19. 2. a See ch. 10. 8. & 19. 17. DEUTERONOMY. the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer of the z Cp. Num. herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley: 5 and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and b ch. 17, 8, 9 according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be: 6and all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer & Matt. 27. whose neck was broken in the valley: 7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, O LORD, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, dCp. Jonah and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be fore ch. 19. 13. given them. 9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD. c Cp. Ps. 26.6 & 73. 13 24. 1. 14. e 10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thine hands, and thou carriest them away captive, 11 and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; 12 then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall Cp. Ps. 45. remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her 1as a slave, because thou hast humbled her. 10. 9 Cp. Jer. 34. 16. A ch. 24. 7. i Cp. Gen. 29. 30, 33 h 15 If a man have two wives, 'the &1 Sam. 1. one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and 4, 5. [CHAP. 22, V. 4. if the firstborn son be hers that was Cp.2 Kin. Gen. 49. 2.9 (mg.). P8. 78. 31 (mg.) m Gen. 25. & 105.96 (mg.). 31,33 & 27.36. rebellious son, which will not obey 18 If a man have a stubborn and the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them: 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a riotous liver, and a drunkard. his city shall stone him with stones, 21" And all the men of that he die: so shalt thou put awayo See ch. the evil from the midst of thee; 13. 5. Pand all Israel shall hear, and fear. 25. n ch. 13. 10. See Josh. pch. 13. 11 & 17. 13 & 19. 20. 8. 29 22 And if a man have committed to death, and thou hang him on a a sin worthy of death, and he be put tree; 23 his body shall not remain Cp. Josh. all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for "he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. r & 10. 26, 27 Gal. 3. 13. Cited Num. 55. 34. Thou shalt not see thy t Ex. 23. 4. 22 brother's ox or his sheep go them: thou shalt surely bring them ther's ass or his ox fallen down 1 Or, as a chattel 2 Or, during the life time of 3 Heb. the curse of God. *Cp. ch. 18. 12 & 25. 16. Lev. 22. z See ch. 4.40. them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildest anew house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man Lev.12.19. fall from thence. 9" Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed: lest the whole fruit be 2 forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard. : Num. 15. Cp. Matt. 24. 5. 13. 15. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee & fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If any man take a wife, and Cp.2 Sam. 4 go in unto her, and hate her, 14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity: 15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; 17 and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 19 and they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel: 21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel. 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, Cp. Matt. 1. 18, 19. and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee. 25 But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 27 for he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. i See Lev. 18. 8. ch. 27. 20. Cp. Ruth & Ezek. 16. 8. [Ch. 23. 1 in Heb.] * Cp. Zech. 9. 6. I Neh. 13. 1, 2. 29. Num. 22. Cp. 2 Pet. 3, 6. He that is wounded in the : thy camp be holy that he see no away from thee. 23 stones, or hath his privy mem- unclean thing in thee, and turn ber cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD. 3'An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the LORD for m Cp. ch. 2. ever: 4 because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they "hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of 10 Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the LORD mig. 8 thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing Num. 23. unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 2. 15. . Gen. 24. 10 & mg. for & mg. for mg. Acts 7. 2. 11 & 24. 10. 7 Cp. Ezra 9. 12. 7 Gen. 25. Obad. 10, ch. 10. 19. 15. 5. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for "he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD. น 9 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. If there be among you Lev. 15. 18. any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall u See Lev. " bathe himself in water: and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13 and thou shalt have a 2 paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from v Lev. 28. 12. thee: 14 for "the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall 1 Heb. Aram-naharaim. w 15. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto 1 Sam. 30. his master a servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no 4 harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a 5 sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 19*Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; a usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 20unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that the LORD thy God ech. 15. 10. may bless thee in all that thou puttest thine hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 21d When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, a freewill offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. 24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. Matt. 5. 31. Cp. Isai. 50. 1 & Jer. 3. 8. 4 give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be Cp. Jer. his wife; 4 her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. 5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him 1 as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto "Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. II Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. 12 And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13Pthou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and 7 bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 in his 17 Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge : 18 but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 2 2 Kin. 14.6 & 2 Chr. 25. 4. Cp. Jer. 31. 29,30 & Ezek. 18. 20. 22 Ex. 22.21, & 23. 6. Cp. ch. 10. 18 & 27. 19 & Isai. 1.23 & Jer. 5. 28. 19. See ch. 16. Cp. ver. 6,13, & Job 24. 3. y See ch. 5. 15. & 23. 22. 19 When thou reapest thine har- Lev. 19. 9 vest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow a that the LORD thy God a Sce ch. 14. may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 20. 1 If there be a controversy bch. 19. 17. 25 between men, and they come eCp. 1 Kin. 8. 32 & Prov. 17. 15. unto judgement, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. 3d Forty stripes Cp.2 Cor. he may give him, he shall not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. @ Cp. Gen. 38. 8,9 & Ruth 1. 12, 13 the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her hus band's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his A Ruth 4. 10. brother which is dead, that his & 3. 9. 4. 1, 2. name be not blotted out of Israel. 7 A And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his broi Cp. Ruth ther's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of an husband's brother unto me. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if Cp. Ruth he stand, and say, I like not to take her; 9 then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence Cp. Ruth of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and 'spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. j 4.6. 4.7. 1 Cp. Num. 12. 14 & Job 30. 10 & Isai. 30.6. m Ruth 4. 11. 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 then thou shalt cut off n See ch. 7. her hand, "thine eye shall have no pity. 16. o Lev. 19. 35, 36. 16. 11 & Ezek. 45. 10 & Mic. 6. 11. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy Cp. Prov. bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great & Amos 8.5 and a small. 15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: P that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, even all that do un righteously," are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. p Sec ch. 4. 40. I And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. 3 And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the Ex. 13. 5. LORD Sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, a A1Syrian 26 ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 and the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 and we cried unto the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression : 8 and the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 and he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing See Ex. with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 and thou shalt See ch. rejoice in all the good which the LORD thy God hath given unto 2 Or, wandering Or, lost e 1, 2. Isai. 27. 18 & mg. for mg. Cp. ch. 10 |