so shalt thou remove evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 ¶ And if a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and thou shalt hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for a he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land may not be defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. CHAP. XXII. 1 Of humanity towards 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 Con fusion 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. HOU a shalt not see brother's ox 6 Before CHRIST, 1451. a Gal. 3. 13. Heb. the curse of God. 13 If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring 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 to the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hateth her, 17 And lo, he hath given occasions of Ex. 23. 4. speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. Heb. full. ness of thy seed. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in a This sheep go astray, and hide thy- Lev. 19. 19. hundred shekels of silver, and give them self from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again to thy brother. to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought an evil name upon a virgin may not put her away all his days. 2 And if thy brother shall not be nigh Num. 15.38. of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he to thee, or if thou shalt not know him, then thou shalt bring it to thy own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother shall 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. 4 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 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man, neither shall 2 Heb. wings. a man put on a woman's garment: for a Lev 20. 10. all that do so are abomination to the LORD thy God. 6 If a bird's nest shall chance to be before thee in the way on any tree, or on the ground, whether with young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayest not bring blood upon thy house, if any man shall fall from thence. 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the 1 fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, should be defiled. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together. e 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four 2 quarters of thy vesture, with which thou coverest thyself. 3 or, take strong hold of her. e Ex. 22. 16. 20 But if this thing shall be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: 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 may die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of lewdness in her father's house: so shalt thou remove evil from among you. 22 Td If a man shall 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 remove evil from Israel. 23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they may die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt remove evil from among you. 25 ¶ But if a man shall find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man 3 shall force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 But to the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, 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. 1 Who may or may not enter into the congrega. tion. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the host. 15 Of the fugitive servant. 17 Of 1451. among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it 5 pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no 6 harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of f Lev. 18. 8. the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog into the filthiness. 18 Of abominable sacrifices. 19 a Neh. 13. 1. house of the LORD thy God for any vow: Of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of trespasses. TE that is wounded or mutilated in 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 b Num. 22. for even both these are abomination to the LORD thy God. 19 T Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest: 20 To a stranger thou mayest lend 1 Heb. good. upon interest; but to thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thy hand to in the land whith shall they not enter into the congregation 2 Heb. turner thou goest to possess it. of the LORD for ever: eth toward. 4 Because thy met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth from Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of 3 Heb. sittest Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. down. 4 Heb. na. kedness of any thing. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten by them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation. 5 Heb. is him. 9¶ When the host goeth forth against good for thy enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 10 If there shall be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth to him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 6 or, sodom. Ex. 22. 25. 11 But it shall be, when evening 2cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: Ps. 15. 5. and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also with-d out the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon: and it shall be when thou Matt. 12. 1. 21 ¶ When thou shalt vow a vow to the LORD thy God, thou shalt not defer 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 thee. 23 That which is uttered by thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill-offering, according as thou hast vowed to the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. 24 ¶ When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest satisfy thy appetite with grapes at thy own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into the standing-corn of thy neighbor, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand: but thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing-corn. CHAP. XXIV. 1 Of divorce. 5 A new married man goeth not to war. 6, 10 Of pledges. 7 Of man. stealers. 8 of leprosy. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 Of justice. 19 Of charity. Wand married her, and it shall come HEN a a man hath taken a wife, to pass that she findeth no favor in his eyes, because he hath found 1 some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of 2 divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she hath departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband shall hate 3 wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig Matt. 5. 31. her, and write her a bill of divorcement, with it, and shalt turn back, and cover that which cometh from thee: 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he may see no 4 unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver to his mas ter the servant who hath escaped from cutting off LORD thy God giveth thee for an inher itance. his master to thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even bc. 20. 7. 5 ¶ When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, 3 neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a pledge. 7 If a man shall be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and shall make merchandise of him, or sell him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt remove evil from among you. 8 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. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did & to Miriam by the way, after that ye had come forth from Egypt. 