not be afflicted in that fame day, he fhall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatfoever foul it be that doeth any work in that fame day, the fame foul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye fhall do no manner of work: it Shall be a ftatute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a fabbath of reft, and ye fhall afflict your fouls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, fhall ye celebrate your fabbath. 33 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 34 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, The fifteenth day of this feventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for feven days unto the LORD. 35 On the first day fhall be an holy convocation: ye fhall do no fervile work therein. 36 Seven days ye fhall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day fhall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a folemn affembly; and ye fhall do no fervile work therein. The law of blafphemy. 44 And Mofes declared unto the children of Ifrael the feafts of the LORD. CHAP. XXIV. 10 Shelomith's fon blafphemeth. 13 The law of blafphemy, 17 of murder, 18 of damage. 23 The blafphemer is floned. ND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, A faying, 2 Command the children of Ifrael, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to caufe the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, fhall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a ftatute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD conti. tinually. 5 And thou fhalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals thall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt fet them in two rows, fix on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincenfe upon each row, that it may be on the 37 Thefe are the feafts of the LORD, bread for a memorial, even an offering which ye fhall proclaim to be holy con-made by fire unto the LORD. vocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a facrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: 38 Befide the fabbaths of the LORD, and befide your gifts, and befide a'l your vows, and befide all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. 39 Alfo in the fifteenth day of the feventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye fhall keep a feaft unto the LORD feven days: on the firft day fhall be a fabbath, and on the eighth day fhall be a fabbath. 40 And ye fhall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye fhall rejoice before the LORD your God feven days. 41 And ye fhall keep it a feast unto the LORD feven days in the year. It hall be a ftatute for ever in your generations: ye thall celebrate it in the feventh month. 42 Ye fhall dwell in booths feven days; all that are Ifraelites born fhall dwell in 8 Every fabbath he fhall fet it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Ifrael by an everlafting covenant. 9 And it fhall be Aaron's and his fons; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual ftatute. IO And the son of an Ifraelitish woman, whofe father quas an Egyptian, went out among the children of Ifrael: and this fon of the Ifraelitifh woman and a man of Ifrael ftrove together in the camp; II And the Ifraelitish woman's fon blafphemed the name of the LORD, and curfed. And they brought him unto Mofes: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan :) 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be fhewed them. 13 ↑ And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 14 Bring forth him that hath curfed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation ftone him. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Ifrael, saying, Whofoever curseth his God fhall bear his fin. 16 And The gear of jubile. Chap. xxv. 16 And he that blafphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation fhall certainly ftone him: as well the ftranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blafphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. 17 ¶ And he that killeth any man fhall furely be put to death. 18 ¶ And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beat for beast. 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so fhall it be done to him; 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caufed a blemish in a man, fo fhall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beast, he thall reftore it and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye fhall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. 23 And Mofes fpake to the children of Ifrael, that they should bring forth him that had curfed out of the camp, and ftone him with stones. And the children of Ifrael did as the LORD commanded Mofes. CHAP. XXV. 8 The jubile. 14 Of oppreffion. 35 Of compaffion. 47 Of redeeming fervants. Of oppreffion, &c. 9 Then fhalt thou caufe the trumpet of the jubile to found, on the tenth day of the feventh month, in the day of atonement fhall ye make the trumpet found throughout all your land. 10 And ye thall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it fhall be a jubile unto you; and ye fhall turn every man unto his poffeffion, and ye fhall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile fhall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye fhall not fow, neither reap that which groweth of itfelf in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undrefled. 12 For it is the jubile; it fhall be holy unto you: ye thall eat the increase there-of out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto h. poffeffion. 14 And if thou fell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyeft ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye fhall not opprefs one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the num ber of years of the fruits he fhall fell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewnefs of years thou fhalt diminish the price of it: for accord, AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes in ing, to the number of the years of the mount Sinai, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and day unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a fabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt fow thy field, and fix years thou fhalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year fhall be a fabbath of reft unto the land, a fabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither fow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of reft unto the land. eth with thee, fruits he fell unto thee. 17 Ye fhall not therefore opprefs one another; but thou fhalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye fhall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye fhall dwell in the land in fafety. 