Corifts a prophet.

Cities of refuge.

5 For the LORD thy God hath chofen him out of all thy tribes, to ftand to minifter in the Name of the LORD, him and his fons for ever.

Chap. xviii. According to the fentence of the law which they fhall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they fhall tell thee thou fhalt do; thou shalt not decline from the fentence which they fhall fhew thee, to the right hand nor to the left.

12 And the man that will do prefumptuoufly, and will not hearken unto the prieft (that ftandeth to minifter there before the LORD thy God) or unto the judge, even that man fhall die; andthou shalt put away the evil from Ifrael.

13 And all the people fhall hear, and fear, and do no more prefumptuously.

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and fhalt poffefs it, and thalt dwell therein, and shalt fay, I will fet a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me as Thou shalt in any wife fet him king over thee whom the LORD thy God fhail choose one from among thy brethren halt thou fet king over thee: thou mayeft not fet a ftranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

16 But he fhall not multiply horfes to himself, nor caule the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he fhould multiply horfes forasmuch as the LORD hath faid unto you, ye fhall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither fhall he multiply wives to himfelf, that his heart turn not away; neither fhall he greatly multiply to himself filver and gold.

1 And it shall be when he fitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he hall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.

19 And it fhall be withhim, and helhall read therein all the days of his life; that be may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law, and thefe ftatutes to do them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, aud that he turn not afide from the commandment to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong bis days in his kingdom; he, and his children in the midst of Ifrael.

CHAP. XVIII.

1 The LORD is the priests and the Levites inberitance. 15 Chrift to be beard. 22 The prefumptuous propbet is to die.

tribe of Levi, fhall have no part nor the inheritance with Ifrael: they fhall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

2 Therefore fhall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath faid unto them.

3 And this fhall be the priests due from the people, from them that offer a facrifce, whether it be ox or fheep; and they hall give unto the priests the fhoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 The firft fruit alfo of thy corn, of thy wine and of thy oyl, and the firit of the Reece of thy fheep shalt thou give him.

6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Ifrael, where he fo-. journed, and come with all the defire of his mind unto the place which the LORD fhall choose.

7 Then he fhall minifter in the Name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which ftand there before the LORD.

8 They fhall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the fale of his patrimony.

91 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy, God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do atter the abomi nations, of thofe nations.

To There fhall not be found among you any one that maketh his fon orhis daughter to pass through the fire, or that ufeth divination, or an obferver of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

11 Or a charmer, or a confulter with familiar fpirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD; and becaufe of thefe abominations, the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

14 For thefe nations which thou shalt poflefs, hearkned unto obfervers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not fuffered thee fo to do.

15 The LORD thy God will raife up unto thee a Prophet from the midft of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye fhall hearken.

16 According to all that thou desiredft of the LORD thy God in Horeb, in the day of the affembly, faying, Let me not bear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me fee this great fire any more that I die not.

17 And the LORD faid unto me, They have well fpoken that & they have spoken. 18 I will raife them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he fhall fpeak unto them all that I thall com

mand him.

19 And it fhall come to pass, that whofoever will not hearken unto my words which he thall fpeak in my Name, I will equire it of him.

20 But the prophet which fhall presume to speak a word in my Name, which I have not commanded him to fpeak, or that fhall fpeak in the name of other gods, event that prophet fhall die.

21 And if thou fay in thine heart, Howfhall we know the word which the LORD hath not fpoken?

22 When a prophetspeaketh intheName of the LORD; if the thingfollow not, nor come to pais,that is the thing which the G4

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Deuteronomy. LORD hath not fooken, but the prophet hath spoken it prefumptuously: thou fhalt not be afraid of him.

The people encouraged. Chap. xxi. fhall be that all the people that is found therein, fhall be tributaries unto thee, and they fhall ferve thee.

12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou fhalt befiege it.

13 And when The LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou fhalt fmite every male thereof with the edge of the Sword.

14 But the woman, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the tfpoil thereof, fhalt thou take unto thy felf; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus fhalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of thefe nations. 15 But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou fhalt fave alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou fhalt utterly deftroy 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:

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, fo fhould ye fin a against the LORD your God.

19 When thou shalt befiege a city a long time, in making war againit it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them; for thou mayeft eat of them, and thou thalt not cut them down ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the fiege. 20 Only the trees which thou knoweft that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt deftroy, and cut them down; & thou shalt build bulwarks against the city thatmaketh war with thee, until it be fubdued.

the HA P. XXI.

1 The expiation of uncertainmurder. 15Tbe firft-born not to besdifinberited upon private affection. 18 4 ftubborn fon is to be foned to death.

