For this is as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him.

If a man find a virgin that is not betrothed, and force her, then the man shall give the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his life. A man shall not take his father's wife.

Divorce. If a man marry a wife, and she do not find favor in his eyes, and he write her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house, and she depart out of his house, and go and become another man's wife; if the latter husband divorce her, or if the latter husband die, her former husband may not take her again to be his wife.

Privilege.-When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, nor be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife that he hath taken.

Rebellious Children.-If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey his father's voice, or his mother's voice, and though they chasten him, will not obey them; his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him unto the elders of his city, unto the gate; 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 riotous liver, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.

CHAPTER XVIII.

DEUTERONOMY, xix., xxii.-xxv.

THE DEUTERONOMIC CODE-VII.

MISCELLANEOUS LAWS.

Man-stealing-Escaped Slaves-Landmarks-Weights and Measures -Loans-Usury to Hebrews Forbidden-Pledges-WagesRights in Neighbor's Vineyard-Grain Field-Gleaning-Muzzling the Ox-Mixtures Forbidden-Tassels Ordained-Memberbership in Jewish Church-Eunuchs Excluded-Ammonites and Moabites Excluded-Edomites and Egyptians Admitted in Third Generation.

Slavery.—If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and enslaving him, or selling him, that thief shall die.

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a slave who is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell among thee, in any of thy cities where it liketh him best. Thou shalt not oppress him.

Honesty. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag double weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house double measures, a great and a small. Honest weight and true shalt thou have; honest measure and true shalt thou have; that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Loans.-Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing

that is lent upon usury.

Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not

lend upon usury.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

When thou lendest thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou lendest shall bring forth the pledge unto thee. And if he be a poor man (and pledge his garment), thou shalt not sleep in his pledge. Thou shalt restore him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

Thou shalt not oppress a hireling that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land. Thou shalt give him his hire in its day, and the sun shall not go down upon it; for he is poor, and hath need of it.

Kindliness. When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes thy fill for thine hunger; but thou shalt carry none away.

When thou comest into thy neighbor's standing grain, thou mayest pluck the ears thereof with thy hand; but thou shalt not put a sickle to thy neighbor's standing grain.

When thou reapest thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. When thou gatherest the

fruit of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.

Mixture. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with seed beside the vines, lest the whole be forfeited to the sanctuary; the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard.

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a mixture, wool and linen together. A woman shall not wear the things of a man, nor a man put on woman's clothing; for whosoever doeth such things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy mantle, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

Membership. No eunuch shall enter into the congregation of Jehovah.

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah forever. Thou shalt not seek their welfare nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. Their children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the congregation of Jehovah.

EXODUS, XXX.

CHAPTER XIX.

LEVITICUS, i.-vii., xvi., xxiv. NUMBERS, v., vi., xv., xxviii., xxix.

LEVITICAL RITUAL.

The Priests-Unblemished Persons-Mourning of Priests-Marriage of Priests-Family of Priests-The High-Priest-Mourning Forbidden-Restrictions on Marriage-Uncleanness of Priests-Who may Eat Holy Things-Sacrificial Animals-Whole Burnt Offerings-Varieties of Meal Offerings-Method of Offering-Use of Salt-Leaven and Honey Forbidden-Heave-Offering of FirstFruits-Peace Offerings-Sacrificial Portions-Portion of the Priest-Meal and Drink Offerings for Different Animals-Sin Offerings For High-Priest-For Congregation-For a Ruler-For a Common Citizen-Occasion of Sin Offering-A Variant UseSin Offering for Congregation-For Individual-Presumptuous Sin -Guilt Offering-For Fraud toward God-For Fraud toward Neighbor-Restitution to be Made--Disposition of OfferingsWhole Burnt Offerings-Portion of Priest-Meat OfferingsMethod of Consumption-Sin Offerings-Guilt Offerings-Peace Offerings-Portion of Priest-Consumption of Peace OfferingsWho may Eat them-No Fat to be Eaten-Temple Tax-Stated Offerings-Temple Lights-Shewbread-Day of AtonementOffice of High-Priest-Cleansing with Blood-The ScapegoatPriestly Benediction.

The Priests.-No man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah. He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy; but he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish.