B. C. 1490. Or, being a husband among his people, he shall not defile himself for his wife, &c. See Ez. 24. 16, 17. 27,28.De. 14. 1. Ez. 21 And if a man shall take his ch. 18. b ch. 19. brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. † Heb. a separation. 44. 20. ch. 18. 21. & 19. 12. fch.18.26. d See ch. & 19. 37. 3. 11. 8 ch. 18. 22. Ez. 44. fSee De. 25, 28. 221 Ye shall therefore keep all my fstatutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither1 bring you to dwell therein, "spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the mannersofthe nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and itherefore I abhorred them. 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. 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between un- 8. 53. clean fowls and clean: "and ye mch. 11. shall not make your souls abomi- 47. De. nable by beast or by fowl, or by 14. 4. any manner of living thing that "ch. 11. creepeth on the ground, which 43. I have separated from you as | Or, unclean. i Ex. 29. 29,30. ch. 8.12.&16. 32. Nu.35. Iver. 26. moveth. lch. 10. 6. mNu. 19. 14. See Of their marriagea and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband: for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5 bThey shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 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. 7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; nei. ther shall they take a woman fput away from her husband. for he is holy unto his God. 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. 9 ThAnd the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. 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, Ishall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body,nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 "Neither shall he go out of ver. 1, 2. the sanctuary, nor profane the nch.10. 7. sanctuary of his God; for "the crown of the anointing oil of his Ex. 28. God is upon him: I am the LORD. 13 And Phe shall take a wife in her virginity. 36.ch.8.9, 12, 30. P ver. 7. Ez.44.22. 26 And ye shall be holy unto 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. 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for 91 the LORD do sanctify him. 16 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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: 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, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or broken-handed, 20 Or crook-backed, or adwarf, 117 Priests in their uncleanness or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or thath his stones broken; LEVITICUS. B. C. 1490. tDe.23.1. 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to "offer the "ver. 6. offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the 'holy. B. C. 1490. PSeelSa. 21.6. ↑ Heb. to abstain from holy things. sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. 10 P 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. 11 But if the priest buy any soul twith his money, he shall eat of purchase it, and he that is born in his of his house: they shall eat of his ch. 2. 3. money. 10.&6.17. Nu. 18. 29.& 7. 1. 11, 13. & 24. 9. Nu. 18. 9. 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 Nu. 18. sanctify them. † Heb. Y ch. 22. stranger. 10, 11, 12. 19. 24 And Moses told it unto Aa-zver. ron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXIL How the priests shall be cleansed, 1, 6. 10 Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things. 17 The sacrifices must be without blemish. 26 The age of the sacrifice. 29 The law of eating the sacrifice of thanks giving. AND the LORD spake unto Mo ses, saying, 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 challow unto me: I am the LORD. 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, dhaving his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD. 12. aNu. 6. 3. r Ge. 38. 11. meat. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. be a widow, or divorced, and 13 But if the priest's daughter have no child, and is 'returned her youth, she shall eat of her ch. 10. unto her father's house, as in father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 14.Nu.18. 11, 19. tch. 5. 15, 16. 14 T 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. "Nu. 18. 15 And "they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD: 32. HOr, lade themselves with the iniquity b ch. 18. of trespass in their eat 21. c Ex. 28. 38. Nu.18. 32.De.15. 19. dch.7.20. ch.15.2.ch. L. 3. † Heb. running of the reins. 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, funtil he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or ha man whose seed goeth from him; 5 Ori whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or ka man of whom he may take uncleanness, 16. whatsoever uncleanness hehath: i ch. 11. 6 The soul which hath touched 24, 43, 44. any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food. 8 "That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. a De. 15. 21.&17.1. Mal. 1.8, 14. Ep. 5. 27. He. 9. 14.1Pe.1. 19. bch.3.1,6. ch.7. 16. Nu. 15. 3, 8. De. 23. 21,23. Ps. 61.8.&65. He.10.22. 1. Ec.5.4, 5. m ch. 21. 31. Ex. 28. 5. 