The expiation of uncertain murder. Before CHRIST 1451 ↑ Heb. it come down. a ch. 10. 8. 1 Chron. 2345-15 CHAP. XXI. XXII. A stubborn son to be stoned to death. maketh war with thee, until fit be sub- be her husband, and she shall be thy BIST dued. wife. CHAP. XXI. 1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 10 The usage of a captive taken to wife. 15 The firstborn is not to be disinherited upon private affection. 18 4 stubborn son is to be stoned to death. 22 The malefactor must not hang all night on a tree. [F one be found slain in the land which If the Loan thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God 13 Ecclus hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: b ch. 17.8,9. + Heb. mouth. 6 And all the elders of that city, that e See Ps. 19 are next unto the slain man, shall wash Matt. 27.24. their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 14 4 Jonah 1. Heb. in the 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. . 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood tunto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9. So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 10 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 beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, ! Or, mer and pare her nails; to crew. + Heb. make, er, dress. 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall re(See P-45- main in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and g Gen. 34-2. ch. 22. 29. 15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one be- Judg. 19. 21. loved, and another hated, and they have h Gen. 29. born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be her's that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, 'when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; "the right of the firstborn is his. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 33. The sex to be distinguished by apparel. CHRIST 1451. Of adultery, fornication, &c. 18 And the elders of that city shall Before take that man and chastise him; DEUTERONOMY. Before shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. h Exod, 23. e Lev. 22. 28. d ch. 4. 40. e Lev. 19. 19. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 6¶ If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 ¶ When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. 9¶Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard +Heb. ful with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. ness of thy seed. f See 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16. Lev. 19. 19. 38. Matt. 23. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. h Numb. 15. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four +†quarters of thy vesture, +Heb.wings. wherewith thou coverest thyself. i Gen. 29. 21. Judg. 15. 1. 13¶ If any man take a wife, and 'go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: k CHRIST 1451. Judg. 20. 6, 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore k Gen. 34-7in her father's house: so shalt thou put 10. 2 Sam. evil away from among you. 22¶If a man be found lying with m Lev. 20.10. a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. unto the gate of that city, and ye shall 25 But if a man find a betrothed 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do 27 For he found her in the field, and p ver. 21, 22. Or, take, her. Sam. strong hold 13. 14. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a 9 Exod. 22 virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay 16, 17. shall give unto the damsel's father fifty 30 ¶ A man shall not take his father's Uncleanness to be avoided. Before HE that is wounded in the stones, or fliketh him best: 'thou shalt not op- CHRIST hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 51 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: b 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when 22. ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. à Ezra 9. 12. 5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor +Heb. good. their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; Gen.25-24, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because 'thou wast a 2&3 stranger in his land. 25.26. Obad. 10, 12. 1 Esed. 22. Lev. 1934 ch. 10.19 Lev. 15. 16. + Heb. turneth toward. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation. 9¶ When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 10If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening + comb Lev. 15. 5. eth on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou Hebsitest+wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: i Lev. 26. 12. + Heb, na kedness of anything k 1 Sam. 30. 15 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 shall thy camp be holy: that he see no tunclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it 21 ¶When thou shalt vow a vow unto Numb. 30. 2. Eccles. 5. the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack 45 to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. 24 ¶ When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. Wand married her, and it come to Mark 1o. 4. pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found + some uncleanness + Heb. malin her: then let him write her a bill of erf naked + divorcement, and give it in her hand, Heb, cutand send her out of his house. HEN a man hath taken a wife, Matt.5.31 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; ness. ting off. 4 Her former husband, which sent Jer. 3. 1. her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and e. Exod. 21. 16. 6 ¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper milstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7¶If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth f ch. 19. 19. him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague of lethat thou observe diligently, and prosy, do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded Lev. 13. 2. & 14.2. them, so ye shall observe to do. h 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did 'unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost + lend thy brother the end any thing, thou shalt not go into his house any thing to, to fetch his pledge. k Exod. 22. 26. 13. & 31. 20. 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own rai 1 Job 29.11, ment, and 'bless thee: and "it shall be 2 Cor. 9. 13. righteousness unto thee before the LORD m ch. 6. 25. thy God. 2 Tim. 1. 18. Ps. 106. 31. & 112.9. Dan. 4. 27. 14¶ Thou shalt not "oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he n Mal 3-5 be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: o Lev. 19. 13. Jer. 22. 13. Jam. 5. 4. 15 At his day thou shalt give him his Tob. 4.14. hire, neither shall the sun go down upon Heb.lifeth it; for he is poor, and † setteth his heart Put upon it: Plest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. his soul unto & 86.4 ૧ p Jam. 5. 4. 16 The fathers shall not be put to| 2 Kings 14. 6. 2 Chron. death for the children, neither shall the 31. 29, 30. children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his 25-4. Jer. Ezek. 18. 20. r Exod. 22. 21, 22. Prov. own sin. 17 ¶'Thou shalt not pervert the judg22. 22. Isai ment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; "nor take the widow's raiment to pledge: 1. 23. Jer. 5. 28. & 22.3. Ezek. 22. 29. Zech. 7. 10. ■ Exod. 22. 26. 16, 12. 18 But thou shalt remember that thou Mal. 3.5- wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore t ver.22. ch. I command thee to do this thing. 19¶ "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: u Lev. 19-9, 10. & 23. 22. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag 1. Eck+divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not hav in thine house +Hebt divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a. perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. • Prov. 11. 1. 1 Thess. Rom 3 18 x1 Sam. 15 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17¶Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18. How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he "feared not God. Of the third year's tithes. Before few, and became there a nation, great, CHRIST mighty, and populous: 1451. 6. And the Egyptians evil entreated r Gen. 46. · us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard 27. ch.10.2 bondage: 11, 14 23, 24, 25. & g Exod. 1. 7 And when we cried unto the LORD h Exod. 2. God of our fathers, the LORD heard our 3.9.& 4.31. voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 37, 51. & 13. 5.15 8 And the LORD brought us forth outi Exod. 12. of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with 314, 16. ch. an outstretched arm, and with great ter- k ch.4-34ribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even 1a 1 Exod. 3. & land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of 19 Therefore it shall be, when the tithing all the "tithes of thine increase "Lev. 27.30. LORD thy God hath given thee rest from the third year, which is the year of tith- 24 all thine enemies round about, in the landing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the 29. which the LORD thy God giveth thee for stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, · an inheritance to possess it, that thou that they may eat within thy gates, and v Exod. 17. shalt blot out the remembrance of Ama- be filled; lek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. 14 a Exod. 23. 19.34.2. 13. ch. 15. 10. CHAP. XXVI. AND it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of Nam 18 all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt Fr. 39. bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4. And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to 28457.11. perish was my father, and he went down • Gen. 45. 1, into Egypt, and sojourned there with a 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habita- 16 This day the LORD thy God hath 17 Thou hast "avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: ■ Exod. 20. 19. |