Leviticus. Of Jeveral offering made by fire of sweet favour unto the LORD. 19 Then ye shall facrifice one kid of the goats, for a fin-offering, and two lambs of the first year, for a facrifice of peace-offerings. 20 And the priest fhall wave them with the bread of the firft-fruits, for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they fhall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the felffame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye fhall do no fervile work therein: it shall be a ftatute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22 And when ye reap the harveft of your land, thou fhalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapeft, neither fhalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harveft: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the ftranger: I am the LORD your God. 23 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 24 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, In the feventh month, in the firft day of the month fhall ye have a fabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no fervile work therein; but ye fhall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 26 And the LORD ipake unto Mofes, faying, 27 Alfo on the tenth day of this feventh month, there foall be a day of atonement, it shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye fhall afflict your fouls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye fhall do no work in that fame day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29 For whatfoever foul it be that fhall not be afflicted in that fame day, he fhall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatfoever foul it be that doth any work in that fame day, the fame foul will I deftroy from among his people. folemn feafs. ninth day of the month at even: from even unto even fhall ye celebrate your fabbath. 33 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 34 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month fhall be the feaft of tabernacles for feven days unto the LORD. 35 On the first day fhall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no fervile work therein. 36 Seven days ye fhall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day fhall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye fhall ́offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a folemn aflembly, and ye fhall do no fervile work therein. 37 Thefe are the feafts of the LORD, which ye fhall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering and a meat-offering, a facrifice, and drinkofferings, every thing upon his day: 38 Befide the fabbaths of the LORD, and befide your gifts, and befide all your vows, and befide all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. 39 Alfo in the fifteenth day of the feventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye fhall keep a feaft unto the LORD feven days: on the firft day fhall be a fabbath, and on the eighth day fhall be a fabbath. 40 And ye fhall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye fhall rejoyce before the LORD your God feven days. 41 And ye fhall keep it a feaft unto the LORD feven days in the year: It shall be a ftatute for ever in your generations, ye fhall celebrate it in the feventh month. 42 Ye fhall dwell in booths feven days; all that are Ifraelites born, thall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Ifrael to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 31 Ye fhall do no manner of work: 44 And Mofes declared unto the chilIt shall be a ftatute for ever through- dren of Ifrael the feafts of the LORD. out your generations in all your dwelCHAP. XXIV. lings. 32 It fball be unto you a fabbath of meft, and ye shall affli&t your fouls in the 10 Shelomiths fon blafphemeth. 13 The law of blafphemy. 17 Of murder, 18 of damage. 23 The blafphemer ftoned. And Shelomiths fon blafphemeth. Nd the LORD fpake unto Mofes, A faying, Chap. xxiv, XXV. The blafphemer foned. tainly ftone him: as well the ftranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blafphemeth the Name of the LORD, fhall be put to death. 2 Command the children of Ifrael, that they bring unto thee pure oyl-olive, beaten, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the teftimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, fhall Aaron order it from the evening Junto the morning, before the LORD continually: It shall be a ftatute for ever in your generations. 4 He fhall order the lamps upon the pure candleftick before the LORD continually. 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth-deals fhall be in one cake. 6 And thou fhalt fet them in two rows, fix on a row, upon the pure table, before the LORD. 7 And thou fhalt put pure frankincenfe upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 8 Every fabbath he fhall fet it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Ifrael by an everlafting covenant. 9 And it fhall be Aarons and his fons, and they fhall eat it in the holy place: 17 And he that killech any man, fhall furely be put to death. 18 And he that killeth a beaft, fhall make it good; beaft for beaft. 19 And if a man caufe a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, fo fhall it be done unto him: 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye,tooth for tooth: as he hath caufed a blemish in a man, fofhall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killech a beaft, he fhall reftore it: and he that killeth a man, he fhall be put to death. 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the ftranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. 23 And Mofes fpake unto the children of Ifrael, that they fhould bring forth him that had curfed, out of the camp, and ftone him with ftones: and the children of Ifrael did as the LORD commanded Moses. CHAP. XXV. 1 The jubile. 14 Of oppreffion, 35 and compaffion. for it is moft holy unto him, of the offer: A ings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual ftatute. 