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Enticers to idolatry

DEUTERONOMY.

to be stoned to death. thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates what- God, and fear him, and keep his comsoever thy soul lusteth after. mandments, and obey his voice, and ye 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart shall serve him, and cleave unto him. is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the un- 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of clean and the clean shall eat of them alike. dreams, shall be put to death; because he 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the hath spoken to turn you away from the blood for the blood is the life; and thou LORD your God, which brought you out mayest not eat the life with the flesh. of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee pour it upon the earth as water. out of the way which the LORD thy God com25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may manded thee to walk in. So shalt thou go well with thee, and with thy children put the evil away from the midst of thee. afterthee, when thou shalt do that which is 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mo right in the sight of the LORD. ther, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the

26 Only thy holy things which thou wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, go unto the place which the LORD shall saying, Let us go and serve other gods, choose: which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy

27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offer-fathers; ings, the flesh and the blood, upon the 7 Namely, of the gods of the people altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood which are round about you, nigh unto of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon thee, or far off from thee, from the one end the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou of the earth even unto the other end of the shalt eat the flesh. earth;

28 Observe and hear all these words 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, which I command thee, that it may go nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine well with thee, and with thy children eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, after thee for ever, when thou doest that neither shalt thou conceal him: which is good and right in the sight of the 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine LORD thy God. hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the

29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither people. thou goest to possess them, and thou suc- 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones ceedest them, and dwellest in their that he die; because he hath sought to land; thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be which brought thee out of the land of not snared by following them, after that Egypt from the house of bondage. they be destroyed from before thee; and II And all Israel shall hear, and fear, that thou inquire not after their gods, say- and shall do no more any such wickedness ing, How did these nations serve their as this is, among you. gods? even so will I do likewise.

31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

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CHAP. XIII.

F there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

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12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you ;

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the 2 And the sign or the wonder come to sword, destroying it utterly, and all that pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the Let us go after other gods, which thou edge of the sword.

hast not known, and let us serve them; 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the it into the midst of the street thereof, and words of that prophet, or that dreamer of shalt burn with fire the city, and all the dreams; for the LORD your God proveth spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy you, to know whether ye love the LORD God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it your God with all your heart and with all shall not be built again. your soul. 17 And there shall cleave nought of 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your the cursed thing to thine hand: that the

Beasts clean and unclean.

CHAP. XIV, XV.

The year of release. · LORD may turn from the fierceness of dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have stranger that is in thy gates, that he may compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

CHAP. XIV.

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22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 T And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall

of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee,

2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. so that thou art not able to carry it; or if 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose :

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,or for strong 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: of them that chew the cud, or of them that and thou shalt eat there before the LORD divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew thine household. the cud, but divide not the hoof; there- 27 And the Levite that is within thy fore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

9 T These ye shall eat,of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

gates; thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 TAt the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and stranger,and the fatherless, and the widow, scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto which are within thy gates, shall come,

you.

11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the

vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV.

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the end of every seven years thou

shalt make a release.

2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.

3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release:

4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to

19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. possess it: 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto 21 T Ye shall not eat of any thing that the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe

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to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

The feast of the passover.

19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thec. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God] 21 And if there be any blemish therein, giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto brother: the LORD thy God.

8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: unto him, and shalt surely lend him suffi- the unclean and the clean person shall eat cient for his need, in that which he wanteth. it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart.

9 Beware that there be not a thought|| 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground year, the year of release, is at hand; and as water. thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

CHAP. XVI.

OBSERVE the month of Abib, and

keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in passover unto the LORD thy God, of the all thy works, and in all that thou puttest flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

thine hand unto.

11 For the poor shall never cease out of 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread the land: therefore I command thee, say- with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleaing, Thou shalt open thine hand wide un-vened bread therewith, even the bread of to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy affliction; for thou camest forth out of the needy, in thy land. land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest 12 And if thy brother, a Hebrew remember the day when thou camest forth man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto out of the land of Egypt all the days of thee, and serve thee six years; then in the thy life. seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt 6 But at the place which the LORD thy give unto him. God shall choose to place his name in, 15 And thou shalt remember that thou there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, even, at the going down of the sun, at the and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, place which the LORD thy God shall I will not go away from thee; because he choose: and thou shalt turn in the mornloveth thee and thine house, because he ing, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened

is well with thee;

17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and bread: and on the seventh day shall be a thrust it through his earunto the door, and he solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thou shalt do no work therein.

thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 9 ¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, thee: begin to number the seven weeks when thou sendest him away free from from such time as thou beginnest to put the thee: for he hath been worth a double sickle to the corn. hired servant to thee, in serving thee six 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of years: and the LORD thy God shall bless weeks unto the LORD thy God with a trithee in all that thou doest. bute of a freewill-offering of thine hand,

The feast of tabernacles, &c.