Fone be found flain in the land which Ithe LORD thy God giveth thee to poffers it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath flain him:

2 Then thy elders and thy judges fhall come forth, and they fhall meafure unto the cities which are found about him that is flain.

3 And it shall be that the city which is next unto the flain man, even the elders of that city fhall take an heifer which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke,

Expiation of uncertain murder.

6 And all the elders of that eity that are next unto the flain man, fhall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley.

7 And they fhall anfwer and fay, Our hands have not fhed this blood, neither have our eyes feen it.

8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Ifrael, whom thou haft redeemed, and Jay not innocent blood unto thy people of Ifraels charge. And the blood fhall be forgiven them.

9 So fhalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thon fhalt do that which is right in the fight of the LORD.

109 When thou goeft forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou haft taken them captive,

It And feeft among the captives a beautiful woman, and haft a defire unto her, that thou wouldeft have her to thy wife :

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine houfe, and the fhall fhave her head, and pair her nails.

13 And the fhall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and fhall remain in thine houfe, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and the fhall be thy wife.

14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou fhalt let her go whither the will, but thou shalt not fell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandize of her, because thou haft humbled her.

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 first born fon be hers that was hated:

16 Then it thall be, when he maketh his fons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the fon of the beloved, firft-born, before the fon of the hated which is indeed the firft-born.

17 But he thall acknowledge the fon of the hated for the first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he had for he is the beginning of his ftrength, the right of the firft-born is his.

18 If a man have a ftubborn and rebellious for, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chaitned him, will not hearken unto them:

19 Then fhall 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:

4 And the elders of that city fhall bring 20 And they fhall fay unto the elders of down the heifer unto a rough valley, which his city, This our fon is stubborn and reis Deither eared or fown, and thall ftrike belious, he will not obey our voice; be off the heifers neck there in the valley? is a glutton and a drunkard.

5 And the priests the fons of Levi fhall 21 And all the men of his city fhall ftone come near (for them the LORD thy God him with ftones, that he die; fo fhalt thou hath chofen to minister untohim, and to put evil away from among you, and all blefs in the Name of the LORD) and by Ifrael fhall hear, and fear."

their word thall every controverite, and c- 22 And if a man have committed a fin very ftroke be tried, -worthy

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1 Of bumanity towards brethren. 20, 23 Of adultery. 25 Of rape. 28 and of fornica tion. 30 Incest.

ard brethren.

16 And the damfels father fhall fay unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her,

17 And lo, he hath given occafions of fpeech against ber, faying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet thefe are the tokensof my daughters virginity: and they fhall spread the cloath before the elders of the city.

18 And the elders of that city fhall take that man and chaftife him.

Thou shalt not fee thy brothers of orbis the theep goaftray, and hide thy felf from them thou shalt in any cafe bring them again unto thy brother.

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou fhalt bring it unto thine own houfe, and it fhall be with thee untill thy brother feek after it, and thou fhalt reftore it to him again.

3 In like manner fhalt thou do with his afs, and fo fhalt thou do with his raiment, and with all loft thing of thy brothers, which he hath loft, and thou haft found, fhalt thou do likewife, thou mayeft not hide thy felf.

4 Thou shalt not fee thy brothers afs or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thy felf from them: thou fhalt furely help him to lift them up again.

5 The woman fhall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither ihall a man put on a womans garment for all that do fo are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 64 Ifa birds neft chance to be before thee in theway in any tree or onthe ground; whether they be young ones, or eggs, & the dam fitting upon the young or upon eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, 7 But thou shalt in any wife let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft prolong thy days.

81 When thou buildeft a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy 100f, that thou bring not blood upon thine houfe, if any man fall from thence.

9¶ Thou shalt not fow thy vineyard with divers feeds: left the fruit of thy feed which thou has fown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled

10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an afs together.

1 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers forts, as of woollen and linen toge

ther.

Thou halt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy velture, where with thou covereft thy feif.

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

14 And give occafion of fpeech againft her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and fay, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15 Then fhall the father of the damfel, and her mother, take and bring forth the

tokens of the damfefs virginity, unto the eldts of the city in the gate.

19 And they fhall amerce him in an hun

fathers of filver, and give them unto the father of the damfel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Ifrael; and the fhall be his wife, he may not put her away all his days.

20 But if thisthing be true, andthe tokens of virginity be not found for the damfel:

21 Then they fhall bring out the damfel to the door of her fathers houfe, and the men of her city fhall ftone her with ftones that the die: because the hath wrought folly in Ifrael, to play the whore in her fathers houfe: fo fhalt thou put evil away from among you.

22 If a man be found lying with a'woman married to an husband, then they fhall both of them die, botb the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: fo fhalt thou put away evil from Ifrael.

