Of idolatrous cities. Before 0 thine hand shall be first upon him | shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the CHRIST to put him to death, and afterwards 1451. Or, naughty men: Seo Judg. 19. 22. & 25. 17, 25. the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of f bondage. 11 And Pall Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 T 4 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, || the children of Belial, are gone out from among r Sam 2. 12. you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 1 Kings 21 10. 13. 2 Cor 6. 15. rl John 2.19. Jude 19. 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; s 2 Kin. 17.21. and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; t ver. 2, 6, u Ex. 22. 20. Lev. 27. 28. Josh.6.17,21. Josh. 6. 24. 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, "destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and_shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: y Josh. 8. 28. and it shall be ya heap for ever; it Is, 17. 1. & 25.2. Jer. 49. 2. z ch. 7. 26. Josh. 6. 18. [Or, devoted. A Josh. 6. 26 b Gen. 22 17. & 26. 4, 24. & 28. 14. 32. shall not be built again. 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and 6 And every beast that parteth the 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof'; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. + Heb. dishon. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, fnor touch their f Lev. 11. 26, dead carcass. 9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins 11 IT Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 13 And the glede, and the kite, and 14 And every raven after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, 17 And there shall cleave nought 17 And the pelican, and the gier 18 When thou shalt hearken to the e ch. 12.25,28, voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. a Rom. 8. 16. & 9. 8. 26. Gal, 3. 26. b Lev. 19.28. & 21. 5. CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's children are not to disfigure them- VE are the children of the LORD your God: bye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness Jer. 16. 6. & between your eyes for the dead. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing I Lev 17. 15. that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: mfor thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which m ver, 2 n Ex. 23. 19. & 34. 26. o Lev. 27. 30. ch. 12. 6, 17. Neh. 10. 37. p ch. 12. 5, 6, 7.17, 18. q ch.15.19,20, 24 And if the way be too long for The year of release. Before when the LORD thy God hath blessed | nor shut thine hand from thy poor CHRIST thee: 1451.. brother: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall | which he wanteth. 8h But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for † Heh, asketh whatsoever thy soul f desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, of thee. sch. 12, 7, 18. & 26. 11. tch. 12.12.18, 19. uNum.18.20 ch. 18. 1, 2. xch. 26.12. Amos 4, 4. y ch. 26. 12. z ver. 27. ch 12. 12. nch. 15.10. Prov.3.9,10. SceMal.3.10. a Ex. 21. 2 & 23. 10, 11, Lev. 25, 2, 4. ch. 31. 10 Jer 34 14 + Heb master of the lending of his hand b See ch. 23. 20. Or, To the end that there be wo poor among you. cch 28.8. dch. 28.1. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28TX At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine ieye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and Khe cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Before CHRIST 1451. hLev. 25 35 Matt 5.42 Luke 6, 34, 35 Heb, word. + Heb Belial. ich 28.54,56. Prov 23.6. & 28. 22. Matt. 20. 15 k ch. 24. 15. 43. m2 Cor. 9, 5, 7. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, 1 Matt.25.41, increase the same year, and shalt lay | 11 For the poor shall never cease it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because "he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that "the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. CHAPTER XV. 1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor. 7 It must be no let of lending or giving. 12 A Hebrew servant, 16 except he will not depart, must in the seventh year go forth free andwell furnished. 19 All firstling males of the cattle are to be sanctified unto the Lord. every seven years At the end of a thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every f creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. 3 b Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you, for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only dif thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth ech 28.12.44. thee, as he promised thee: and thou many nations, but fch. 28. 18. Prov. 22. 