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31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.edwy

32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.mk

33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your 2221. & land, ye shall not || vex him.

Or,

23.9. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall ppress be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt o Exod. love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

12.48,49.

Prov

35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure.

36 Just balances, just † weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, +Heb. which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

11.1. & 20. 10.

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37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. SCHAP. XX.

2 Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech. 4 Of him that favoureth such an one. 6 Of going to wizards. 7 of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents, &c. AND the Loan spake unto Moses, saying,

2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not;

5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

7¶Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

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9¶For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

10 And the man that committeth adultery with Det another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adul4,4 teress shall surely be put to death.

23.22

John

Chap.

18.8.

11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

Of incest, sodomy, and bestiality.

CHRIST 1490.

13 If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with Before a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely & Chap. be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having i Chap. her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath + discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the made fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut naked. off from among their people.

19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is † an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's + He nakedness: they shall be childless.

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22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and Chap ¶ all my judgments, and do them; that the land, whi- 18.26. ther I bring you to dwell therein, 'spue you not out. 18. 25, 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

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6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not himself profane the name of their God: for the offerings of wife, &c. the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, a Chap. they do offer; therefore they shall be holy.

19.27.

|| Or, food.

b Chíp. 22. 23.

|| Or,

7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her fa

ther she shall be burnt with fire.

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10 And he that is the high priest among his bre¶ thren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God:

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18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach; a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is broken footed, or brokenhanded,

20 Or crook-backed, or || a dwarf, or that hath a 200 slen- blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken:

der.

21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy:

23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

Who may eat of the holy things.

CHAP. XXII.

1 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things: 10 who of the priest's house may eat of them. 17 The sacrifices must be without blemish, 26 The age of the sacrifice. 29 Of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

ΑΝ 2 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD. 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed, among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

Before CHRIST 1490.

15. 2.

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath at running issue, he shall not eat of the holy a Chap things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any 1+Heb. thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed running goeth from him;

5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

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+ of the

reins

b Exod 22. 31.

8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the Ezekiel LORD.

9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

44. 31.

11 But if the priest buy any soul + with his money, with the + Heb. he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house; purchase of his they shall eat of his meat.

money.

12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto †a + Heb. stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy a man a things.

stranger.

13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her 10. 14. father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

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14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.

c Chap.

15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD; 16 Or || suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass lade || Or, when they eat their holy things; for I the LORD do themsanctify them.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, iniquity 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all of tresthe children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever their he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Is eating. rael, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his free-will-offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offering

Sacrifices must be without blemish.

Before

The feast of Pentecost.

7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation; Before shall do no servile work therein.

CHAP. XXII, XXIII. 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without CHRIST blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not Deut. offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

1490.

15. 21. & 17.1.

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21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freeOr, will-offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou 31. 18. offer for a free-will-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Chap.

24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day, and thenceforth, it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And whether it be cow or lewe, ye shall not kill the-goat. it and her young both in one day.

Or,

f Deut.

22. 6.

29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall Chap. leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

7.15.

b Chap. 10. 3.

a Brod 20. 9.

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32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,

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CHRIST 1490.

8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto →→ the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work therein.

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9 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a † sheaf of the first-fruits of your har- Or, vest unto the priest; handful. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, mer. to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12 And ye shall offer that day, when ye wave the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish, of the first year, for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be two tenth-
deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made
by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the
drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part
of an hin.

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched
corn, nor green ears, until the self-same day that ye
have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be
a statute for ever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings.
15 ¶ And shall count unto
ye
from the mor-
row after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought
the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall
be complete:

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16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering unto the LORD.

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two waveloaves of two tenth-deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the first-fruits unto the LORD.

18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock and two rams: they shall be for a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with their meat-offering, and their 1 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The sabbath. 4 The pass-drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet over. 9 The sheaf of first-fruits. 15 The feast of Pentecost. 22 Gleanings in the field to be left for the poor. 23 The feast of trumpets. 26 The day of atonement. 33 The feast of tabernacles.

