Ferings to Molech forbidden.

But in the fourth year all the fruit thereChap. xx. of all be holy, to praise the LORD withal. Of curfing parent?» And in the fifth year thall ye eat of the 8 And ye fhall keep my ftatutes, and d fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the them: am the LORD which fanctify you. Increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

26 Ye shall not eat any thin with the blond; neither thall ye ufe enchantment, BOX obferve times.

27 Ye fhall not round the corners of your heads, neither thalt thou mar the corners of they beard.

18 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your Reth for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

29 Do not proffitute thy daughter, to caufe her to be a whore; left the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. 30 Ye shall keep my fabbath, and reve. zence my fanctuary I am the LORD.

31 Regard not them that have familiar Spirits, neither feek after wizards, to be de. filed by them: I am the LORD your God.

Thou shalt rife up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

33 And if a franger fojourn with thee in your land, ye thall not vex him.

34 But the franger that dwelleth with you thall be unto you as one born among you, and thou that love him as thy felf; for ye were firangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

35 Ye shall do no unrighteoufnefs in judg. ment, in meteyard, in weight, or in meature. 36 ju balances. juft weights, a juft ephah, and a juft hin fhall ye have: I am the LORD your fod, which brought you out of the land or Fgypt.

37 Therefore fhall ye obferve all my ftatuses, and all my judgments, and to them:

I am the LORD.

1 of him that giveth of bis feed unto Molech.
CHA P. XX.
4 of him that favoureth fuck an one. 6 of
going to wizards. 7uffantlification. y of
bim thatcurjeth his parents. 10 of adultery,
11, 14, 17, 19 Of incef.

AND the 1.0&D fpake unto Mofes, faying,

2 Again, thou fhalt fay to the children of Ifrael, Whosoever be be of the children of Ifrael, or of the ftrangers that fojourn in If. rael, that giveth any of his feed unto Molech, he thall firely be put to death; the people of the land fhall flone him with ftones.

3 And I will fet my face againft that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his feed unto Molech, to defile my fanctuary, and to protane 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 feed unto Molech, and kill him not;

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

6And the foul that turpeth after fuch as have familiar fpirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even fet my face again that foul, and will cut him on from among his people.

Sandity yourselves therefore, and be ye holy for I am the LORD your God.

or his mother thall be surely put to death:
9 For every one that curseth his father
blood ball be upon him.
he hath curfed his father or his mother; his

committeth adultery with his neighbour's
Jo And the man that committeth adul
wite, the adulterer and the adulterefs thall
tery with another man's wite, even be that
furely be put to death.

wite, hath uncovered his father's nakedness:
11 And the man that lieth with his father's
their blood all be upon them.
both of them thall furely be put to death;

in-law, both of then. fhall furely be put to
death: they have wrought confufion: their
12 And it a man lie with his daughter-
blood fall be upon them.

lieth with a woman, both of them have com13 If a man alio lie with mankind as he put to death: their blood all be upon then. mitted an abomination; they shall surely be

with fire, both he and they; that there be
14 And it a man take a wite and her mo-
ther, it is wickedneis: they thail be burnt
no wickedness among you.

furely be put to death: and ye shall lay the
beatt.
15 And if a man lie with a beaft, he thall

man and the beast: they shall farely be put
16And if a woman approach unto any beast,
to death; their blood fall be upon them.
and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the wo

ther's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and fee her nakedness, and the fet his nakedness, 17 And it a man thail take his fifter his fain the fight of their people: he hath unco vered bis fitter's nakednefs; he shall bear his it is a wicke i thing: and they fhall be cut off iniquity.

having her fickness, and fhall uncover her
nakedness, he hath difcovered her fountain,
18 And if a man lie with a woman
and the hath uncovered the fountain of her
blood and both of them thall be cut off
from among their people.

nefs of thy mother's fifter, nor of thy father's
firer: for he un overeth his near kin: they
19 And thou shalt not uncover the naked.
thall bear their iniquity.

wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's naked-
20 And if a man thall lie with his uncle's
die childicfs..
neis: they shall bear their fin; they thall

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

tutes, and all my judgments, and do them;
that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my fta-
therein, fpue you not out.

