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space of a full year, then the house that is in again; one of his brethren may redeem him. the walled city shall be established for ever to 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son,maj him that bought it, throughout his genera- redeem hin, or any that is nigh of kin unt tions: it shall not go out in the jubilee. him of his family may redeem him; or if he 31 But the houses of the villages.which have be able, he may redeem himself. no walls round about them, shall be courted| 50 And he shall reckon with him that as the fields of the country; they may be re-bought him, from the year that he was sold deemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. to him, unto the year of jubilee: and the 32 No withstanding the cities of the Le- price of his sale shall be according unto the vites, and the houses of the cities of their pos-number of years; according to the time of an session, may the Levites redeem at any time. hired servant shall it be with him.

33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, 51 If there be yet many years behind, acthen the house that was sold, and the city of cording unto them he shall give again the his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: price of his redemption out of the money that for the houses of the cities of the Levites are he was bought for.

their possession among the children of Israel. 52 And if there remain but few years unto 34 But the field of the suburbs of their the year of jubilee, then he shall count with cities may not be sold; for it is their perpe-him, and according unto his years shall he tual possession. give him again the price of his reden.ption.

35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him; yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 56 Take thou no usury of him, or increase but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him and the other shall not rule with rigour over him .n thy sight.

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54 And if he be not redeemed in these t years, then he shall go out in the year of ju- | bilee, both he, and his children with him.'

55 For unto me the children of Israel are 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon servants; they are my servants, whom I usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. brought forth out of the land of Egypt : I am 33 I am the LORD your God, which brought the LORD your God. yeu forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

CHAP. XXVI.

39 1 And if thy brother that divelleth by shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee;image, neither shall ye set up any image of thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-stone in your land, to bow down unto it for I am the LORD your God.

servant:

40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee:

41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond-men.

43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but shak fear thy God.

41 Both thy bond-men and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids.

45 Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them hall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession:

46 And ye shall take them as an inheritunce for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock! of the stranger's family:

48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed

2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and rever ence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5 And your thrashing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6 An11 will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid and I will ridevil beasts out of the land, nei ther shall the sword go through your land.

7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

& And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thou sand to flight and your enemies sha!l fall before you by the sword.

9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 And I will walk among you, and wil be your God, and ye shall be my people. 131 am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men; and i have

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broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abbor my judgments, so that ye will not do all any commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption,and the burning ague,that shall consume the eyes and rause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your jeed in vain for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken) ante me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.

33 And I will scatter you among the hea then, and will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shali have no power to stand before your enemies.

33 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine

20 And your strength shall be spent in
rain for your land shall not yield her in-away in their iniquity in your eneinies' lands;
rease neither shall the trees of the land and also in the iniquities of their fathers shal
field their fruits.
they pine away with them.

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; will bring seven imes more plagues upon you, according to Four sins.

40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against ine, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 221 will also send wild beasts among you, 41 And that I also have walked contrary which shall rob you of your children, and de- unto them, and have brought them into the troy your cattle, and make you few in num-and of their enemies; if then their uncirber; and your high-ways shall be desolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by hese things but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will also walk contrary unto ou, and will punish you yet seven times for Jour sins.

cumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;

42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that 43 The land also shall be eft of them, and shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth deso And when ye are gathered together within late without them and wey shall accept of your cities, I will send the pestilence among the punishment of their iniquity; because, you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

of the enemy.

26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in cae oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satished.

27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fary; and 1, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with taem: for I am the LORD their God.

45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

Ani ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, 46 These are the statutes, and judgments, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat, and laws, which the LORD made between O And I will destroy your high places, and him and the children of Israel in mount Sicut down your images, and cast your car-uai, by the hand of Moses. cares upon the carcases of your idois, and my soul shall abhor you.

CHAP. XXVII.

31 And I will make your cities waste, and AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I and say unto them, When a man shall make will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. a singular vow, the persors shall be for the 32 And I will bring the land into desola-LORD by thy estimation. tion; and your enemies which dwell therein 3 And thy estimation shall be of the male all be astonished at it. ¡from twenty years old even unto sixty years

old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels
of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
4 And if it be a female, then diy estimation
thall be thirty shekels.

5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

19 And if he that sanctified the field will m any vise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation uuto it, and it shall be assured to him.

20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

21 But the field, when it goeth out in the 6 And if it be from a month old even unto jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a ve years old, then thy estimation shall beffield devoted: the possession thereof shall of the inale five shekels of silver, and for the be the priest's. fer ale thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

7 And if it be from sixty years old and above. if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fif teen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of Is possession;

23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the 3 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, year of the jubilee; and he shall give thine then he shall present himself before the estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto priest, and the priest shall value him; ac-the LORD. cording to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

91 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 19 He shall not alter it, nor change it. a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

12 And the priest shail value it, whether it he good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.

13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

14 And when a man shall sanctify his Aouse to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstiing, no mau shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep: it is the LORD'S.

27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or it it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation

28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the LORD, of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether the money of thy estimation unto it, and it of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the shall be his. tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought LORD some part of a field of his possession, of his tithes he shall add thereto the fifth then thy estimation shall be according to the part thereof. seed thereof: an homer of barley-seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under 17 If he sanctify his field from the year the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD, of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand

33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall ne change it: and if he 18 But if he sanctify his field after the ju-change it at all, then both it and the cuange bilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. the money according to the years that re- 34 These are the commandments, which main, even unto the year of the jubilee, and the LORD commanded Moses, for the clul it shall be abated from thy estimation. dren of Israel, in mount Sinai.