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ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

3Six days shall work be done; but the seventh Deuter, day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

5.18.

Luke

13.14

bExod. 12. 18.

4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy conVocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even

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6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

savour unto the LORD.

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.

20 And the priest shall wave them, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

+ Heb.

c Deut.

16.9.

d Chap

22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, 19.9. thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy e Deut. field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any 24. 19. gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye 201

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16. 30.

29.7.

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people:

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1 The oil for the lamps. 5 The shew-bread. 10 Shelo- CHRIST mith's son blasphemeth. 13 Laws of blasphemy, 17 of murder, 18 of damage. 23 The blasphemer is stoned. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

AND

+ Heb.

2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, † to to cause cause the lamps to burn continually.

to as

31. 8.

3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle cend. of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually : it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candle- a Exod. stick before the LORD continually. 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth-deals shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth
b
work
any
in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from
among his people.

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a
statute for ever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, + Heb. from even unto even, shall ye † celebrate your sabbath. 33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, "The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

Test. hNumb. 29.12.

i John

7.37.

35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work therein.

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering Heb. made by fire unto the LORD: it is a † solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

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37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, every thing upon his day;

38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

40 And ye shall 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 shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD..

7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

b Exod. 25. 30.

29. 33.

9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons; and they cExod. shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto Chap. him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a & 3. perpetual statute.

10 ¶ And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:

11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses; (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan ;)

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13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp, and let all that heard him lay their hands up- cording on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. to the 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, of the saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. LORD. 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, 13. 9. & he shall surely be put to death, and all the congrega- 17. 7. tion shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. 17¶And he that †killeth any man shall surely f Exod. be put to death.

18 ¶ And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

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19. 11. + Heb. smiteth

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a man.

Heb. fe for life. g Exod.

Deuter. 19. 21.

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21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: 21. 24. and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye shall have h one manner of law, as well the stranger, as for one of your own country: for am the LORD your God.

I

5.38. h Exod. 12. 49.

The sabbath of the seventh year.

Before CHRIST 1490.

CHAP. XXV.

CHRIST 1491.

The redemption of land and houses. 23 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but Before at they should bring forth him that had cursed out thou shalt fear thy God : for I that am the LORD your God. of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the chil- 18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep dren of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in CHAP. XXV. the land in safety.

1 The sabbath of the seventh year. 8 The jubilee in the -fiftieth year. 14 Oppression forbidden. 18 A blessing promised to obedience. 23 The redemption of land, 29 and of houses. 35 Of compassion. 39 The usage of bond-servants. 47 The redemption of servants. 1491, AND the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, Heb. then shall the land + keep a sabbath unto the LORD. reat. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six

a Exod.

years 23 10. thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof:

4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy har+ Heb. vest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of of thy se thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the paration, or,conse. land.

cration to God.

† Heb.

loud of

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.

15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the few ness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three

years.

22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

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23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for Or, to the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners be quite cut off. with me. + Heb. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall for cutgrant a redemption for the land.

25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold
away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come
to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his
brother sold.

26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and
himself be able to redeem it;

ting off.

+ Heb. his hand

27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, hath atand restore the overplus unto the man to whom he tained, sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

and

found

28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then suffici that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him ency. that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled eity, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 But the houses of the villages, which have no walls round about them, shall be counted as the fields of the country; +they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

+ Heb. redemption beunto it.

32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and longeth the houses of the cities of their possession, may Levites redeem at any time.

the || Or, oncofthe Levites

33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, them. shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of + Heb. the cities of the Levites are their possession among the faileth. children of Israel.

his hand

+ Heb.

en.

34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may strengthnot be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Exod.

Deuter.

23.19.

35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and †fal- 22. 25. len in decay with thee, then thou shalt +relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may Prov. live with thee.

28.8.

Ezekiel

1036 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but 18 8. & fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 29.12.

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