9 They shall therefore keep 43.Nu.18. Or kid. mine ordinance, lest they bear 22, 32 fch.21.18 16 Or | suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his of Israel, and say unto them, sons, and unto all the children YWhatsoever 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 free-will-offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offering: 192 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And bwhosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 22 dBlind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make ean offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock, or a | lamb that hath any thing fsuperfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free-willoffering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the The feasts of the Lord. CHAPTER XXIII. LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. B. C. hel. 21.6. 25 Neither from a stranger's & Nu. 15. hand shall ye offer the bread of 15, 16. your God of any of these; because their icorruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 26 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat is brought forth, thenit 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. i Mal. 1. 30. B. C. 1490. f Ex. 12. 16.Nu.28. Ex. 23. 16, 19. & k Ex. 22. 34. 22, 26. she-goat. IDe.22. 6. 28 And whether it be cow, or Or, lewe, ye shall not kill it land her young both in one day. 29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will. 26.De.16. 15. Or, handful. † Heb. mch.7.12. 16. 1 Co. 5. i Ex. 29. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up, ye shall leave "none"ch. 7.15. 24. of it until the morrow: I am the LORD. °ch.19.37 kch.2. 14, Nu.15.40. 15, 16. De. 4. 40. P ch. 18. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD. 32 PNeither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you, 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXIII The feasts of the Lord, 1. 3 The sabbath. 4 The passover. 9 The sheaf of first-fruits. 15 The feast of Pentecost. 22 Gleanings to be left for the poor. 23 The feast of trumpets. 25 The day of atonement. 33 The feast of tabernacles. ND the LORD spake unto Mo A ses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is-aver.4,37. rael, and say unto them, Con- bEx.32.5. cerning the feasts of the LORD, 2 Ki. 10. which ye shall bproclaim to be 20. Ps.81. noly convocations, even these 3. are my feasts. 3 Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the saboath of rest, an holy convocation: ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4 Td These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. Pasand on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. The feast of Pentecost. 7 fIn the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 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. 9 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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 t sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall iwave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. when ye wave the sheaf, an he12 And ye shall offer that day lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 13kAnd the meat-offering thereof shall be two tenth-deals of fine flourmingled with oil,an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drinkoffering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the self-same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 And lye shall count unto Ich. 25. 8. you from the morrow after the Ex.34.22. sabbath, from the day that ye De.16.9. brought the sheaf of the waveoffering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: & 23. 12. Ex. 23 28. 16, 17. 5. 10. 16 Even unto the morrrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer "a new meat-offering unto the LORD. 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. 18 And ye shall offer with the bread sevenlambswithoutblemish ofthe firstyear, 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. 19 Then ye shall sacrifice Pone kid of the goats for a sin-offering, for a sacrifice of peace-offerand two lambs of the first year The day of atonement. fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same 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. LEVITICUS. B. C. F Nu. 18. 12.De.18. 4. 22 T And when ye reap the "ch.19.9. harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou B. C. 1490. Nu. 29. 35. Ne. 8. 18. Jn. 7. The oil for the iamps, 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 fdsolemn assembly; and ye 37. shall do no servile work therein. † Heb. 37 These are the feasts of the dayofre- LORD, which ye shall proclaim straint. to be holy convocations, to offer dDe.16.8. an offering made by fire unto the 2 Ch. 7.9. LORD, a burnt-offering, and a Joel 1.14. drink-offerings, every thing upNe. 8. 18. meat-offering, a sacrifice, and & 2. 15. on his day: "ver.2,4. 38 Besides the sabbaths of the reapest, neither shalt thou gath-t De. 24. f Nu. 29. LORD, and besides your gifts, and er any gleaning of thy harvest: 19. thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. 23 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the "seventh "Nu.29.1. month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 26 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,. 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. 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. ch.25.9. 39. 5 Ex. 23. 16.De.16. 13. Ne.8.15. † Heb. fruit. i De. 16. 14, 15. kNu. 29. 12. Ne. 30.Nu.29. 18. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off Ge. 17. from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doethany work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 14. ch. 20. 