23 Ifa damfel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city and lie with her;

24 Then ye fhall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall ftone them with ftones that they die; the damfel, becaufe fhe cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: fo thou shalt put away evil from among you.

fel in the field, and the man force her, 25 But if a man find a betrothed damand lie with her: then the man only that lay with her, fhall die.

26 But unto the damfel thou fhalt do nothing, there is in the damfel no fin worthy of death for as when a man rifeth against his neighbour, and flayeth him, even fo is this matter:

27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damfel cried, and there was

none to fave her.

28 Ifa man find a damfel that 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, fuall give unto the damfels father fifty bekels of Gilver, and the fhall be his wife, becaufe he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30 A man fhall not take his fathers wife, nor difcover his fathers skirt, CHAP. XXIII. I who may, Or who may not enter into the congregation. 16 of the fugitive fervant 17 Filtbinefs. 18 abominablefacrifices.19 Ufury 21 Vows.

Hhis privy-member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

E that is wounded in the ftons, or hath

of adultery

Chap, xxiv.

Divers laws and ordinances,

2 A baftard fhall not enter into the con- 20 Unto a stranger thou mayeft lera gregation of the LORD, even to his tenth upon ufury, but unto thy brother thou generation fhall he not enter into the con- fhalt not lend upon ufury; that the LORD gregation of the LORD. thy God may bless thee in all that thou fetteit thine hand to, in the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it.

3 An Ammonite or Moabite fhall not enter into the congregation of the LORD, even to their tenth generation fhall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever.

4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egpyt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the fon of Beor of Pethor of Mefopotamia, to curfe thee.

5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not bearken unto Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curfe into a blefling unto thee, becaufe the LORD thy God loved thee.

6 Thou shalt not feek their peace, nor their profperity, all thy days for ever.

7 Thou fhalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not ab. hor an Egyptian, becaufe thou waft a Branger in his land.

8 The children that are begotten of them, fhall enter into the congregation of the LORD, in their third generation.

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

10 If there be among you any man that is not clean, by reafon of uncleannefs that chanceth him by night, then fhall he go abroad out of the camp, he fhall not come within the camp.

11 But it fhall be when evening cometh on, he fhall wash himself with water: and when the fun is down he shall come into the camp again.

12 Thou shalt have a place alfo without camp, whither thoufhalt go forth abroad. 13 And thou fhalt have a paddle upon thy weapon: and it fhall be when thou wilt eafe thy felfabroad, thou fhalt dig therewith, and fhalt 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 thine enemies before thee therefore hall thy camp be holy, that he fee no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his maller, the fervant which is elaped from his mafter unto thee.

16 He fhall dwell with thee even among you, in that place which he fhall choofe, in one of thy gates where it liketh him beft: thou shalt not opprefs him.

17 There fhall be no whore of the daughters of Ifrael, nor a Sodomite of the fons of Ifrael.

18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any now: for even both thefe are abomination unte the LORD thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend upon ufury to thy brother; ufury of money, ufury of victuals, ufury of any thing that is lent up Da ufury.

21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not flack to pay it, for the LORD thy God will furely require it of thee: & it would be finin thee, 22 But if thcu fhalt forbear to vow, it fhall be no fin in thee.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips, thou fhalt keep and perform; even a freewill-offering, according as thou haft vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou haft promifed with thy mouth,

24 When thou comeft into thy neighbours vineyard, then thou mayeft est grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy veffel.

25 When thou comeft into the ftanding. corn of thy neighbours, then thou mayeft pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou fhalt not move a fickle unto thy neighbours ftanding corn.

CHAP. XXIV. Of divorce. 6, 10 Of pledges, 7 Of manfealers.8 Of leprofie. 14 The bireis to be given. 16 Of Justice. WHen a man hath taken a wife and

married her, and it come to pafs that the find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found fome uncleannefs in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and fend her out of his houfe.

And when he is departed out of his houfe, the may go & be another mans wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and fendeth her out of his houfe; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

4 Her former husband which fent her away may not take her again to be his wife, after that the is defiled: for that is abomination before the LORD, and thou shalt not caufe the land to fin, which the LORD. thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

54 When a man hath taken a new wife, he fhall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any bufinefs: but hefball be free at home one year, and fhall chear up his wife which he hath taken.

6 No man fhall take the nether, or the upper milftone to pledge; for he tak eth a mans life to pledge.

7ta man be found ftealing any of his brethren of the children of Ifrael, & maketh merchandife of him, or felleth him: then that thief fhall die, and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

8 Take heed in the plague of leprofie, that thou obferve diligently, and do accc... ding to all that the prieits the Levites fhail teach you; as I commanded them, fo ye shall obferve to do.

9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

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