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

poffefs it, a land that floweth with milk and
24 But I have faid unto you, Ye shall inhe-
honey: I am the LORD your God, which have
rit their lan, and I will give it unto you to
feparated you from other people.

clean fowls and clean and ye thall not make
25 Ye hall therefore put difference between
clean beafts and unclean, and between un-
your fouls abominable by beast, or by fowl,

The priests mourning

LEVITICUS.

or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have leparated from you as unclean.

26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have fevered you from other people, that ye thould be mine.

27 A man alfo or a woman that hath a fa

miliar fpirit, or that is a wizard, thall furely be put to death: they fhall stone them with ftones; their blood ball be upon them. CHAP. XXI.

Of the priefis mourning : 6 of their holiness: 13 of their marriages. 16 The priefs that bave blemishes muß not miniper in the fanc

tuary.

AND the LORD faid unto Mofes, Speak un

to the priests the ons of Aaron, fay unto them, There fhall none be defled 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 fon, and for his daughter and for his brother,

3 And for his fifter a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; or her may he be defiled.

their uncleanmejs.

18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he thall not approach; a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing fuperfluous,

19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,

20 Or crooked-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemith in his eye, or be fcurvy, or feabbed, or hath his tones broken:

21 No man that hath a blemish, of the feed of Aaron the priest, fhall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blenih, he thall not come nigh 22 He thall eat the bread of his od, bord to offer the bread of his God.

of

23 Only he shall not go in unto the veil, the mort holy, and of the holy nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish: that he prorane not my anc tuaries: For the LORD do fanctity them.

24 And Mes told it unto Aaron, and to CHAP. XXU. his fons, and unto all the children of Ifrael.

Theriefs in their une leanness myfi abfiain from holy things. 10 Who of the prief's house may eat of the holy things.

but he shall not defile himself, being a AND the Loan pake unto Mofes, laying,

chief man among his people, to profane himself.

5 They shall not make baldnefs upon their head; neither thall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their fiefh.

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 fhall be holy.

wife that is a 7 They thall not take a whore, or profane; neither thail they take a woman put away from her husband for he is holy unto his God.

8 Thou shalt fanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he thall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which fanctity you, am holy.

9And the daughter of any prieft, if the profane herself by playing the whore, the profaneth her father: the thall be burnt with fire.

10 And be that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is confecrated to put on the garments, fhall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

II Neither thall he go in to any dead body, nor lefile himself for his father or for his mother;

12 Neither fhall he go out of the fanctuary, nor profane the fanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

13 And he thall take a wife in her virginity.

13 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, thefe shall he not take: but he thall take a virgin of his own people

to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his feed among his people: for I the LORD do fanc

tify nim.

16 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, faying, Whofoever be be of thy feed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God:

Speak unto Aaron, and to his fons, that they feparate them elves from the holy things of the children (frael, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: a the LORD. 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your feed, among your generations, that go. eth unto the holy things, which the children of Ifrael hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleannels upon him, that foul fhail he cut off from my prefence: I am the LORD.

4 What man foever of the feed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running iffue, he fhall not eat of the holy things until he be clean. And whoto toucheth any thing that is URclean by the dead, ci a man whofe feed go eth trom him;

5 Or whofoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take unclean nefs, whatfoever un leannefs he hath;

6 The foul which hath touched any fuch fhall be unclean until even, and thall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his fieth with water.

7 And when the fun is down he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food.

8 That which dieth of itfelf, or is torn with beafs, he thail not eat, to defile him. felt therewith: I am the LORD.

9 They fhall therefore keep mine ordinance, lent they bear fin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do fanctify them.

10 There thall no ftranger eat of the holy thing: a fojourner of the priest, or an hired fervant, fhall not eat of the holy thing.

11 But if the priest buy any foul with his money, he hall eat of it, and he that is born in his houfe: they fhall eat of his meat.

12 If the priest's daughter alfo be married unto a stranger. the may not eat of an of fering 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, the thall eat of her father's meat;

Chap. xxiil.

And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, fay

27 When a bullock, or a fheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it thall be even days un. der the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it thall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye thall not kill it and her young both in one day. 29 And when ye will offer a facrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.

30 On the fame day it shall be eaten up; ye fhall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.

31 Therefore fhall ye keep my commandments, and do them: 1 am the LORD.

32 Neither thall ye profane my holy name; but i will be ballowed among the children of Ifrael: 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.

