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Blood forbidden.

DEUTERONOMY. Enticers to idolatry to be ftoned.

thou fhalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

15 Notwithstanding thou mayeft kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy foul lufteth after, according to the bleffing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

16 Only ye fhall not eat the blood; ye fhall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayeft not eat within thy gates thy tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou voweft, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God fhall choose, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maidfervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou fhalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou putteft thine hands unto.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doeft that which is good and right in the fight of the LORD thy God.

19 Take heed to thyself that thou for-1 fake not the Levite as long as thou liveft upon thy earth.

20 When the LORD thy God fhall enlarge thy border, as he hath promifed thee, and thou fhalt fay, I will eat flesh, because thy foul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayeft eat flesh, whatsoever thy foul lufteth after.

21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chofen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou fhalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou fhalt eat in thy gates whatfoever thy foul lufteth after.

22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, fo thou fhalt eat them: the unclean and the clean fhall eat of them alike.

23 Only be fure that thou eat not the blood for the blood is the life; and thou mayeft not eat the life with the flesh.

24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou fhalt pour it upon the earth as water.

25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right the fight of the LORD.

29 When the LORD thy God fhall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to poffefs them, and thou fucceedeft them, and dwelleft in theif land;

30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not fnared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, faying, How did thefe nations ferve their gods? even fo will I do likewife.

31 Thou shalt not do fo unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

CHAP. XIII:

Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near foever; 9 are to be ftoned to death. 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared.

IF there arife among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a fign or a wonder,

2 And the fign or the wonder come to pafs, whereof he spake unto thee, faying, Let us go after other gods, which thou haft not known, and let us ferve them;

3 Thou fhalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your foul.

4 Ye fhall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his com mandments, and obey his voice, and ye fhall ferve him, and cleave unto him.

5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, fhall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away. from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the houfe of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So fhalt thou put the evil away from the midft of thee.

26 Only thy holy things which thou haft, and thy vows, thou fhalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD fhall choofe : 6 If thy brother, the fon of thy mo27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt of-ther, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the ferings, the flesh and the blood, upon the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend, which altar of the LORD thy God: and the is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, blood of thy facrifices fhall be poured faying, Let us go and ferve other gods, out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou haft not known, thou, nor and thou fhalt eat the flesh. thy fathers; 9

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7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Beafts clean and unclean.

2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chofen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abomina

8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither fhall thineble thing. eye pity him, neither fhalt thou spare, neither halt thou conceal him:

9 T But thou fhalt furely kill him; thine hand fhall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

Io And thou shalt ftone him with ftones, that he die; because he hath fought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

11 And all Ifrael fhall hear, and fear, and fhall do no more any fuch wickednefs as this is among you.

12 ¶ If thou shalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying,

13 Gertain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods, which ye have not known;

14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make fearch, and afk diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that fuch abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt furely finite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the fword, deftroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the fword.

16 And thou fhalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the ftreet thereof, and fhalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it fhall be an heap for ever; it fhall not be built again.

17 And there fhall cleave nought of the curfed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and fhew thee mercy, and have compaffion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath fworn unto thy fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

CHAP. XIV.

1 God's children are not to disfigure them-
felves in mourning. 3 What may be
eaten, and what not. 22 Of tithes.
E are the children of the LORD your
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God: ye fhall not cut yourfelves,
nor make any baldnefs between your
eyes for the dead.

4 Thefe are the beafts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygårg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beaft that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beafts, that ye fhall eat.

7 Nevertheless thefe ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the fwine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their fiefh, nor touch their dead carcafe.

9 Thefe ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales fhall ye eat:

Io And whatfoever hath not fins and fcales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

II Of all clean birds ye fhall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye fhall not eat: the eagle, and the offifrage, and the ofpray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the fwan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

18 And the ftork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat,

19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not bẹ eaten.

20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye fhall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou fhalt give it unto the ftranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayeft fell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mother's milk.

22 T Thou shalt truly tithe all the increafe of thy feed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD M thy

Of tithes.

DEUTERONOMY.

The year of releaft. thy God, in the place which he shall | unto many nations, but thou shalt not choose to place his name there, the tithe borrow; and thou fhalt reign over ma of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine ny nations, but they fhall not reign over oil, and the firftlings of thy herds and thee. of thy flocks; that thou mayeft learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, fo that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God fall choofe to fet his name there, when the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee:

25 Then fhalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and fhalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God fhall choose:

26 And thou shalt beftow that money for whatfoever thy foul lufteth after, for oxen, or for fleep, or for wine, or for ftrong drink, or for whatfoever thy foul defireth and thou fhalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine houfhold.

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forfake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the fame year, and fhalt lay it up within thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (becaufe he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, which are within thy gates, thall come, and fhall eat and be fatisfied; that the LORD thy God may blefs thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doeft. CHAP. XV.

1 The Seventh year a year of releafe for the poor. 7 It must be no let of lending or giving.

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T the end of every seven years thou fhalt make a release.

7¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor fhut thine hand from thy poor brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and fhalt surely lend him fufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, faying, The seventh year, the year of releafe, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou giveft him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be fin unto thee.

10 Thou shalt furely give him, and thine heart fhall not be grieved when thou giveft unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God fhall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou putteft thine hand unto.

II For the poor fhall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, faying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be fold unto thee, and ferve thee fix years; then in the feventh year thou fhalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou fendeft him out. free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

14 Thou fhalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and. out of thy wineprefs: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath bleffed thee thou fhalt give unto him.

