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Law's for fervants, TOW

Chap. xxi.

Now thefe are the judgments which

thou' fhalt fet before them.

2 If thou buy an Hebrew fervant, fix years he fhall ferve: and in the feventh he fhall go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he fhall go out by himfelf: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 If his mafter have given him a wife, and the have born him fons or daughters; the wife and her children fhall be her master's, and he fhall go out by himself. 5 And if the fervant fhall plainly fay, I love my mafter, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

6 Then his master fhall bring him unto the judges; he fhall alfo bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master fhall bore his ear through with an aul; and he fhall ferve him for ever.

7 And if a man fell his daughter to be a maidfervant, fhe fhall not go out as the menfervants do.

8 If the please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then fhall he let her be redeemed: to fell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, fecing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his fon, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, fhall be not diminish.

II And if he do not thefe three unto her, then fhall the go out free without money. 12 He that fmiteth a man, fo that he die, fhall be furely put to death.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver bim into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he fball flee.

14 But if a man come prefumptuously upon his neighbour, to flay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that fmiteth his father, or his mother, fhall be furely put to death. 16 And he that ftealeth a man, and felleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he fhall furely be put to death,

17 And he that curfeth his father, or his mother, fhall furely be put to death. 18 And if men strive together, and one fmite another with a ftone, or with his fift, and he die not, but keepeth his bed;

19 If he rife again, and walk abroad upon his ftaff, then fhall he that fmote him be quit; only he fhall pay for the lofs of his time, and fhall caufe him to be thoroughly healed.

20 And if a man fmite his fervant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under bis hand; he shall be furely punished.

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21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he hall not be punished; for he is his money.

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, fo that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mifchief follow: he fhall be furely punished, according as the woman's hufband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mifchief 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, ftripe for stripe.

26 And if a man fmite the eye of his fervant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he fhall let him go free for his eye's fake.

27 And if he fmite out his manfervant's tooth, or his maidfervant's tooth; he fhall let him go free for his tooth's fake.

28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox fhall be furely ftoned, and his flefh fhall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been teftified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox fhall be stoned, and his owner alfo fhall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a fum of money, then he fhall give for the ransom of his life whatfoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have gored a fon, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment fhall it be done unto him.

32 If the ox fhall pufh a manfervant or maidfervant; he fhall give unto their mafter thirty fhekels of filver, and the ox fhall be stoned.

33 And if a man fhall open a pit, or if a man fhall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an afs fall therein;

34 The owner of the pit fhall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast fhall be his.

35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they fhall fell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead or alfo they fhall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he fhall furely pay ox for ox; and the dead fhall be his own. CHAP. XXJI.

Of theft. 5 Of damage. Of trefpaffes. 14 Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft, and other offences. [Fa man fhall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he fhall restore E 4 five

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five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a fheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be fmitten that he die, there fhall no blood be fhed for him.

3 If the fun be rifen upon him, there hall be blood bed for him; for he should make full reftitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be fold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his band alive, whether it be ox, or afs, or fheep; he fhall restore double.

$ If a man fhall caufe a field or vineyard to be eaten, and fhall put in his beat, and fhall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make reftitution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, fo that the ftacks of corn, or the ftanding corn, or the field, be confumed there quith; he that kindled the fire tall furely make reftitution.

7¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be ftolen out of the man's houfe; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the mafter of the houfe fhall be brought unto the judges, to fee whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it he for ox, for afs, for theep, for raiment, or for any manner of loft thing, which another challengeth to be his, the caufe of both parties fhall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he fhall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an als, or an ox, or a fheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man feeing it:

II Then fhall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it fhall accept thereof, and he fhall not make it good.

12 And if it be ftolen from him, he fhall make reftitution unto the owner

thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witnefs, and he thall not make good that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he fhall forely make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he fhall not make it good if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he Ball furely endow her to be his wife.

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17 If her father utterly refufe to give her unto him, he fhall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

IST Thou shalt not fuffer a witch to live. 19 Whofoever lieth with a beast shall furely be put to death.

20 He that facrificeth unto any god, fave unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor opprefs him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye fhall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wife, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

24 And my wrath fhall wax hot, and I will kill you with the fword; and your wives fhall be widows, and your children fatherlefs.

25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an ufurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him ufury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the fun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his fkin: wherein shall he fleep? and it fhall come to pafs, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curfe the ruler of thy people.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy fons fhalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewife fhalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy theep: feven days it fhall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye fhall be holy men unto me: neither fhall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beafts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

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CHAP. XXIII.

Of flander and falfe witness. 2 Of other offences and duties. 20 An angel promif ed, with a bleffing, if they obey him. HOU fhalt not raife a falfe report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witnefs.

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2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither halt thou fpeak in a caufe to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither fhalt thou countenance a poor man in his caufe..

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his afs going aftray, thou shalt furely bring it back to him again.

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religious precepts.

Chap. xxiv.

5. If thou fee the afs of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldeft forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

6 Thou shalt not wreft the judgment of thy poor in his caufe.

7 Keep thee far from a falfe matter; and the innocent and righteous flay thou not: for I will not juftify the wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wife, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 Alfo thou fhalt not opprefs a ftranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, feeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And fix years thou shalt fow thy land, and fhalt gather in the fruits thereof:

God's promife on obedience. your tranfgreffions: for my name is in him.

22 But if thou fhalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I fpeak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adverfaries.

23 For mine Angel fhall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perezzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebufites: and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor ferve them, nor do after their works: but thou fhalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye fhall ferve the LORD your God, and he fhall blefs thy bread, and thy water; and I will take ficknefs away from the midst of thee.

26 There shall nothing caft their young,

II But the feventh year thou fhalt let it reft and lie ftill; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beafts of the field fhall eat. In like man-nor be barren, in thy land: the number ner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, of thy days I will fulfil. and with thy oliveyard.

12 Six days thou fhalt do thy work, and on the feventh day thou fhalt reft: that thine ox and thine afs may reft, and the fon of thy handmaid, and the ftranger, inay be refreshed.

13 And in all things that I have faid unto you be circumfpect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

27 I will fend my fear before thee, and will deftroy all the people to whom thou fhalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

28 And I will fend hornets before thee, which fhall 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; left the land become defolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of un- 30 By little and little I will drive them. leavened bread: (thou shalt eat unlea-out from before thee, until thou be invened bread feven days, as I commanded creased, and inherit the land. thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou cameft out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty :)

16 And the feaft of harveft, the firftfruits of thy labours, which thou haft fown in thy field: and the feaft of inga. thering, which is in the end of the year, when thou haft gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males fhall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my facrifice with leavened bread; neither thall the fat of my facrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the firftfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the houfe of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mother's milk.

20 Behold, I fend 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, provoke him not; for he will not pardon

31 And I will fet thy bounds from the Red fea even unto the fea of the Philiftines, and from the defert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou fhalt drive them out before thee.

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32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They fhall not dwell in thy land, left they make thee fin against me: for if thou ferve their gods, it will furely be a fnare unto thee.

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CHAP. XXIV. Mofes is called up into the mountain. The people promife obedience. 6 Mofes Sprinkleth the blood of the covenant. 15 He goeth up into the mount.

unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, ND he faid unto Mofes, Come up Nadab, and Abihu, and feventy of the elders of Ifrael; and worship ye afar off.

2 And Mofes alone fhall come near the LORD: but they fhall not come nigh; neither fhall the people go up with him.

3 And Mofes came and told the people

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Mofes called into the mount, c. EXODUS.

The form of the ark; people all the words of the LORD, and and Mofes was in the mount forty days all the judgments: and all the people and forty nights. answered with one voice, and faid, All the words which the LORD hath faid will we do.

4 And Mofes wrote all the words of the LORD, and rofe up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Ifrael.

5 And he fent young men of the children of Ifrael, which offered burnt of ferings, and facrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

6 ¶ And Mofes took half of the blood, and put it in bafons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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CHAP. XXV.

The offering for the tabernacle. 10 The form of the ark. 17 The mercy feat. 23 The table. 31 The candlestick.

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ND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying,

2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye fhall take my offering.

