not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation. 9¶ When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep tice from every wicked thing. of Divorce. unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee, 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 24 ¶ When thou comest into thy 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a 10 If there be among you any man, free-will offering, according as thou that is not clean by reason of unclean-hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, ness that chanceth him by night, then which thou hast promised with thy shall be go abroad out of the camp, he mouth. shall not come withm the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening neighbour's vineyard, then thou maycometh on, he shall wash himself with est eat grapes thy fill at thine own water; and when the sun is down, be pleasure; but thou shalt not put any sball come into the camp again. in thy vessel. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shalt be, when thou will ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which comethi from thee: 25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. CHAP. XXIV. Warna med ber, and it come to HEN a man hath taken a wife, [pass that she find no favour in his eyes, 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in because he hath found some uncleanthe midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, ness in her; then let him write her a and to give up thine enemies before bill of divorcement, aud give it in her thee; therefore shall thy camp bebaud, and send her out of his house. holy: that be see no unclean thing in 2 And when she is departed out of thee, and turn away from thee. bis house, she may go aud be another 15 T Thou shalt not deliver unto his man's wife. master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 3 And the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, 16 He shall dwell with thee, even and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth among you, in that place which he her out of his house; or if the latter shall choose, in one of thy gates,where husband die, which took her to be his it liketh him best; thou shalt not op-wife; press him. 17 ¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Load thy God for any yow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the laud to sm, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. 5 T When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, uei19 ¶ Thou shalt not lend upon usury ther shall he be charged with any busito thy brother; usury of money, usuryness: but he shall be free at bome one of victuals, usury of any thing that is year, and shall cheer up his wife lent upon usury: which he hath taken. 20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend 6 T No man shall take the nether or upon usury; but unto thy brother thou the upper millstone to pledge: for he shalt not lend upon usury; that the taketh a man's life to pledge. LORD thy God may bless thee in all 7 ¶ If a man be found stealing any of that thou settest thy hand to in the his brethren of the children of Israe!, land whither thou goest to possess it. and maketh merchandise of him, or 21 When thou shalt row a vow selleth him; then that thief shall die, Of Plexiges. among you. DEUTERONOMY. Sundry Laws. and thou shalt put evil away from] 21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it 8 J Take heed in the plague o lepro-asterward it shall be for the stranger, sy, that thou observe diligently, and for the fatherless, and for the widow. lo according to all that the priests the 22 And thou shalt remember that Levites shall teach you: as I com-thou wast a bond man in the land of manded them,so ye shall observe to do. Egypt: therefore I command thee to 9 Remember what the Lond thy God do this thing. did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost leud thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into is house to fetch his pledge. 11. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant thatis poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lono, and it be sin unto thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 T Thou shalt not pervert the judg iment of the stranger, nor of the father less, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that theu wast a boul-man in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou cuttest down thy barvest in thy field, and bast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the Loud thy God may bless thee . all the work of thy hands. CHAP. XXV. TF there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed : lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 T Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he trendeth out the corn. 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry with out unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say,Myhusband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his broth 20 When thou beatest thine olive-er's house. tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs ngain. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his [shoe loosed. Of the offering CHAP. XXVI. of firal fruits. When men strive together one 5 And thou gbalt speak and say before with another, and the wife of the one the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to draweth near for to deliver her hus-perish was my father; and he went band out of the hand of him that smit down into Egypt, and sojourned there eth him, and putteth forth her hand, with a few, and became there a nation, · and taketh him by the secrets; great, mighty, and populous : 12 Then thou shalt cut off her band, taine eye shall not pity her. 13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 6 And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage : 7 And when we cried unto the LORD 14 Thou shalt not have in thy house God of our fathers, the LORD heard divers measures, a great and a small. Jour voice, and looked on our affliction, 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and and our labour, and our oppression: just weight, a perfect and just measure 8 And the LORD brought us forth out shalt thou have; that thy days may be of Egypt with a mighty hand, and lengthened in the land which the with an out-stretched arm, and with LORD thy God giveth thee. great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomina tion unto the LORD thy God. 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 17 T Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt ; 10 And now, behold, 1 have brought 18 How he met thee by the way, and the first fruits of the land which thou, emote the hind most of thee, even all]O LORD, bast given me. And thou that were feeble behind thee, when shalt set it before the LORD thy God, thou west faint and weary; and he and worship before the LORD thy God. Teared not God. 