DEUTERONOMY, XXIII. o Nu. 15.38. 12 Thou shalt make thee Mat.23.5. 2 wings. p Ge.29.21. 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 woinan, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her, 17 And lo, he hath given occa s Ge.34.7. 13. t Lev.21.9. u ch.13.5. Eze.23.45 Jno.8.5. and ordinances. city; and the man, because he hath humbled a his neighbour's wife so y thou shalt put away evil from among you. 25 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. 23 If 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 sions of speech against her, saying, w Mat. 1.18, she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A a man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover b his father's skirt. CHAPTER XXIII. 9 Uncleanness to be avoided in the host. 19 Of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of trespasses. Ea that is wounded in the 2 Sa. 13. 14. HE stones, or hath his privy Ex.22. 16, 17. ch.27.20. Lev. 18.8. 20.11. b Ru.3.9. (CHAP. 23.) 21 Then they shall bring out the. among you. 22 If v a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed w unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 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 c 21. 22.22-24. Ne. 13. 1,2. Lam. 1.10. d Ru.4. 10,&c. e ch.2.29. fNu.22.5,&c. g Mi.6.1. i Ge.25.24 26 Ob. 10-12. Mal. 1.2. 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 Balaam f 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 thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their 1 prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: i thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; Uncleanness to be avoided. DEUTERONOMY, XXIV. because thouk wast a stranger in B. C. 1451. his land. Ex.22.21. 8 The children that are begotten k ch. 10. 19. of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation. 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep m thee from every wicked thing. 10 If n there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening 2cometh on, he shall wash o himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. Lev. 19.34. m Jos.6.18. o Lev. 15.5. p Lev.26.12. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither q 1Sa.30.15. thou shalt go forth abroad: 5 is good for him. Of divorce. it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 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. 21 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. 7 Of man-stealers. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 Of justice. 19 Of charity. 6 or, sodom 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, r Ex.22.21. when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, 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. itess, 8 Lev. 19.29. u Ex.22.25. 37. 17. 17 There shall be no 6 whore s of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite t of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire y Ps.66.13,14 116.18. of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD 2 Mat. 12.1. thy God for any vow: for even (CHAP. 24.) both these are abomination unto 1 matter of the LORD thy God. nakedness. 2 cutting off. a Mat.5.31, 32. b Jer.3.1. d ch.20.7. 28. 19 Thou shalt not lend upon 3 not any pass upon him. e Pr.5.18. WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some 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. 5 When d a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, 3 neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheere up his wife which he hath taken. 6 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 o evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague of Divers laws, &c. 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, XIV. 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. 16 The fathers o shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; p nor take the widow's raiment to pledge: i Nu. 12. 10. lend the loan of any 27. I Job 29.11 Im 13. 31.19,20. Ge. 15.6. soul unto o 2Ki. 14.5,6. 27. q ch.16. 12. 23.22. Ps. 41. 1. bough it s ver. 18. (CHAP. 25.) Eze.44.24. 18 But a thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore I command thee b 2Chr. 19.8. to do this thing. Pr. 17.15. 19 When thou cuttest down c Mat, 10.17. thine harvest in thy field, and hrast Lu. 12.48. forgot a sheaf in the field, thou 2Co.11.24. 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 ITi.5.18. the LORD thy God may bless thee 1 thresheth, in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-2 tree, thou shalt not 6 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. Hos. 10. 11. or, next kinsman, Ge.38.8,9. Ru. 1. 12, 13. f Mat.22.24. g Ge.38.8. Ru.4. 10,&c. 3 or, next kinsman's. Of unjust weights. 22 And s thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing. CHAPTER XXV. Stripes must not exceed forty. 4 The ox not to be muzzled. 13 Of unjust weights. F there be a controversy a between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify b the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 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 ox when he 1 treadeth out the corn. 5 If brethren dwell together. and one of them die, and have no 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. 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 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 f 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 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 perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17 a stone. an ephah and an ephah. i Le.19.35,36. Pr.11.1. Eze.45.10. Am.8.5. Mi.6.11. k 1Th.4.6. 1 Ex.17.8,&c. m Ps.36.1. Pr. 16.6. Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when yen 1Sam. 15.3. were come forth out of Egypt; a Ex.23.19. Nu. 18.13. 18 How he met thee by the way, o Ex.17.14. and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind (CHAP. 26.) thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared m not God. 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. d Ge.46.1-6. fEx.1.11-14. 8 Ex.II-IV. h Ex. 12.37, 51. 13.3,16. i ch.4.34. m ch.12.7,12. 16. 11. n 1Cor.9.11. o Lev.27.30. Nu. 18.24. pch. 14.28,29. q Ps. 18.21.21. 26.1,6. 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 giver us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. Acts 24.16. 1Jno.3.22. Ps. 119.141. 8 Lev.7.20. 21.1,11. Hos.9.4. t Is.63.15. 5 And thou shalt speak and sayu Is.66.1. before the LORD thy God, Abv Ps.28.9. Syrian ready to perish c was my fa- 51.18. ther; and d he went down into w He.6.13-18. Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, e and became there a nation, x ch.11.8. great, mighty, and populous: 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 t 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 a 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. Curses pronounced. AND Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the command-e ch.11.29. 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 thee1 for a up great stones, and plaster them cursing. with plaster: fch.33.10. g Ex.20.4,23. Is.44.9. Ho.13.2,3. h2Ki. 17.9, 10. Jer.23.24. Lev.19.3. Pr.30.17. 3 And b thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milki 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. k ch. 19. 14. m Ex.22.21 24. Mal.3.5. n Lev. 18.8. 20.11. 1Cor.5.1. 5 And there shalt thou build an alter unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift o Lev. 18.23. up any iron tool upon them. 20.15. 20.17. q Lev. 18. 17. 20.14. ch. 19.11,12. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the p Lev. 18.9. LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God. 7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice d before the LORD thy God: 8 And thou shalt write upon the Ex.23.7,8. stones all the words of this law, very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Is-u rael; This e day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. Ex.21.12 14. Pr. 1.11-19. Eze.22.12. ch.28. 15.&c Ps. 119.21. Gal.3.10. Rom.10.5. Jer. 11.3-5. Rom.3. 19. (CHAP. 28.) a Ex. 15.26. Le.26.3,&c. b ch.26.19. 11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and 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 l 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 people shall say, Amen. 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 v the people shall say, Amen. A CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The blessings for obedience, 15 The curses for disobedience. ND it shall come to pass, if a thou shalt hearken diligently 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: |