1 Offundry feafis. 26 The day of atonement.
ND the Loan fpake unto Mofes, faying,
A
a Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and

The day of atonement.

LEVITICUS.

fering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they fhall be holy to the LORD for the prient.

21 And ye shall proclaim on the felf-fame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no fervile work therein: it ball be a ftatute for ever in all your dwellings, throughout your generations.

22 And when ye reap the harveft of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapeft, neither thalt 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 fpake unto Moses, say. iny,

24 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, fay ing, In the feventh month, in the first day of the month, thall ye have a fabbath, a me. morial of blowing of trumpets, an holy con

vocation.

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

The law of blafphemy.

of the land, ye fhall keep a feaft unto if LORD feven days: on the first day ball be a fabbath, and on the eighth day ball be fabbath.

40 and ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye thall rejoice before the LORD your God feven days.

41 And ye shall keep it a feaft unto the LORD feven days in the year: i fall be a ftatute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the feventh month.

42 Ye fhall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Ifraelites born thali dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of irael to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the on your od.

44 And Moles declared unto the children of Ifrael the fears of the LORD. CHAP. XXIV.

10 Shelomith's fon blafphemeth. 13 The late of blafphemy. 17 of marder. 18 of da mage. 23 The blaf bemer is floned.

264 And the LORD spake unto Moles, fay AND the LORD fake unto M. fes, faying

ing,

27 Alfo on the tenth day of this feventh month there fall be a day of atonement: it fhall be an holy convo ation unto you; and ye thall afflict your fouls, and offer an offering made by hire unto the LORD.

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

29 For whatfoever foul it he that fhall not be afflicted in that fame day, he thall be cut off from among his people.

30 And whatioever foul it be that doeth any work in that fame day, the fame foul will I deltroy from among his people.

31 Ye shall do no manner or work it fall be a ftatute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a fabbath of reft, and ye hail afflict your fouls in the ninth day of the month at even from even unto even shall ye celebrate your fabbath.

33 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, fay. ing,

34 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, faying, The firteenth day of this feventh month ball be the teaft of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

35 On the first day fall be an holy convocation; ye fhall do no fervile work therein.

36 Seven days ye fhall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD; on the eighth day fhall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall offer an onering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a folemn affembly; and ye thall do no fervile work therein.

37 These are the feats of the LORD, which ye hall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering, a facrifice, and drink-offerings, every thing upon his day;

38 Befide the fabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and befide all your vows, and befide all your free-will-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

39 Alfo in the fifteenth day of the feventh month, when e have gathered in the fruit

Command the children of Ifrael, that they bring unto nee pure oil-olive beaten, for the light, to caufe the lamps to bura continually.

3 Without the veil of the teftimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, thall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning, before the LORD continually it all be a ftatute for ever in your generations.

4 He thall 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 fhall be in one cake.

6 And thou shalt fet them in two rows, fix on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

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

8 very fabbath he shall fet it in order be fore the LORD continuaily, being taken from the children of Ifrael by an everlasting cove.

nant.

9 And it fhall be Aaron's and his fons, and they fhall eat it in the holy place: for it is moit holy unto him, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual ftatute.

10 And the fon of an Ifraelitish woman, whole father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Ifrael; and this fon of the Ifraelitith woman and a man of Ifrael drove together in the camp:

11 And the Ifraelitimh woman's fon blaf. phemed the name of the LORD, and curfed. And they brought him unto Moles; (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan;)

12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be fhewed them. 13¶And the LORD spake unto Mofes, fay. ing,

14 Bring forth him that hath curfed with out the camp, and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation tone him.

IS And thou shalt speak unto the children

of

The year of jubila.

offrael, faying, Whofoever curfeth his God
Chap. xxv.
thall bear his fin.

16 And he that blafphemeth the name of
the LORD, he thall furely be put to death,
end all the congregation thall certainly tone
Min: as well the stranger as he that is born
in the land, when he blafphemeth the name
f the LORD, fhall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man fhall
furely be put to death.

18 And be that killeth a beaft shall make it
good; beat for beat.

19 And if a man caufe a blemish in his Beighbour, as he hath done, fo thall it be done unto him.

20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caufed a blemith in a man, so shall it be done to hìm again.

