5 If brethren dwell together, teth forth her hand, and taketh and one of them die and have no him by the secrets: child, the wife of the dead shall 12 Then thou shalt cut off her not marry without unto a strang-hand, thine eye shall not pity her. er: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him DEUT. XXV:17-19-B. C. 1451 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 in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his 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, say, I like not to take her, and 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 n Israel, The house of him that nath his shoe loosed. 11 ¶ When men strive together ne with another, and the wife of he one draweth near for to deiver her husband out of the hand f him that smiteth him, and put 17 ¶ Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. DEUT. XXVI:1-19—B. C. 1451 1 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; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the 11 And thou shalt rejoice in priest that shall be in those days, every good thing which the LORD and say unto him, I profess this thy God hath given unto thee, day unto the LORD thy God, that and unto thine house, thou, and I am come unto the country which the Levite, and the stranger that the LORD sware unto our fathers is among you. for to give 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. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast 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 7 And when we cried unto the commandments which thou hast LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and money. 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: commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt 17 Cursed be he that removeth therefore keep and do them with his neighbour's land-mark: and all thine heart, and with all thy all the people shall say, Amen. soul. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his Amen. statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. DEUT. XXVII:14-26-B. C. 1451 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.. 20 Cursed be he 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: and all the . people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, 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: and all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, Amen. |