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THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
Leviticus
Part 2 (Chapters 15-27)
15:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
15:2:
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a
running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
15:3: And
this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his
issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
15:4:
Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing,
whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
15:5: And whosoever toucheth his bed
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:6: And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
15:7: And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:8: And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then
he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:9: And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall
be unclean.
15:10: And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall
be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:11: And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:12: And the vessel of earth, that he
toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall
be rinsed in water.
15:13: And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his
issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
15:14: And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and give them unto the priest:
15:15: And the priest shall
offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and
the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
15:16: And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall
wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:17: And every
garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:18: The woman also with whom man
shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water,
and be unclean until the even.
15:19: And if a woman have an issue, and her
issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever
toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
15:20: And every thing that she
lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth
upon shall be unclean.
15:21: And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:22:
And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:23: And if it be
on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall
be unclean until the even.
15:24: And if any man lie with her at all, and her
flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he
lieth shall be unclean.
15:25: And if a woman have an issue of her blood
many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of
her separation: she shall be unclean.
15:26: Every bed whereon she lieth all
the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and
whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
15:27: And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:28: But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
15:29: And on the
eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring
them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
15:30: And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for
her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
15:31: Thus shall ye
separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in
their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
15:32:
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him,
and is defiled therewith;
15:33: And of her that is sick of her flowers, and
of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.
16:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death
of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
16:2:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at
all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is
upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy
seat.
16:3: Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock
for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
16:4: He shall put on the
holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall
be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired:
these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put
them on.
16:5: And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt
offering.
16:6: And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
16:7:
And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
16:8: And Aaron shall cast lots upon the
two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
16:9:
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for
a sin offering.
16:10: But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the
scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with
him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
16:11: And Aaron
shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall
make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of
the sin offering which is for himself:
16:12: And he shall take a censer
full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands
full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
16:13: And
he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
16:14: And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with
his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
16:15: Then shall he kill
the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within
the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16:16: And he
shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and
so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them
in the midst of their uncleanness.
16:17: And there shall be no man in the
tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy
place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his
household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
16:18: And he shall go out
unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall
take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon
the horns of the altar round about.
16:19: And he shall sprinkle of the blood
upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
16:20: And when he hath made an end of
reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the
altar, he shall bring the live goat:
16:21: And Aaron shall lay both his
hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting
them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man
into the wilderness:
16:22: And the goat shall bear upon him all their
iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
wilderness.
16:23: And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went
into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
16:24: And he shall wash his
flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and
offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an
atonement for himself, and for the people.
16:25: And the fat of the sin
offering shall he burn upon the altar.
16:26: And he that let go the goat for
the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward come into the camp.
16:27: And the bullock for the sin offering,
and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement
in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn
in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
16:28: And he that
burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward
he shall come into the camp.
16:29: And this shall be a statute for ever unto
you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you:
16:30: For on that day shall the priest
make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your
sins before the LORD.
16:31: It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye
shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
16:32: And the priest, whom
he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office
in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, even the holy garments:
16:33: And he shall make an atonement for
the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests,
and for all the people of the congregation.
16:34: And this shall be an
everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel
for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
17:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17:2: Speak unto Aaron, and
unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is
the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
17:3: What man soever there
be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or
that killeth it out of the camp,
17:4: And bringeth it not unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before
the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed
blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
17:5: To the end
that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the
open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace
offerings unto the LORD.
17:6: And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon
the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
17:7: And they shall no more
offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This
shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
17:8: And
thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of
the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering of
sacrifice,
17:9: And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from
among his people.
17:10: And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I
will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off
from among his people.
17:11: For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and
I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for
it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
17:12: Therefore I
said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall
any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
17:13: And whatsoever man
there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you,
which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even
pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
17:14: For it is the life
of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the
children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life
of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut
off.
17:15: And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that
which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a
stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
17:16: But if he wash them
not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
18:1: And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
18:2: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, I am the LORD your God.
18:3: After the doings of the land of
Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of
Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their
ordinances.
18:4: Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
therein: I am the LORD your God.
18:5: Ye shall therefore keep my statutes,
and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the
LORD.
18:6: None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to
uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
18:7: The nakedness of thy father,
or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou
shalt not uncover her nakedness.
18:8: The nakedness of thy father's wife
shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
18:9: The nakedness of
thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she
be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not
uncover.
18:10: The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's
daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own
nakedness.
18:11: The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of
thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
18:12:
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's
near kinswoman.
18:13: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
18:14: Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she
is thine aunt.
18:15: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in
law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
18:16: Thou
shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's
nakedness.
18:17: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is
wickedness.
18:18: Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her,
to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
18:19: Also thou
shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put
apart for her uncleanness.