3, 5,6. 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 t celebrate your + Heb. sabbath. 33 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day 8. INe.8. 14, 15, 16. besides all your vows, and besides all your free-will-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. 39 Also in the fifteenth day of theseventh month, when yehave 5gathered 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. 40 And hye shall take you on the first day, the t boughs of goodly trees, branches of palmtrees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; iand ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 41 kAnd 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. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may 13. Ps.78. know that I made the children of Israel todwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: 1 am the LORD your God. 2 a Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, fto cause the lamps to burn continually. 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. 4. He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually. Ex. 25.5 T And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes The law of blasphemy. covenant. CHAPTER XXV. B. C. 1490. d1 Ki. 7. 48.2Ch.4. B. C. The year of Jubilee, of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country; for I am the LORD your God. 23 T And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they 19. & 13. ver. 14. should bring forth him that had 11. He. 9. cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. 2. 1491. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, dupon the pure table before the LORD. 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. 8Every sabbath he shall set it Nu. 4. 7. in order before the LORD conti- ICh.9.32. uually, being taken from the chil- 2Ch. 2. 4. dren of Israel by an everlasting fi Sa. 21. 6.Mat.12. 9 And it shall be Aaron's and 4. Ma. 2. his sons'; and they shall eat it 26. Lu. 6. in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of 5Ex. 29. the LORD made by fire by a per- 33. ch.8.3. & 21.22. petual statute. 10 T And the son of an Israel-hver. 16. itish woman, whose father was iJob 1. 5, an Egyptian, went out among 11.22.&2 the children of Israel; and this 5,9,10. Is. son of the Israelitish woman and 8. 21. a man of Israel strove together Ex. 18. 22, 26. in the camp; a Ex. 23. 11 And the Israelitish woman's INu.15.34 10. See son bblasphemed the name of Heb. to 35. 2 Ch. ch. 26.31, the LORD, and icursed; and expound 36. 21. they brought him unto Moses: unto (and his mother's name was them ac Shelomith, the daughter of Dib-cording to the ri, of the tribe of Dan :) 12 And they put him in ward, mouth that the mind of the LORD LORD. might be shewed them. 13 And the LORD spake unto 15, 16.Nu Moses, saying, 27.5.&36. of the mEx. 18. 14 Bring forth him that hath 5,6. cursed without the camp; and De.13.9. let all that heard him "lay their & 17. 7. hands upon his head, and let all ch.5.1.& the congregation stone him. 20.17.Nu. 15 And thou shalt speak unto 9. 13. the children of Israel, saying, PIKi. 21. Whosoever curseth his God 10,13. Ps. "shall bear his sin. 74. 10, 18. 16 And he that Pblasphemeth Mat. 12. the name of the LORD, he shall 31. Ma.3. surely be put to death, and all 28.Ja.2.7. the congregation shall certainly 9 Ex. 21. stone him: as well the stranger, 12 Nu.35. as he that is born in the land, 31.De.19. when he blasphemeth the name 11, 12. of the LORD, shall be put to tHeb. death. smiteth 17 And he that t killeth any the life man shall surely be put to death. of a 18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; † beast for ver. 21. beast. man. ↑ Heb. † Heb. 29. CHAPTER XXV. The sabbath of the seventh year, 1. 8 The jubilee in the fiftieth year. 14 Of oppression. 18 A blessing of obedience. 23 The redemption of land. 29 Of houses. 35 Compassion of the poor. 39 The usage of bondmen. 47 The redemption of servants. A ND the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 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 fkeep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 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. b2 Ki. 19.5 bThat which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapestofthy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 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, 19 And if a man cause a blemish life in his neighbour; as he hath for life done, so shall it be done unto Ex. 21. him: 24.De.19. 20 Breach for breach, eye for 21.Mat.5. eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath 38.&7.2. caused a blemish in a man, so Ex.21.33 shall it be done to him again. ver. 18. 21 And he that killeth a beast, "ver. 17. he shall restore it: "and he that x Ex. 12. killeth a man, he shall be put to 49. ch. 19. death. 34.Nu.15 2 Ye shall have one manner 16. Bver.6,7. 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 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. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee 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. 10 And ye shall hallow the fifti eth year, and dproclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: fye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the graves in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: "ye shall eat 121 |