diysj neither (hall there any'thing of the flelh which thou sacrificedst the first dayat even remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

6 But at the place which the Lord thy God (hall choole to place his name in, there thou slialt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou earnest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou slialt roast, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God sliall choose: and thou slialt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou (halt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day /hall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God; thou (halt dp no work therein.

9 % Seven weeks slialt thou number unto thee: begin to number the (even weeks homsuch time as thou beginnclt to put the sickle to the corn.

10 And thou (halt keep the feast of ■weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou slialt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

ii And thou (halt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is ■within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you,in the placewhich the Lord thy God hath cholen to place his name there.

i2 And thou (halt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou (halt observe and do these statutes.

13 fl Thou slialt observe the feast of tabernacles (even days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: - 14 And thou slialt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidlervant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

15 Seven days (halt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God (hall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou (halt surely rejoice.

16 Three times in a year sliall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which lie (hail choose; in the scalt of unleavened bread, and in

the feast os weeks, and in the feast c tabernacles: and they (hall not appea before the Lord empty:

17 Every man/Aa/?give as he is abli according to the blessing of the Lor thy God which he hath given thee.

18 % Judges and officers (halt tho make thee in all thy gates which tl Lord thy God giveth thee throughoi thy tribes: and they lhall judge the pec pie with just judgement.

19 Thou slialt not wrest judgemenl thou (halt not respect persons, neiths take a gift: for a gift doth blind th eyes of the wife, and pervert the wore of the righteous.

20 That which is altogether just flia thou follow, that thou mayest live, an inherit the .land which the Lord th God giveth thee.

»i f Thou slialt not plant thee grove of any trees near unto the alta of the Lord thy God, which thou slial make thee.

22 Neither slialt thou set thee up an image; which the Lord thy God hatetli

CHAP. XVII. 1 Things sacrificedmustbe found. 2 Idolater

must be stain. %0j hard controversies. 1

The elcBion, 16 and duty of a hi fig.

THOU slialt not sacrifice unto tin LORD thy God any bullock or slice] wherein is blemish, or any evilfavoured ness: for that is an abomination unti the Lord thy God.

■l fl If there be found among you within any of thy gates which the Lori thy God giveth tliee, man or womsi that hath wrought wickedness in tin sight of the Lord thy God, in trans greffing his covenant,

3 And hath gone and served otlici gods, and worsliipped them, either tin fun, or moon, or any of the host of hea ven, which I have not commanded;

4. And it be told thee, and thou hall heard ofitx and enquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought it Israel:

5 Then (halt thou bring forth thai man or that woman, which have coni' mitted that wicked thing, unto thy gates: even that man or that woman, and IliaJl stone them with stones, till they rtie.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses, 01 three witnesses, (hall he that is worthj of death be put to death: but at thl mouth of one witness he sliall not ba put to death.

7 The hands of the witnesses sliall be first upon hint to put aim to death, and

after

afiswmf the hands of all the people. S o tea iiik put the evil away from among

i f 1/ there arise a matter too hard for

ritt m judgement, between blood and

sixd, between plea and plea, and be

r«ra stroke and stroke, being matters of

CEsfrowrsy within thy gates: then slialt

Chia srise, and get thee up into the place

which the Loa D thy God (hall choose;

'j And thou shalt come unto the priests

At Levites, and unto the judge that

fall be in those days, and enquire; and

tky (hall (hew thee the sentence of

isdgeraeRt:

io And thou shalt do according to the iratmce, which they of that place which at Lord (hall choose ihall (hew thee; lad thou shalt observe to do according » all that they inform^thee:

11 According to tl»e sentence of the law whk'a tliey shall teach thee, and according to the judgement which they fiufl ted rhee, thou slialt do: thou (hast not decline from the sentence which they Sail ihew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

ii And the man that will do presumpTuousiy, and will not hearken unto the priest that ilandeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou ftafe put away the evil from Israel.

i j And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

\\\ When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shall possess it, and (hall dwell therein, and (hall fay, I will set a king over nu, like as all the nations that are about me;

15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king fcvtr thee, whom the Lord thy God (hafl choose; one from among thy brethren fiaitthou set king over thee: thou maye9 not set a stranger over thee, which is sot thy brother.

i« fj But he (hall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hadi Lid unto you, Ye sliall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither (hall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himfcif silver and gold.

iS And it (hall be, when he sitteth upon the tbrone of his kingdom, that he sliall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that <whichit before the priests the Ifl'itwj

xviii. The Lord tie priests" inheritance.