18:20: Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with
thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
18:21: And thou shalt not
let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane
the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
18:22: Thou shalt not lie with mankind,
as with womankind: it is abomination.
18:23: Neither shalt thou lie with any
beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
18:24: Defile not ye yourselves in any
of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out
before you:
18:25: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity
thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
18:26: Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of
these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that
sojourneth among you:
18:27: (For all these abominations have the men of the
land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
18:28: That the
land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that
were before you.
18:29: For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
18:30: Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of
these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile
not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
19:1: And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
19:2: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am
holy.
19:3: Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my
sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
19:4: Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to
yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
19:5: And if ye offer a
sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own
will.
19:6: It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow:
and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
19:7:
And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be
accepted.
19:8: Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,
because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be
cut off from among his people.
19:9: And when ye reap the harvest of your
land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
19:10: And thou shalt not glean thy
vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt
leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
19:11: Ye shall
not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
19:12: And ye
shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy
God: I am the LORD.
19:13: Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob
him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until
the morning.
19:14: Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock
before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
19:15: Ye shall do
no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor,
nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy
neighbour.
19:16: Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the
LORD.
19:17: Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in
any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
19:18: Thou shalt
not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
19:19: Ye shall keep my
statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt
not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen
and woollen come upon thee.
19:20: And whosoever lieth carnally with a
woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor
freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death,
because she was not free.
19:21: And he shall bring his trespass offering
unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram
for a trespass offering.
19:22: And the priest shall make an atonement for
him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he
hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
19:23: And
when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for
food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall
it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
19:24: But in the
fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD
withal.
19:25: And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that
it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
19:26: Ye
shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor
observe times.
19:27: Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
19:28: Ye shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the
LORD.
19:29: Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest
the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
19:30: Ye
shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
19:31:
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be
defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
19:32: Thou shalt rise up before the
hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the
LORD.
19:33: And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not
vex him.
19:34: But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as
one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
19:35: Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
19:36:
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am
the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
19:37:
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I
am the LORD.
20:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
20:2: Again,
thou shalt say to the children of Israel, 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.
20:3: 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
defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
20:4: 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 kill him not:
20:5: Then I will set my face against that
man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring
after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
20:6: 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.
20:7: Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be
ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
20:8: And ye shall keep my statutes,
and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
20:9: 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.
20:10: 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.
20:11: And the man that lieth with his father's wife
hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:12: And if a man lie with his
daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought
confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
20:13: If a man also lie with
mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:
they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:14: And
if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with
fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
20:15: And if
a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the
beast.
20:16: 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.
20:17: And if a man shall take his 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.
20:18: 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.
20:19: And 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.
20:20: And if a man shall lie with his
uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their
sin; they shall die childless.
20:21: And if a man shall take his brother's
wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they
shall be childless.
20:22: Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all
my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein,
spue you not out.
20:23: 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.
20:24: But 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 separated you from other people.
20:25: 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.
20:26: And ye shall be
holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people,
that ye should be mine.
20:27: A man also or woman that hath a familiar
spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them
with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
21:1: And the LORD said unto
Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall
none be defiled for the dead among his people:
21:2: 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,
21:3: And for his sister a virgin,
that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be
defiled.
21:4: But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
people, to profane himself.
21:5: 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.
21:6: 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 shall be holy.
21:7:
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take
a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
21:8: Thou
shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be
holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
21:9: And the
daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she
profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
21:10: And he that is the
high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured,
and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor
rend his clothes;
21:11: Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile
himself for his father, or for his mother;
21:12: Neither shall he go out of
the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
21:13: And he shall take
a wife in her virginity.
21:14: A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or
an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people
to wife.
21:15: Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
LORD do sanctify him.
21:16: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
21:17: Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their
generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of
his God.
21:18: For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing
superfluous,
21:19: Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
21:20: Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be
scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21:21: No man that hath a
blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings
of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the
bread of his God.
21:22: He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy.
21:23: Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come
nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
21:24: And Moses told it unto
Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
22:1: And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
22:2: Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that
they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and
that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I
am the LORD.
22:3: Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel
hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut
off from my presence: I am the LORD.
22:4: What man soever of the seed of
Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things,
until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or
a man whose seed goeth from him;
22:5: Or whosoever toucheth any creeping
thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness,
whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
22:6: 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.
22:7: And when the sun is down, he shall be clean,
and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
22:8:
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile
himself therewith: I am the LORD.
22:9: 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.
22:10: There shall no stranger eat of the holy
thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing.
22:11: But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of
it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
22:12: If
the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an
offering of the holy things.
22:13: 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.
22:14: 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.
22:15: And they shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
22:16: Or suffer them to
bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD
do sanctify them.
