Of false witness.

Before CHRIST 1451.

k ch. 27. 17.
Job 21. 2.

Prov. 22. 28.
Hos. 5. 10.

1 Num. 35. 30. ch. 17. 6. Matt. 18. 16. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13, 1. 1 Tim. 5. 19. Heb. 10. 28.

m Pe 27. 12. & 35. 11. Or, falling away.

innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Laws to be observed in war.

die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand a ch. 17. 9. & before the LORD, "before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

21. 5.

o Prov.19 5,9. Dan: 6. 24.

peh. 13 5 & 17.7. & 21. 21, & 22. 21, 21 & 24 7.

18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

20 And those which remain shall ch 17. 13 & hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among

21. 21.

a See Pe. 20.7.

Ls. 31. 1.

Num. 23.21.

ch. 3L 6, 8
2 Chr. 13. 12.
& 32. 7. 8.

+ Heb. be tender. + Heb. make haste.

CHAPTER XX.

1 The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle. 5 The officers' proclamation who are to be dismissed from the war. 10 How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace. 16 What cities must be devoted. 19 Trees of man's meat must not be destroyed in the sicge..

out battle

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+ Hob, made it common: Bee Lov. 19. 23, 24 eh. 28. 30.

7 "And what man is there that hathe ch. 24. 5. betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, f What man is there that is fear-fJudg. 7. 3. ful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

107 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

a horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is bwith thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest I shall approach and speak unto the people,

3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for Josh. 23. 10. you against your enemies, to save you.

which are not of the cities of these nations.

iJosh. 8. 2.

+ Heb. spoil. kJosh. 22. 8.

35. & 83. 52. ch, 7, 1, 2. Josh, IL. 14.

16 But of the cities of these people, 1Num.21.2,3, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

12. 30, 31. &

18. 9.

18 That they teach you not to do mch. 7. 4. & after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD a Ex. 23. 83. your God.

19 T When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy Or, for, O the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is siege.

man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the

F one be found slain in the land

thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley.

A rebellious son to be stoned.
Before

her captivity from off her, and shall
remain in thine house, and fbewail CHRIST
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her father and her mother a full
month: and after that thou shalt go see Pa.45.10.
in unto her, and be her husband,
and she shall be thy wife.

14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

15 T If a man have two wives, one beloved, band another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the was hated:

16 Then it shall be, i when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Gen. 34. 2.

ch, 22. 29. Judg. 19. 24. Gen. 29. 83.

il Chr. 5 2.& 26. 10.

2 Chr. 11. 19, 22.

1.

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, k by Seol Chr. 5. giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

+ Heb. that is found with him.

1 Gen. 49. 3. m Gen. 25.31,

18 T If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey 33. the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

the

6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, d and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and † pare her nails;

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: "so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

nch. 13, 5. & 19, 19, 20 & 22. 21. 24.

och. 13. 11. pch. 19. 6. &

22. 26. Acts 23 29.& 25, 11, 25, & 26. 31.

22 T And if a man have committed a sin P worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang hima Josh. 8. 21. on a tree:

23 9 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is faccursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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CHAPTER XXII.

of humanity toward brethren. 5 The

sex is to be distinguished by apparel. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her young ones. 8 The house must have battlements. 9 Confusion is to be avoided. 12 Fringes upon the vesture. 13 The punishment of him that slandereth his wife. 20, 22 Of adultery, 25 of rape, 28 and of fornication. 30 Incest.

& 10. 26, 27, John 19. 21. r Gal. 3. 13. + Heb. the curse of God: See Num. 25. 4. 2 Sam, 21. 6. ■Lev. 18 25, Num. 35. 34

ox or his sheep go astray, and

The punishment of him

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bEL 23, &

2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. 4Tb Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6 T If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, Lev. 22. 23. thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

1 ch. 4. 40.

Lev. 19. 19. + Heb, ful ness of thy scal.

1 See 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16. Lev. 19. 19,

hNum.15.38. Matt, 23, 5.

7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; d that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 T When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. 10 T Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

11 T Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

12 T Thou shalt make thee bfringes upon the four quarters of thy vestHeb. wings. ure, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 T If any man take a wife, and igo in unto her, and hate her,

1 Gen. 29. 21. Judg. 15. 1.

14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's

20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

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21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath k wrought folly in Gen. 34.7. Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: Iso shalt thou put evil away from among you.

22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

23 T If a damsel that is a virgin be "betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath "humbled his neighbour's wife: Pso thou shalt put away evil from among you.

