Blood forbidden. CHAP. XIII. Hesh; thou mayest cat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the Lond thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,] which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul usteth after. 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. Idolaters to be ston^a. 32 What things soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAP. XIII. dreamer of dreams, and giveth F there arise among you a prophet, thee a sign or a wonder, 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the of dreams: for the LORD your God blood: for the blood is the life; and|proveth you, to know whether ye love thou majest not eat the life with the the Lond your God with all your flesh heart and with all your soul. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your pour it upon the earth as water. God, and fear him, and keep bis con25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may|mandments, and obey his voice, and ye go well with thee, and with thy chil-shall serve him, and cleave unto him. dren after thee, when thou shalt do 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer that which is right in the sight of the of dreams, shall be put to death: Lond. because he hath spoken to turn you 26 Only thy holy things which thou away from the LORD your God, which hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, brought you out of the land of Egypt, and go unto the place which the LORD and redeemed you out of the house of shall choose. bondage, to thrust thee out of the way 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-of-which the Lord thy God commanded ferings, the flesh and the blood, upon thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the the altar of the LORD thy God; and evil away from the midst of thee. the blood of thy sacrifices shall be pour 6 ¶ If thy brother, the son of thy ed out upon the altar of the LORD thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God. 29 ¶ When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, aud dwellest in their land; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not cousent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall 30 Take Geed to thyself that thou be thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou not shared by following them, after spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: that they be destroyed from before 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thy thee; and that thou inquire nqt after hand shall be first upon him to put their gods, saying, How did these na-him to death, and afterwards the band tions serve their gods? even so will 1 of all the people. do likewise. 10 Aud thou shalt stone him with 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the stones, that he die; because he hath LORD thy God: for every abomination sought to thrust thee away from the to the LORD, which he hateth, have LORD thy God, which brought thee they done unto their gods; for even out of the land of Egypt, from the their sons and their daughters they house of bondage. have burnt in the fire to their gods. 11 And all Israel shall hear and fear, Of meats, DEUTERONOMY. clean and unclean. and shall do no more any such wick-claws, and cheweth the cud among, edness as this is among you. the beasts, that ye shall eat. 12 ¶ If thou shalt hear say in one of 7 Nevertheless these ye shall vot eat thy cities, which the Lord thy God of them that chew the cud, or of then, hath given thee to dwell there, saying, tha divide the cloven hoof; as the 13 Tertain men, the children of Be-[cainel, and the hare, and the coney; lial, are gone out from among you, and for they chew the cud, but divide not have withdrawn the inhabitants of the hoof; therefore they are unclean their city, saying, Let us go and serve unto you. other gods, which ye have not known; 8 And the swine, because it divideth 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is search, and ask diligently; and, be-junclean unto you; ye shall not eat of hold, if it be truth, and the thing their flesh, nor touch their dead carcertain, that such abomination is case. wrought among you; 9 T These ye shall eat of all that are 15 Thou shall surely smite the in-in the waters: all that have fins and nabitants of that city with the edge scales shall ye eat: of the sword,destroying it utterly, and 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and all that is therein, and the cattle there-scales ye may not eat; it is unclean of, with the edge of the sword. unto you. 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: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built E are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut your selves,nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 11 T Öƒ all clean birds ye shall eat 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 Aud the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the giereagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron aster her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19. And every creeping thing that fi eth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 T Ye shall not eat of any thing 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: for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's 2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations milk. that are upon the earth. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the in3 Thou shalt not eat any abomin-crease of thy seed, that the field bringable thing. eth forth year by year. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the caumois. 6 And every beast that parteth the Loof, and cleareth the cleft into two 23 And thou shalt eat before the Lonn thy God, in the place which he sball choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lonu thy God always. The seventh year CHAP. XV. n year of release. 24 And if the way be too long for over many nations, but they shall not thee, so that thou art not able to carry reign over thee. it; or if the place be too far froin 7 ЯIf there be among you a poor man thee, which the Lono thy God shall of one of thy brethren within any of choose to set his name there,when the thy gates, in thy land which the LORD LORD thy God bath blessed thee: thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not 25 Then shalt thou turn it is to mo-harden thy heart, nor shut thy band ney, and bind up the money in thy from thy pour brother: hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 5 But thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him 26 And thou shalt bestow that money sufficient for ins need, in that which for whatsoever thy soul lusteth_after,[he wanteth. for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or 9 Beware that there be not a thought for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy in thy wicked heart, saying, The seve goul desireth; and thou shalt eat there euth_year, the year of release, is at before the Lord thy God, and thou hand; and thine eye be evi! against shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household, thy poor brother, and thou givest hin 27 And the Levite that & within thy [nought; and he cry unto the LORD gates; thou shalt not forsake him ; for jagast thee, and it be sin unto thee. he hath no part nor inheritance with 10 Thou shalt surely give hum, and thee. 28 ¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the title of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite,(because he hath! no part vor miheritance 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 thy hand which thou doest. Α ́ CHAP. XV. thy heart shall not be grieved when 12 ¶ And if 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 Thim go free from thee. Tthe end of everuseven years thou] 13 And when thou sendest him out shalt make a release. free from thee, thou shalt not let him 2. And this is the manner of the re-go away empty: lease: Every creditor that lendeth 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally aught unto his neighbour shall re-out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, lease it; he shall not exact it of his and out of thy wine-press: of that neighbour, or of his brother; because wherewith the LORD thy God hath it is called the Lono's release. 3. Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again; bụt that which is thine with thy brother, thy band shall release; 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 redeem 4 Save when there shall be no poorfed thee; therefore I command thee smong you; for the LORD shall great-this thing to-day. ly bless thee in the land which the 16 And it shall be, if he say uuto LORD thy God giveth thee for an in-thee, I will not go away from thee; heritance to possess it: (because he loveth thee and thy house. 5. Only if thou carefully hearken unto because be is well with thee ;) the voice of the Lord thy God to ob- 17. Then thou shalt take an awl, and serve to do all these commandments thrust it through his ear unto the door, which I command thee this day. and he shail be thy servant for ever For the LORD thy God blesseth And also unto thy maid servant thou thee as he promised thee; and thou shalt do likewise. eoalt lend unto many nations,but thou 18 It shall not seem haid unto thee, shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reigu (when thou sendest him away free from The feast of DEUTERONOMY. Passover, &c. thee; for he hath been worth a double] 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in aired servant to thee, in serving thee the place which the Lord thy God six years; and the LORD thy God shall shall choose: and thou shalt turn in bless thee in all that thou doest. the morning, and go unto thy tents 19 ¶ All the firstling males that come 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt bread, and on the seventh day shall be sanctify unto the Lord thy God; thouļa solemn assembly to the Loan thy shalt do no work with the firstling of God: thou shalt do no work therein. thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of 9 T Seven weeks shalt thou number thy sheep. unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn, 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God withra : 21. And if there be any blemish there-tribute of a free-will-offering of thy in, as if it be lame, or blind, or have hand, which thou shalt give into the any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice|LORDthy God,according as the Lond It unto the LORD thy God. thy God hath blessed thee: 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year, in the place which the Lono shall choose, thou and thy household. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shoe!l eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. CHAP. XVI. 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,aud thy daughter, and thy mau-servant, and thy maid-servant, 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 Lond thy God hath chosen to place his name here. BSERVE the mouth of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord 12 And thou shalt remember that thon thy God: for in the mouth of Abib the wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou Lord thy God brought thee forth out [shalt observe and do these statutes. of Egypt by night. 13 ¶ Thou shalt observe the feast of 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the tabernacles seven days, after that thou passover unto the Lord thy God, of jhast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: the flock and the herd, in the place 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, which the LORD shall choose to place thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, lus name there. and thy man-servant, aud thy maid3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread [servant, and the Levite, the stranger, with it; seven days shalt thou eat un- and the fatherless, and the widow,that leavened bread therewith, even the fare within thy gates. bread of affliction; for thou camest 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solforth out of the land of Egypt in haste: emu feast unto the Lond thy God in that thou mayest remember the day the place which theLordshall choose; when thou camest forth out of the|because the Lond thy God shall bless land of Egypt all the days of thy life. thee in all thine increase, and in all 4 And there shall be no leavened the works of thy hands, therefore thou bread seen with thee in all thy coasts shalt surely rejoice. seven days; neither shall there any] 16 ↑ Three times in a year shall all thing of the flesh, which thou saeri-¡thy males appear before the Lord thy ficedst the first day at even, remain all¦ God in the place which he shall choose; might until the morning. in the feast of unleavened bread, and 6 Thou mayest not sacrifice the pass-in the feast of weeks, and in the feast over within any of thy gates, which of tabernacles; and they shall not apthe LORD thy God giveth thee: pear before the Lono empty. 6 But at the place which the LORD 17 Every man shall give as he is able, thy God shall choose to place his name according to the blessing of the Lond in, there thou shalt sacrifice the pass-thy God which be hath given thee, over at even, at the going down of the kun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 18 T Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout The choice and CHAP. XVII. duty of a king,, thy tribes: and they shall judge theters of controversy, within thy gates people with just judgment. then shalt thou arise, and get thee up, 19 Thou shalt not rest judgment: into the place which the LORD thy thou shalt not respect persons, neither God shall choose: take a gift; for a gift doth blind the 9 And thou shalt come unto the eyes of the wise, and pervert the priests the Levites, and unto the judge words of the righteous that shall be in those days, aud inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. 29 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the 10 And thou shalt do according to LORD thy God giveth thee. the sentence, which they of that place 21 T Thou shalt not plant thee alwhich the LORD shall choose shall grove of any trees near unto the altar show thee; and thou shalt observe to of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt do according to all that they inform make thee. thee; 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. 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 HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the shalt not decline from the sentence LORD thy God any bullock or which they shall show thee, to the sheep wherein is blemish, or any evil-[right hand nor to the left. favouredness; for that is an abomina-] 12 And the man that will do pre tion unto the Lond thy God. sumptuously, and will not hearken THO 2 If there be found among you, unto the priest that standeth to miniswithin any of thy gates which the ter there before the Loud thy God, or LORD thy God giveth thee, man or unto the judge, even that man shall woman, that hath wrought wicked-die: and thou shalt put away the evil ness in the sight of the LORD thy God, from Israel. in transgressing his covenant, 13 And all the people shall bear, and 3 And hath gone and served other fear, and do no more presumptuously. gods, and worshipped them, either the 14 T When thou art come unto the sun,or moon,or any of the host of heav-land which the Lono thy God giveth en, which I have not commanded; thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast dwell therein, and shalt say, I will heard of it, and inquired diligently, set a king over me, like as all the naand, behold, it be true, and the thing tions that are about me; certain, that such abomination is 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him wrought in Israel; king over thee whom the LORD thy 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that God shall choose; one from among mian or that woman, which have com-thy brethren shalt thou set king over mitted that wicked thing, unto thy thee: thou mayest not set a stranger gates, even that man or that woman, over thee, which is not thy brother. and shalt s one them with stones, till 16 But he shall not multiply horses to they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, 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. 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 henceforth retura no more that way, 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be himself, that bis heart turn not away; first upon him to put him to death, and neither shall be greatly multiply to afterward the hands of all the people :[himself silver and gold. so thou shalt put the evil away from 13 And it shall be, when he sitteth among you. upon the throne of his kingdom, that 8 If there arise a matter too hard he shall write him a copy of tois aw for thee in judgment, between blood in a book, out of that which is before and blood, between plea and plea, and the priests the Levites: between stroke aud stroke, being mat-1-19 `And it shall be with him, and he |