The sea commandments.

EXODUS. through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the priests alfo which come near to the LORD, anctine themselves,leit the LORD break forth upon them.

23 And Moles faid unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedft us, faying, Set bounds about the mount, and fanctife it.

24 And the LORD faid unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the LORD, leit he break forth upon them.

25 So Moles went down unto the people, and fpake unto them.

CHAP. XX.

I The ten commandments. 22 dolatry forbid den. 24 of what fort the altar fhould be.

And God fpuke all thefe words, line

2 as the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou halt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thy felf to them, not ferve them: for I the LORD thy Goda a jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate nie:

6 And hewing mercy unto thousands of

Lans of men-fervants,

the trumpet, and the mountain fioaking: and when the people faw it, they removed, and flood afar off.

19 And they faid unto Mofes, Speak thou with us, and we will bear: but let not God fpeak with us, left we die.

20 And Mofes faid unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye fin not.

21 And the people flood afar off, and Mofes drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

22 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Thus thou falt fay unto the children of Ifrael, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from

heaven.

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of filver, neither thall ye make unto you gods of gold.

24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and thalt facrifice thereon thy burntofferings, and thy peace-offerings, thy theeg, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of tone, thou shalt not build it of hewn flone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26 Neither halt thou go up by Reps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not difcovered thereon. CHAP. XXI.

Lows for men-fervants, 7 for women-servants, 12 for men-flaughter, 17 and for curfers of parents.

them that love me, and keep my command- Nhalt fet before them.

Ow thefe are the judgmeats which thou

ments.

Thou halt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the fabbath-day, to keep it

holy.

9 Six days fhalt thou labour, and do thy work.

all

To But the feventh day the fabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thy cattel, nor thy ftranger that is with in thy gates.

11 For in fix days the LORD made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refled the feventh day: wherefore the LORD blefied the fabbath day, and hal Jowed it.

129 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt aot kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not feal.

16 Thou shalt not bear falfe witness against

thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours beufe, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maidfervant, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is thy nei hbours.

18 4 And all the people faw the thundrings and the lightnings, and the molle of

2 If thou buy an Hebrew-fervant, fix years he fhall ferve: and in the feventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in "by himfelf, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife thall go out with him.

4 If his matter have given him a wife, and The have born him fons or daughters; the wife and her children thall be hier mafters, and he thall go out by himself.

5 And if the fervant thall plainly fay, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go out free:

6 Then his mafter fhall bring him unto the judges; he fhall alfo bring him to the door, or unto the door-poit: and his matter thall bore his ear through with an awl; and he hall ferve him for ever.

79 And if a man fell his daughter to be a maid-tervant, the thall not go out as the menfervants do.

8 If the pleafe not her mafter, who hath betrothed her to himself, then thall he let her be redeemed: To tell her unto a firange hath dealt deceitfully with her. nation he hall have no power, feeing he

9 And if he have betrothed her unto kis fon, he thall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

her raiment, and her duty of marriage thall-
10 If he take him another wife; her food,
he not diminish.

then all the go out free without money.
11 And if he do not thefe three unto her,.

man-flieghter, murðir,

Chap. xxij. 12 He that fmiteth a man, fo that he die,hall be furely put to death.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he thall flee.

14 But if a man come prefumptuoufly upon his neighbour, to flay him with guile; thou fhalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that fmiteth his father,or his mother, fhall be furely put to death.

16 And he that fealeth a man, and felleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he hall furely be put to death.

17 And he that curfeth his father or his mother, fhall furely be put to death.

18 And if men ftrive together, and one fraite another with a tone, or with a fift, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19 If he rife again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then thall he that fmote him be. quit: only he thall pay for thelofs of his Lane, and thall caule him to be throughly healed.

20 And if a man fmite his fervant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand; he thall be furely punished.

11 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day fr two, he thall not be punished: for he is his money.

22 9 If men ftrive, and hurt a woman with child, fo that her frait depart from her, and yet no mifchief follow: he thall be furely ponifhed, according as the womans husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mifchief follow, then thou fhalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, Stripe for stripe.

26 ¶ And if a man fmite the eye of his fervant, or the eye of his maid, that it perth; be hall let him go free for his eyes Take.