The Fourth Book of Moses, called NUMBERS.

CHAP. I.

after they were come out of the land of

Ahe Wildross sake, in
ND the LORD spake unto Moses in Egypt, saying,

Take ye the sum of all the congrega

nacle of the congregation, on the first day tion of the children of Israel, after their f the second month, in the second year families, by the house of thei. fathers, with

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CHAP. 1.

the number of their names, every male by their poils;

erations, after their families, ny the house
[of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and up-
ward, all that were able to go forth to war;
27 Those that were numbered of them,

3 From twenty years old and upward,all that
are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and
Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4 And with you there shall be a man of even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore
wery tribe; every one head of the house of and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
28 Of the children of Issachar, by their
his fathers.
55 And these are the names of the men generations, after their families, by the house
that shall stand with you Of the tribe of of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and up-
Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zuri-ward, all that were able to go forth to war; 29 Those that were numbered of them, even daddai. 7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Ammina-of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. dab.

301 Of the children of Zebulun, by their 2 Of Issachar; Nethancel the son of Zuer. generations, after their families, by the house 9 Of Zebubia; Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; of their fathers, according to the number of Elishama the son of Ammibud: of Manas-the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; eh; Gamaliel the son of Pedalizur. 31 Those that were numbered of thein,

11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of Dan; Áhiezer the son of Ammi-even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. haddai.

13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran. 14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, beads of thousands in Israel..

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

32¶ Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fa thers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

33 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

18 And they assembled all the congregation 34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their generations, after their families, by the house families, by the house of their fathers, accord-of their fathers, according to the number of ing to the number of the naines, from twenty the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; years old and upward, by their polls. 35 Those that were numbered of them, 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty 20 T And the children of Reuben, Israel's and two thousand and two hundred. 36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, ac-generations, after their families, by the house cording to the number of the names, by of their fathers, according to the number of their polls, every male from twenty years old the names, from twenty years old and upand upward, all that were able to go forth ward, all that were able to go forth to war:

to war;

21 Those that were numbered of them, en of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and ax thousand and five hundred.

37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

33 Of the children of Dan, by their ge22% Of the children of Simeon, by their nerations, after their families, by the house generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of of their fathers, those that were numbered the names, from twenty years old and upof them, according to the number of the ward, all that were able to go forth to war, names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number o 24 Of the children of Gad, by their ge-the names, from twenty years old and upnerations, after their families, by the house ward, all that were able to go forth to war; 41 Those that were numbered of them, of their fathers, according to the number of

the names, from twenty years old and up-eren of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. wad, all that were able to go forth to war; 12 Of the children of Naphtali, through25 Those that were numbered of them, ren of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five out their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the thousand six hundred and fifty. I 2 261 Of the zhildren of Judah, by their gen-number of the names, from twenty years old

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and upward, all that were able to go forth to bered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

war;

43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

44¶These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve inen: each one was for the house of his fathers.

7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the chil

dren of Zebulun.

8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

9 Ali that were numbered in the camp of 45 So were all those that were numbered of Judah were an hundred thousand, and fourthe children of Israel, by the house of their score thousand, and six thousand and four fathers, from twenty years old and upward. hundred, throughout their armies: these shall all that were able to go forth to war in Israel: first set forth.

10 On the south side shall be the standard

46 Even all they that were numbered, were six hundred thousand, and turee thousand, of the camp of Reuben, according to their and five hundred and fifty. armies: and the captain of the children o Reuben shail be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

47 But the Levites, after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

43 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, Baying,

49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel;

12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Sheluiniel the son of Zurishaddai.

50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all 13 And his host, and those that were numthe vessels thereof, and over all things that bered of them, were fifty and nine thousand belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and three hundred.

and all the vessels thereof; and they shall 14 Thea the tribe of Gad: and the captain minister unto it, and shall encamp round of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son about the tabernacle. of Reuel.

51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand, and 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch fifty and one thousand, and four hundred and their tents, every man by his own camp, and fifty, throughout their armies: and they shall every man by his own standard, throughout set forth in the second rank. 17 ¶ Then the tabernacle of the congrega

their hosts.

53 But the Levites shall pitch round about tion shall set forward, with the camp of the the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no Levites in the midst of the camp: as they wrath upon the congregation of the children encamp, so shall they set forward, every man of Israel and the Levites shall keep the in his place, by their standards. charge of the tabernacle of testimony. 181 On the west side shall be the standard 54 And the children of Israel did accord-of the camp of Ephraim, according to their ing to all that the LORD commanded Moses, annies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim so did they. shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19 And his host, and those that were nunhundred.

CHAP. II.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, and un-bered of them, were forty thousand and five

to Aarón, saying,

2 Every man of the children of Israel shall 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manas. pitch by his own standard, with the ensign seh: and the captain of the children of Manasof their father's house: far off about the seh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedalizur. tabernacle of the congregation shall they 21 And his host, and those that were numpitch. bered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

3 And on the east side, toward the rising of the sun, shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch, throughout their armies: and Nalishion the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

23 And his host, and those that were num

4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand bered of them, were threescore and fourteen and four hundred. thousand and six hundred.

24 All that were numbered of the camp 5 And those that do pitch next unto him of Ephrain were an hundred thousand, and shall be the tribe of Issachar and Nethaneel eight thousand and an hundred, throughout the son of Zuar shall be captain of the chil- their armies: and they shall go forward in the dren of Issachar. third rank.

6 And his host, and those that were num-!

25 The standard of the camp of Dau

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