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and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of z ver. 25, 47. his family may redeem him; or if he be waxen rich, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; "according to the time of an hired servant shall he be with him. 51 If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back 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 shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption. 53 As a servant hired Ex. 1. 13, year by year shall he be with him:

a Job 7. 1. Isai. 16. 14 & 21. 16.

14.

Ezek. 34.4.

b ver. 41.

c ver. 42.

d See ch.

19. 4. e See Ex.

he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be Ex. 21. 2,3. not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Is9 Num. 33. rael are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

20. 4, 5.

ƒ Ex. 23. 24.

52.

Cp. Ezek. 8.10.

h ch. 19. 30.

See Ex.
20.8.

! Deut. 11.
13-15

& 28. 1-14.
See ch.
18. 4.

j Ps. 67. 6
& 85. 12.
Ezek. 34.
26, 27
& 36. 30.
Joel 2. 23,
24.
Zech. 8. 12.

Cp. ver. 20

& Deut. 11. 17.

9. 13.

Cp. Amos
See ch. 25.

13.
m See ch.
25. 18.

* Cp. 1 Kin. 4.25

& 1 Chr.
22.9.

Jer. 30. 10.

25.

Job 11. 19. Zeph. 3.13. Ezek. 34. Cp. ? Kin. & Isai. 35.9 & Ezek. 5.

17.25

17

& 14. 15.

I Ye shall make you no

26 didols, neither shall ye rear

you up a graven image, or 2/ a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

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evil beasts to cease out of the land, "neither shall the sword go through 9 Cp. Ezek. your land. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, r Cp. Deut. and an hundred of you shall chase ten thousand: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat "old store long kept, and ye shall u ch. 25. 22. bring forth the old 4 because of the new. 11" And I will set my taber nacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12" And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 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 bars of your yoke, and made you go See Ex. upright.

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14" But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my judgements, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; 16I also will do this unto you; I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away: and dye 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 smitten before your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you; and "ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto me, then I will chastise you 'seven times more for your sins. 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 fruit. 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. 22 And I will send the beast 3 Or, thereon 4 Or, from before

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 then I will give your rains in their 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 mdwell 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 cause 1 Or, in these years 2 Or, an obelisk

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Judg. 5. 6. Isa. 4 S. Lam. 1. 4.

Jer. 2.30 #11 See Amos 4. 6-12.

n ver. 27.

27.

P. 15. 21. Deut. 25

Jer. 14. 12 $24.10

of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and deZech. 14. stroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate. 23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed 2 Sam. 22. unto me, but will walk contrary unto me; 24"then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your $217,18. sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall P116 be delivered into the hand of the Ezek 4.16 enemy. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake Isa 9.30. your bread in one oven, and they He shall deliver your bread again by 14. weight: and ye shall eat, and not [18 be satisfied.

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27 And "if ye will not for all this E&13, hearken unto me, but walk contrary 3.18 unto me; 28 then I will walk contrary unto you in fury; and I also Sam. 2.5. will chastise you seven times for P16 your sins. 29" And ye shall eat the De flesh of your sons, and the flesh of Ezek. 5. 10. your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, 14.4 and cut down your sun-images, and "cast your carcases upon the carCh. 145 cases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will 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. 33 And La 1. in, you will I scatter among the naEzek. 5.6 tions, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall A be a waste. 34 Then shall the land an enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the derland rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. Ezek & 15 35 As long as it lietli desolate it shall Dent. 4. have rest; even the rest which it Neb. 1. had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And as for them Ek 1215 that are left of you, 'I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands

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and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no Josh. 7. 12, power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, 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 the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 40 And" they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that because they have walked contrary unto me, 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their Puncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; 42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land & Cp. Ps. also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they rejected my judgements, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, 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 cove. nant of their ancestors, "whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

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& 2 Chr.
12. 6, 7
& 32. 26

3.12. 15. Ex. 2.24 P. 106. 45.

& 6. 5.

Ezek. 16. 60.

85. 1.

cp. Deut.

4.31
& 2 Kin.