25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a nan riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

Judg. 20, 6,

10.

2 Sam. 13, 12, 13,

Ich. 13. 5.

m Lev. 20.10.

John 8. 5.

n Matt. 1. 18, 19.

och. 21. 14. ver. 21, 22,

I Or, take strong hold of her,

2 Sam, 13.11.

28 T 4 If a man find a damsel that is Ex.22.16,17. a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30TA man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

CHAPTER XXIII.

1 Who may or may not enter into the congregation. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the host. 15 Of the fugitive servant. 17 Of filthiness. 18 of abominable sacrifices. 19 of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of trespasses.

r ver. 21.

Lev. 18 8. & 20. 11. ch. 27. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 1. t See Ruth 3. 9.

Es. 16. 8.

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a Neh. 13.1,2,

b See ch.2.29.

E that is wounded in the stones, H or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 b Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; e Num. 22, 5, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

6.

d Ezra, 9. 12. + Heb. good.

5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 d Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their † prosperity all thy days for

ever.

7 T Thou shalt not abhor an Edomfor he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

e Gen. 25. 24, ite; 25, 26. Obail, 10, 12. f Ex. 22. 21. & 23.9.

Lev. 19, 34. ch. 10. 19.

g Lev. 15. 16.

† Hob, turneth toward. h Lev. 15. 5.

† Heb, sittest down.

i Lev. 26. 12.

8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third gencration.

9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

10 TIf there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

11 But it shall be, when evening + cometh on, h he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

14 For the LORD thy God i walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy that he see no tunclean nakedness of thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

† Heb.

any thing.

k 18am.30.15.

15 Tk Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where

and ordinances.

19 T Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 20 FUnto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 21 When thou shalt vow a vowr Num. 30. 2. unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt Ecc, 5, 4, 5. not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thec.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

24 T When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

CHAPTER XXIV.

■ Num. 30. 2. P. 66. 13, 14.

t Matt. 12. 1. Mark 2. 23. Luke 6. 1.

& 19. 7. Mark 10. 4.

1 of divorce. 5 A new married man goeth not to war. 6, 10 Of pledges. 7 of manstealers. 8 Of leprosy. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 Of justice. 19 of charity. Wand married her, and it come WHEN a man hath taken a wife, Matt. 5, 31. to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of † divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

8 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Heb. matter of nakedness.

+ Heb. cutting off.

4 b Her former husband, which sent bJer. 3. 1. her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause

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ech. 20. 7.

ance.

↑ Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him.

d Prov. 5. 18.

e Ex. 21. 16.

fch. 19. 19.

8 Lev. 13. 2. & 14. 2.

h See Luke17. 32.

1 Cor. 10. 6. iNum. 12. 10.

1490.

↑ Heb. lend the loan of any thing to, ta.

k Ex. 22. 26.

1 Job 29.11,13. & 31. 20. 2 Cor. 9. 13. 2 Tim. 1. 18, m ch. 6. 25.

112. 9.

5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, fneither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall d cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; fand thou shalt put evil away from among you.

8 T Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

9h Remember what the LORD thy God did iunto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 k In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and mit shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

14 T Thou shalt not "oppress a Ps. 106. 31.& hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Dan. 4. 27. n Mal. 3. 5.

o Lev. 19. 13. Jer. 22, 13. James 5, 4.

15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and +Heb. liftethsetteth his heart upon it: Plest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

his soul unto it,

Ps. 25. 1. &
80. 4.

p James 5. 4.

16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall 92 Kin. 14. 6. the children be put to death for the fathers every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Chr. 25. 4. Jer. 31. 29, 30.

EL, 18. 20.

rEx. 22,21,22. Prov. 22. 22.

Is. 1. 23.

Jer. 5. 28, &

22.3.
Es. 22. 29.
Zech. 7. 10.
Mal, 3. 5.

* Ex. 22. 28.

t ver. 22. cli. 16. 12.

& 23, 22.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19 T "When thou cuttest down thine Lev. 19,9,10. harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for

4 T Thou shalt not muzzle the oxg Prov. 12. 10. when he † treadeth out the corn. 1 Cor. 9. 9. 1 Tim. 5, 18. 5 TbIf brethren dwell together, and + Heb. one of them die, and have no child, thresheth, the wife of the dead shall not marry Hos. 10. 11. without unto a stranger: her hus-h band's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his broth-Or, next er's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, "I like not m Ruth 4. 6. to take her;

9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and "loose his shoe from off his n Ruth 4.7. foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build o Ruth 4. 11. up his brother's house.