A repetition of LEVITICUS. sundry laws. my statutes, and all my judgments, them have committed an abomina- Before CHRIST and do them: I am the LORD. 1490. Before ach. 18. 2. bch. 18. 21. Deut. 12.31. & 18. 10. 2 Kings 17. 17. & 23. 10. 2 Chr. 33. 6. Jer. 7. 31. & 32. 35. Ez. 20. 26,31. ech. 17.10. CHAPTER XX. 1 Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech. 4 Of him that favoureth such a one. 6 Of going to wizards. 7 Of sanctifica tion. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adultery. 11, 14, 17, 19 Of incest. 13 Of sodomy. 15 Of bestiality. 18 Of uncleanness. 22 Obedience is required with holiness. 27 Wizards must be put to death. A ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2a Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, b Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to d Ez. 5. 11. & d defile my sanctuary, and to pro 23. 38, 39. e ch. 18. 21. f Deut. 17. 2, 3, 5. gch. 17. 10. h Ex. 20. 5. i ch. 17. 7. k ch. 19.31 1 ch. 11. 44. & 19. 2. 1 Pet. 1. 16. mch. 19. 37. n Ex. 31. 13. ch. 21. 8. Ez, 37. 28. o Ex. 21. 17. Deut. 27. 16. Prov. 20. 20. Matt. 15. 4. pver, 11, 12, 13, 16, 27. 2 Sam. 1. 16. 7 ch. 18. 20. Deut. 22. 22. John 8. 4, 5. rch. 18.8. fane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and skill him not; 5. Then I will set my face against that man, and bagainst his family, and will cut him off, and all that igo a whoring after him, to commit whoredom 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. 8m And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: "I am the LORD which sanctify you. 911° For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; "his blood shall be upon him. 10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 And the man that lieth with his Deut. 27. 23. father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. sch. 18. 15. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought u ch. 18. 22. confusion; their blood shall be upon them. tch, 18. 23. Deut. 23. 17. See Gen. 19. 5. Judg. 19. 22. 13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of 1490. tion: they shall surely be put to CHRIST 14 And if a man take a wife and if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. x ch. 18. 17. Deut. 27. 23. y ch. 18. 23. Deut. 27. 21. Deut. 27. 22. See Gen. 20. 12. 17 "And if a man shall take his zch. 18.9. sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 bAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; "for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. ach. 18. 19. Seech, 15.24. + Heb. made naked. bch. 18.12,13. cch. 18. 6. 20 dAnd if a man shall lie with his dch. 18. 14. 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 fan unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. 221 Ye shall therefore keep all my fstatutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, &spew you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But k 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 1 ver. 26. separated you from other people. 25 m Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that || creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the e LORD holy, and Phave Divers laws Before CHRIST 1400. q Ex. 22, 18. ch. 19. 91. Deut. 18. 10, 11. 1 Sam.28.7,8. rver, 9. a Ez, 44. 25. Or, being a husband among his people, he shall not de file himselffe &c. See Ez. 24.16, 17. b ch. 19.27,28, Deut. 14. 1. Ez. 44. 20. c ch. 18, 21, & 19. 12. d See ch. 3. 11. e Ez. 11. 22. fSee Deut. 21. 1, 2. LEVITICUS. and ordinances. AND the LORD said unto Moses, superfluous Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and 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, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But || he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5 b They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner 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 d 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 shall they take a woman fput 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: g ch. 20. 7, 8. he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. 11 Neither shall he mgo in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither shall he go out of the 13 And Phe shall take a wife in her 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, 15 Neither shall he profane his seed 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Before CHRIST 1490. q ver. 8. rch, 10.3. Num. 16. 5. Ps. 65. 4. [ Or, food, ch. 3. 11. Food sch. 22, 23. 20 Or crookbacked, or || a dwarf, or 21 No man that hath a blemish of 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. x ch. 2, 3, 10. & 6. 17, 29. & 7. 1. & 24.9. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the Num. 18.9. vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, CHAPTER XXII. 1 The priests in their uncleanness must AND the LORD spake unto Moses, k ch. 15.7.19. Divers laws Before CHRIST 1400. 1 eh, 15.5. Heb. 10, 22 m ch. 21. 22. Num. 18.11. 13. n Ex. 22. 31. ch. 17. 15. Ex. 41. 31. ο Εx. 28. 43. Num, 18. 23, 32 p See 1 Sam. 21. G. † Heh, with the purchase LEVITICUS. may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because mit is his food. 8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, "lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. 10 P There shall no stranger cat of the holy thing: ning: a sojourner of the priest, or a 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: of his money. I they shall eat of his meat. q Num. 18.11, 13. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto fa stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, 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, which they offer unto the LORD; 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: fo I the LORD do sanctify them. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, y Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; 192 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or || sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. and ordinances. bed, ye shall not offer these unto the Before LORD, nor make an offering by fire CHRIST of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock or a || lamb that hath any thing fsuperfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. 1490. ch. 1. 9. 13. & 3.3.5. 10r, kid. fch. 21. 18. 25 Neither from a stranger's hand & Num, 15. 15, shall ye offer the bread of your God 16. of any of these; because their i cor-hch. 21.6, 17. ruption is in them, and blemishes be i Mal. 1. 14. in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 k When a bullock, or a sheep, or k Ex. 22. 30. 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 offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And whether it be cow or || ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 29 And when ye will moffer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will. Or, she goat. 1 Deut. 22. 