d 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it, that he may return unto his possession. L 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. thee, then thou shalt relieve him; yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. d 39 ¶ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as L29 ¶ And if a man sell a dwell-a sojourner, he shall be with thee, ing-house in a walled city, then he and shall serve thee unto the year of may redeem it within a whole year jubilee : after it is sold: within a full year 41 And then shall he depart from may he redeem it. thee, both he and his children with 30 And if it be not redeemed him, and shall return unto his own within the space of a full year, then family, and unto the possession of the house that is in the walled city his fathers shall he return. shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. L31 But the houses of the villages, d 43 Thou shalt not rule over him which have no walls round about with rigour, but shalt fear thy God. them, shall be counted as the fields 44 Both thy bondmen and thy of the country they may be re-bondmaids, which thou shalt have, deemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. L33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 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 strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession: 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen 34 But the field of the suburbs of for ever: but over your brethren their cities may not be sold; for it is the children of Israel, ye shall not their perpetual possession. rule one over another with rigour. d35 ¶ And if thy brother be wax-L 47 ¶ And if a sojourner or stranen poor, and fallen in decay with ger wax rich by thee, and thy bro ther that dwelleth by him wax poor,|| 3¶ If ye walk in my statutes, and and sell himself unto the stranger or keep my commandments, and do sojourner by thee, or to the stock of them; the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him. b 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you: afraid and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son 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. L 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold to him, unto the year of jubilee and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him. 7 And ye shall chase your ene51 If there be yet many years be-mies, and they shall fall before you hind, according unto them he shall by the sword. 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 jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemp tion. 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. L54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him. 8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you. b 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall 55 For unto me the children of be my people. Israel are servants; they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and PY or graven image, neither E shall make you no idols made you go upright. CHAP. XXVI. 14 But if ye will not hearken rear you up a standing image, nei-unto me, and will not do all these ther shall ye set up any image of commandments; God. stone in your land, to bow down w 15 And if ye shall despise my staunto it: for I am the LORD your tutes, or if your soul abhor my judg ments, so that ye will not do all my d 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, commandments, but that ye break and reverence my sanctuary: I am my covenant : the LORD. w 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. wo 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 strength shall be spent in vain for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall 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 seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins. hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. r 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. r 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, 22 I will also send wild beasts and ye be in your enemies' land; among you, which shall rob you of even then shall the land rest, and en your children, and destroy your cat-joy her sabbaths. tle, and make you few in number, 35 As long as it lieth desolate it and your high-ways shall be desolate. shall rest; because it did not rest in to 23 And if ye will not be reform- your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon ed by me by these things, but will it. walk contrar unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 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 sound of a shaken 25 And I will bring a sword up-leaf shall chase them; and they on you, that shall avenge the quar-shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; rel of my covenant: and when ye are and they shall fall when none purgathered together within your cities, sueth. I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. w 27 And if ye will not for all this 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in persons shall be for the LORD, by the iniquities of their fathers shall thy estimation. they pine away with them. 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; L3 And thy estimation shall be, of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. L 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 7 And if it be from sixty years 6 And if it be from a month old b 42 Then will I remember my co- even unto five years old, then thy venant with Jacob, and also my estimation shall be of the male five covenant with Isaac, and also my shekels of silver, and for the female covenant with Abraham will I re-thy estimation shall be three shekels member; and I will remember the of silver. land. 43 The land also shall be left of old and above, if it be a male, then them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, thy estimation shall be fifteen shewhile she lieth desolate without kels, and for the female ten shekels. them and they shall accept of the L 8 But if he be poorer than thy punishment of their iniquity; be- estimation, then he shall present cause, even because they despised himself before the priest, and the my judgments, and because their priest shall value him; according to soul abhorred my statutes. his ability that vowed shall the priest value him. b 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. 46 These are the statutes, and judgments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses. CHAP. XXVII. L9 ¶ And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange therefore shall be holy. 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, AND the LORD spake unto Mo-then he shall add a fifth part thereof ses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the unto thy estimation. L 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: a homer of barley-seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of sil ver. L 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand. it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. L26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep: it is the LORD'S. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto : or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall L 28 ¶ Notwithstanding, no devoted reckon unto him the money accord-thing that a man shall devote unto ing to the years that remain, even the LORD, of all that he hath, both unto the year of the jubilee, and of man and beast, and of the field it shall be abated from thy estima- of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. tion. 19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of tity estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. L 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted: the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession; 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubilee and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord. 24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. d 30 T And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. 33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses, for the children of Israel, in mount Sinai. 159 |