19 And the land fhall yield her fruit, and ye fhall eat your fill, and dwell therein in fafety. 20 And if ye fhall fay, What shall we eat the feventh year? behold, we shall not fow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my bleffing upon you in the fixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 6 And the fabbath of the land fhall be 22 And ye shall fow the eighth year, meat for you; for thee, and for thy fer- and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth vant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired year; until her fruits come in ye shall fervant, and for thy stranger that fojourn-eat of the old fore. 23 The land fhall not be fold for ever: And for thy cattle, and for the beafts for the land is mine; for ye are strangers that are in thy land, shall all the increase and fojourners with me. thereof be meat. 24 And in all the land of your poffef8 And thou shalt number seven fab-fion ye shall grant a redemption for the baths of years unto thee, seven times feven years; and the space of the feven fabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years, land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath fold away fome of his poffeffion, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then H 3 fha LEVITICUS. Of redemption of land, fhall he redeem that which his brother, fold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the fale thereof, and reftore the overplus unto the man to whom he fold it; that he may return unto his poffeffion. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is fold fhall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it fhall go out, and he fhall return unto his poffeffion. 29 And if a man fell a dwelling houfe in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is fold; within a full year may he redeem it. and of fervants: fhall ferve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then fhall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the poffeffion of his fathers fhall he return. 42 For they are my fervants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be fold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but fhalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the ftrangers that do fojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families 30 And if it be not redeemed within that are with you, which they begat the space of a full year, then the house in your land: and they shall be your pofthat is in the walled city fhall be establish-feffion. ed for ever to him that bought it through- 46 And ye shall take them as an inhẹout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them fhall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houfes of the cities of their poffeffion, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was fold, and the city of his poffeffion, fhall go out in the year of jubile: for the houfes of the cities of the Levites are their poffeffion among the children of Ifrael. 34 But the field of the fuburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual poffeffion. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou fhalt relieve him: yea, though he be a ftranger, or a fojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no ufury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon ufury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. ritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a poffeffion; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Ifrael, ye fhall not rule one over another with rigour. 47¶ And if a fojourner or a stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that develletb by him wax poor, and fell himself unto the ftranger or fojourner by thee, or to the ftock of the ftranger's family: 48 After that he is fold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's fon, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he fhall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was fold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his fale fhall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired fervant fhall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years bebind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he fhall 38 I am the LORD your God, which count with him, and according unto his brought you forth out of the land of E-years fhall he give him again the price of gypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 And if thy brother that davelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be fold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondfervant: 40 But as an hired fervant, and as a fojourner, he fhall be with thee, and his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired fervant shall he be with him and the other fhall not rule with rigour over him in thy fight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in thefe years, then he fhall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him. Bleffings promifed. Chap. xxvi. 55 For unto me the children of Ifrael are fervants; they are my fervants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XXVI. I Of idolatry. 3 A bleffing promifed. A curfe threatened. YE 14 E fhall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a ftanding image, neither.fhall ye fet up any image of ftone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye shall keep my ftatutes, and reverence my fanctuary: I am the LORD. 3¶ If ye walk in my fabbaths, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due feafon, and the land fhall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing fhall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage fhall reach unto the fowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your fand fafely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye hall lie down, and none fhall make afraid and I will rid evil beafts you out of the land, neither fhall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye fhall chafe your enemies, and they fhall fall before you by the fword. A curfe threatened. heart: and ye fhall fow your feed in vain, for your enemies fhall eat it. 17 And I will fet my face against you, and ye fhall be flain before your enemies: they that hate you fhall reign over you; and ye fhall flee when none purfueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you feven times more for your fins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your ftrength fhall be spent in vain for your land fhall not yield her