27 And if he finite out his man-fervants tooth, or his maid-fervants tooth; he thall let him go free for his tooths fake.

28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox fhall be furely ftoned, and his fleth fhall not be eaten; but the own er of the ox fhall be quit.

20 But if the ox were wont to pufh with his horns in time past, and it hath been tellifed to his owner, and he hath not kept hina in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox fhall be ftoned, and his owner alio fhall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a fum of money, then he thall give for the ransom of his life, whatfoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have gored a fon, or have gored a daughter,according to this judgment hall it be done unto him.

32 If the ox fhall pufh a man-fervant, or maid-fervant; he fhall give unto their ma Rer thirty thekels of filver, and the ox fhall be ftoned.

33 And if a man thall open a pit, or if a man Chall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ex or an afs fall therein;

34 The owner of the pis shall make it

theft, damages, trefpaffes, &c. good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beat fall be his.

35. And if one mans ox hurt anothers that he die, then they fhall fell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead or allo they fhall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used, to puth in time paft, and his owner hath not kept him in; he thall furely pay ox for ox, and the dead fhall be his own. CHAP. XXII.

1 of theft; s of damage, 7 of trefpaffes, 14 of borrowing. 16 of fornication, 18 of witchcraft.

F a man fhall steal an ox or a fheep, and kill it, or fell it; he thall reftore five oxen for an ox, and four theep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be fitten that he die, there had no blood be fhed for him.

3 If the fun be rifen upon him, there fak be blood bed for him: for he thould make full reftitution; if he have nothing, then he fhall be fold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or afs, or fheep; he thall reftore double.

If a man hall caufe a field or vineyard to be eaten, and fhall put in his beaft, and fhall feed in another mans field: of the belt of his own field, and of the belt of his own vineyard fhall he make reftitution.

6q1f fire break out, and catch in thorns, fo that the ftacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be conlumed therewith; he that kindled the fire, thall furely make reftitution.

7 If a man fhall deliver unto his neighbour money or ftuff to keep, and it be ftolen out of the mans houfe; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the mafter of the houfe fhall be brought unto the judges, to fee whether he have put his hand unto his neighbours goods.

9 For all manner of trefpafs, whether it be for ox, for afs, for theep, for raiment, er for any manner of loft thing, which another chalengeth to be his: the caufe of both parties thall come before the judges; and whom the judges thall condenın, he thall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an afs, or an ox,or a fheep, or any beaft to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man feeing it

11 The hall an oath of the LORD be be tween them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbours goods: and the owner of it fhall accept thereof, and he thall not make it good.

12 And if it be ftolen from him, he shall make reftitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces; then let him bring it for witness, and he thall not make good that which was torn.

14 9 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it; he thall furely make is good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he fhall not make it good: if it be an hired thing it came for his hire. ca 169 And *

Divers laws,

EXODUS.

169 And if a man entice a maid that is Mot betrothed, and lie with her; he fhall furely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 Thou shalt not fuffer a witch to live. 19 Whofoever lieth with a beaft, fhall furely be put to death.

20 He that facrificeth unto any god, Tave unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger,nor opprefs him: for ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt.

22 ¶ Ye thall not afflict any widow, or fa. aherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wile, and they cry at all unto me: I will furely hear their cryi

24. And my wrath fhall wax hot, and I will kill you with the fword; and your wives fhall be widows, and your children faherlets.

25,4 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to im as an ufurer, neither fhalt thou lay upon him ufury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbours raiment to pledge, thou fhalt deliver it unto Aim, by that the fun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his aiment for his skin: wherein fhall be fleep? And it fhall come to país, when he crieth unto me that I will hear: for I am gracious. 28 4 Thou halt not revile the gods, nor surfe the ruler of thy people.

19 9 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors: the firftborn of thy fans fhalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewife fhalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy theep: feven days it fhall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou halt give it me.

31And ye fhall be holy men unto me: either thall ye eat any fleth that is torn of beafts in the field: ye fhall caft it to the dogs. CHAP. XXIII.

Of flander and falfe witness. 12 of the fabbath. 13 of idolatry. 20 Ableffing promifed to the obedient.

not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou halt not follow a multitude to de evil; neither halt thou fpeak in a caufe, 20 decline after many, to wreft judgment: Neither halt thou countenance a poor

man in his caule.