7. g 1 John 3.17. : shalt lend unto many thou shalt not borrow; and fthou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, out 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. 12 And Pif thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a 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 furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath 9 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 awl, 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. nch. 14.29. & 24.19. Px. 41. 1, I'rov. 22. 9. o Matt. 26.11. Mark 14. 7. John 12. 8. p Ex. 21. 2. Lev. 25 30 Јег. 34. 14. η Prov. 10.22. rch. 5. 15. & 10. 12. в Ех, 21. 5, 6, 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth ta double hired servant to thee, in tSee Is 16.14. serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. 1911 "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy_flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 x 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 The three solemn Before 1451. DEUTERONOMY. therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or CHRIST have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy zch. 12.15,22. gates: "the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. ach. 12.16.23. a Ex.12.2, &c. 1 Ex. 13. 4. & 34. 18. c Ex.12.29.42. 4. Num. 28.19: ech. 12.5, 26. f Ex.12.15,19, 89. & 13. 3, 6,7. & 34.13. g Ex. 13. 7. yearly feasts. Before 1451. pch. 12. 7,12, 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy | CHRIST son, and 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, 23 Only thou shalt not eat the in the place which the LORD thy blood thereof; thou shalt pour it up- | God hath chosen to place his name on the ground as water. there. BSERVE the a month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for bin the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and dthe herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3 f Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 48 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast h Ex. 18. 10.& seven days; hneither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 34. 25. Or, kill, i Ex. 12. 6. k Ec. 12. 8, 9. 2 Chr. 35.13. 12 Kin, 23.23. John 2. 13. 23. & 11, 55. & 13. 6. 5 Thou mayest not || sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the 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 iat even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt kroast and eat it lin 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 unleavenm Ex. 12. 16. ed bread; and m on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and 13 Thou shalt observe the feast q ch. 15. 15. Ex. 23. 16. Lev. 23. 34. Num. 29. 12. + Heb. floor, and thy s Noh, 8, 9, &c. 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy winepress. 40. 1 Ex. 23. 14, 17. & 34. 23. solemn feast unto the LORD thy God 17 Every man shall give fas he is & 34. 20. + Hals. according to the gift of his hand, 2 Cor. 8. 12 z ch. 1. 16. 1 Chr. 23. 4. & 28. 29. 2 Chr.19.5,8. a Ex. 23, 2, 6. Lev. 19. 15. b ch. 1. 17. Prov. 21. 23. 18 Judges and officers shalt thou y ver. 10. c Ex. 23. 8. Prov. 17 23. Ecc. 7. 7. Or, matters. tice, justice, d Ez. 18. 5,9 e Ex. 34. 13. 1 Kin. 14. 15. & 16. 33. 2 Kin. 17.16. & 21. 3. 2 Chr. 33. 3. fLev. 26. 1, || Or, statue, or, pillar. ach, 15, 21. Mal, 1. 8, 13, 14. g Lov. 21. 14, 16. ch. 13. 10, Josh. 7. 25. ch. 19. 15. Matt. 18. 16. 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and & shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 h At the mouth of two witnesses, h Num 35.30. or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13. 1. 1 Tim.. 5. 19. Heb. 10. 28. i ch. 13. 9. Acts 7.58. kver, 12. ch. 13. 5. & 19. 19. 12 Chr. 19.10. Hag. 2. 11. Mal. 2. 7. 7 i The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. Sok thou shalt put the evil away from among you. 81If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, m between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, 13, 20, 22,28. being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Im See Ex. 21. & 22. 2. Num. 35. 11, 16, 19. ch. 19. 4. 10, LORD thy God shall choose; 11. nch. 12. 5. & 19. 17. Ps. 122. 5. o See Jer. 18. 18. pch. 19. 17. 4 Ez. 44. 24. r Num, 15.30. Ezra 10. 8. Ноз. 4. 4. † Heh, not to hearken. t ch. 13.5. 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and Punto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: the land which the LORD thy God Before giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, * I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; x1 Sam. 8. 5, 19, 20. 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD y See 1 Sam. Z thy God 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 a horses to himself, nor cause the people b to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, d Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. C 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 9. 15. & 10 24. & 16 12. 1 Chr 22.10. z Jer. 30,21, a l Kin. 4. 26. & 10, 26, 28. Ps. 20. 7. b Is. 31.1. Ez 17. 15, с Ex. 13. 17. Num, 14.3,4. dch 28.68. Hos. 11. 5. Sco Jer, 42. 15. eSeo 1 Kings 11. 3. 1. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth 12 Kin. 11.12. upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And hit 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 i 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 XVIII. 1 The Lord is the priests' and Levites' inheritance. 3 The priest's due. 6 The Levite's portion. 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 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place | part nor inheritance with Israel: 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 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, fand will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy * ch. 18.5, 7. God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. uch. 13.11, & 19. 20, 14 When thou art come unto they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 11 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 d The firstfruit also of thy corn, of 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 him out of all thy tribes, fto stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 And if a Levite come from any sh. 31.9, 26, See 2 Kings 22.8. h Josh. 1. 8. Ps. 119. 97, 08. i ch. 5, 32, 1 Kin. 15, 5. a Num. 18,20, & 26. 62. ch. 10. 9. b Num. 18 8, 9. 1 Cor. 9. 13. e Lev. 7. 3034. d Ex. 22. 29. Num. 18. 12, 24. o Ex. 28. 1. Num, 3. 10. fch. 10. 8. & 17. 12, Christ the true Prophet. DEUTERONOMY. The cities of refuge. Before of thy gates out of all Israel, where | spoken, but the prophet hath spoken Before CHRIST he & sojourned, and come with all it fpresumptuously: thou shalt not CHRIST 1451. g Num. 35. 2, 3. h ch. 12.5. 12 Chr. 31, 2, k 2 Chr. 31.4. Neh. 12. 44, 47. + Hob, his sales by the fathers. 27, 30. the desire of 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, ias all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 They shall have like k portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giv 1 Lev. 18. 26. eth thee, I thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. ch. 12, 29, 30, 31. m Lev. 18. 21. ch, 12. 31. n Lev. 19 26. 31. & 20. 27. 1.. 8. 19. o Lev. 20. 27. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his 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 pl Sam. 29.7. a Pnecromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and q Lev. 18. 24, 9 because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 25. eh, 9 4 r ver. 18, John 1. 45. Acts 3.22 & 7. 37, sch. 9. 10 t Ex. 20. 19 Hob, 12, 19. u ch. 5. 28. x ver. 15. John 1, 45, Acts 3. 22, & 7 37. y Is 51 16. John 17.8. z John 4.25 & 8 28. & 12. 49, 50. n Acts 3. 23. bch. 13. 6. Jer. 14. 14, Zech. 13. 5. cch. 13. 1, 2. Jer, 2, 8. d Jer. 28. 9. 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, u They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; "and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 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? 22 d When a prophet speaketh in HEN the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth, thee, and thou & succeedest them, and dwellest + Heb. inherin their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not fin time past; itest, or, porsessest. b Ex. 21. 13. Num. 35. 10, 14. Josh, 20. 2. Num. 35. 15. ch. 4. 42. + Heb. from yesterday the third day. 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 slippeth from the + Heb. iron. thelve, and † lighteth upon his neigh-Heb. wood. bour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: 6 d Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and + slay 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 Godenlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; Heb. findeth. dNum. 35.12. Heh, smite kim in life. + Heb. from yesterday the third day. o Gen. 15. 18. oh. 12. 20, 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; fthen shalt thou add three fJosh. 20.7.8. 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. 11 But & if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him † mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the aveng e See ch. 13. 2. the name of the LORD, if the thinger of blood, that he may die. follow not, nor come to pass, that is 13 h Thine eye shall not pity him, g Ex. 21. 12, &0. Num, 35, 16, 24. ch, 27. 21. Prov. 28. 17. + Heb. in life. heh. 13. 8. & 25. 12, i Num. 35.33, 34 ch. 21, 9. 1 Kings 2,31. |