10 And the fon of an Ifraelitish woman, whofe father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Ifrael; and this fon of the Ifraelitith woman, and a man of Ifrael ftrove together in the camp; And the Ifraelitish womans fon blafphemed the name of the LORD, and curfed: and they brought him unto Mofes (and his mothers 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 fhewed them. 13 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 14 Bring forth him that hath curfed, without the camp, and let all that heard him, lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation ftone him. 15 And thoufhalt speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, Whofoever curfeth his God, fhall bear his fin. 16 And he that blafphemeth the Name of the LORD, he fhall furely be put to death, and all the congregation fhall cer Nd the LORD fpake unto Mofes in mount Sinai, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then fhall the land keep a fabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou fhalt fow thy field, and fix years thou fhalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof. 4 But in the feventh year fhall be a fabbath of reft unto the land, a fabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither fow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harveft, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undreffed: for it is a year of reft unto the land. 6 And the fabbath of the land fhall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy fervant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired fervant, and for thy ftranger that fojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beafts that are in thy land, fhall all the increase thereof be meat. 8 And thou shalt number seven fabbaths of years unto thee, feven times feven years, and the space of the feven fabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty! and pine years. The year of jubile. Leviticus. The redemption of land. 9 Then fhalt thou caufe the trumpet feffion, ye fhall grant a redemption for of the jubile to found, on the tenth day the land. of the feventh month; in the day of atonement, fhall ye make the trumpet found throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it fhall be a jubile unto you, and ye fhall return every man unto his poffeffion, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile fhall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not fow, neitherreap that which growech of it felf in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undreffed. 12 For it is the jubile, it shall be holy into you: ye fhall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubile ye fhall return every man unto his poffeffion. 14 And if thou fell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyeft ought of thy neighbours hand; ye shall not opprefs one another. 15 According to the number of years after the jubile, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he fhall fell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou fhalt increafe the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou halt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he fell unto thee. 17 Ye fhall not therefore opprefs one another; but, thou shalt fear thy God: For I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye fhall do my ftatutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye hall dwell in the land in Lafery. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye fhall eat your fill, and dwell berein in fafety. 20 And if ye fhall fay, What shall we eat the feventh year? behold, we shall not fow, nor gather in our increase: 21. Then I will command my bleffing upon you in the fixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye fhall fow the eighth year, and eat yer of old fruit, until the ninth year; until her fruits.come in, ye fhall eat of the old fore. 23 The land fhall not be fold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are trangers and fojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your pof 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath fold away fome of his poffeflion, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then fhall he redeem that which his brother fold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redcem it: 27 Then let him count the years of the fale thereof, and reftore the overplus unto the man to whom he fold it; that he may return unto his poffeffion. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is fold, fhall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it fhall go out, and he fhall return unto his poffeffion. 29 And if a man fell a dwelling-houfe in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is fold: within a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year; then the houfe that is in the walled city, fhall be eftablifhed for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it fhall not go out in the jubile. 31 But the houfes of the villages which have no walls round about them, fhall be counted as the fields of the coun try: they may be redeemed, and they fhall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites, and the houfes of the cities of their poffeffion, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the houfe that was fold, and the city of his poffeffion fhall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their poffeffion among the children of Ifrael. 34 But the field of the fuburbs of their cities may not be fold, for it is their perpetual pofkffion. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou fhalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a fojourner; that he may live with thec. 36 Take thou no ufury of him, or increafe: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon ufury, nor lend him thy viduals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt The ufage of bondmen. Chap. xxv, xxvi. Bleings promifede Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, of the money that he was bought for. and to be your God. 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be fold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to ferve as a bond-fervant : 40 But as an hired fervant, and as a fojourner he fhall be with thee, and fhall ferve thee unto the year of jubile. 41 And then fhall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and fhall return unto his own family, and unto the poffeffion of his fathers fhall he return. 42 For they are my fervants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they fhall not be fold as bond-men. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but fhalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bond-men, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, fall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them fhall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. 45 Moreover, of the children of the ftrangers that do fojourn among you, of them (hall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land and they fhall be your poffeffion. 46 And ye fhall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a poffeffion, they fhall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Ifrael, ye fhall not rule one over another with Tigour. 