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.