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SIT Regard not them that have familiar death: they have wrought confusion ther spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be de- blood shall be upon thein.

filed by them: am the LORD your God.

33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

139 If a man also lie with mankind, as he 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary lieth with a woman. both of them have combezd, and honour the face of the old man, mitted an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. and fear thy God: I am the LORD. 14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with with fire, both he and they; that there be you shall be unto you as one born among no wickedness among you. 15 And if a man le with a beast, he shall you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the the LORD your God.

beast.

55 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judg- 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, ment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure. and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the wo 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, man and the beast: they shall surely be put and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD to death: their blood shall be upon them. 17 And if a man shall take his sister, his your God, which brought you out of the father's daughter or his mother's daughter, land of Egypt. 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my sta-and see her nakedness, and she see his na tutes, and all my judgments, and do them: kedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he I am the LORD. hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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CHAP. XX.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman 2 Again. thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of having her sickness, and shall uncover her Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Is-nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, rael, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her ne shall surely be put to death: the people blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. of the land shali stone him with stones. 19 And thou shalt not uncover the naked 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people;ness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's because he hath given of his seed unto Mo- sister; for he uncovereth his near kin they lech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane shall bear their iniquity. ny holy name.

4 And if the people of the land do any says hide their eyes from the man, when e giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill im not;

5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, aad will cut him off, und all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredoin with Molech, from among their people.

6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring 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.

3 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: be hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin: they shall die childless.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be childless.

22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither 1 bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you : for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

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25 Ye shall therefore put difference be tween clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall 109 And the man that committeth adul-aot make your souis abominable by beast, tery with another man's wife, even he that or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing committeth adultery with his neighbour's that creepeth on the ground, which wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall separated from you as unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me. for 1 surely be put to death. 11 And the man that lieth with his father's the LORD am holy, and have severed you wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: from other people, that ye should be mine. 27 ¶ A man also, or woman, that hath a both of them shall surely be put to death; familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall suretheir blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter-ly be put to death; they shall stone them n-law, both of them shall surely be put to with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

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CHAP. XXI.

21 No man that hath a plemish of the seed ND the LORD said unto Moses, Speak of Aaron the priest shal! come nigh to offer

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say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

2 But for his kin that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

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 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh hath a blemish; that he profane not my sancunto him, which hath had no husband; fortuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. her may he be defiled. 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to

4 But he shall not defile himself, being a his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. chief man among his people, to profane

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CHAP. XXII.

5 They shall not make baldness upon their AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons,

head, neither shall they shave off the corner that they separate themselves from the holy of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

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 shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither sha!! they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

8 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.

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. 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed, among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue, be shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And wheso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

91 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 6 The soul which hath touched any such his brethren, upon whose head the anoint-shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat ing oil was poured, and that is consecrated of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh to put on the garments, shall not uncover his with water. head, nor rend his clothes;

11 Neither shali he go in to ary dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

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 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctua-with beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himry, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; self therewith: I am the LORD. for the crown of the anointing oil of his God 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordi is upon him: I am the LORD. nance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

131 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an 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 ang 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 broken-handed,

20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken.

10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an 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 offer. ing of the holy things.

13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow or divorced, and have no child, and is re turned unto her father's Louse, 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, wnich they LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy 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,

convocations, even these are my feasts.

3 Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings 4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in unto all the children of Israel, and say unto their seasous. them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Is- 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month rael, or of the strangers in Israel, that will at even is the LORD's passover.

offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same Dis free-will-offerings, which they will offer month is the feast of unleavened bread unto unto the LORD for a burnt-offering; the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleaven

19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male ed bread. without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep,] or of the goats.

7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work therein 8 But ye shall offer an offering inade by

20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer; for it shall not be accept-fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh able for you.

day is an holy convocation; ye shall do no 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of servile work therein. peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomplish 9¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, his vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves or 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there say unto them, When ye be come into the shall be no blemish therein. land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest ;

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.