2 And this is the manner of the releafe: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour fhall releafe it; he 15 And thou fhalt remember that thou fhall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it. is called the LORD's releafe.

3. Of a foreigner thou mayeft exact it again but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand thall release;

4 Save when there fhall be no poor among you; for the LORD fhall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to poffefs it:

5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to obferve to do all thefe commandments which I command thee this day.

6 For the LORD thy God blefleth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend

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waft a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

16 And it fhall be, if he fay unto thee, will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thruft it through his ear unto the door, and he fhall be thy fervant for ever. And. alfo unto thy maidfervant thou shalt do likewife.

18 It fhall not feem hard unto thee, when thou fendeft him away free from. thee; for he hath been worth a double hired fervant to thee, in ferving thee fix

years:

The feast of the paffover.

Chap. xvi. The feaft of weeks and tabernacles. years: and the LORD thy God fhall blefs a folemn affembly to the LORD thy God: thee in all that thou doest. thou shalt do no work therein.

19 All the firftling males that come 9 T Seven weeks fhalt thou number of thy herd and of thy flock thou fhalt unto thee: begin to number the feven fanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou weeks from fuch time as thou beginneft to fhalt do no work with the firftling of thy put the fickle to the corn. bullock, nor fhear the firstling of thy fheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD fhall choose, thou and thy houfhold.

21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not facrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean perfon fhall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

CHAP. XVI.

IO And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou fhalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

II And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maidfervant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chofen to place his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that thou waft a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt obferve and do thefe ftatutes.

13 T Thou shalt obferve the feaft of tabernacles feven days, after that thou

1 The feast of the paffover, 9 of weeks, 13 of tabernacles. 18 Of judges and juftice. 21 Groves and images are forbidden. OBSERVE the month of Abib, and haft gathered in thy corn and thy wina,

keep the paffover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

2 Thou halt therefore facrifice the paffover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD fhall choose to place his name there.

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; feven days halt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou cameft forth out of the land of Egypt in hafte: that thou mayeft remember the day when thou cameft forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 And there fhall be no leavened bread feen with thee in all thy coafts feven days; neither fhall there any thing of the flesh, which thou facrificedft the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

s Thou mayeft not facrifice the paffover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe to place his name in, there thou fhalt facrifice the paffover at even, at the going down of the fun, at the season that thou cameft forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou fhalt roaft and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe: and thou fhalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

14 And thou fhalt rejoice in thy feaft, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, and thy manfervant, and thy maidfervant, and the Levite, the ftranger, and the fatherlefs, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

15 Seven days fhalt thou keep a folemn feaft unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD fhall choofe: because the LORD thy God fhall blefs thee in all thine increafe, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt furely rejoice. fhall all thy

16 Three times in a year males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he fhall choofe; in the feaft of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feaft of tabernacles: and they fhall not appear before the LORD empty:

17 Every man hall give as he is able, according to the bleffing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

18 Judges and officers fhalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they fhall judge the people with juft judgment.

19 Thou shalt not wreft judgment; thou shalt not respect perfons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether juft fhalt thou follow, that thou mayeft live, and 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened inherit the land which the LORD thy bread: and on the feventh day shall be God giveth thee.

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21 T Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou fhalt make thee.wom

22 Neither fhalt thou fet thee up ang image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII.

The duty of a king.

law which they fhall teach thee, and ac-
cording to the judgment which they shall
tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not
decline from the fentence which they
fhall fhew thee, to the right hand, nor to
the left.

12 And the man that will do prefump1 Things facrificed muft be found. 2 Idol- tuoufly, and will not hearken unto the aters must be flain. 8 Of hard controver- prieft that standeth to minifter there befies. 14 The election, 16 and duty of a king. fore the LORD thy God, or unto the THOU that fraud ff and HOU fhalt not facrifice unto the judge, even that man fhall die: and thou

wherein is blemish, or any evilfavourednefs: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the fight of the LORD thy God, in tranfgreffing his covenant,

3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the fun, or moon, or any of the hoft of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4 And it be told thee, and thou haft heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that fuck abomination is wrought in Ifrael:

1 5 Then fhalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and fhalt stone them with ftones, till they die.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witneffes, fhall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he fhall not be put to death.

7 The hands of the witneffes fhall be firft upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and ftroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then fhalt thou arife, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God fhall choofe;

9 And thou fhalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that fhall be in thofe days, and enquire; and they fhall fhew thee the fentence of judgment:

16 And thou shalt do according to the fentence, which they of that place which the LORD fhall choose fhall fhew thee; and thou fhalt obferve to do according to all that they inform thee:

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13 And all the people fhall hear, and fear, and do no more prefumptuously.

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and fhalt poffefs it, and fhalt dwell therein, and fhalt fay, I will fet a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

15 Thou fhalt in any wife fet him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God fhall choofe: one from among thy brethren fhalt thou fet king over thee: thou mayeft not fet a ftranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

16 But he shall not multiply horfes to himself, nor caufe the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he thould multiply horfes forafmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither fhall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither fhall he greatly multiply to himself filver and gold.

18 And it fhall be, when he fitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he fhall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

19 And it fhall be with him, and he fhall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and thefe ftatutes, to do them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up a-
bove his brethren, and that he turn not
afide from the commandment, to the right
hand, or to the left: to the end that he
may prolong his days in his kingdom, he,
and his children, in the midst of Ifrael.
CHAP. XVIII.

1 The priests and Levites shall have no in-
beritance. 3 Their portion. Is Chrift
the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The pre
Sumptuous prophet is to die.

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HE priefts the Levites, and all the
inheritance with Ifrael: they fhall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and
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