CHAP. XVII.

Idolaters must be slain. which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy any of thy gates which the LORD thy God God, according as the LORD thy God hath giveth thee, man or woman that hath blessed thee: wrought wickedness in the sight of the 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, in transgressing his cove LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy nant, daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy 3 And hath gone and served other gods, maid-servant, and the Levite that is with- and worshipped them, either the sun, or in thy gates, and the stranger, and the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which fatherless, and the widow, that are among I have not commanded; you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

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4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and 12 And thou shalt_remember that thou behold, it be true, and the thing certain, wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt that such abomination is wrought in Israel: observe and do these statutes. 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man

13 Thou shalt observe the feast of or that woman, which have committed tabernacles seven days, after that thou that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine. that man or that woman, and shalt stone 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, them with stones, till they die. thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of and the Levite, the stranger, and the fa- death be put to death; but at the mouth of therless, and the widow, that are within one witness he shall not be put to death. thy gates: 7 The hands of the witnesses shali be

15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn first upon him to put him to death, and affeast unto the LORD thy God in the place terward the hands of all the people. So which the LORD shall choose: because the thou shalt put the evil away from among LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine you.

increase, and in all the works of thine 8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. thee in judgment, between blood and 16 T Three times in a year shall all thy blood, betweenplea and plea, and between males appear before the LORD thy God in stroke and stroke, being matters of controthe place which he shall choose; in the versy within thy gates: then shalt thou feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast arise, and get thee up into the place which of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: the LORD thy God shall choose; and they shail not appear before the LORD 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests empty: the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the 18 Judges and officers shalt thou sentence, which they of that place which make thee in all thy gates, which the the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy and thou shalt observe to do according to tribes: and they shall judge the people all that they inform thee:

17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

with just judgment.

eous.

11 According to the sentence of the law 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou which they shall teach thee, and accordshalt not respect persons, neither take a ing to the judgment which they shall tell gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline wise, and pervert the words of the right- from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 20 That which is altogether just shalt 12 T And the man that will do presumpthou follow, that thou mayest live, and in- tuously, and will not hearken unto the herit the land which the LORD thy God priest that standeth to minister there begiveth thee. fore the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII.

THOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil favouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about ine;

15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall 2 If there be found among you, within choose: one from among thy brethren shalt

DEUTERONOMY.'

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The duty of a king. A new Prophet to arise. thou set king over thee: thou mayest not 10 There shall not be found among you set a stranger over thee, which is not thy any one that maketh his son or his daughbrother. ter to pass through the fire, or that useth

16 But he shall not multiply horses to divination, or an observer of times, or an himself, nor cause the people to return to enchanter, or a witch, Egypt, to the end that he should multiply 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with fahorses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said miliar spirits, or a wizard, or a necroman unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no cer.

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12 For all that do these things are an

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to abomination unto the LORD: and because of himself, that his heart turn not away: nei- these abominations the LORD thy God dotb ther shall he greatly multiply to himself drive them out from before thee. silver and gold. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon thy God. the throne of his kingdom, that he shall 14 For these nations, which thou shalt write him a copy of this law in a book out possess, hearkened unto observers of times, of that which is before the priests the Levites. and unto diviners: but as for thee, the 19 And it shall be with him, and he LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so shall read therein all the days of his life: to do.

that he may learn to fear the LORD his 15 ¶ The LORD thy God will raise up God, to keep all the words of this law and unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, these statutes, to do them: of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

CHAP. XVIII.

THE priests the Levites, and all the

tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3¶ And this shall be the priest's due 19 And it shall come to pass, that whofrom the people, from them that offer a soever will not hearken unto my words sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and which he shall speak in my name, I will they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, require it of him. and the two cheeks, and the maw.

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20 But the prophet, which shall pre4 The first-fruit also of thy corn, of thy sume to speak a word in my name, which wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the have not commanded him to speak, or fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. that shall speak in the name of other gods, 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen even that prophet shall die. him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minis- 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How ter in the name of the LORD, him and his shall we know the word which the LORD sons for ever. hath not spoken?

6 ¶ And if a Levite come from any of 22 When a prophet speaketh in the thy gates out of all Israel, where he so-name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, journed, and come with all the desire of nor come to pass, that is the thing which his mind unto the place which the LORD the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet shall choose; hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt 7 Then he shall minister in the name of not be afraid of him. the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the HEN the LORD thy God hath cut WHEN te nations, whose land the LORD.

8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

CHAP. XIX.

LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and

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