11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the mor 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath row after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. any thing superfluous or lacking in his pars, 12 And ye shall offer that day, when ye wave that mayest thou offer for a free-will-offer- the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish, of the ing; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. first year, for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 21 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that 13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or two tenth-deals of fine flour niingled with, oil, cut; neither shall ye inake any offering there- an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a of in your land. sweet savour; and the drink-offering thereof 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. offer the bread of your God of any of those; 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parch because their corruption is in them, and ble-ed corn, nor green ears, until the self-same mishes be in them: they shall not be accepted day that ye have brought an offering unto your God it shall be a statute for ever through

for you.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses,out your generations in all your dwellings. saying,

27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an ffering made by fire unto the LORD. 23 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 29 And when ye 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 leave none of it until the morrow I am the LORD.

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering: seven sabbaths shall be complete :

16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the first-fruits unto the LORD.

13 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall 31 Therefore shall ye keep my command-be for a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with ments, and do them: I am the LORD. their meat-offering, and their drink-offer32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name;ings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet but I will be hallowed among the children of savour unto the LORD. Israel; I am the LORD which hallow you, 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.

CHAP. XXIII.

19 Then shall sacrifice one kid of the ye goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, 20 And the priest shall wave them, with AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave of 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and fering before the LORD, with the two lambs say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest

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21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh day, that it may be an holy convocation un-month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of to you: ye shall do no servile work there-the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD in: it shall be a statute for ever in all your seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, dwellings, throughout your generations. and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

22 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your 40 And ye shall take you on the first day land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the the boughs of goodly trees, breuches of corners of dry field when chou reapest. uei.her palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest and willows of the brook; and ye shall rethou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the joice before the LORD your God seven stranger: I am the LORD your God. days.

23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh mouth, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh

month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall no be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall atflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shuil be a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days, all that are Israelites born shal! 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 childrer of Isracl the feasts of the LORD.

CHAP. XXIV.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to buri continually.

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 LORD continually it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

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 thou shalt set them in two rows, six en a row.upon the pure table before the LORD.

7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order be 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, say-fore the LORD continually, being taken from ing, The fifteenth day of this seventh month the children of Israel by an everlasting, shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven covenant. days unto the LORD.

9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; an

35 On the first day shall be an holy convo-they shall eat it in the holy place: for it ia cation; ye shall do no servile work therein.

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD; on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

101 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

37 These are the feasts of the LORD, 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blas. which ye shall proclaim to be holy convoca-phemed the name of the LORD, and cursed, tions, to offer an offering made by fire unto And they brought him unto Moses, (and his the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-of-mother's naine was Shelomich, the daughter fering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, every of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan ;) thing upon his day;

38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your tree-will-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

14 Bring forth him that hath cursed with

at the camp, and let all that heard him lay and proclaim liberty throughout all the inad their hands upon his head, and let all the unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a ongregation stone him. jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children man unto his possession, and ye shall return Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God every man unto his family. hall bear his sin. 1 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be un16 And he that blasphemeth the name of to you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that the LORD, he shall surely be pat to death, which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the and all the congregation shall certainly stone grapes in it of thy vine undressed. him as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. 17¶ And he that killeth any man shall urely be put to death.

13 And ne that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

14¶ And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.

15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth and according unto the number of years of for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a the fruits he shall sell unto thee, man, so shall it be done to him again.

16 According to the multitude of years theu

21. And be that killeth a beast, he shall re-shalt increase the price thereof and according store it; and he that killeth a man, he shall to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the be phi to death. price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits dota he sell unto thee.

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own Country: for I am the LORD your God.

17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God for I am

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18¶ Wherefore ve shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them, ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

23 And Moses spake unto the caudren of the LORD your God. Israel, that they should bring forth nim that hud cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

CHAP. XXV.

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2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye coine 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.

5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

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,

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof

be meat.

89 And then shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

19 And the land shail vield 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? belold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

21 Then I will command my blessing up. on you in the sixth year, and it shall Bring forth fruit for three years.

22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

93 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

21 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 1 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if en of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

26 And if the man have none to redeem it; and himself be able to redeem it;

27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it, that he may returs unto his possession.

28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that bath bought it until the year of jubilee and in the jubilee it shall go out, 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of and he shall return unto his possession. the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the 29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house In seventh month; in the day of atonement a walled city, then he may redeem it within shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout a whole year after it is sold: within a full all your land. year may he redcem it.

10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,

30 And if it be not redeemed within the

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