22:17: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
22:18:
Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say
unto them, 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;
22:19:
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the
sheep, or of the goats.
22:20: But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye
not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
22:21: 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.
22:22: Blind, or broken, or maimed, or
having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor
make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
22:23: Either
a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts,
that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be
accepted.
22:24: 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.
22:25: Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your
God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in
them: they shall not be accepted for you.
22:26: And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
22:27: When a bullock, or a sheep, or 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.
22:28: And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young
both in one day.
22:29: And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
22:30: On the same day it shall be
eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
22:31:
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
22:32:
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children
of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
22:33: That brought you out of the
land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
23:1: And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
23:2: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my feasts.
23:3: Six days shall work be done:
but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no
work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
23:4:
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall
proclaim in their seasons.
23:5: In the fourteenth day of the first month at
even is the LORD's passover.
23:6: And on the fifteenth day of the same
month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat
unleavened bread.
23:7: In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation:
ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:8: But ye shall offer an offering
made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:9: And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
23:10: Speak unto the children of Israel, 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 sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest
unto the priest:
=2>23:11: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to
be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave
it.
23:12: And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
23:13:
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 an hin.
23:14:
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.
23:15:
And ye 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:
23:16: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye
number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the
LORD.
23:17: 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.
23:18: 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.
23:19: Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for
a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace
offerings.
23:20: And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall
be holy to the LORD for the priest.
23:21: And ye shall proclaim on the
selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no
servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
23:22: 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 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.
23:23: And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:24: 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, an holy convocation.
23:25: Ye
shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
23:26: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:27: Also
on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it
shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
23:28: 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.
23:29: For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be
afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:30:
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul
will I destroy from among his people.
23:31: Ye shall do no manner of work:
it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
23:32: 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.
23:33: And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
23:34: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day
of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the
LORD.
23:35: On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.
23:36: Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by
fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and
ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly;
and ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:37: These are the feasts of the
LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made
by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and
drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
23:38: Beside 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.
23:39: Also in the fifteenth
day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye
shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a
sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
23:40: 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 shall rejoice before the
LORD your God seven days.
23:41: 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.
23:42: Ye shall dwell in booths
seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
23:43: 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.
23:44:
And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
24:1:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24:2: Command the children of Israel,
that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the
lamps to burn continually.
24:3: 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.
24:4: He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before
the LORD continually.
24:5: And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve
cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
24:6: And thou shalt set
them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
24:7:
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread
for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD
24:8: Every
sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from
the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
24:9: And it shall be
Aaron's and his sons'; and 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.
24:10: And the son of an Israelitish 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;
24:11: And the
Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they
brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of
Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
24:12: And they put him in ward, that the mind
of the LORD might be shewed them.
24:13: And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
24:14: Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all
that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone
him.
24:15: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
24:16: And he that blasphemeth
the name of the LORD, he shall surely 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.
24:17: And
he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
24:18: And he that
killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
24:19: And if a man
cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to
him;
24:20: 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.
24:21: And he
that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall
be put to death.
24:22: 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 God.
24:23:
And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that
had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of
Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
25:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses
in mount Sinai, saying,
25:2: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the LORD.
25:3: Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six
years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
25:4:
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for
the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
25:5:
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither
gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the
land.
25:6: And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and
for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy
stranger that sojourneth with thee,
25:7: And for thy cattle, and for the
beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
25:8: And
thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years;
and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine
years.
25:9: Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the
tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the
trumpet sound throughout all your land.
25:10: And ye shall hallow 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 possession, and ye shall return every man unto his
family.
25:11: A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not
sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in
it of thy vine undressed.
25:12: For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto
you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
25:13: In the year
of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
25:14: And if
thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye
shall not oppress one another:
25:15: According to the number of years after
the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of
years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
25:16: According to the
multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the
fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the
number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
25:17: Ye shall not
therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD
your God.
25:18: Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
25:19: And the land
shall yield her fruit, and he shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
25:20: And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we
shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
25:21: Then I will command my
blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three
years.
25:22: And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit
until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old
store.
25:23: The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for
ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24: And in all the land of your
possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25: If thy brother be
waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin
come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
25:26:
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem
it;
25:27: Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
25:28: But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that
which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year
of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his
possession.
25:29: And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then
he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he
redeem it.
25:30: And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him
that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the
jubile.
25:31: But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about
them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and
they shall go out in the jubile.
25:32: Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites
redeem at any time.
25:33: And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the
house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of
jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among
the children of Israel.
25:34: But the field of the suburbs of their cities
may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
25:35: And if thy
brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve
him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with
thee.
25:36: Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that
thy brother may live with thee.
25:37: Thou shalt not give him thy money upon
usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
25:38: I am the LORD your God,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, and to be your God.
25:39: And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee
be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
25:40: But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be
with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
25:41: And then
shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return
unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he
return.
25:42: For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
25:43: Thou shalt not rule
over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
25:44: Both thy bondmen, and
thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round
about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
25:45: Moreover of the
children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and
of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they
shall be your possession.
25:46: And ye shall take them as an inheritance for
your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your
bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not
rule one over another with rigour.
25:47: And if a sojourner or stranger wax
rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself
unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's
family:
25:48: After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
brethren may redeem him:
25:49: Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may
redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or
if he be able, he may redeem himself.
25:50: And he shall reckon with him
that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile:
and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according
to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
25:51: If there be yet
many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his
redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
25:52: And if there
remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and
according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
25:53: And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other
shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
25:54: And if he be not
redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he,
and his children with him.
25:55: For unto me the children of Israel are
servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I
am the LORD your God.
26:1: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image,
neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone
in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
26:2: Ye shall
keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
26:3: If ye walk
in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
26:4: Then I will give
you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of
the field shall yield their fruit.
26:5: And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6: And I will give
peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I
will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your
land.
26:7: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you
by the sword.
26:8: And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of
you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by
the sword.
26:9: For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
26:10: And ye shall eat old
store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
26:11: And I will set my
tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
26:12: And I will walk
among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
26:13: I am the
LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should
not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go
upright.
26:14: But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
26:15: And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye
break my covenant:
26:16: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint
over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes,
and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies
shall eat it.
26:17: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be
slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall
flee when none pursueth you.
26:18: And if ye will not yet for all this
hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your
sins.
26:19: And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
26:20: And your strength shall be
spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the
trees of the land yield their fruits.
26:21: And if ye walk contrary unto me,
and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
26:22: I will also send wild beasts among you, which
shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in
number; and your highways shall be desolate.
26:23: And if ye will not be
reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
26:24: Then
will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your
sins.
26:25: And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel
of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will
send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy.
26:26: And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by
weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
26:27: And if ye will not for
all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
26:28: Then I will walk
contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for
your sins.
26:29: And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of
your daughters shall ye eat.
26:30: And I will destroy your high places, and
cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols,
and my soul shall abhor you.
26:31: And I will make your cities waste, and
bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your
sweet odours.
26:32: And I will bring the land into desolation: and your
enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
26:33: And I will
scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your
land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
26:34: Then shall the land
enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies'
land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
26:35: As long
as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths,
when ye dwelt upon it.
26:36: And upon them that are left alive of you I will
send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound
of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword;
and they shall fall when none pursueth.
26:37: And they shall fall one upon
another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no
power to stand before your enemies.
26:38: And ye shall perish among the
heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
26:39: And they that
are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and
also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with
them.
26:40: If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also
they have walked contrary unto me;
26:41: And that I also have walked
contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if
then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
26:42: Then will I remember my covenant with
Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I
remember; and I will remember the land.
26:43: The land also shall be left
of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them:
and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because
they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my
statutes.
26:44: And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their
enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
26:45: But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that
I might be their God: I am the LORD.
26:46: These are the statutes and
judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel
in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
27:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
27:2: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a
man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy
estimation.
27:3: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years
old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of
silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
27:4: And if it be a female, then
thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
27:5: And if it be from five years
old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty
shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:6: And if it be from a month old
even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels
of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
27:7: And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy
estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:8:
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before
the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed
shall the priest value him.
27:9: And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an
offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be
holy.
27:10: He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a
bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the
exchange thereof shall be holy.
27:11: And if it be any unclean beast, of
which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the
beast before the priest:
27:12: And the priest shall value it, whether it be
good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
27:13:
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy
estimation.
27:14: And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto
the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the
priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
27:15: And if he that sanctified
it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
27:16: And if a man shall sanctify
unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall
be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at
fifty shekels of silver.
27:17: If he sanctify his field from the year of
jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
27:18: But if he sanctify
his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money
according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it
shall be abated from thy estimation.
27:19: And if he that sanctified the
field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money
of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
27:20: And if he
will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall
not be redeemed any more.
27:21: But the field, when it goeth out in the
jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof
shall be the priest's.
27:22: And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field
which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
27:23:
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the
year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy
thing unto the LORD.
27:24: In the year of the jubile the field shall return
unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land
did belong.
27:25: And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel
of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
27:26: Only the
firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall
sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's.
27:27: And if it
be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation,
and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it
shall be sold according to thy estimation.
27:28: Notwithstanding no devoted
thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man
and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every
devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
27:29: None devoted, which shall be
devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
27:30:
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit
of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
27:31: And if a man
will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part
thereof.
27:32: And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even
of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
27:33: He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he
change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall
be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
27:34: These are the commandments, which
the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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