unto the people, and they shall say, f What man is there that is fearful 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 Heb. to be in captains of the armies to lead the people.

the head of the people.

m ch. 7. 4. & 12. 30, 31. & 18. 9.

n Ex. 23. 33.

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, h thou 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, shalt thou take unto thyself; and * thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

16 But 1of the cities of these people, 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:

m

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which 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 Or, for, O(for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege :

man, the tree

of the field is

to be employed in the siege. † Heb. to go

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, from before thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until tit be subdued.

thee.

† Heb. it come

down.

Expiation for murder.

CHAPTER XXI.

The expiation for murder where the murderer is unknown. 10 The treatment of a captive taken to wife. 15 The firstborn not to be disinherited for the sake of another wife's offspring. 18 A stubborn son is to be stoned to death. 22 The body of a malefactor must not hang all night on a trce.

F one be found slain in the land which

IF

Folch 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 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.

а

B. C. 1451.

a ch. 10. 8. 1 Chr. 23. 13.

5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for a them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall † Heb. mouth. every controversy and every stroke be tried:

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.

A stubborn son to be stoned.

Sundry laws and ordinances.

g Gen. 34. 2. ch. 22. 29. Judg. 19. 24. h Gen. 29. 33.

h

g

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 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated; 16 Then it shall be, when he ma2 Chr. 11. 19, keth 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 :

i 1 Chr. 5. 2. & 26. 10.

22.

k See 1 Chr. 5.1.

i

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, *by giving him a double portion of + Heb. that is all that he hath: for he is 'the beginning of his strength; "the right of the firstborn is his.

found with

him.

1 Gen. 49. 3.

m Gen. 25. 31, 33.

18 TIf 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: a ch. 13. 5. & "So shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

19. 19, 20. & 22. 21, 24.

o cho 13. 11.

p ch. 19. 6. & 22. 26. Acts

22 ¶ And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to 23. 29. & 25. be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

11, 25.& 26.31.

q Josh. 8. 29. & 10. 26, 27. John 19. 31.

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

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.

4 TbThou shalt not see thy broth-b Ex. 23. 5. er'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 T 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, c thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

12 ¶ Thou shalt make thee h fringes upon the four + quarters of thy vesture, † Heb. wings. wherewith thou coverest thyself.

13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and igo in unto her, and hate her,

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:

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

Laws and ordinances.

B. C. 1451.

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 a hundred shekels of silver, and give them

Laws and ordinances.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Who may and who may not enter into the congregation. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the camp. 15 Of the fugitive servant. 17 Of lewdness. 18 Of abominable sacrifices. 19 Of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of trespasses.

E that is wounded in the stones.

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 Judg. 20.6,19. Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

k Gen. 34. 7.

2 Sam. 13. 12, 13.

1 ch. 13. 5.

m Lev. 20. 10. John 8. 5.

n Matt. 1. 18, 19.

o ch. 21. 14. p ver. 21, 22.

Il Or, take strong hold of her,

k

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.

n

23 ¶ 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: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

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

2 Sam. 13. 14. die :

20. 11. ch. 27. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 1. t See Ruth 3.9. Ez. 16. 8.

a Neh. 13. 1, 2.

4 Because they met you not with b See ch. bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

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.

29.

c Num. 22. 5,6.

6 Thou shalt not seek their peaced Ezra 9. 12. nor their † prosperity all thy days for Heb. good. ever.

e

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 of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

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

e Gen. 25. 24, 25, 26.

Obad. 10, 12. f Ex. 22. 21. & 23. 9.

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

10 T & If there be among you any Lev. 15. 16. 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, he shall wash himself +Heb. turneth with water; and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

12 T Thou shalt have a place also

toward. h Lev. 15. 5.