47. And if a fojourner or ftranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and fell himfelf unto the ftranger or fojourner by thee, or to the ftock of the ftrangers family: 48 After that he is fold, he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncles fon 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 himfelf. 50 And he fhall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was fold to him, unto the year of jubile: and the price of his fale fhall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired fervant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind; according unto them he fhall give a gain the price of his redemption out 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years fhall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired fervant fhall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy fight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in thefe years, then he fhall go out in the year of jubile, both he and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Ifrael are fervants, they are my fervants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XXVI. Of idolatry. 3 A bleffing promised. 14 A curfe threatned. E fhall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up a ftanding image, neither fhall ye fer up any image of ftone in your land, to bow. down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye fhall keep my fabbaths, and reverence my fanctuary: I am the LORD. 3If ye walk in my ftatutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due fea fon, and the land thall yield her increafe, and the trees of the field fhall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing fhall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage hall reach unto the fowing-time: and ye fhall cat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land fafely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye fhall lie down, and none shall make you afraid and I will rid evil beafts out of the land, neither fhall the fword go through your land. And ye fhall chafe your enemies,and they fhall fall before you by the fword. 8 And five of you shall chafe an hundred, and an hundred of you fhall put terr thousand to flight and your enemies fhall fall before you by the fword. : 9 For I will have refpe&t unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. IO And ye fhall ear old ftore, and bring forth the old becaufe of the new. 11 And 1 will fet mytabernacle amongst you: and my foul fhall 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 F2 brough Curfes threatned Leviticus. brought you forth out of the land of Eypt, that ye fhould not be their bondmen, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye fhall defpife my statutes, or if your foul abhor my judgments, fo that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you, I will even appoint over you terror, confumption, and the burning-ague; that fhall confume the eyes, and caufe forrow of heart: and ye fhall fow your feed in vain, for your enemies fhall eat it. 17 And I will fet my face against you, and ye shall beflain before your enemies: they that hate you fhall reign over you, and ye hall flee when none purfueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this bearken unto me, then Iwill punish you feven times more for your fins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as Sron, and your earth as brafs : 20 And your ftrength fhall be fpent in vain: for your land fhall not yield her increafe, neither fhall the trees of the land-yield their fruits. 214 And if ye walk contrary unto me,and will not hearken unto me; I will bring feven times mo plagues upon you, according to your fins. 22 I will alfo fend wild beafts among you, which fhall rob you of your children, and deftroy your cattle, and make you few in number, and your high-ways fhall be defolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me: 24 Then will I alfo walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your fins. to tranfgreffors. you alfo in fury; and I, even I, will chaftife you feven times for your fins. 29 And ye fhall eat the flesh of your fons, and the flesh of your daughters fhall ye cat. 30 And I will deftroy your high plaees, and cut down your images, and caft your carcafes upon the carcafes of your idols, and my foul fhall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities wafte, and bring your fanctuaries unto defolation, and I will not smell the favour of your fweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into defolation: and your enemies which dwell therein, fhall be aftonished at it. 33 And I will fcatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a fword af ter you and your land fhall be desolate, and your cities wafte. 34 Then fhall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it lieth defolate, and ye be in your enemies land; even then shall the land reft, and enjoy her fabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth defolate, it shall reft: because it did not reft in your fabbaths when ye dwelt upon it. 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 found of a fhaken leaf fhall chase them; and they hall flee, as fleeing from a fword: and they fhall fall when none purfueth. 37 And they fhall fall one upon another, as it were before a fword, when none purfueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye fhall perifh among the hea then, and the land of your enemies fhall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you, fhall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies land; and also in the iniquities of their fathers fhall they pine away with chem. 25 And I will bring a fword upon you that hall avenge the quarrel of my cove nant: and when ye are gathered together wichiu your cities, I will fend the peftilence among you; and ye fhall be deli-ed contrary unto me; vered into the hand of the enemy. 40 If they fhall confefs their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trefpafs which they trefpafied a gainst me, and that also they have walk 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women fhall bake your bread in one oven, and they fhall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye thall eat, and not be fatisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcifed hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and alfo my covenant with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remen ber the land. 43 The |