The Levites' portion. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. 1 ch. 5. 32. 1 Kings15.5. a Num. 18. 20. & 26. 62. ch. 10. 9. DEUTERONOMY, XVIII. Christ the true Prophet. words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he i turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 The Lord is the priests' and Levites' inheritance. 3 The priest's due. 6 The Levite's portion. 9 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The presumptuous prophet is to die. THE HE priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, a shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD i'Cor. 9. 13. made by fire, and his inheritance. b Num. 18. 8, 9. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 ¶ And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or Lev. 7.30 sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. -34. d Ex. 22. 29. с 4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, Num. 18.12, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. • Ex. 28. 1. fch. 10. 8. & 17. 12. 5 For the LORD thy God hath Num. 3. 10. chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the 12 Chr.31.2. name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 Num. 35. 2, 3. h ch. 12. 5. k2 Chr.31.4. h 8 They shall have like portions Neh. 12. 44, to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 47. 2 Heb. his sales by the fathers. 9 ¶ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth 1 Lev. 18.26, thee,' thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 27, 30. ch. 12. 29, 30, 31. m Lev.18.21. ch. 12. 31. n Lev. 19. 26, 31. & 20. 27. Is. 8. 19. • Lev. 20.27. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, n 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or CHAPTER XIX. 1 The cities of refuge. 4 The privilege thereof for the manslayer. 14 The landmark is not to be removed. 15 Two witnesses at the least. 16 The punishment of a false witness. W cut off the nations, whose land HEN the LORD thy God hath ch. 12. 29. the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, 4 Heb. in heriteat, or, possessest. b Ex. 21.18. Num.35.10, Josh. 20. 2. 14. The cities of refuge. (Josh. 20. 8 Ex. 21.12, &c. Num. 35. 16, 24. DEUTERONOMY, XX. which the LORD thy God giveth thee 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, 4 T And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not 2 in time past; 5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and 'lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: 4 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and 'slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in Of a false witness. CHRIST 1451. 15 'One witness shall not rise up BEFORE 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 m 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 before the LORD, "before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 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 P shalt thou put the evil away from among you. q 20 And those which remain shall 21 And thine eye shall not pity; CHAPTER XX. 1 The priest's exhortation to encourage the his ways; then shalt thou add three WHEN thou goest out to battle cities more for thee, beside these against thine enemies, and seesta horses, and chariots, and a 10 That innocent blood be not people more than thou, be not afraid shed in thy land, which the LORD of them: for the LORD thy God is thy God giveth thee for an inherit-with thee, which brought thee up ance, and so blood be upon thee. out of the land of Egypt. 11 ¶ But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite Prov. 23. 17. him & mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: ch. 27. 24. 8 Heb. in life. à ch. 13. 8. & 25. 12. 1 Num. 35. 83, 34. ch. 21. 9. 1 Kings 2. 31. * ch. 27. 17. Job 24. 2. Hos. 5. 10. 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he die. may 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of Prov. 22. 28. old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest 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 dos Heb. terrified not tremble, neither be ye because of them; 4 3 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not a dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he be tender. ch. 1. 30. Josh. 23.10. & 3. 22. The officers' proclamation. DEUTERONOMY, XXI. Of uncertain murder. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. 2 Heb. made it common. die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet 2 eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in See Lev. 19. the battle, and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is there that hath 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. 23, 24. ch. 28. 30. • ch. 24. 5. 8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his 3 Heb. melt. brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. in the Heb. to be head of the people. g 2 Sam. 20. 18, 20. b Num. 31. 7. i Josh. 8. 2. 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. 10 ¶ 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: 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, bthou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, 5 Heb.spoil. shalt thou 5 take unto thyself; and kthou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. kJosh.22.8. n they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God. 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (2 for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege : 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. CHAPTER XXI. 1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 10 The usage of a captive taken to wife. 15 The firstborn is not to be disinherited upon private affection. 18 A stubborn son is to be stoned to death. 22 The malefactor must not hang all night on a tree. F one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth 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 an 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: 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood Jonah 1. unto thy people of Israel's charge. Heb. in And the blood shall be forgiven them. the midst. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt⚫ ch. 19. 13. The usage of a captive. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. DEUTERONOMY, XXII. 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 Or, suffer her head, and 23 pare her nails; to grow. 8 Heb. make, or, dress. 10. 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and See Ps. 45. shall remain in thine house, and 'bewail her father and her mother a full month and after that thou shalt go 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 Gen. 34. 2. her, because thou hast humbled her. ch. 22. 29. Judg. 19.24. b Gen. 29. 33. 11 Chr. 5. 2. & 26. 10. 2 Chr. 11. 19, 22. See 1 Chr. 5.1. 4 Heb. that is found with him. 1 Gen. 49. 3. m Gen. 25. 31, 33. 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be her's that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, 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: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, *by 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. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: Of humanity. "so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 ¶ And if a man have committed a sin Pworthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thoup 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 he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. n ch. 13. 5. & 19. 19, 20. & 22. 21, 24. ch. 19. 6. o ch. 13. 11. & 22. 26. Acts 23. 29. & 25. 11, 25. & 26. 31. q Josh. 8.29. &10. 26, 27. John 19. 31. r Gal. 3. 13. 2 Heb. the God curse of See Num. 25. 4. 2 Sam. 21.6. Lev. 18. 25. Num. 35.34. T HOU shalt not see thy brother's Ex. 23. 4. ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. 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 thing 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 bro-Ex. 23. 5. ther'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 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, thou shalt not take the dam •Lev. 22.23. with the young: с 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, ach. 4. 40. 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 bring 1 Punishment of a slanderer. DEUTERONOMY, XXIII. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. 12 ¶ Thou shalt make thee1 fringes Matt. 23. 5. upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If any man take a wife, and 1 Gen. 29.21. go in unto her, and hate her, 3 Heb. wings. Judg. 15. 1. 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, 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 virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing 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 die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: 'so shalt thou put evil away from among you. m 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an 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. Of adultery, rape, &c. 23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin be "betrothed unto an 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: P so 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 man 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. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. a Matt. 1. 18, 19. ch. 21. 14. Pver. 21, 22 Or, take of her. strong hold 28am 18.14. 17. 28 If a man find a damsel that Ex. 22. 16, is 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 ver. 24. humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 1 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. CHAPTER XXIII. Who may or may not enter into the congreEation. 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. that is his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. E is wounded in the stones, 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. s Lev. 18.8. & 20. 11. ch. 27. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 1. See Ruth 3.9. Ezek. 16. 8. 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 Because they met you not with See ch. 2. bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Num. 22. Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God 29. 5, 6. |