19 And it (hall be with him, and he

sliall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to Fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, tothe 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.

CHAP. XVIII. 1 The priests and Leiiites /halt have no in* heritance. 3 Their portion. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 10 The presumptuous prophet is to die.

THE priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, (hall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they ihall eat the offering; of the Lor D made by fire, and his inheritance.

% Therefore Ihall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lo R D is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

3 fj And this (hall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or (heep; and they (hall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy (heep, slialt thou give him.

5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lo R D, him and his sons for ever.

6 And if a Lcvite 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 sliall choose;

7 Then he sliall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.

8 They (hall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the (ale of his patrimony.

9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God qjveth thee! thou slialt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

10 There (hall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the (ire, or that uscth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

11 Or a charmer, or a confuker with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necro, mancer.

u For all that do these things are an

abo» Christ th? true prophet. DEUTE

abomination unto the Lord: and because of thcle abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13 Thou (halt be perfect with the Lor D thy God.

14 Kor these nations which thou (halt potlels, hearkened unto observers of rimes, and unto diviners:' but as for thee-, the Lor o thy God hath not suffered thee so to ilo.

15 fj The Lor 11 thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

ifi According to all that thou desiredst rf the Lord thy God in Hoieb in the day of the assembly, laying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me lee this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the Lor I> said unro-me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, aud will put my words in his mouth ; and he Hull speak unto them all that I shall command him.

19 And it (hall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he (hall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

?.o fy But the prophet, which (hall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that (hall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet (hall die.

21 And if thou fay in thine heart, How (ball we know the word which the Lo R D hath not spoken?

12 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pals, that ;'/ the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

CHAP. XIX. 1 The cities of refuge. 4 Their privilege.

isi The punishment of a false ivitness.

WHEN the Lord thy God "hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeeded them, and dwellelt in their cities, and in their houses;

2 Thou (halt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lor r> thy God giveth thee to possess it.

3 Thou (halt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every flayer inny tke thither.

R O N O M Y The cities of refuge .

4. tj And this is the cafe of the slayt=which (hall flee thither, that he m.»y live whoso killeth his neighbour igu.oranti.3 whom he hated not in time past;

5 As when a man goeth into the woo with his neighbour to hew wood, an his hand fetcheth a stroke with the a to cut down the tree, and the head sli j-» peth from the helve, and lighteth up on his neighbour, that he die; he stxr»] flee unto one of those cities, and live:

6 Lest the avenger of the blood purs vi the (layer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, anc (lay him; whereas he ivns not worth) of death, inasmuch as he hated him noi in time past.

7 Wherefore I command thee, faying-. Thou (halt separate three cities for thee-.

8 And if the Lord thy God enlnrge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy r"a _ thers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

9 If thou (halt keep all these com mandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lo R r> thy God, and to walk ever in his ways ^ then (halt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

10 That innocent blood be not flied Irt thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, andyi bloo^i be upon thee.

11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and file up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, aud fteeth into one of thele cities:

12 Then the elders of his city fha.II fend and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 Thine eye (hall not pity him, but thou (halt 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 old time have let in thine inheritance, which thou (halt inherit in the land that the Lor r> thy God giveth thee to possess it.

15 One witness (hall not rile up 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 fj If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that uhicft is wrong;

17 Then both the men, betwefn whom the controversy is, Ihali stand before the

Lo*u,

Tit stiffs exhartation to battle. Chap

ton, Wore the priests, and the judges,

»«liaU be in those days;

liAsd rhe judges (hall make diligent

KEJttan; and, behold, if the witness be

in& witness, and hath testified falsely

Jgæi bis brother j

*/; Then sliaH ye do unto him, as tfflEi thought to have done unto his

boner: so (halt thou put the evil

scrfrom among you. M Aad thole which remain lhall hear,

ad tar, and shall henceforth commit

Msaeany such evil among you. tiAiui thine eye shall not pity; but

Hit jkail go for lite, eye tor eye, tooth

kctxxja, hand for hand, foot-for foot. CHAP. XX.

J Tie stiff's exhortation to encourage the fetfle fa battle, i o Ho -jc to use the cities lha eeeept or refuse the proclamation of ftizi. 16 What cities must be devote.!.