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every 19 Therefore it shall be, when the good thing which the Lord thy God LORD thy God hath given thee rest hath given unto thee, and unto thy from all thine enemies round about, house, thou, and the Levite, and the in the land which the Lord thy God stranger that is among you. giveth thee for an inheritance to pos- 12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of sess it, that thou shalt blot out the re-tithing all the tithes of thine increase membrance of Amalek from under the third year, which is the year of heaven; thou shalt not forget it. CHAP. XXVI. tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat withia AND it shall be, when thou are thy sates, and be filled; come in unto the land which the 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God giveth thee for an in- LORD thy God, I have brought away beritance, and possessest it, and dwell-the hallowed things out of my house, est therein, and also have given them unto the Le 14 I have not eaten thereof in my That thou shalt take of the first of vite, and unto the stranger, to the fa all the fruit of the earth, which thou|therless, and to the widow, according shalt bring of thy land that the LORD to all thy commandments which thou thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it hast commanded me; I have not transin a basket, and shall go unto the place gressed thy commandments, neither which the Lord thy God shall choose have I forgotten them : to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest mourning, neither have I taken away that shall be in those days, and say aught thereof for any unclean use, nor yuto him, I profess this day unto the given aught thereof for the dead ; but LORD thy God, that I am come unto I have hearkened to the voice of the the country which the LORD sware LORD my God, and have done accordunto our fathers for to give us. ing to all that thou hast commanded me: 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God 15 Look down from thy holy habita. [tion, from heaven, and bless thy peu Curste pronounced DEUTERONOMY. on Mount Ebul. le Israel, and the land which thou] 9 T And Moses and the priests ti-e fast given us, as thou swarest unto our Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, fathers, a land that floweth with milk Take heed, and hearken, O Israel und honey. this day thou art become the people of 16 This day the Loan thy God bath the LORD thy God. commanded thee to do these statutes) and judgments; thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the Lond this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 11 ¶ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, ami Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou 13 And these shall stand upon mount shouldest keep all his commandments; Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Ash19 And to make thee high above allfer, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. nations which he hath made, in praise, 14¶ And the Levites shall speak, and and in name, and in honour; and that say unto all the meu of Israel with a thou mayest be a holy people unto the loud voice, LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. A CHAP. XXVII. 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an ND Moses, with the elders of 1s- abomination unto the LORD, the work rael, commanded the people, say-of the hands of the craftsinan, and ing, Keep all the commandments putteth it in a secret place; and all the which I command you this day. people shall answer and say, Amen. 2 And it shall be, on the day when 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by ye shall pass over Jordan, unto the bis father or his mother. And all the land which the LORD thy God giveth people shall say, Amen. thee, that thou shalt set thee up great 17 Cursed be be that removeth his stones, and plaster them with plaster: neighbour's landmark. And all the 3 And thou shalt write upou them people shall say, Amen. all the words of this law, when thou 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind art passed over, that thou mayest go to wauder out of the way. And all m unto the land which the Lonp thy the people shall say, Amen. God giveth thee, a land that floweth 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the with milk and honey; as the Lono judgment of the stranger, fatherless, God of thy fathers bath promised thee. and widow. And all the people shall 4 Therefore it shall be, when ye be say, Amen. gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his these stones, which I command you father's wife; because be uncovereth this day, in mount Ebal, and thou his father's skirt. And all the people shalt plaster them with plaster. 5. And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. that lieth with any And all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he manner of beast. shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the sister, the daughter of his father, or LORD thy God of whole stones; and the daughter of his mother. And all thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon the people shall say, Amen. unto the LORD thy God: 23 Cursed be be that lieth with his 7 And thou shalt offer peace-offer-mother-in-law. ings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice shall say, Amen. clore the Lord thy God. And all the people 24 Cursed be he that smiteth hig And thou shalt write upon the neighbour secretly. And all the peostones all the words of the law veryple shall say, Amen. plainly 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward Promises. to slay an innocent person. the people shall say, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII. Clones. And all 13 And the LORD shall make thee the bead, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou bearken unto the commandments of the Lond thy God, which I command thee this day, 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII, to observe and to do them: them. AND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the 14 And thou shalt not go aside from voice of the Lord thy God,to observe any of the words which I command and to do all his commandments thee this day, to the right hand or to which I command thee this day, that the left, to go after other gods to serve The LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lond thy God. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 15 T But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,to observe to do all bis commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket, and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 7 The LORD shall cause thine ene- 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou mies that rise up against thee to belcomest in, and cursed shalt thou be smitten before thy face: they shall come put against thee one way, and fee before thee seven ways. when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all The LORD shall command the bless-that thou settest thy hand unto forto ing upon thee in thy storehouses, and do, until thou be destroyed, and until in all that thou sellest thy hand unto; thou perish quickly; because of the and he shall bless thee in the land wickedness of thy doings, whereby which the LORD thy God giveth thee. thou hast forsaken me. 9 The Loud shall establish thee a Loiy people unto himself, as he hath >word unto thee,if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lond thy God, and walk in his ways. 10. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou geest to possess it. 22 The LORD shallsmite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,] 23 And thy heaven that is over thy and in the fruit of thy ground, in the head shall be brass, and the earth that land which the Lond sware unto thy is under thee shall be irou. fathers to give thee. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his [thy land powder and dust: from good treasure, the heaven to give the heaven shall it come down upon thee, rain unto thy land in his season, and until thou be destroyed. to bless all the work of thy hand: and Thou shalt lend unto many nations and thou shalt not borrow 25 The Lond shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them,aud |