3 And this is the offering which ye fhall take of them; gold, and filver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' fkins dyed red, and badg

7 And he took the book of the cove-ers' fkins, and shittim wood, nant, and read in the audience of the people and they said, All that the LORD hath faid will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Mofes took the blood, and fprinkled it on the people, and said, Be. hold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then went up Mofes, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and feventy of the elders of Ifrael:

10 And they faw the God of Ifrael: and there was under his feet as it were a paved walk of a sapphire ftone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearnefs. II And upon the nobles of the children of Ifrael he laid not his hand alfo they faw God, and did eat and drink.

6 Oil for the light, fpices for anointing oil, and for fweet incenfe,

7 Onyx ftones, and ftones to be fet in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

8 And let them make me a fanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I fhew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even fo fhall ye make it.

10 And they fhall make an ark of fhittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

II And thou shalt overlay it with pure golds within and without fhalt thou overlay it, and fhalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

12 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Come up to me into the mount, and be 12 And thou fhalt caft four rings of there and I will give thee tables of gold for it, and put them in the four corftone, and a law, and commandments ners thereof; and two rings shall be in which I have written; that thou mayeft the one fide of it, and two rings in the teach them. other fide of it.

13 And Mofes rofe up, and his minifter Jofua and Mofes went up into the mount of God.

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14 And he faid unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

15 ¶ And Mofes went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it fix days: and the seventh day he called unto Mofes out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the fight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Ifrael.

18 And Mofes went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount;

13 And thou shalt make ftaves of fhit tim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the ftaves inta the rings by the fides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them,

15 The ftaves fhall be in the rings of the ark: they fhall not be taken from it. 16 And thou fhalt put into the ark the teftimony which I fhall give thee.

17 And thou fhalt make a mercy feat of pure gold; two cubits and a half ball be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

18 And thou shalt make two che rubims of gold, of beaten work fhalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy feat.

19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

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of the tabernacle and candleflick,

Chap. xxvi. The ten curtains for the tabernacle. 20 And the cherubims fall ftretch 35 And there fhall be a knop under two forth their wings on high, covering the branches of the fame, and a knop under mercy feat with their wings, and their two branches of the fame, and a knop faces hall look one to another; toward under two branches of the fame, accordthe mercy feat fhall the faces of the che-ing to the fix branches that proceed out rubims be, of the candlestick.

21 And thou shalt put the mercy feat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the teftimony that I fhall give thee.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy feat, from between the tvo cherubims which are upon the ark of the teftimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Ifrael,

23 Thou shalt alfo make a table of hittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof,

24 And thou fhalt overlay it with pure

36 Their knops and their branches fhall be of the fame: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

37 And thou fhalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

38 And the tongs thereof, and the fnuffdifhes thereof,hall be of pure gold. 39 Of a talent of pure gold fhall he make it, with all thefe veffels.

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was fhewed thee in the mount,

CHAP. XXVI.

The ten curtains of the tabernacle, 31
The vail for the ark.

gold, and make thereto a crown of gold Mo

round about.

25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an handbreadth round about, and thou fhalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over againft the borders fhall the rings be for places of the ftaves to bear the table.

28 And thoufhalt make the staves of fhittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 And thou halt make the dishes thereof, and fpoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold fhalt thou make them. 30 And thou fhalt fet upon the table fhewbread before me alway.

31 And thou fhalt make a candleftick of pure gold; of beaten work thall the candleltick be made; his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, fhall be of the fame.

32 And fix branches fhall come out of the fides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one fide, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other fide:

OREOVER thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and fcarlet: with cherubims of cunning work fhalt thou make them.

2 And the length of one curtain hall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains fhall have one measure.

3 The five curtains fhall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains fhall be coupled one to another.

4 And thou fhalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the felvedge in the coupling; and likewife fhalt thou make in the uttermoft edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

5 Fifty loops fhalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops fhalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the fecond; that the loops may take hold one of another.

6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it fhall be one tabernaele.

And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle : eleven curtains fhalt thou make.

8 The length of one curtain shall be 33 Three bowls made like unto al-thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curmonds, with a knop and a flower in one tain four cubits: and the cleven curtains branch; and three bowls made like al-hall be all of one measure. monds in the other branch, with a knop 9 And thou shalt couple five curtains and a flower: fo in the fix branches that come out of the candlestick.

34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

by themselves, and fix curtains by themfelves, and fhalt double the fixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

Io And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmoft

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