6. mch. 7. 12. Ps. 107. 22. & 116. 17. Amos 4. 5. 30 On the same day it shall be caten up; ye shall leave none of it until nch. 7. 15. the morrow: I am the LORD. 31 Therefore shall ye keep_my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD. 32 P Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of 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. CHAPTER XXIII. o ch. 19. 37. Num. 15. 40. Deut. 4. 40. peh. 18. 21. q ch. 10. 3. Matt. 6. 9. Luke 11. 2. rch. 20. 8. s Ex. 6. 7. ch. 11. 45, & 19. 36. & 25. 28. Num. 15. 41. A ver. 4, 37. 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall bEx. 32. 5. b proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 2 Kin. 10. 20. Ps. 81, 3. c Ex. 20.9. & 23. 12. & 31. 15. & 34. 21. ch. 19. 3. Deut. 5. 13. Luke 13. 14. 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4d These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which Ex. 12 6,14, ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S pass over. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the 22 d Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scab-same month is the feast of unleav d ver. 2, 37. Ex. 23. 14. 18. & 13.3, 10. & 23. 15. & 34. 18. Num. 9. 2, 3, & 28. 16, 17. Deut. 16, 18. Josh. 5. 10. The feast of Pentecost. Before ened bread unto the LORD: seven | same day, that it may be a holy con CH RIST da 1490. days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 fIn the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no Num. 28. 18, servile work therein. f Ex. 12.16. 25. g Ex.23.16.19. & 34. 22, 26, Num. 15. 2, 18. & 28. 26. Deut. 16. 9. Or, handful. + Heb. omer, h Rom. 11. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 20. James 1. 18. Rev. 14. 4. i Ex. 29. 24. kch. 2, 14, 15. 16. 1 Ex. 31. 22. ch. 25. 8. Deut. 16. 9. m Acts 2. 1. n Num. 28.26. o Ex. 23. 16, 19. & 22. 29. & 34. 22, 26, Nun.15.17 21. & 28.23. Deut, 26. 1. pch. 4. 23, 28. Num. 28.30. q ch. 3. 1. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD Seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak eak'unto the children of Is rael, and say unto them, & When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a || tsheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall i wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf a he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 k And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 And lye 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 mfifty 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 firstfruits unto the LORD. 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. 19 Then ye shall sacrifice Pone kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of 4 peace offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, Num. 18.12. with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Deut. 18. 4. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self Before vocation unto you: ye shall do no CHRIST servile work therein it shall be a 1490. statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. sch. 19.9. 22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither t Deut. 24. 19. shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a 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 a 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. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, a 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 afflict 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, a ch. 20. 3, 5, 6. + Heb, rest. 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, b The fifteenth day of this b Ex. 23. 16. seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD; Con the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a fd solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. The oil for the lamps. Before CHRIST 1490. fNum. 29. 39. g Ex. 23. 16. Deut. 16.13. h Neh. 8. 15. LEVITICUS. holy convocations, to offer an offer ing made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: 38 fBeside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. The law of blasphemy. Before CHRIST 1490. being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 9 And fit shall be Aaron's and his sons'; sand they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute. 10 And the son of an Israelitish & Ex. 29. 33. 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; 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the 11 And the Israelitish woman's son and icursed. And they kbrought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 12 And they put him in ward, f1 Sam. 21. 6. Matt. 12. 4. Mark 2. 26. Luke 6. 4. ch. 8. 31. & 21. 22. hver. 16. Job 10, 11, 22, & 2, 5, 9, 10. Is. 8. 21. 40 And hye shall take you on the + Heb. fruit. first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows that the mind of the LORD might 1 Num. 15.34. Ь Ех. 31. 8. & 39. 37. c Ex. 25. 30. 41 k And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 1 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 m 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 children of Israel the feasts of the LORD. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 The oil for the lamps. 5 The shewbread. 10 Shelomith's son blasphemeth. 13 The law of blasphemy. 17 Of murder. 18 Of damage. 23 The blasphemer is stoned. saying, AND the LORD spake unto Moses, 2a Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, † to cause the lamps to burn 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 b 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 d1 Kin. 7. 48. rows, six on a row, dupon the pure 2 Chr. 4. 19. & 13. 11. Heb. 9. 2. e Num. 4. 7. 1 Chr. 9. 22. 2 Chr. 2. 4. table before the LORD. k Ex. 18. 22, 26. Heb. to ex pound unto them according to the mouth of the LORD. m Ex. 18. 15, Num. 27. 5. n Deut. 13. 9. & 17. 7. och. 5. 1. & 20.17. Num. 9. 13, p1 Kings 21. Ps. 74.10, 18. 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely 10138 be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone 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 surely be put to death. 18 And he 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; 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: "and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 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 your God. q Ex. 21. 12. Num. 35. 31. Deut. 19, 11, 12. † Heb. smiteth the life of a man. rver. 21. + Heb. life for life. s Ex. 21, 24, Deut. 19. 21. Matt. 5. 38. & 7. 2. t ver. 18. Ex. 21. 33. u ver. 17. x Ex. 12. 49, ch. 19. 34. Num, 15, 16, 23 And Moses spake to the chil- 7. And thou shalt put pure frankin- on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, jubilee in the fiftieth year. 14 Ofppression. 18 A blessing of obedience. 23 The redemption of land. 29 Of houses. 35 Compassion of the poor. 39 The usage of bondmen. 47 The redemption of servants. |