Idolatry is forbidden.

BEFORE CHRIST 1491.

18 T And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the Rev. 1. 10, mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

Heb. 12.18.

12.

b ch. 19. 18.

Deut. 5.27.

& 18. 16. Gal. 3.19.20. Heb. 12. 19.

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will Deut. 5.25. hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

1 Sam. 12.

20.

16. 6.

Is. 8. 13.

h ch. 19. 16. Deut. 5. 5.

1 Kingss.12.

1 Deut. 4.36. Neh. 9. 13.

ch.32.1.2.4.

1 Sam.5.4,5. 2 Kings 17. 33.

Ezek. 20.30.

& 43. 8. Dan. 5.4,23. Zeph. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16.

1 Lev. 1. 2. m Deut.12.5,

22 T And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you 'from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

24 ¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy 11, 21. & 14. peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will "bless thee.

23. & 16. 6,
11. & 26. 2.
1 Kings 8.
43. & 9. 3.
2 Chr. 6. 6.
& 7. 16. &

12. 13.

Ezra 6. 12. Neh. 1. 9. Ps. 74. 7. Jer. 7.10, 12.

n Gen. 12. 2.

Deut.7. 13. o Deut. 27.5.

Josh. 8. 31. Heb. build them with hewing.

a ch. 24.3, 4. Deut. 4. 14. & 6. 1.

b Lev. 25.39, 40, 41.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not 2build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

CHAPTER XXI.

1 Laws for menservants. 5 For the servant whose ear is bored. 7 For womenservants.

12 For manslaughter. 16 For stealers of

men. 17 For cursers of parents. 18 For smiters. 22 For a hurt by chance. 28 For an or that goreth. 33 For him that is an occasion of harm.

TOW these are the judgments

set before

2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, Deut. 15.12. six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Jer. 24. 14.

3 Heb. with his body.

e Deut. 15. 16. 17. 4 Heb.

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

4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 And if the servant shall plainly aying shall say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him

buy.

Divers laws and ordinances.

unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

7¶ And if a man 'sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

8 If she 2 please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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

BEFORE CHRIST 1491.

d ch. 12. 12.

& 22.8, 2.

e Pa. 40. 6.

Neh. 5. 5.

8 ver. 2, 3.

Heb. be eyes of, &c.

evil in the

19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 T And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for "he is his money.

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband

n Num. 15. 30. & 35, 20.

12.

Deut. 19.11, Heb. 10. 26.

• 1 Kings 2. 28-34.

15.

2 Kings 11. Deut. 24.7. Gen.87.28.

r ch. 22. 4.

Lev. 20. 9. Matt. 15. 4.

Prov. 20.20.

Mark 7. 10. 8 Or.

revileth. Or, his

neighbour.

t2Sam.3.29.

6 Heb. his

ceusing.

6 Heb. avenged. Gen.4.15,24 Rom. 18. 4.

u Lev. 25.45, 46.

Divers laws

white and ordinances.

as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief 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, stripe for stripe.

26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall 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 testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

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

32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master bthirty shekels of silver, and the cox shall be stoned.

33 ¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

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

35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead or also they shall 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 shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

CHAPTER XXII.

1 of theft. 5 Of damage. 7 Of trespasses.

Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 14

18 Of witchcraft. 19 afbestiality. 20 Of idolatry. 21 Of strangers, widows, and fatherless. 25 Of usury. 26 Of pledges. 28 Of reverence to magistrates. 29 Of the firstfruits.

2

he

shall restore five oxen for an ox, and a four sheep for a sheep.

2 ¶ If a thief be found breaking 6 up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be d sold for his theft.

CHRIST 1491.

2 Or, goat.

a 2 Sam. 19.

See Prov. 6.

Luke 19. 8. b Matt. 24.

48.

• Num. 85. 27.

d ch. 21. 2.

⚫ ch. 21. 16.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore? See ver. 1, double.

5 ¶ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

6 ¶ If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

7.

Prov. 6. 81.

7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let & ver. 4. him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

h ch. 21. 6. & ver. 28.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties Deut. 25.1. shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

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

Lam. 5. 3.

Lev. 25. 35, 36, 37. Deut. 23.19, 20. Neh. 5.7. Ps. 15. 5.

17.

Ezek. 18. 8, Deut. 24.6,

10, 13, 17. Job 22.6. & 24. 3, 9. Prov. 20.16. & 22.27. Ezek. 18. 7, 16. Amos 2. 8. b ver. 23.

e ch. 34. 6. 2 Chr. 30.9. Ps. 86. 15.

4 Eccles. 10. 20. Acts 23. 5. Jude 8.

3 Or, judges, ver. 8, 9. Pa. 82.6.

4 Heb. thy fulness.

ech. 23. 16, 19.

Prov. 3.9.

5 Heb. tear.

30Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep seven days it shall be with his 1234119 dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

1 ch. 13. 2,

10.

Deut. 15.

▲ Lev. 22.27.

1 ch. 19. 6. Lev, 19, 2. Deut. 14.21.

k

31 T And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any Lev. 22.8. flesh that is torn of beasts in the Ezek 114. field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

& 44.8L

Sodom and ordinances.

CHAPTER XXIII.