10 When thou dost 4 lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge: 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to thee: 12 And if the man is poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness to thee before the LORD thy God. 6 Lev. 13. 2. & 14. 2. d Num. 12. 10. 4 Heb. lend the loan of any thing to, &c. Lev. 19. 13. 5 Heb. lifteth his soul to it. 6. 2 Kings 14. 2 Chr. 25. 4. Jer. 31. 29. 30. Ezek. 18. 20. Lev. 19. 9. & 23. 22. Heb. after thee. 14 T Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether a 2 Cor. 11. he is of thy brethren, or of thy strangers 24. that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At his day thou shalt give him b 1 Cor. 9. 9. his hire, neither shall the sun go down 1 Tim. 5. 18. upon it, for he is poor, and 5 setteth his heart upon it: lest he should cry against thee to the LORD, and it be sin to thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 ¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment for a pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou cuttest down thy 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 the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands. I Heb. thresheth. Matt. 22. 24. Mark 12. 19. Luke 20. 28. 2 or, next kinsman. 3or, next wife. kinsman's d Ruth 4. 7. 4 Heb. is to be blotted out. F there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile to thee. 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he 1 treadeth out the corn. 5 If brethren shall dwell together, and one of them shall die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her a husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not become extinct in Israel. 7 And if the man shall not like to take his 3 brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, d My husband's brother refuseth to raise up to 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 to him: and if he shall stand to it, and say, I like not to take her, 9 Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 ¶ When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband from the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, a stone and thy eye shall not pity her. a stone. 20 When thou beatest thy olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fa-5 Heb. an therless, and for the widow. ephah and 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of an ephah thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it 6 afterward it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." 13 T Thou shalt not have in thy bag 4 divers weights, a great and a small: 14 Thou shalt not have in thy house 5 divers measures, a great and a small: 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 3 The confession of him that offereth the basket of first-fruits. 12 The prayer of him that giveth his third year's tithes. 16 The covenant between God and the people. AND it shall be, when thou hast come in to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD thy God, that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before a c. 14. 28. the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down to Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried to the LORD God Is. 63. 13. of our fathers, the LORD heared our voice, and looked on our affiiction, and our labor, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders; 9 And he hath brought us into this c. 7. 6. place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me: and thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:" Il And thou shalt rejoice in every 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy increase the third year, which is a the year of tithing, and hast given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled: 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught of it for any unclean use, nor given aught of it for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast giv en us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 16 ¶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to perform these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice: CHAP. XXVII. 1 The people are commanded to write the law upon stones; 5 and to build an altar of whole stones. 11 The tribes divided on Gerizim and Ebal. 14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal. ND Moses with the elders of Israel A commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the day a when ye shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou hast passed over, that thou mayest enter in to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers good thing which the LORD thy God hatha Josh. 4. 1. hath promised thee. given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 4 Therefore it shall be when ye have gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar to the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer on it burnt-offerings to the LORD thy God. b Ex. 20. 25. 7 And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, Josh. 8.31. and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed and hearken, O Israel, this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day. 1 Heb. for a 25 & Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience. 15 The curses for disobedience. AND it shall come to pass, & if thou shalt hearken diligently to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day; that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit 11 ¶ And Moses charged the people Dan. 9. 11. of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye have come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the d Ezek. 22. and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy 1 store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy 2 store-houses, and in all that thou settest thy hand to and he shall bless thee in the land which the hands of the artificer, and putteth it in Gal. 3. 10. LORD thy God giveth thee. a secret place: and all the people shall answer, and say Amen. 9 The LORD shall establish thee a holy people to himself, as he hath sworn to 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by a Lev. 26. 3. thee, if thou shalt keep the commandhis father or his mother: and all the peo ple shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's land-mark: and all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen. or, 1or, dough, ments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And & the LORD shall make thee to abound 3 in goods, in the fruit of thy 4 body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land and widow: and all the people shall say, 2 or, barns. which the LORD swore to thy fathers to Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his fa give thee. 12 The LORD shall open to thee his ther's wife; because he uncovereth his c. 30. 9. &c. good treasure, the heaven to give rain to father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any 3 or, for manner of beast: and all the people good. shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt not bor row. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be sister, the daughter of his father, or the 4 Heb. belly. above only, and thou shalt not be be daughter of his mother: and all the peo ple shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly: and all the people shall say, cc. 15. 6. Amen. neath; if thou shalt hearken to the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. |