4 If thou meet thine enemies ox or his af going aftray, thou shalt furely bring it Back to him again.

If thou fee the afs of him that hateth thee ying under his burden, and wouldst forbear o help him; thou shalt furely help with him. 6Thou shalt not wreft the judgment of thy poor in his caufe.

7 Keep thee far from a falfe matter: and the innocent and righteous flay thou not: for I will not iuftifie the wicked.

8 And thou fhalt take no gift: for the if blindeth the wife, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

and ordinances. 99 Alfo thou halt not opprefs a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, feeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And fix years thou shalt fow thy land, and fhalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the feventh year thou shalt let it reft, and lie ftill; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave,the beats of the field thall eat, in like mannner thou fhalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard.

12 Six days, thou fhalt do thy work, and on the feventh day thou thalt reft: that thine ox and thine afs may reft, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

13 And in all things that I have faid unto you, be circumfpect and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14 Three times thou fhalt keep a fealt unto me in the year.

15 Thou fhalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: thou shalt eat unleavened bread feven days, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the month Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none fhall appear before me empty :

16 And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou haft fown in the field: and the feaft of in-gathering which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males fhall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my facrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my facrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the houfe of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mothers milk.

20 Behold, I fend an angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice,provoke him not: for he will not pardon your tranfgrefhons: for my name is in him.

22 But if thou fhalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I fpeak; then I will be an

enemies, and an adversary

unto thine adverfaries.

23 For mine angel fhall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites,and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaa nites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor ferve them, nor do after their works but thou thalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye hall ferve the LORD your God, and he thall blefs thy bread and thy water: and I will take ficknefs away from the midfe of thee.

26 9 There fhall nothing caft their young, nor be barren in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

27 will fend my fear before thee, and will defroy all the people to whom thou fhalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

2

The people promifeth obedience.

The glory of God appeareth. Chap. xxiv, xxv. 13 And Mofes rofe up, and his minifter Jo28 And I will fend hornets before thee, which thall drive out the Hivite, the Ca- fhua: and Moles went up into the mount of naanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; left the land become defolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

10 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increated, and inherit the land.

31 And I will fet thy bounds from the Red fea, even unto the fea of the Philistines, and from the defert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They fhall not dwell in thy land, left they make thee fin against me for if thou ferve their gods, it will furely be a fnare

unto thee.

CHAP. XXIV.

1 Mofes is called into the mountain. 3 The peeple promife obedience. 9 The glory of God appeareth.

God.

14 And he faid unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

15 And Mofes went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon
mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it fix
days: and the feventh day he called unto
Mofes out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the fight of the glory of the
LORD like devouring fire on the top of
Ifrael.
the mount, in the eyes of the children of

18 And Mofes went into the midst of
the cloud, and gat him up into the mount:
forty nights.
and Mofes was in the mount forty days and

CHAP. XXV.

10 The form of the ark. 17 The mercy-feat.
1 The offering for making of the tabernacle.
23 The table, 31 and candlestick.

A de
Abihu, and feventy of the elders of Ifrael:
and worship ye afar off.

the LORD, thou and Aaron, Nadab and ANd the LORD ipake unto Mofes, fay

2 And Mofes alone thall come near the LORD: but they fhall not come nigh, neither hall the people go up with him.

39 And Mofes came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and faid, All the words which the LORD hath faid, will we do.

4 And Moles wrote all the words of the LORD, and rofe up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Ifrael.

And be fent young men of the children of Ifrael, which offered burnt-offe rings, and facrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the

LORD.

6 And Mofes took half of the blood, and put it in bafons; and half of the blood he iprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they faid, All that the LORD hath faid, will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Mofes took the blood and fprinkled ir on the people, and faid, Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9Then went up Mofes and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Ifrael.

to And they faw the God of Ifrael: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a fapphire-ftone, and as it were the body of heaven in b clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Ifraei he laid not his hand: alfo they faw God, and did eat and drink.

12' And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of ftone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; at thou mayeft teach them.

ing,

z Speak unto the children of Ifrael, that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye fhall take my offering.

