LEVITICUS. Sundry feasts and offerings: The law of blasphemy. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall 2 Command the children of Israel, that not be afflicted in that same day, he shall they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten be cut off from among his people. for the light, to cause the lamps to burn 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth continually. any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall 31 Ye shall do no manner of work. It Aaron order it from the evening unto the shall be a statute for ever throughout your morning before the LORD continually: it generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: inthe ninth day of the month at even. from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. 33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually. 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, deals shall be in one cake. saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, month shall be the feast of tabernacles for six on a row, upon the pure table before seven days unto the LORD. the LORD. 35 On the first day shall be a holy con7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense vocation: ye shall do no servile work upon each row, that it may be on the bread therein. for a memorial, even an offering made by 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering fire unto the LORD. made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order day shall be a holy convocation unto you, before the LORD continually, being taken and ye shall offer an offering made by fire from the children of Israel by an everlastunto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; ing covenant. and ye shall do no servile work therein. 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; 37 These are the feasts of the Lord, and they shall eat it in the holy place: for which ye shall proclaim to be holy convo- it is most holy unto him of the offerings of cations, to offer an offering made by fire the LORD made by fire by a perpetual staunto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a tute meat-offering, sacrifice, and drink-offer- 10 And the son of an Israelitish woings, every thing upon his day: man, whose father was an Egyptian, went a 38 Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, out among the children of Israel; and this and besides your gifts, and besides all son of the Israelitish woman and a man of your vows, and besides all your free-willofferings, 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. 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:) 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of saying, palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed and willows of the brook; and ye shall re- without the camp; and let all that heard joice before the LORD your God seven days. him lay their hands upon his head, and let 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the all the congregation stone him. LORD seven days in the year. It shall be 15 And thou shalt speak unto the chila statute for ever in your generations; ye dren of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth shall celebrate it in the seventh month. his God shall bear his sin. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; 16 And he that blasphemeth the name all that are Israelites born shall dwell in of the LORD, he shall surely be put to booths: death, and all the congregation shall cer 43 That your generations may know tainly stone him: as well the stranger, as that I made the children of Israel to dwell he that is born in the land, when he blasin booths, when I brought them out of the phemeth the name of the LORD, shall be land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. put to death. 44 And Moses declared unto the chil dren of Israel the feasts of the LORD. A CHAP. XXIV. 17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. 18 And he that killeth a beast shall it good; beast for beast. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-make 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done unto 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. 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. 23 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. A ND CHAP. XXV. 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, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years 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. Of oppression. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15 According to the number of years 16 According to the multitude of years of the 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 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. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth for it is a year of rest unto the land. year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be of the old store. meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, 231 The land shall not be sold for and for thy maid, and for thy hired ser-ever; for the land is mine, for ye are vant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth strangers and sojourners with me. with thee, 24 And in all the land of your possession 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast ye shall grant a redemption for the land. that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 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 27 Then let him count the years of the 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the man to whom he sold it; that he may the seventh month, in the day of atone-return unto his possession. ment shall ye make the trumpet sound 28 But if he be not able to restore it to throughout all your land. him, then that which is sold shall remain 8And 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 it, and himself be able to redeem it; years. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, in the hand of him that hath bought it until return every man unto his possession, and 29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house 1 LEVITICUS. Of compassion. A blessing promised. 31 But the houses of the villages which wax rich by thee, and thy brother that bave no walls round about them, shall be dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himcounted as the fields of the country: they self unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, may be redeemed, and they shall go out in or to the stock of the stranger's family 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. : 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 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; 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the or if he be able, he may redeem himself. city of his possession shall go out in the 50 And he shall reckon with him that year of jubilee; for the houses of the cities bought him, from the year that he was sold of the Levites are their possession among to him, unto the year of jubilee: and the the children of Israel. price of his sale shall be according unto 34 But the field of the suburbs of their the number of years, according to the time cities may not be sold, for it is their per- of a hired servant shall it be with him. petual possession. 51 If there be yet many years behind, 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, according unto them he shall give again and fallen in decay with thee; then thou the price of his redemption out of the shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stran- money that he was bought for. ger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count 36 Take thou no usury of him, or in- with him, and according unto his years crease; 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. shall he give him again the price of his redemption. 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. 54 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. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unt thee; I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: thou shalt not compel him to serve as a I am the LORD your God. bond-servant: CHAP. XXVI. of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 40 But as a hired servant, and as a SO- Y E shall make you no idols nor graven journer he shall be with thee, and shall image, neither rear you up a standing serve thee unto the year of jubilee: image, neither shall ye set up any image 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but shalt fear thy God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 3 If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them; 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 44 Both thy bond-men, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the the vintage, and the vintage shall reach heathen that are round about you; of them unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. your bread to the full, and dwell in your 45 Moreover, of the children of the stran- land safely. gers that do sojourn among you, of them 6 And I will give peace in the land, and shall ye buy, and of their families that are ye shall lie down, and none shall make you with you, which they begat in your land: afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of and they shall be your possession. the land, neither shall the sword go through 46 And ye shall take them as an in-your land. heritance for your children after you, to in- 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and herit them for a possession, they shall be they shall fall before you by the sword. your bond-men for ever: but over your 8 And five of you shall chase a hunbrethren the children of Israel, ye shall dred, and a hundred of you shall put ten not rule one over another with rigour. thousand to flight: and your enemies shall 47 And if a sojourner or a stranger fall before you by the sword. CHAP. XXVI. for disobedience. Plagues threatened 27 And if ye will not for all this heark 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring en unto me, but walk contrary unto me; forth the old because of the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even 1, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 12 And I I will walk among you, and will 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your be your God, and ye ye shall be my people. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; shall despise ise my statutes, SO 15 And if ye or if your soul abhor my judgments, that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 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. 16 I also will do this unto you, I will 33 And I will scatter you among the even appoint over you terror, consump- heathen, and will draw out a sword after tion, 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. you: and your land shall be desolate, and 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sab- 36 And upon them that are left alive of pursueth. 20 And your strength shall be spent in a sword; and they shall fall, when none 37 And they shall fall one upon ano- 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring to stand before your enemies. seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall 22 I will also send wild beasts among eat you up. you, which shall rob you of your children, 39 And they that are left of you shall and destroy your cattle, and make you pine away in their iniquity in your enefew in number, and your high-ways shall mies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. be desolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by 40 If t they shall confess their iniquime by these things, but will walk contra-ty, and the iniquity of their fathers, with ry unto me; their trespass which they trespassed against 24 Then will I also walk contrary un- me, and that also they have walked conto you, and will punish you yet seven trary unto me; times for your sins. 41 And that I also have walked contrary 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, unto them, and have brought them into the that shall avenge the quarrel of my cove- land of their enemies; if then their uncirnant: and when ye are gathered together cumcised hearts be humbled, and they then within your cities, I will send the pesti- accept of the punishment of their iniquity: lence among you: and ye shall be deli- 42 Then will I remember my covenant vered into the hand of the enemy. with Jacob, and also my covenant with 26 And when I have broken the staff of Isaac, and also my covenant with Abrayour bread, ten women shall bake your ham will I remember; and I will remembread in one oven, and they shall deliver ber the land. ! Concerning vows. LEVITICUS. Sanctifying houses and fields. 43 The land also shall be left of them, the LORD, then he shall present the beast and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she before the priest : lieth desolate without them: and they 12 And the priest shall value it, wheshall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. ther 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, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy 44 And yet for all that, when they be estimation. in the land of their enemies, I will not 14 And when a man shall sanctify his cast them away, neither will I abhor them, house to be holy unto the LORD, then the to destroy them utterly, and to break my priest shall estimate it, whether it be good covenant with them: for I am the LORD or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, their God. so shall it stand. 45 But I will for their sakes remember 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem 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. A CHAP. XXVII. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular 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 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 silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest sariest shall recounte him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 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 thy es4 And if it be a female, then thy estima- timation unto it, and it shall be assured to tion shall be thirty shekels. him. the sanctuary. 5 And if it be from five years old even 20 And if he will not redeem the field, unto twenty years old, then thy estimation or if he have sold the field to another man, shall be of the male twenty shekels, and it shall not be redeemed any more. for the female ten shekels. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in 6 And if it be from a month old even the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, unto five years old, then thy estimation as a field devoted: the possession thereof shall be of the male five shekels of silver, shall be the priest's. and for the female thy estimation shall be 22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD three shekels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 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 8 But if he be poorer than thy estima- thine estimation in that day, as a holy tion, then he shall present himself before thing unto the LORD. the priest, and the priest shall value him: 24 In the year of the jubilee the field according to his ability that vowed shall shall return unto him of whom it was bought, the priest value him. even to him to whom the possession of the 9 And if it be a beast whereof men land did belong. bring an offering unto the LORD, all that 25 And all thy estimations shall be ac any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. cording to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, 26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which a good for a bad, or a bad for a good and should be the LORD's firstling, no man if he shall at all change beast for beast, shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or then it and the exchange thereof shall be sheep: it is the LORD'S. holy. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of he shall redeem it according to thine estiwhich they do not offer a sacrifice unto mation, and shall add a fifth part of it there |