21 Anda mare committed a sin 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of worthy of death, and he be to be put to speech against her, saying, I found not my de th, and thou hang him on a tree; daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

His body shall 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.

CHAP. XXII.

19 And they shal! amerce him in an han|dred shekels of silver, and give them unto the HOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or father of the damsel, because he hath brought his sheep go astray, and hide thyself up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel, and from them; thou shalt in any case bring she shall be his wife: he may not put her them again unto thy brother. away all his days.

2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not; then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel :

21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his die; because she hath wrought folly in Israel, ass, and so shalt thou do with his raiment; to play the whore in her father's house: so and with all lest things of thy brother's, which shalt thou put evil away from among you. he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou 22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a wo do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. man married to an husband, then they shall 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass both of them die, both the man that lay with or his ox fall down by the way, and hide the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou thyself from them; thou shalt surely help put away evil from Israei. him to lift them up again. 23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin be be 5¶The woman shall not wear that which trothed unto an husband, and a man find Dertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man her in the city, and lie with her; put on a woman's garment: for all that do so 24 Then ye shall bring them both out tre abomination unto the LORD thy God. unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee them with stones that they die; the damsel, in the way in any tree, or on the ground, because she cried not, being in the city; and whether they be young ones or eggs, and the the man, because he hath humbled his dain sitting upon the young,or upon the eggs, neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil thou shalt not take the dam with the young; from among you.

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7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel and take the young to thee: that it may in the field, and the man force her, and lie be well with thee, and that thou mayest pro- with her; then the man only that lay with long the days. her shall die: 3 When thou buildest a new house, then] 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, thing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy that thou bring not blood upon thine house, of death for as when a man riseth against if any man fall from thence. his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is

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9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with this matter: divers seeds; lest the fruit of thy seed which

27 For he found her in the field, and the thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vine-betrothed damsel cried, and there was none yard, be defiled. to save her.

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. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

13 If any man take a wife, and go in ur to 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 I found her not a maid:

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28 If a man find a damsel that is a vir. gin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

29 Then the inan that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels o. silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. CHAP. XXIII.

HE that is wounded in the stones, or kath

his privy member cut off, shall not 15 Then shall the father of the damsel enter into the congregation of the LORD. and her mother, take and bring forth the 2 A bastard shall not enter into the ccn. tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the el-gregation of the LORD; even to his tenth ders of the city in the gate: generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregat on of the LORD: even

their tenth generation shall they not enter | LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay into the congregation of the LORD for ever: it: for the LORD thy God will surely require 4 Because they met you not with bread it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. and with water in the way, when ye came 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall forth out of Egypt; and because they hired be no sin in thee. against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto hee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

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.

21 When thou comest into thy neigh bour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not pur 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

8 The children that are begotten of them thall enter into the congregation of the LORD standing corn. In their third generation.

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

10 ¶ If there be among you any man that is not clean, by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp; he shall not come within the camp.

CHAP. XXIV.

WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and

married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes,because he hath found some uncleanness in hier; then let him write her a bill of divorcemen', and give it in her haud and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man's wife. 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh 3 And if the latter husband hate her and on, he shall wash himself with water; and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it when the sun is down, he shall come into in her hand, and sendeth her out of his the camp again. house; or if the latter husband die, which took 12 ¶ Thou shalt have a place also without her to be his wife; the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 4 Her former husband, which sent her 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy away, may not take her again to be his wife, weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt after that she is defiled; for that is abominaease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig there-tion before the LORD: and thou shalt not with, and shalt turn back and cover that cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy which cometh from thee: God giveth thee for an inheritance.

14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the 5 When a man hath taken a new wife, midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be give up thine enemies before thee: therefore charged with any business; but he shall be shall thy camp be holy; that he see no un-free at home one year, and shall cheer up his clean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. wife which he hath taken.

15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his mas- 6 No man shall take the nether or the ter the servant which is escaped from his upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a master unto thee: man's life to pledge.

16 He shall dwell with thee, even among 7 If a man be found stealing any of his you, in that place which he shall choose, in brethren of the children of Israel, and makone of thy gates where it liketh him best:eth merchandise of him, or selleth him; then thou shalt not oppress him. that thief shall die: and thou shalt put evil 17 There shall be no whore of the away from among you. daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, tons of Israel. that thou observe diligently, and do accord18 ¶ Thou shalt not bring the hire of aling to all that the priests the Levites shall whore, or the price of a dog, into the house teach you; as I commanded them, so ye shall of the LORD thy God for any vow, for even observe to do. both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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

20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the

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

101 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch hits pledge.

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 7 And if the man like not to take his bro. pledge again when the sun goeth down, that ther's wife, then let his brother's wife go up be may sleep in his own raiment, and bless to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husthee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee band's brother refuseth to raise up unto his before the LORD thy God. brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

14¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates;

15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sia unto thee.

16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children bel t to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge:

13 But thou shalt remember that thou wast bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I comand thee to do this thing.

8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit ia his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets; 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

14 When thou cuttest down thine har vest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in tive field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just and for the widow; that the LORD thy God weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou may bless thee in all the work of thine hands, have; that thy days may be lengthened in the 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. thou shalt not go over the boughs again: 16 For all that do such things, and all that It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, do unrighteously, are an abomination unto aad for the widow. the LORD thy God.

21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: by the way, when ye were come forth out of it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, Egypt;

and for the widow.