3 And this the offering which ye shall 4 And blue, and purple, and fearlet, and take of them; gold, and filver, and brafs, fine linen, and goats hair,

5 And rams skins died red, and badgers skins, and fhittim-wood,

6 Oyl for the light, fpices for anointing oyl, and for fweet incenfe,

7 Onyx-ftones, and ftones to be fet in the 8 And let them make me a fanctuary; that ephod, and in the breaft-plate. I may dwell amongst them.

9 According to all that I fhew thee, after tern of all the inftruments thereof, even fo the pattern of the tabernacle, and the patfhall ye make it.

104 And they fhall make an ark of hittim-wood: two cubits and a half hali be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

It And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without falt thou overlay it: and fhalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

12 And thou shalt caft four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners fide of it, and two rings in the other fide thereof; and two rings fhall be in the one of it.

13 And thou fhalt make ftaves of hittimwood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou thait put the flaves into the rings, by the fides of the ark, that the ark may be born with them.

15 The ftaves fhall be in the rings of the 16 And thou fhalt put into the ark the ark: they fhall not be taken from it. teftimony which I fhall give thee.

17 And thou shalt make a mercy-feat of pure thereof, gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length

EXODUS.

The ark, mercy-jess, table,
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth
thereof.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold: of beaten work fhalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-feat.

19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end even of the mercy-feat hall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

20 And the cherubims fall fretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-feat with their wings, and their faces had look one to another: toward the mercy-feat hall the faces of the cherubims be.

21 And thoufhalt put the mercy-feat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou fhalt put the teftimony that I fhall give thee.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and

I will commune with thee, from above the mercy feat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the teftimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Ifrael.

23 Thou shalt alfo make a table of fhittim-wood: two cubits be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

24 And thou halt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

25 And thou fhalt make unto it a border of an hand-breadth round about, and thou halt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over against the border hall the rings be for places of the flaves to bear the table. 28 And thou halt make the staves of hittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be born with them.

29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and (poons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold fhalt thou make them.

30 And thou fhalt let upon the table, fhew bread before me alway.

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work fhall the candle tick be made: his thaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers fhall

be of the fame.

32 And fix branches fhall come out of the fides of it: three branches of the candlestick out of the one fide, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other fide.

33 Three bowls made like unto almends, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: fo in the fix branches that come out of the candlestick.

34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

35 And there fhall be a knop under two branches of the fame, and a knop under two branches of the fame, and a knop under two branches of the fame, according to the fix branches that proceed out of the candlefick..

and candleflick.

36 Their knops and their branches fhall be of the fame all it all be one beaten work of pure gold.

37 And thou fhalt make the feven lamps thereof and they fhall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

38 And the tongs thereof, and the fnuffdithes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

39 Gf a talent of pure gold hall he make it, with all thefe veffels.

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was thewed thee in the mount. CHAP. XXVI.

The ten curtains of the tabernacle. 31 The vail for the ark.

Mcle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and fearlet: with cherubums of curining work halt thou make them.

Oreover, thou fhalt make the taberna

2 The length of one curtain fhall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain, four cubits: and every one of the curtains fhall have one meafure.

3 The five curtains fhall be coupled together one to another: and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

4 And thou shalt make loups of blue upon the edge of the one curtain, from the felvedge in the coupling: and likewife fhalt thoumake in the uttermoft edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the fecond.

5 Fifty loops alt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops thalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that in the coupling of the fecond; that the loops may take hold one of another.

6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

79 And thou shalt make curtains of goats bair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains fhalt thou inake.

8 The length of one curtain he be thirty cubix, and the breadth of une curtain, four cubits: and the eleven curtains all be all of one measure.

9 And thou fhalt couple five curtains by themielves, and fix curtains by themselves, and fhalt double the fixth curtain in the fore-front of the tabernacle.

10 And thou halt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is cutmolt in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the fecond."

II And thou halt make fifty taches of brafs, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one.

12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, hall hang over the back-side of the tabernacle.

13 And a cubit on the one fide, and a cubit on the other fide of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it hall hang over the fides of the tabernacle, on this fide, and on that fide, to cover it.

14 And thou halt make a covering for the tent of rams skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers skins,