 curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men contend together, and one shall smite s another with a stone, or with his fist, and he shall not die, but keep his bed: Lev. 24. 20. Deut. 19.21. Mat. 5. 38. 19 If he shall rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that / Gen. 9. 5. smote him be quit: only he shall pay for 6 the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. 20 And if a man shall smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he shall die under his hand; he shall be surely 7 punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he shall continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money. 22 If men shall contend, and hurt a 1 or, goat. woman with child, so that her fruit shall depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief shall follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man shall smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it shall perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he shall smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28 If an ox shall gore a man or a woman, that they die: then ƒ the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox was accustomed to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not restrained him, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there shall be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him. 31 Whether he hath gored a son, or hath gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him. 32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and ar ox or an ass shall fall into it; 34 The owner of the pit shall make compensation, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox shall hurt another's that he shall die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead or also they shall divide. 36 Or if it shall be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not restrained him; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own. CHAP. XXII. 1 Of theft. 5. Of damage. 7 Of trespasses. 14 Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of beastiality. 20 Of idolatry. 21 Of strangers, widows, and fatherless. 25 Of usury. 26 Of pledges. 28 Of reverence to magistrates. 29 Of the first fruits. IF a man shall steal an ox, or a 1 sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and a four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun shall have risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his 2 Sam. 12.6. beast, and shall feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution. 6 If fire shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field shall be con 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing 3 Heb. which another challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and he whom the judges shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbor. 10 If a man shall deliver to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any d Deut. 13. 13. 27 For that is his only covering, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the 5 gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer & the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy 7 liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give to me. 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thy oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me. 31 And ye shall be holy men to me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. CHAP. XXIII. beast to keep; and it shall die, or be Lev. 19. 33. 1 Of slander and false witness. 3, 6 Of jus hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the Zech. 7. 10. owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make restitution. 12 And if it shall be stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it. 13 If it shall be torn in pieces; then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 And if a man shall borrow aught of his neighbor, and it shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 15 But if the owner of it shall be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be hired thing, it came for his hire. a & Lev. 25. 36. 37. Peut 23.19. 4 or, interest. h Acts 23.5. 5 or, judges. 6 Heb. thy 7 Heb. tear. 16 And if a man shall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with c. 13.2. 12. her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall 3 pay money according to the dower of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth to any god, save to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry: & 34. 19. 1 or, receive. tice. 4 Of charitableness. 10 Of the year of rest. 12 Of the sabbath. 13 Of idolatry. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice. 20 An Angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him. T HOU shalt not 1 raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou shalt see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, 3 and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for Deut. 22. 4. the gift blindeth 4 the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 3 or, wilt thou cease to help him? or, and cease to leave thy thou shall join with & Deut. 16.19. 4 Heb. the seeing. 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your 5 Heb. soul. wives shall be widows, and your chil dren fatherless. 25 If thou shalt lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him 4 usury. Lev. 25. 3. 6 or, olive- Luke 13. 14. 26 If thou shalt at all take thy neigh-7or, name. bor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliv-Deut. 16.16. er it to him by the setting of the sun. 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people my eat: and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy 6 oliveyard. 12 d Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and the son of thy hand-maid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the 7 names of other gods, neither let it be heard from thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year. land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee to sin against me: for if thou shalt serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee. CHAP. XXIV. 1 Moses is called up upon the mountain. 3 The people promise obedience. 4 Moses buildeth an altar, and 12 pillars: 6 He sprinkleth the blood of the covenant. 9 The glory of God appeareth. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people. 15 Moses goeth upon the mountain, where he continueth forty days and forty nights. k c. 33. 2. 19 & The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of 1c. 33. 2. the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, Josh.24.11. "Deut. 7. 25. 10 Heb. necks. ND he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, « All the words which the LORD hath said will we perform. wrote words of your transgressions: for my him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then en I I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries. 23 For my Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amo-9 с. 34. 15. rites, and the Hittites, and the Periz- Deut. 7.2. zites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: I will complete the number of thy days. Deut. 7. 16. Josh. 23.13. Judg. 2. 3. ae. 19. 8. v. 7. 27 I will send my fear before thee, and Deut. 5. 27. will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thy enemies turn their 10 backs to thee. 28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and the beast of the field should multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy bounds from the 6 v. 3. Red sea even to the sea of the Philis- 1 Pet. 1. 2. Heb. 9. 20. tines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in its clear ness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and ate and drank. 12 And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayst teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up upon the mount of God. 14 And he said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again to you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are |