13.3

& Neh. 9.
31
& Rom.
11.2.

ver. 15. ch. 22. 33.

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46 These are the statutes and judgements and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai y ch. 25. 1. by the hand of Moses.

1 And the LORD spake unto

27 Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall ac2 Or, make a special row

a driven leaf shall chase them; (Ezek. 21. 7. J ver. 17. * Job 13. 25. 1 Or, by

2 Num. 6. 2

(for mg.).
Cp. Judg.
11,30,31,39

& 1 Sam. 1.
11, 28.
See Num.
30.

a ver. 25. See Ex. 30. 13.

b ver. 33

complish a vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3 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. 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. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and upward; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen she kels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

9 And if it be a beast, whereof men offer an oblation 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 both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation unto the LORD, then he shall set the beast before the priest 12 and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad as thou the priest valuest it, c ver. 15, 19. SO shall it be. 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add

d ch. 22.14. the fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

e ver. 13.

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.

ch. 25. 15,

16.

his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money ac- ver. 23. cording to the years that remain unto the year of jubile, and an abatement shall be made from thy estimation. 199 And if he that sanc- g ver. 13. tified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 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 jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if he sanctify unto the LORD a field which he bath bought, which is not of the field of his possession; 23'then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation unto the year of jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 24

i

ch. 25. 28,

30, 31, 3, 41.

14.

ver. 28. Num. 18. Ezek. 44. ch. 25. 10.

29.

25.

ver. 18.

In the year of jubile the field m ch. 25. 28. shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth. 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to "the shekel n ver. 3. of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

o See Ex.

30. 19.

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Josh. 6.

17-19.

21.

28 Notwithstanding, "no devoted ver. 21. thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, whe- Sam. 15. ther of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed every devoted thing is 16 And if a man shall sanctify most holy unto the LORD. 29 None unto the LORD part of the field of devoted, which shall be devoted of 1 Or, according to thy estimation of persons unto the LORD, then thy estimation &c.

8 Cp. Num. & Judg. 11.

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Ex. 14. 1. A Ex. 25. 22. *Ca ch. 21.

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& Chr.

2-5.

See ch. 26. ver 18, 20,

CLA4. ¡ Chr. 23. 1,24

14. Ex. 14

Ex. 12 51

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men, shall be ransomed; he shall tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
surely be put to death.
33 He shall not search whether it
be good or bad, neither shall he ver. 10.
change it: and if he change it at
all, then both it and that for which
it is changed shall be holy; it shall
not be redeemed.
are the command- w ch. 26. 46,
ments, which the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of Israel in a ch. 25. 1
mount Sinai.

30 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 redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof. 32 And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever "passeth under the rod, the

34 w These

THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

NUMBERS.

1 AND the LORD spake unto ah. 10. 11, Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, Ex. 12 saying, 2dTake ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls: 3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house. 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Issachar; *Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9 Of Zebulun; 'Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; "Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of 1 Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These are they that were called of the congregation, "the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads

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1 Chr. 12.

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Chr. 28.

& 31. 19. Ezra 8. 20.

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22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and Cp.ch. 28. nine thousand and three hundred.

24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from 2 Or, families

14.

twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were * Cp. ch. 26. forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

18.

a Cp. ch. 26. 22

& 2 Sam. 24. 9.

b Cp. ch.

26. 25.

e Cp. ch. 26. 27.

d Cp. ch. 26. 37.

e Cp. ch. 26. 34.

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26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were a threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

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30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were cfifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were d forty thousand and five hundred. 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were e thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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45 So

26. 50.

44 These are they that were num- j ch. 26. 64. bered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house. all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 even all they that were numbered were six Ex. 38.26. hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Cp. ch. 11.

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& 26. 51 & Ex. 12.

ch.236 Cp.ch. 26. 57, 58, 62.

See ch. 3 & ch. 4 & 1 Chr. 6.

47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 49 Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel: 50" but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, "and shall n See ch. 3. encamp round about the tabernacle.

mch.3.7, 8. See ch. 4. 15-33.

Ex. 38. 21.

23-38.

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