10f slander and false witness. 3,6 of justice. 4 Of charitableness. 10 Of the year of rest. 12 Of the sabbath. 13 Of idolatry, 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice. 20 An Angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him. NHOU & shalt not raise a false

TH report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

b

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou 3 speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

h

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righ-eb. teous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a know the heart of stranger: for ye

a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

7

12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

13 And in all things that I have said unto you P be circumspect: and 9 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. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of

An Angel is promised.

BEFORE

CHRIST 1491.

t ch. 84. 20. Deut. 16.16.

u ch. 34. Lev. 23. 10. x Deut. 16. 13.

unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) 16 "And the feast of harvest, the Deut. 16.16. firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the

7 ch. 34. 23.

ch. 12.8.

& 84. 25. Lev. 2. 11. Deut. 16.4. 2 Or, feast. a ch. 22. 29. & 34. 26.

Lev. 23. 10, field.

17.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; Num.20.16. neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

Josh. 5. 13.
& 6. 2.
Ps. 91. 11.
Is. 63. 9.

11.

4 Num. 14. Ps.78.40,56.

Eph. 4. 30. Heb. 3. 10, 16.

e ch. 32. 31. Num. 14.35. Deut. 18.19.

Josh. 24. 19.

Jer. 5. 7.
Heb. 3. 11.

1 John

5.16.

f Is. 9. 6. Jer. 23. 6. John 10. 30, 38.

g Gen. 12. 3. Deut. 30.7. Jer. 30, 20. 8 Or, I will afflict them that afflict thee.

b ver. 20. ch. 33. 2.

i Josh. 24.

8, 11.

k ch. 20. 5. 1 Lev. 18. 3. Deut. 12. 30, 31.

m ch.34. 13. Num. 33.52.

Deut. 7. 5, 25. & 12. 3. n Deut. 6. 13. & 10. 12, 20. & 11. 13, 14. & 13. 4. Josh. 22. 5. & 24. 14, 15, 21, 24. 1 Sam. 7.3.

& 12. 20, 24. Deut. 7.18.

Matt. 4. 10.

& 28.5, 8. p ch. 15. 26. Deut. 7. 15. q Deut. 7.

14. & 28. 4. Job 21. 10. Mal. 3. 10, 11.

b

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

20 Behold, I send 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 your transgressions: for

f my name is in him.

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

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

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

Moses is called up

CHRIST

fore thee, which shall drive out the BEFORE Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 w I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, ait will surely be a snare unto thee.

CHAPTER XXIV.

1 Moses is called up into the mountain. 3 The people promise obedience. 4 Moses buildeth an altar, and twelve pillars. 6 He sprinkleth the blood of the covenant. 9 The glory of God appeareth. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people. 15 Moses goeth into the mountain, where he continueth forty days and forty nights.

A

ND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, band ch. 28. 1. seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

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

Lev. 10. 1,2. b ch. 1. 5. Num. 11.16.

• ver. 13, 15, 18.

3 T And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, d All the words which the LORD hath d ver. 7. said will we do.

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

f

ch. 19. 8. Deut. 5. 27. Gal. 3. 19,

Deut.31.9.

Gen. 28.18.

& 31. 45.

6 And Moses took half of the Heb. 9. 18. blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the Heb. 9. 19. covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, 'All ver. 3. that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

into the mountain.

Judg. 18.22. with ch. 88.

Is. 6. 1, 5.

20, 23. John 1. 18, 1 Tim.6.16. 1 John 4. 12. ■ Ezek. 1. 23. & 10.1. Rev. 4. 3.

• Matt. 17.2. p ch. 19. 21. q ver. 10.

Gen. 16. 18.

& 32.80.
ch. 33. 20.
Deut. 4. 33.

Judg. 13.22.
Gen. 31.54.

ch. 18. 12.

1 Cor.

10.18.

ver. 2, 15, 18.

1 ch. 31. 18. Deut. 5. 22.

& 32. 15, 16.

☐ ch. 32. 17. & 33. 11. ver. 2.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as

it were a paved work of a "sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he Plaid not his hand: also they saw God, and did reat and drink.

12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

13 And Moses rose up, and " his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

14 And he said 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 Moses went up into the ch.19.9,16. mount, and a cloud covered the

Matt. 17.5.

y ch. 16. 10. Num. 14.10.

= ch. 3. 2. & 19. 18. Deut. 4. 86. Heb. 12. 18, 29.

■ ch. 34. 23. Deut. 9. 9.

2 Heb. take for me.

mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like 'devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

CHAPTER XXV.

I What the Israelites must offer for the making

of the tabernacle. 10 The form of the ark. 17 The mercy seat, with the cherubims. 23 The table, with the furniture thereof. 31 The candlestick, with the instruments thereof.

AND

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offer3 Or, heave ing: of every man that giveth it ch.35.521. willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

offering.

1 Chr. 29. 3, 5, 9, 14. Ezra 2. 68.

&3.5.&7.16.

Neh. 11. 2.

2 Cor. 8. 12. 9.7.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

The mercy seat.

4 And blue, and purple, and scar- BEFORE let, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, 6 Oil for the light, "spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, 7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the 'breast-ch. 28.4, 6. plate.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that "I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10 And they shall make an ark of shittim 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.

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

12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

ch. 27. 20. ch. 30. 23.

d ch. 80. 34.

15 'The staves shall be in the rings Kings 8.8. of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark m the testimony which I shall give thee.

17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

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.