11 For the poor shall never cease out CHRIST of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

e Matt. 26. 11.

Mark 14. 7. John 12. 8. p Ex. 21. 2. Lev. 25. 39. Jer. J. 14.

Prov. 10, 22.

? ch. S. 15. 16.12.

. Ex. 21. 5, 6.

( Bee Is. 16. 14. &21. 16.

Ex. 13. 2. 234. 19. Lev. 27. 26.

12 And Pif thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty :

14 Thou shalt 8 furnish him liberally 8 out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, 10 in serving thee 10 six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou Nam 2,13 shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

ch. 12. 5, 6, 7, 17. a 14. 23. 16, 11, 14. y Lev. 22. 20. ch. 17. 1.

reh. 12. 15,

sch. 12. 16, 23.

#Ex. 12. 2,

Ex. 13. 4. 34. 15.

20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

21 And if there be any blemish there. in, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: *the unclean and the clean person I shall eat it alike, as the 12 roebuck, and as the hart.

23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

CHAPTER 16.

1 The feast of the passover, 9 of weeks, 13 of tabernacles, 16 Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three feasts. 18 of judges and justice. 21 Groves and images are forbidden.

yearly feasts.

seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Before CHRIST 1451.

A Ex. 12. 10. & 34. 25.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Or, kill. LORD thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, Ex. 12. 6. at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt roast and eat it 'in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose : and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

11 And P thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and ver. 14. thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen 2 to place his name there.

12 And thou shalt remember that thou geh. 15. 15. wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Ex. 23. 16. Lev. 23. 34. Num. 29.12.

and thy

winepress.

13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy Heb. floor, wine: 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, Neh. . 9, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice'.

16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in

Idolaters must be slain.

Before CHRIST 1451.

e Ex. 34. 13. 1 Kings 14. 15.

& 16. 33,

2 Kings 17.

16.

& 21. 3.

2 Chr. 33. 3. f Lev. 26. 1. 1 Or, statue, or, pillar.

a ch. 15. 21. Mal. 1. 8, 13, 14. Or, goat.

6 ch. 13. 6.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee & a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any 9||image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

CHAPTER 17.

1 The things sacrificed must be sound. 2 Idolaters must be slain. 8 Hard controversies are to be determined by the priests and judges. 12 The contemner of that determination must die. 14 The election, 16 and duty of a king. THOU& shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

2 If there be found among yon, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the e Josh. 7. 11, sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

15.

& 23. 16. Judg. 2. 20. 2 Kings 18. 12.

Hos. 8. 1. d ch. 4. 19. Job 31. 26. Jer. 7. 22, 23, 31.

19. 5. & 32. 35.

fch. 13. 12, 14.

3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Is. rael:

5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even g Lev. 24. 14, that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

16.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise," and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

9 And thou shalt come unto the priests Num. 35.11, the Levites, and P unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

16, 19.
ch. 19. 4, 10,
11.

n ch. 12. 5.
& 19. 17.

Ps. 122. 5. • See Jer. 18. 18. p ch. 19. 17. q Ezek. 44. 24.

r Num. 15.
30.
Ezra 10. 8.
Hos. 4. 4.

+ Heb. not
to hearken.

ch. 19. 5, 7. ch. 13. 5. ch. 13. 11. & 19, 20.

10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

11 According to the sentence of the law 5 which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die and thou shalt 3 put away the evil 3 from Israel.

13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

VAR. REND.-8 V. 21. an Ashéra of any wood whatsoever beside.-V. 22. pillars. Chap. 17. 1 V. 3. the whole. 2 V. 6. to die. 3 Vs. 7. 12. extinguish the evil. 4 V. 10. shall declare unto thee from that place which, &c. V. 11. tenor of the instruction.

Duty of a king.

Before CHRIST 1451

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king = 1 Sam. & over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

5, 19, 20,

9. 15. $10.24. & 16 12 ) Chron. 22 10.

15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God y See 1 Sam. shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to Jer. 30. 21. himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall hence I 3. L forth return no more that way.

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of 9 that which is before the priests the Levites:

19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

CHAPTER 18.

1 The Lord is the priests and Levites' inheritance. 3 The priest's due. 6 The Levites' por. tion. 9 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The presumptuous prophet is to die.

THE priests the Levites, and all the

tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of dEx. 29. thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen Ex. 28. 1. NUTO. 3. 10. him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him ch. 10. 8. & 17.12. and his sons for ever.

6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire 9 Num. 35. of his mind unto the place which the 2, 3, LORD shall choose; A ch. 12. 5.

Before 10 There shall not be found among you that maketh his any one son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a Pnecro

Lev, 18.

ch. 19. 21. n Lev 19.

20, 27. 18.12. + Lev. 20.

mancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD and 1 because of these abominations the LORD p1 Sam. 28. thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Ich. 9. 10.

(Ex 20.12. Heb. 12. 13.

ch. 5. 28.

z ver. 15.

Aca 3.22.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 I will raise them up 9a Prophet Jobs 1.45, from among their brethren, like unto 7.37. thee, and will put my words in his ya. 51. 16. mouth; and he shall speak unto them John 17.8, all that I shall command him.

John 4. 25. 19 And it shall come to pass, that £3.28. whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name,

Acta 3.I will require it of him.

ch. 13. 3. Jer. 14. 14,

Zeeh. 13. a.

th. 131,

Jer. 2. 8.

2

Jer. 28. 9.

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name. which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

The privilege thereof.

Before CHRIST 1451.

† Heb. wood. ↑ Heb.

5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head + Heb. iren. slippeth from the thelve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and 2tslay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not tin time past.

7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; f then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

1 Num. 35. 30.

ch. 17. 6. Matt. 18 16. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13. 1. 1 Tim. 5. 19. Hebr.10.28.

m P. 27. 12. & 35. 11. | Or, falling

away.

17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, ch. 17. 9. which shall be in those days;

18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

& 21. 5.

• Prov. 19. 5. 9. Dan, 6. 24.

19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his bro-peh. 13. 5. ther: so shalt thou put the evil away 6 from among you.

20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

21 And thine eye shall not pity; but 7 life shall go for 7 life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

CHAPTER 20.

(ap. 19.

& 17. 7.
& 21, 21.
& 22. 21, 24.
& 24. 7.

ch. 17. 13.

& 21. 21.

r ver. 13. . Ex. 21. 23, 24. Lev. 24. 20. Matt. 5. 35.

VAR. REND. V. 6. smite him mortally. 3 v. 13. extinguish. V. 16. an unrighteous. 5 any act of revolt (viz. from that which is right; comp. ch. 13. 5). V. 19. extinguish the evil. 7 V. 21. soul.

tleb.

be tender. † Heb.

make haste.

e ch. 1. 30. k 3. 22. Josh. 23. 10.

d See Neh. 12. 27.

Ps. 30, title.

your

4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

6 And what man is he that hath plantHeb. made ed a vineyard, and hath not yet teaten of it 19 let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man 1 eat of it 1.

it commen See Lev.19. 23, 24.

ch. 28, 30. e ch. 24. 5.

7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, Judg. 7. 3. What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart tfaint as well as his heart.

f Heb. melt.

9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains Heb. to be of the armies to lead the people. 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

in the head

of the pesple.

92 Sam, 20. 18, 20.

▲ Num. 31. 7.

í Josh. 8. 2.

with thee,

11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace thee, but will make war against then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt Heb spoil. thou †take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

& Josh. 22.8.

¡Num. 21. 2, 3, 35. & 33. 52. eh. 7. 1. 2.

Josh. 11.14.

m ch. 7. 4.

& 12.30, 31
& 18. 9.
Ex. 23. 33.

15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou shalt utterly 3 destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye "sin against the LORD your God.

19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou VAR. REND.- Chap. 20. 1 V. 6. Lit. made it profane or common." 2 V. 9. of hosts (divisions) at the head of. 3 V. 17. devote.

Expiation of uncertain murder.

Before

shalt not cut them down for the tree of the field is man's life) t to employ CHRIST them in the siege *:

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until fit be subdued.

CHAPTER 21.

1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 10 The usage of a captive taken to wife. 15 The firstborn is not to be disinherited upon private af fection. 18 A stubborn son is to be stoned to death. 22 The malefactor must not hang all night

on a tree.

I

F one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to pos sess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, 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 1 a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley :

1431 1 Or, for, o man' the tree of the

the surge. ↑ Heb. to g: from before thes † Heb.st com éve

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 by their word shall every controversy & eh. 17.6,9 and every stroke be tried:

6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the 2 valley:

7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

t Het.

See Ps 19. 12. & 26.6 Matt A

83 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy d Jonah 1. people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

a

11 And seest among the captives beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and fpare her nails;

13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall 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 make merchandise of her 5, because thou hast humbled her.

15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have

14.

! Heb. on the wint ch. 13. 13.

1 Or, ger to grow. ↑ Heb. make, ot, dress f See Pr. 43 10.

6 Gen. 34 ch 2 29 Judg 192 & Gen. 29.3

VAR. REND.-V. 19. (for is the tree of the f a man that it should be besieged before thee: Sept. Ew. Kn. Ke. Chap. 21. IV. 4. an eve flowing watercourse. 21's. 4, 6. watercourse. --3 V. 8. Lit. Make atonement for. 1. 9. e tinguish. V. 14. use her as a slave.

born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be her's that was hated:

16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

k

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of Ses 1 Chr. the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

1 Heb. that

Gen. 43.

Gen. 25.

10. 25, 27. Jukn 19.31. - Gal. I. 13.

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened 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 glutton, and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: "80 shalt thou 7put evil away7 from among Josh & 19. you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hang1 Sam. 21.5 ed is taccursed of God:) that thy land Lesbe not defiled, which the LORD thy God Jam... giveth thee for an inheritance.

↑ Heb.

the cured of God:

23.4.

CHAPTER 22.

1 of humanity toward brethren. 5 The sex is to be distinguished by apparel. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her young ones. 8 The house must have battlements. 9 Confusion is to be avoided. 12 Fringes upon the vesture. 13 The punishment of him that slandereth his wife. 0,22 of adultery, 25 of rape, 28 and of forni

cation. 30 Incest,

Of adultery, rape, &c.

thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon
thine house, if any man fall from thence.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard
with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy
seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit
of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox
and an ass together.

11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four 3+ quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

13 If any man take a wife, and 'go in unto her, and hate her,

14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

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 given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18 And the elders of that city shall take that 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, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the

damsel:

Before CHRIST 1451.

Lov. 19.19.

+ Heb. fulness of thy seed. f See 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16.

Lev. 19.19.

& Num. 15.

38. Matt. 23. 5. † Heb. wings.

í Gen. 29. 21. Judg. 15, 1.

2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

4Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are 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, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the L.12 young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for

VA REND.-F. 20. riotous.—7 V. 21. extinguish the erfl.

you.

25 T But if a man find a betrothed damsel 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, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

a ch. 21, 14.