21 And he that killeth a beat, he shall reBore it: and he that killeth a man, be shall Be put to death.

22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the ftranger as for one of your own country; for I am the LORD your God.

43 And Mofes fpake unto the children of
Ifrael, that they thould bring forth him that
had curled out of the camp, and ftone him
with stones. And the children of Ifrael did
as the LORD commanded Moles.

8 The jubile. 14 of oppreffon. 35 of com
CHAP. XXV.
paon. 47 of redeeming fervants.

AND the LORD Ipake unto Mofes in mount

Sinai, faying,

2 speak unto the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then fail the land keep a fabbath Hat the LORD.

3 Six years thou shalt fow thy field, and x years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4 But in the feventh year fhall be a fabbath of reft into the land, a fabbath for the LORD: thon fhait neither fow thy field nor prune thy vineyard.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harveft thou shalt not reap, neither ga. ther the grapes of thy vine undreffed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

6 And the fabbath of the land fhall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy fervant, and for thy mail, and for thy hired fervant, and for thy ftranger that fojourneth with thee,

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beafts that ere in thy land, thall all the increafe thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number seven fabbaths of years unto thee, feven times seven years; and the space of the feven fabbaths or years fhall be unto thee forty and nine years.

9 Then thalt thou caufe the trumpet of the jubile to found, on the tenth day of the feventh month: in the day of atonement thall ye make the trumpet found throughout all your land. '

To And ye fhall ballow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. it shall be a jubile unto you: and ye shall return every man unto his poletion, and ye thall return every man unto his family.

1 A iunile thall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye thall not ow, neither reap that which groweth of it elt in it, nor gather the grapes in it of try vine undressed,

.Redemption of land.

the field.
12 For it is the jubile, it shall be holy unte
you; ye shall eat the increase thereof our of

every man unto his potieion.
13 In the year of this jubile ye thall return

bour, or buyeft aught of thy neighbour's hand,
14 and if thou fell aught unto thy neigh
ye thail not oppreis one another.

and according unto the number of years of 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, the fruits he thall tell unto thee.

thou shalt increase the price thereot, and ac 16 According to the multitude of years diminish the price of it: tor according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he fell cording to the rewnefs of years thou shalt

unto thee.

ther; but thou shalt tear thy God, for I am 17 Ye shall not therefore opprefs one ano. the LORD your God.

keep my judgments, and do them; and ye
18 Wheretore ye thall do my ftatutes, and
thall dwell in the land in fatety.

ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in
fafety.
19 And the land thall yield her fruit, and

20 And if ye thall fay, What shall we eat the feventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

21 Then I will command my bletting upon you in the fixth year, and it fhall bring forth

fruit for three years.

eat yet of old truit until the ninth year: un-
til her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old
22 And ye hall fow the eighth year, and
fore.

for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and
fojourners with me.
23 The land fhall not be fold for ever;

fhall grant a redemption for the land.
24 And in all the land of your poffettion ye

hath fold away fome of his poseilion, and if
25 it thy brother be waxen poor, and
he redeem that which his brother fold.
any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall

it, and himfelt be able to redeem it:
26 And if the man have none to redeem

thereof, and refore the overplus unto the man
to whom he fold it, that he may return unto
27 Then let him count the years of the fale
his poffethion.

then that which is fold fhall remain in the
band of him that hath bought it until the
28 But if he be not able to restore it to him,
and he thail return unto his poffeflion.
year of jubile: and in the jubile it thall go out,

a walled city, then he may redeem it within
29 And if a man feil a dwelling-houfe in
may he redeem it.
a whole year atter it is fold: within a full year

fpace of a full year, then the houfe that is in
the walled city thall be eftablished tor ever to
30 And it it be not redeemed within the
ons: it thall not go out in the jubile.
him that bought it throughout his generati.

have no walls round about them, fhall be
counted as the fields of the country; they
31 But the houfes of the villages, which
may be redeemed, and they shall go out in
the jubile.

vites, and the houfes of the cities of their por
feilion, may the Levites redeem at any time.
32 Notwithstanding, the cities of the Le
33 And it a man purchate of the Levites,

then