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22 And thou shalt remember that thou the hindmost of thee, even all that were fee wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt: there-ble behind thee, when thou wast faint and fore I command thee to do this thing. weary; and he feared not God.

CHAP. XXV.

F there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the rebemembrance of Amalek from under heaven thou shalt not forget it.

And it shall be, if the wicked man worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall tause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: fest, if he should exceed, and beat hin above these with may stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

CHAP. XXVI.

AND it shall be, when thou art come on 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 all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto 5¶ If brethren dwell together, and one the place which the LORD thy God shall choose of them die, and have no child, the wife of to place his name there. he dead shall not marry without unto a stran- 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that ger: her husband's brother shall go in unto shall be in those days, and say unto him, I her, and take her to him to wife, and perform profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that the duty of an husband's brother unto her. I am come unto the country which the LORD 6 And it shall be, that the first-born which sware unto our fathers for to give us. she beareth shall succeed in the name of his 4 And the priest shall take the basket out brother which is dead, that his name be not of thine hand, and set it down before the al put out of Israel. tar of the LORD thy God,

And thou shalt speak and say before the holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was hath spoken.

my father; and he went down into Egypt,

CHAP. XXVII.

and sojourned there with a few, and becaine AND Moses, with the elders of Israel, comthere a nation, great, mighty, and populous :| manded the people, saying, Keep all the 6 And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and commandments which I command you this afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: day.

7 And when we cried unto the LORD God And it shall be, on the day when ye shall of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and pass over Jordan unto the land which the looked on our affliction, and our labour, and LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shall our oppression: set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster.

8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

10 And now, behold, I have brought the 4 Therefore it shall be, when ye be gone first-fruits of the land which thou, O LORD, over Jordan, that ye shall set tup these stones, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before which I command you this day, in mouri the LORD thy God, and worship before the Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster LORD thy God. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto

11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good the LORD thy Ged, an altar of stones: thou thing which the LORD thy God hath given un-shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. to thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD Levite, and the stranger that is among you. thy God of whole stones; and thou shalt offer 12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of tith- burnt-offerings thereon unto the LORD thy ing all the tithes of thine increase the third God:

year which is the year of tithing, and hast 7 And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, and given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fa- shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD therless, and the widow, that they may eat thy God. within thy gates, and be filled;

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all

13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy the words of this law very plainly. God, I have brought away the hallowed things 9 And Moses, and the priests the Levites, out of mine house, and also have given thein spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the hearken, O Israe!; This day thou art become fatherless, and to the widow, according to all the people of the LORD thy God. thy commandments which thou hast com- 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of manded me: I have not transgressed thy com-the LORD thy God, and do his command. mandments, neither have I forgotten them: ments and his statutes, which I command 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, thee this day. 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:

11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal the land which thou hast given us, as thou to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zeswarest unto our fathers, a land that flow-bulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

eth with milk and honey.

16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded ther to do these statutes and judg ments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 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

14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15 Cursed be the man that maketh any gra ven or molten image, an abomination un'o the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place: and ail the people shall answer and say, Amen.

16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.

voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neigh day to be his peculiar people, as he hath pro- bour's land-mark: and all the people shall mised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all say, Amen. his commandments;

19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour and that thou mayest be an

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the peop.e shall say, Amen.

19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judg

ment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow¡thou hearken unto the commandments of the and all the people shall say, Amen. LORD thy God, which I command thee this 20 Cursed be he that licth with his father's day, to observe and to do them: wife; because he uncovereth his father's 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any skirt, and all the people shall say, Amen. of the words which I command thee this day, 21 Cursed be he thai lieth with any manner to the right hand or to the left, to go after of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen. other gods to serve them. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the 15% But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt daughter of his father, or the daughter of his not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. God, to observe to do all his commandments 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-and his statutes, which I command thee this in-law and all the people shall say, Amen. day, that all these curses shall come upon 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour thee, and overtake thee. secretly and all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen.

16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy the words of this law to do them: and all kine, and the flocks of the sheep. the people shall say, Amen.

CHAP. XXVIII.

19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

ND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the 20 The LORD shail send upon thee cursing, LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou sottest commandments which I command thee this thine hand unto for to do, until thou be de day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on stroyed, and until thou perish quickly; behigh above all nations of the earth. cause of the wickedness of thy doings, where

2 And all these blessings shall come on by thou hast forsaken me. thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt heark- 21The LORDshall make the pesti.ence cleave en unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Junto thee, until he have consumed thee from 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a con

blessed shalt thou be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body,sumption, and with a fever, and with an inand the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of fammation, and with an extreme burning, thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the and with the sword, and with blasting, and flocks of thy sheep. with mildew; and they shall pursue thee un

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.ul thou perish.

6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest om.shall be brass, and the earth that is under 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies thee shall be iron. that rise up against thee to be smitten before 24The LORD shall make the rain of thy land thy face: they shall come out against thee powder and dust: from heaven shall it come one way, and flee before thee seven ways. down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing 25 The Loep shall cause thee to be smitupon thee in thy store-houses, aad in all that ten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall one way against them, and flee seven ways bless thee in the land which the LORD thy before thein; and shalt be removed into all God giveth thee. the kingdorns of the earth.

9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments earth, and no man shall fray them away. of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch 10 And all the people of the earth shall of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with see that thou art called by the name of the the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. canst not be healed.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteus in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that

28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.

29 And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled everinore, and no man shall save thee.

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes,