ly say, I love my master, my wife, that sinote him be quit: only he shall and my children ; I will not go out pay for the loss of his time, and shall free :

cause him to be thoroughly healed. 6 Then his master shall bring him L 20 And if a man smite his serunto the judges : he shall also bring vant, or his maid, with a rod, and he him to the door, or unto the door- die under his hand; he shall be post : and his master shall bore his surely punished. ear through with an awl; and he 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue shall serve him for ever.

a day or two, he shall not be punishL 7 || And if a man sell his daughter ed : for he is his money. to be a maid-servant, she shall not 22 11 If men strive, and hurt a wogo out as the men-servants do. man with child, so that her fruit de

8 If she please not her master, who part from her, and yet no mischief hath betrothed her to himself,' then follow : he shall be surely punished, shall he let her be redeemed : to sell according as the woman's husband her unto a strange nation he shall will lay upon him; and he shall pay have no power, seeing he hath dealt as the judges determine. deceitfully with her.

L 23 And if any mischief follow, 9 And if he have betrothed her then thou shalt give life for life, unto his son, he shall deal with her 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, after the manner of daughters. hand for hand, foot for foot,

10 If he take him another wife; 25 Burning for burning, wound her food, her raiment, and her duty for wound, stripe for stripe. of marriage shall he not diminish. L 26 And if a man smite the eye of

11 And if he do not these three his servant, or the eye of nis maid, unto her, then shall she go out free that it perish; he shall let him go without money,

free for his eye's sake. p 12 11 He that smileth a man, so 27 And if he smite out his manthat he die, shall be surely put to servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's death.

tooth; he shall let him go free for 13 And if a man lie not in wait, his tooth's sake. but God deliver him into his hand ; L 28 If an ox gore a man or a wothen I will appoint thee a place whi- man, that they die : then the ox shall ther he shall fiee.

be surely stoned, and his flesh shall 14 But if a man come presumptu- not be eaten; but the owner of the ously upon his neighbour, to slay him ox shall be quit. with guile; thou shalt take him from L 29 But if the ox were wont to push mine altar, that he may die. with his horn in time past, and it L 15 And he that smiteth his father, hath been testified to his owner, and or his mother, shall be surely put to he hath not kept him in, but that he death.

hath killed a man or a woman; the L 16 | And he that stealeth a man, ox shall be stoned, and his owner aland selleth him, or if he be found in so shall be put to death. his hand, he shall surely be put to 30 If there be laid on him a sum death.

of money, then be shall give for the p 17 1 And he that curseth his fa- ransom of his life whatsoever is laid ther or his mother, shall surely be put upon him. to death.

31 Whether he have gored a son, L 18 1 And if men strive together, or have gored a daughter, accordand one smite another with a stone, ing to this judgment shall it be done or with his fist, and he die not, but unto him. keepeth his bed :

L32 If the ox shall push a man-ser19 If he rise again, and walk i vant, or maid-servant; he shall give abroad upon his staff, then shall be 'unto their master thirty shekels of

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silver, and the ox shall be stoned. į the master of the house shall be L 33' And if a man shall open a brought unto the judges, to see pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and whether he have put his hand unto not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall his neighbour's goods. therein ;

L 9 For all manner of trespass, 34 The owner of the pit shall whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, make it good, and give money unto for raiment, or for any manner of the owner of them; and the dead lost thing which another challengeth beast shall be his.

to be bis : the cause of both parties L 35 And if one man's ox hurt ano- shall come before the judges; and ther's that he die, then they shall sell whom the judges shall condemn, he the live ox, and divide the money of shall pay double unto his neighbour. it, and the dead ox also they shall £ 10 Ifa man deliver unto his neighdivide.

bour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep: L 36 Or if it be known that the ox or any beast to keep ; and it die, or hath used to push in time past, and be hurt, or driven away, no man his owner hath not kept bím in; he seeing it: shall surely pay ox for ox, and the 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD dead shall be his own.

be between them both, that he hath CHAP. XXII.

not put his hand unto his neighbour's F a man shall steal an ox, or a goods; and the owner of it shall ac

sheep, and kill it, or sell it; be cept thereof, and he shall not make shall restore five oxen for an ox, and it good. four sheep for a sheep.

L 12 And if it be stolen from him, L 2 If a thief be found breaking up, he shall make restitution unto the and be smitten that he die, there owner thereof. shall no blood be shed for bim. 13 If it be torn in pieces; then let L 3 If the sun be risen upon him him bring it for witness, and he there shall be blood shed for him: for shall not make good that which was he should make full restitution; if torn. he have nothing, then he shall be L 14 | And if a man borrow aught sold for his theft.

of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or L 4 If the theft be certainly found in die, the owner thereof being not with his band alive, whether it be ox, or it, he shall surely make it good. ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. L'15 But if the owner thereof be with L 5 1 If a man shall cause a field it, he shall not make it good: if it be or vineyard to be eaten, and shall a hired thing, it came for his hire. put in his beast, and shall feed in 16 11 And if a man entice a maid another man's field : of the best of that is not betrothed, and lie with his own field, and of the best of his her, he shall surely endow her to be own vineyard shall he make restitu- his wife. tion.

17 If her father utterly refuse to 1 6 If fire break out, and catch in give her umto him, he shall pay mothorns, so that the stacks of corn, or ney according to the dowry of virthe standing corn, or the field be gins. consumed therewith; he that kin- i 18 | Thou shalt not suffer a witch dled the fire shall surely make res- to live. titution.

1 19 | Whosoever lieth with a L7 If a man shall deliver unto beast shall surely be put to death. his neighbour money or stuff to L 20 | He that sacrificeth unto any keep, and it be stolen out of the god, save unto the LORD only, he man's house ; if the thief be found, shall be utterly destroyed. let him pay double.

p 21 s Thou shalt neither vex a 8 If the thief be not found, then stranger, nor oppress him : for ye

EXODUS. were strangers in the land of 5 If thou see the ass of him that Egypt.

hateth thee lying under his burden, 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, and wouldest forbear to help him, or fatherless child.

thou shalt surely help with him. 23 If thou alllict them in any wise, p 6 Thou shalt not wrest the and they cry at all unto me, I will judgment of thy poor in his cause. surely hear their cry:

7 Keep thee far from a false mat24 And my wrath shall wax hot, ter; and the innocent and righteous and I will kill you with the sword; slay thou not : før I will not justify and your wives shall be widows, the wicked. and your children fatherless, p 8 And thou shalt take no gift; L 25 If thou lend money to any of for the gift blindeth the wise, and my people that is poor by thee, thou perverteth the words of the righteous. shali not be to him as a úsurer, nei- P 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a ther shalt thou lay upon him usu- stranger: for ye know the heart of ry:

a stranger, seeing_ye were stran 126 If thou at all take thy neigh-gers in the land of Egypt. hour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt 10 And six years thou shalt sow deliver it unto hiın by that the sun thy land, and shalt gather in the goeth down:

fruits thcreof: 27 For that is his covering only, L 11 But the seventh year thou shalt it is his raiment for his skin : wherc- let it rest and lie still ; that the poor in shall he sleep? and it shall come of thy people may eat: and what to pass, when he crieth unto me, they leave the beasts of the field that I will hear; for I am gracious. shall eat. In like manner thou shalt p 28 | Thou shalt not revile the deal with thy vineyard, and with thy gods, nor curse the ruler oftlry peo- oliveyard. ple.

i 12'li Six days thou shalt do thy 1, 29 Thou shalt not delay to of-work, and on the seventh day thou fer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of shalt rest : that thine ox and thine ass ihy liquors: the first-born of thy sons may rest, and the son of thy handshalt thou give unto me.

maid, and the stranger, may be re· 30 Likewisc shalt thou do with freshed. thine oxen, and with thy sheep : sc-13 And in all things that I have ven days it shall be with his dain; on said unto you, be circumspect and the eighth day thou shalt give it me. make no mention of the name of d 31 And ye shall be holy men un- other gods, neither let it be heard to me: neither shall ye eatuny flesh out of thy mouth. that is torn of beasts in the field; ye 14 1 Three uimes thou shalt keep shall cast it to the dogs.

a feast unto me in the year. CHAP. XXIII.

i 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of pMHOU shalt not raise a false unleavened bread: (ihou shalt eat

report : put not thy hand unleavened brcad seven days, as I with the wicked to be an unrighteous commanded thee, in the time apwitness.

pointed of the month Abib; for in it p 2 Thou shalt not follow a multi- ihou camest out from Egypt: and lude to do evil; neither shalt thou none shall appear before me empty :) speak in a cause to decline after i 16 And the feast of harvest, the many to wrest judgment :

first-fruits of thy labours, which thou p 31 Neither shalt thou counte- hast sown in the field : and the feast nance a poor man in his cause. of ingathering, which is in the end of d 4 1 If thou meet thine enemy's the year, when thou hast ga hered ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt in thy labours out of the field. surely bring it back to him again. 17 Three times in the year all thy

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males shall appear before the LORD 30 By little and little I will drive
God.

them out from before thee, until thou
p 18 . Thou shalt not offer the blood be increased, and inherit the
of my sacrifice with leavened bread: land.
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice g 31 And
remain until the morning.

even unto the
L 19 The first of the first-fruits of thy the Philistines, and from the desert
Jand thou shalt bring into the house unto the river: for I will deliver
of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt the inhabitants of the land into your
not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. hand, and thou shalt drive them out
b 20 1 Behold, I send an Angel before thee.
before thee, to keep thee in the way, 32 Thou shalt make no covenant
and to bring thee into the place with them, nor with their gods.
which I have prepared.

33 They shall not dwell in thy t 21. Beware of him, and obey his land, lest they make thee sin against voice, provoke him not; for he will me: for if thou serve their gods, it not pardon your transgressions : for will surely be a snare unto thee. my name is in him.

CHAP. XXIV. d 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey d ND he said unto Moses, his voice, and do all that I speak; Come up unto the LORD, then I will be an enemy unto thine thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abienemies, and an adversary unto hu, and seventy of the elders of Isthine adversaries.

rael; and worship ye afar off. b 23 For mine Angel shall go be- 2 And Moses alone shall come fore thee, and bring thee in unto the near the LORD : but they shall not Amorites, and the Hittites, and the come nigh; neither shall the people Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and go up with him. the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and 8 3 1 And Moses came and told I will cut them off.

the people all the words of the LORD, p 24 Thou shalt not bow down to and all the judgments: and all the their gods, nor serve them, nor do people answered with one voice, after their works: but thou shalt ut- and said, All the words which the terly overthrow them, and quite Lord hath said will we do. break down their images.

f 4 ff And Moses wrote all the d 25 And ye shall serve the LORD words of the LORD, and rose up your God, and he shall bless thy early in the morning, and builded bread, and thy water; and I will take an altar under the hill, and twelve sickness away from the midst of thee. pillars according to the twelve tribes b 26 There shall nothing cast their of Israel. young, nor be barren, in thy land : 1 5 And he sent young men of the the number of thy days I will fulfil. children of Israel, which offered b 27 I will send my fear before thee, burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peaceand will destroy all the people to offerings of oxen unto the LORD. whom thou shalt come, and I will 6.1 And Moses took half of the make all thine enemies turn their blood, and put it in basons, and half backs unto thee.

of the blood he sprinkled on the al28 And I will send hornets before tar. thee, which shall drive out the Hi- 17 And he took the book of the vite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite covenant, and read in the audience from before thee.

of the people: and they said, All b 29 I will not drive them out from that the LORD hath said will we do, before thee in one year, lest the and be obedient. land become desolate, and the beast t 8 And Moses took the blood, and of the field multiply against thee. sprinkled it on the people, and said,

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Behold the blood of the covenant, L 3 And this is the offering which which the Lord hath made with ye shall take of them; gold, and you concerning all these words. silver, and brass,

94 Then went up Moses, and 4 And blue, and purple, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and se- scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' venty of the elders of Israel : hair, v 10 And they saw the God of Is- 5 And rams' skins dyed red, and rael : and there was under his feet badgers' skins, and shiitim-wood, as it were a paved work of a sap- 6 Oil for the light, spices for phire-stone, and as it were the body anointing oil, and for sweet incense, of heaven in his clearness.

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be 11 And upon the nobles of the set in the ephod, and in the breastchildren of Israel he laid not his plate. hand: also they saw God, and did a 8 And let them make me a sanceat and drink.

tuary; that I may dwell among 12 And the LORD said unto them. Moses, Come up to me into the d 9 According to all that I shew mount, and be there: and I will thee, after the pattern of the tabernagive thee tables of stone, and a law, cle, and the pattern of all the inand commandments which I have struments thereof, even so shall ye written ; that thou mayest teach them. make it.

f 13 And Moses rose up, and his L 10 And they shall make an ark minister Joshua: and Moses went of shittim-wood two cubits and a up into the mount of God.

half shall be the length thereof, and 14 | And he said unto the elders, a cubit and a half the breadth thereTarry ye here for us, until we come of, and a cubit and a half the height again unto you : and behold, Aaron thereof. and Hur are with you : if any man 11 And thou shalt overlay it with have any matters to do, let him pure gold, within and without shalt come unto them.

ihou overlay it, and shalt make upf 15 And Moses went up into on it a crown of gold round about. the mount, and a cloud covered the 12 And thou shalt cast four rings mount.

of gold for it, and put them in the 16 And the glory of the LORD four corners thereof'; and two rings abode upon mount Sinai, and the shall be in the one side of it, and two cloud covered it six days : and the rings in the other side of it. seventh day be called unto Moses 13 And thou shalt make staves of out of the midst of the cloud. shittim-wood, and overlay them with $ 17 And the sight of the glory of gold. the LORD was like devouring fire 14 And thou shalt put the staves on the top of the mount in the eyes into the rings by the sides of the ark, of the children of Israel.

that the ark may be borne with m 18 And Moses went into the them. midst of the cloud, and gat bim up 15 The staves shall be in the rings into the mount: and Moses was in of the ark: they shall not be taken the mount forty days and forty nights. from it. CHAP. XXV.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark A e key ingen spake unto Mo-thee testimony which I shall give ses, saying,

. d 2 Speak unto the children of Is- 17 And thou shalt make a mer. rael, that they bring me an offering : cy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and of every man that giveth it willingly a half shall be the length thereof, and with his heart ye shall take of-) a cubit and a half the breadth therefering