increase, neither fhall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring feven times more plagues upon you according to your fins. 22 I will alfo fend wild beafts among you, which fhall rob you of your chil dren, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be defolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet feven times for your fins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, 8 And five of you fhall chafe an hun-that fhall avenge the quarrel of my covedred, and an hundred of you fhall put nant: and when ye are gathered together ten thousand to flight: and your enemies within your cities, I will fend the peftifhall fall before you by the sword. lence among you; and ye fhall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 9 For I will have refpect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. IO And ye shall eat old ftore, and bring forth the old because of the new. II And I will fet my tabernacle among you: and my foul fhall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye fhall be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye fhould not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all thefe commandments; 15 And if ye fhall defpife my ftatutes, or if your foul abhor my judgments, fo that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I alfo will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, confumption, and the burning ague, that fhall confume the eyes, and caufe forrow of 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women fhall bake your bread in one oven, and they fhall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye halt eat, and not be fatisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you alfo in fury; and I, even I, will chastife you feven times for your fins. 29 And ye fhall eat the flesh of your fons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat, 30 And I will deftroy your high places, and cut down your images, and caft your carcafes upon the carcafes of your idols, and my foul fhall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your fanctuaries unto defolation, and I will not fmell the favour of your fweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into defolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will featter you among the heathen, and will draw out a fword after ! 4 you: Plagues threatened for disobedience. LEVITICUS. you and your land fhall be defolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it lieth defolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then fhall the land reft, and enjoy her fabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth defolate it shall reft; because it did not rest in your fabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the found of a fhaken leaf fhall chafe them; and they fhall flee, as fleeing from a fword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a fword, when none purfueth and ye fhall have no power to ftand before your enemies. 38 And ye fhall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies fhall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you fhall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and alfo in the iniquities of their fathers fhall they pine away with them. 40 If they fhall confefs their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with theirtrefpafs which they trefpaffed againft me, and that alfo they have walked contrary unto me; Concerning vows. ments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Ifrael in mount Sinai by the hand of Mofes. CHAP. XXVII. 1 Concerning vows. 28 No devoted thing may be redeemed. 32 The tithe may not be changed. AND the LORD fpake unto Moses, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, When a man shall make a fingular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3 And thy eftimation fhall be of the male from twenty years old even unto fixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty fhekels of filver, after the shekel of the fanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation fhall be thirty fhekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation fhall be of the male twenty fhekels, and for the female ten fhekels. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation fhall be of the male five fhekels of filver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three fshekels of filver. 7 And if it be from fixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy eftimation fhall be fifteen fhekels, and for the female ten fhekels. 41 And that I also have walked con- 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimatrary unto them, and have brought them tion, then he shall present himself before into the land of their enemies; if then the priest, and the priest shall value him; their uncircumcifed hearts be humbled, according to his ability that vowed shall and they then accept of the punishment the prieft value him. of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and alfo my covenant with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 9 And if it be a beaft, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of fuch unto the LORD fhall be holy. Jo He fhall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he fhall at all change beast for beaft, then it and the exchange thereof fhall be holy. 43 The land alfo shall be left of them, and fhall enjoy her fabbaths, while fhe lieth defolate without them: and they fall accept of the punishment of their II And if it be any unclean beast, of iniquity: becaufe, even because they de- which they do not offer a facrifice unto fpifed my judgments, and because their the LORD, then he shall present the beaft foul abhorred my ftatutes. before the priest: 44 And yet for all that, when they be 12 And the priest fhall value it, whein the land of their enemies, I will not ther it be good or bad: as thou valueft caft them away, neither will I abhor it, who art the priest, fo fhall it be. them, to deftroy them utterly, and to 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then break my covenant with them: for I am he hall add a fifth part thereof unto thy the LORD their God. cftimation. 45 But I will for their fakes remember 14 And when a man shall fanctify his the covenant of their ancestors, whom I houfe to be holy unto the LORD, then the brought forth out of the land of Egypt prieft fhall eftimate it, whether it be in the light of the heathen, that I might good or bad: as the priest shall eftimate be their God: I am the LORD. it, fo fhall it stand. 46 Thefe are the ftatutes and judge;| 15 And if he that fanctified it will redeem |