WHEN thou goeit out to battle ijiiiist thine enemies, and leest tees, ud cliariots, and a people more tan thoti, be not afraid of them: for tisLoiD thy God is with thee, which krao=+.ttheeui>outof the land of Egypt.

s f And it shall be, when ye are come liga unto the battle, that the priest lhall •ppraaeh and speak unto the people,

;And shall say unto them, Hear, O Is1*1, ye approach this day unto battle sjaatt your enemies : let not your hearts ■*nt, fear not, and do not tremble, •ate be ye terrified because of them; + For the Lo R D your God is he that gwtimth you, to fight for you against y»=r enemies, to save you.

S And the officers lhall speak unto TM people, saying, What man is there 'at hath built a new house, aud hath «tdedicated it? let him go and return * In* house, lest he die in the battle, "i Mother man dedicate it.

fAnd what minis he that hath planted "'ineyard, and hath not yet eaten of "■ let him also go and return unto his "We, test he'die in the battle, and anœvt man er.t of it.

; And what man is there that hath frothed a wife, and hath not taken 'lcr? let him g;o and return unto his

"TMle, leit he die in the battle, and an

K«r man take her. 'And the officers fl.all speak further

*•>»>the people, and they (liall lay, What

**» u litre that is fearful and faint

j^si? let him go and return unto his

''**, left his brethren's heart faint as

*"•» h'w heart., 1 And it (hall be. when the officers

"''' nude an end of speaking unto the

xxi. What cities must be destnytl.

people, that they (hall make captains of» the armies to lead the people.

10 fl When thou contest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

11 And it (hall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto ther, then it lhall be, that all the people that is found therein (hall be tributaries unto thee, and they (hall serve thee.

ia And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war a^iinll thee, then thou (halt besiege it:

13 And when the Lor D thy Clod hath delivered it into thine hands, thou (halt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

14. But the women, and the littl<* ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even al! the lpoil thereof, lh.ilt thou take unto thyleltj and thou slialt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus (halt thou do unto all the cities tvhich tire very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nation:.

16 ff But of the cities of these people, which the Lor I> thy God doth wive tine for an inheritance, thou (halt (ave alive nothing that bieathcth:

) 7 But thou (halt utterly destroy them j namely, the Hittites, and the Amoritcs, the C'anaanites, and the Perizxites, the Hivites, and the Jebulites; as the Lor I> thy God hath commanded thee ■.

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so Ihould ye lin against the Lord your God.

19 When thou (halt besiege acity a long time in making war against it to take it, thou Ilia.lt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou (halt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is m&n'&lifc) to employ them in the liege:

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, th.m shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou (halt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with tnee, until it be subdued.

CHAP. XXI. 1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 15 The firstborn is not to be disinherited upon private affeilion. iS A stubborn

rson is to be stoned to death. F one be found (lain in the land which the Lo R D thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, an./ ir be not known who hath stain him:

2 Tnen, thy elders and thy judges tV.lt

co.iie, of that city sliall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

+ And the elders of that city sliall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and (hall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

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

6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the stain man, sliall wash then- 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.

8 Be merciful, O Lo R D, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood sliall be forgiven them.

9 So (halt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou slialt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

Io 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 beau tiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

is Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and slie shall sliave her head, and pare her nails;

13 And she sli all put the rai ment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou slialt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

14 And it shall be, if thou have no deJight in her, then thou (halt 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 her's that was bated;

16 Then it sliall be, when be malcet his sons to inherit that which he hat 1 that he may not make the son of the bi loved firstborn before the son of tli hated, which is indeed the firstborn, s

17 But he sliall acknowledge the so of the hated for the firstborn, by givin him a double portion of all that he hath for he is the beginning of his strength the right of the firstborn is bis.

18 f[ If a man have a stubborn an rebellious son, which will not obey tli voice of his father, or the voice of li i mother, and that, when they have chart ened him, will not learken unto them

19 Then lhall his father and hismothc lay hold on him, and bring him out xin to the elders of his city, and unto tin gate of his place;

20 And tliey (hall fay unto the elder: of his city, This our son is stubborn anc: 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 (tones, that he die s se (halt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

22 And is a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

23 His body (hall 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.

C' H A P. XXII. 1 Of humanity toward' brethren. 5 Divers laws. 22 Ofadultery. 25 Of rape. 28 Of fornication. 30 Of incest.

THOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or his Iheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou lhalt 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 (halt bring it unto thine own house, and it sliall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou slialt restore it to him again.

3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and ib (halt thou do with his rai ment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, slialt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

4. Thou slialt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the wav, and hide thyself from them: thou slialt surely help him to list them up again.

5 fl The woman sliall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither