Divers laws DEUTERONOMY, XXIII. and ordinances with an ox and an ass together. | B. C. 1451. [city; and the man, because he 11 T Thoun shalt not wear a hath humbled his neighbour's garment of divers sorts, as of n Lev. 19. 19.wife so y thou shalt put away woollen and linen together. 12 T Thou shalt make thee fringes o upon the four 2 quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If any man take a wife, and gop in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions q of speechr against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and Lev.21.9. bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her, 17 And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man, and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel and she shall be his wife; her may not put her away all his a days. 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 evil from among you. 25 T But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man 3 force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die : 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. 28 Tlf z a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 TA a man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover b his father's skirt. CHAPTER XXII. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the host. 19 Of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of trespasses. house, and the men of her city (CHAP. 23.) shall stone her with stones that a Lev. 21.17she die; because she hath wrought folly s in Israel, tot play the whore in her father's house: so ub Zec.9.6. shalt thou put evil away from among you. 22 T If v a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them d Ru.4. 10,&c. die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt e ch.2.29. thou put away evil from Israel. TEa that is wounded in the 1 stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard b shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite c or Moabite d shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because e they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaamƒ 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 g the curse into a blessing unto thee. because the LORD thy God loved 23 If a damsel that is a virgin g Mi.6.1. be betrothed w unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, andh Ezra 9.12.thee. lie with her; 1 good. i Ge.25.24 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their 1 prosperity all thy davs for ever. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: z thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; Uncleanness to be avoided. DEUTERONOMY, XXIV. Of dworce. because thou wast a stranger in B. C. 1451. [it of thee; and it would be sin in his land. 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep m thee from every wicked thing. 10 If there be among youn n any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening 2 cometh on, he shall wash o himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. Lev. 15. 16. 3 turneth o Lev. 15.5. p Lev.26.12. 4 nakedness 12 T Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither 9 1Sa.30.15. thou shalt go forth abroad: 5 is good for 13 And thou shalt have a paddle him. upon thy weapon; and it shall be,r Ex.22.21. when thou wilt ease thyself 6 or, sodomabroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: 14 For the LORD thy God walketh p in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no 4 unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master q the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it 5 liketh him best thour shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no 6 whore s of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite t of the sons of Israel. itess, Rom. 1.26. s Lev. 19.29. t Ge. 19.4,5. 37. Ne.5.2,7. Ec.5.4,5, 116.18. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire y Ps.66.13,14 of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD z Mat. 12.1. thy God for any vow: for even (CHAP. 24.) both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 Thaty which is gone out of thy lips thou shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. 24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck z the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 Of_divorce. 6, 10 Of pledges. " Of man-stealers. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 Of justice. 19 Of charity. W THEN 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 1 uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of 2 divorcement, a and give it in her hand, 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. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house ; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again b to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land c to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. matter of a Mat.5.31, 32. b Jer.3.1. 19 T Thou u 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 strangerv thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy c Lev. 18.25brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that w the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 28. d ch.20.7. 21 When thou shalt vowza e Pr.5.18. vow unto the LORD thy God, thouf Ex.21.6. shalt not slack to pay it: for the g ch. 19.19. LORD thy God will surely require 6 T No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 Iff a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put g evil away from among you. 8 T Take heed in the plague of Divers laws, &c. Of unjust weights. 22 And & thou shalt remember tha thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing. DEUTERONOMY, XXV. leprosy, h that thou observe !dili-] B. C. 1451. gently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall h Lev.XIII. teach you as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam i by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost 4 lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his 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 Ink any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee; and it shall be m righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 T 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 5 setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry n against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. XIV. i Nu. 12.10. k lend the loan of any 27. CHAPTER XXV. Stripes must not exceed forty. 4 The ox not to be muzzled. 13 Of unjust weights. F * Ex.22.26, there be a controversy a be- Z Job 29.11 13. 31.19,20. m Ge, 15.6. 5 lifteth his soul unto 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, c that the judge shall cause 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: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile d unto thee. 4 T Thou e shalt not muzzle the o 2Ki. 14.5,6.ox when he 1 treadeth out the corn. 1 Je.31.29,30.5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, Eze. 18.20. and one of them die, and have no Ex.22.22-child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her 2 husband's f brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. p 19 ¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: itd Job 18.3. shall be for the stranger, for the e 1Cor.9.9. fatherless, and for the widow that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-2 tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it 7 afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. thresheth, Ru. 1. 12,13. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed g in the name of his brother which is dead, h that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his 3 brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say. My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. 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 in 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 T one with the 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: Of offering the first fruits. DEUTERONOMY, XXVI. God's covenant. 6 And the Egyptians ƒ evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid 12 Then thou shalt cut off her B. C. 1451. hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy 4 a stone and upon us hard bondage: bag 4 divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house 5 divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But i thou shalt have a perfecti and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all k that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. a stone. 5 an ephah and an ephah. Le.19.35,36. Pr.11.1. Eze.45.10. Am.8.5. Mi.6.11. A 1Th.4.6. 1 Ex.17.8,&c. m Ps.36.1. Pr. 16.6. 17 T Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when yen 1Sam, 15.3. were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, o Ex. 17.14. and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared m not God. (CHAP. 26.) a Ex.23.19. Nu. 18.13. d Ge.46.1-6. 19 Therefore it shall be, when n the LORD thy God hath given theeb Hos. 12.12. rest from all thine enemies round c Ge.43.1,2. about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt e ch.7.7. blot o out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. CHAPTER XXVI. fEx.1.11-14. The covenant between God and the & Ex.II-IV. people. AND it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; h Ex. 12.37, 51. 13.3,16. i ch.4.34. Ex.3.8. Pr.3.9. ICO.10.31. 2 That a thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land m ch. 12.7,12. that the LORD thy God giveth thee, 16. 11. and shalt put it in a basket, and n 1Cor.9.11. shalt go unto the place which the o Lev.27.30. LORD thy God shall choose to place Nu. 18.24. his name there. pch.14.28,29. q Ps. 18.21,24. 26.1,6. Acts 24. 16. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give 5 And thou shalt speak and say u Is.66.1. before the LORD thy God, Ab│v Ps.28.9. Syrian ready to perish c was my fa51.18. ther; and d he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, e and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: w He.6.13-18. ch.11.8. 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard g our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression : 8 And the LORD brought us forth h out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and i with wonders; 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth k with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice m in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou and the Levite, n and the stranger that is among you. 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes o of thine increase the third year, which is the year p of tithing, and hath given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled: 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed q thy commandments, neither have I forgotten r them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, s neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look ✰ down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, u and bless v thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest w unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 16 T This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all, thine heart, and with all thy soul. Law on stone. DEUTERONOMY, XXVII, XXVIII. 17 Thou hast avouched v the LORD B. C. 1451. y this day to be thy God, and to walk and his judgments, and to hearken 2Ch.34.31. 2Cor.8.5. 20. 18 And the LORD a hatlı avouched thee this day to be his peculiar b 2 Ps. 147.19, people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep call a ch.14.2. his commandments; 19 And to make thee high d above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy é people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. CHAPTER XXVII. 28.9. b Ex. 19.5.6. c Ps. 119.6. d Ps. 148.14. e 1Pet.2.9. The curses pronounced on mount | (CHAP. 27.) a Jos.4.1,&c. Ebal. AND Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the command-c ments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the day a when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: Jos.8.32. ch.11.29. Jos. 8.30,33. d ch.26.10,11. e ch.26.18. 1 for a Is.44.9. Pr.30.17. 3 And b thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that Ho. 13.2,3. thou mayest go in unto the land h2Ki.17.9,10. which the LORD thy God giveth Jer.23.24. thee, a land that floweth with milki Lev. 19.3. and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 4 Therefore it shall be, when ye Lev. 19.14. be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal,c and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an k ch. 19, 14. m Ex.22.21 24. Mal.3.5. Curses pronounced. 11 T 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 Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal 1 to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zubúlun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 ¶ And the Levites fshall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice: 15 Cursed be the man that makethg any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret h place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed be he that i setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth k his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the ? blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth m the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed be he n that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast: o and all the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister,p the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: q and all the peo altar of stones: thou shalt not lift o Lev. 18.23.ple shall say, Amen. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the p Lev. 18.9. LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings q Lev. 18.17. thereon unto the LORD thy God. 20.14. 7 And thou shalt offer peace offer-r ch.19.11,12. ings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice d before the LORD thy God: 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly: r and all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay s an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed t be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do u them and all the people shall say, Amen. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience, 15 The curses for disobedience. A thou shalt hearken diligently ND it shall come to pass, if a unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high b above all the nations of the earth: |