Of unlawful marriages, &e AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. Repetition of sundry laws. the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled ;) 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. 3 After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of abominations, even the souls that commit them the land of Canaan whither I bring you, shall ye shall be cut off from among their people. not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that 4 Yeshall do my judgments, and keep mine ordi-ye commit not any one of these abominable cusnances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. toms, which were committed before you, and 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in LORD your God. them: I am the LORD. 6 None of you shall approach to any that is CHAP. XIX. A repetition of sundry laws. near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the I am the LORD. 7 The nakedness of thy father, or the naked-children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall ness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is be holy: for I the LORD your God am ho thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother ana 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. LORD your God. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. 5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will. 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. 8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hal12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of lowed thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kins-cut off from among his people. 10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, (she is thy sister) thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. woman. 9 T And when ye reap the harvest of your land, 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of kinswoman. thy harvest. 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neithy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to ther shalt thou gather every grape of thy vinehis wife: she is thine aunt. yard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife; it is thy brother's nakedness. 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him : the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time. 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which cast out before you: thy God: I am the LORD. 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart! thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and wool 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit len come upon thee. the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman vomiteth out her inhabitants. that is a bond-maid betrothed to a husband, and 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she judgments, and shall not commit any of these shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, abominations; neither any of your own nation, because she was not free. nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the Divers laws. LEVITICUS. Adultery and incest congregation, even a ram for a trespass-offering. 10 And the man that committeth adultery 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for with another man's wife, even he that committeth him with the ram of the trespass-offering before adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer the LORD for his sin which he hath done; and and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. 11 ¶ And the man that lieth with his father's 23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the land, and wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: shall have planted all manner of trees for food; both of them shall surely be put to death: their then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircum- blood shall be upon them. cised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised 12 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, unto you: it shall not be eaten of. both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. 26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 29 T Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore: lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. 33 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 13 ¶ If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 14 ¶ And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with_fire, both he and they: that there be no wickedness among you. 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness: it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman hav ing her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 ¶ And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall De unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt Love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the and of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure. 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. CHAP. XX. A repetition of sundry laws. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 2 ¶ Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that nations which I cast out before you for they giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall committed all these things, and therefore I ab surely be put to death: the people of the land horred them. shall stone him with stones. 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit 3 And I will set my face against that man, and their land, and I will give it unto you to possess will cut him off from among his people; because it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile am the LORD your God, which have separated my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. you from other people. 4 And if the people of the land do any ways 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not; fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and souls abominable by beast or by fowl, or by any aga ast his family, and will cut him off, and all manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, that go a whoring after him, to commit whore- which I have separated from you as unclean. dom with Molech, from among their people. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have am holy, and have severed you from other peofamiliar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring ple, that ye should be mine. after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy for I am the LORD your God. 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you. 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother, shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother: his blood shall be upon him. 27 ¶ A man also or a woman that hath a familiar CHAP. XXI. the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people Of the priests' mourning. CHAP. XXII. Who may eat holy things. 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am for his mother, and for his father, and for his the LORD. son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat him, which hath had no husband: for her may he of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso be defited. toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief or a man whose seed goeth from him; man among his people, to profane himself. 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of neither shall they shave off the corner of their whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoeve: beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. uncleanness be hath: 6 ¶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7¶ They shalt not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. 81 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him I am the LORD. 13 ¶ And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God: 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or bath his stones broken; 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAP. XXII. A Priests' abstaining from holy things. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD. 6 The soul which hath touched any such shau be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things because it is his food. 8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. 10 1 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest, with the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD: 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto al the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his free-will-offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offering: 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peaceofferings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free-will-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your the bread of your God of any of these; because seed among your generations, that goeth unto the their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in holy things, which the children of Israel hallow them: they shall not be accepted for you. unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, 26 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The day of atonement. 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat is and their drink-offerings, even an offering made brought forth, then it shall be seven days under by fire of sweet savour unto the LORD. the dam; and from the eighth day and thence- 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats forth it shall be accepted for an offering made for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year by fire unto the LORD. for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. 28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not 20 And the priest shall wave them with the kill it and her young both in one day. bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 29 And whenye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up, ye shall 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same day, leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD. that it may be a holy convocation unto you: ye 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, shall do no servile work therein. It shall be a and do them: I am the LORD. statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. The feast of tabernacles. CHAP. XXIV, XXV. Sabbath of the seventh year. 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD 23 T And Moses spake unto the children of Is seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for rael, that they should bring forth him that had ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it cursed out of the camp, and stone him with in the seventh month. stones: and the children of Israel did as the 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that LORD commanded Moses. are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD. CHAP. XXIV. Shelomith's son blasphemetk. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. CHAP. XXV. AND the LORD spake unto Moses in mount 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and sɛ y unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy LORD Continually: it shall be a statute for ever harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the in your generations. grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually. 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth-deals shall be in one cake. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon 8 T And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of each row, that it may be on the bread for a memo-years unto thee, seven times seven years; and rial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before be unto thee forty and nine years. the LORD continually, being taken from the chil- 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the judren of Israel by an everlasting covenant. bilee to sound, on the tenth day of the seventh 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and month, in the day of atonement shall ye make they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most the trumpet sound throughout all your land. holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and by fire by a perpetual statute. proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto 10 T And the son of an Israclitish woman, whose all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee father was an Egyptian, went out among the chil-unto you; and ye shall return every man unto dren of Israel; and this son of the Israelitish woman his possession, and ye shall return every man and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; unto his family. 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: the name of the LORD, and cursed: and they ye shall not sow, neither reap that which growbrought him unto Moses: (and his mother's eth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of thy vine undressed. the tribe of Dan :) 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. the LORD might be shewed them. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return 13 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the 16 According to the multitude of years thou LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the shalt increase the price thereof, and according congregation shall certainly stone him: as well to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when price of it: for according to the number of the he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. be put to death. 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; 17 ¶ And he that killeth any man shall surely but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD be put to death. your God. 18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it 18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and good; beast for beast. keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done unto him: 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase: 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the stranger, as for one of your own coun- for three years. and try: for I am the LORD your God. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, eat |