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The 23rd Chapter
And the Lord
spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them: These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall call holy
feasts. Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of
rest an holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the
Sabbath of the Lord, wheresoever ye dwell. These are the feasts of
the Lord which ye shall proclaim holy in their seasons. The
fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lords Passover.
And the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of sweet bread
unto the Lord, seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. The first
day shall be an holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious
work therein. But ye shall offer sacrifices unto the Lord seven
days, and the seventh day also shall be an holy feast, so that ye
may do no laborious work therein.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come into the land which I
give unto you and reap down your harvest, ye shall bring a sheaf of
the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest, and he shall wave
the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you: and even the
morrow after the Sabbath the Priest shall wave it. And ye shall
offer the day when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a
year old for a burntoffering unto the Lord: and the meatoffering
thereof, two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil to be a
sacrifice unto the Lord of a sweet savour: and the drink offering
thereto, the fourth deal of an hin of wine. And ye shall eat neither
bread, nor parched corn, nor *frumenty of new corn: until the self
same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God. And this
shall be a law for ever unto your children after you, wheresoever ye
dwell.
And ye shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath: even
from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waveoffering, seven
weeks complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh week ye shall
number fifty days. And then ye shall bring a new meatoffering unto
the Lord. And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves
made of two tenth deals of fine flour leavened and baked, for first
fruits unto the Lord. And ye shall bring with the bread seven lambs
without deformity of one year of age, and one young ox, and two
rams, which shall serve for burntofferings unto the Lord, with
meatofferings and drink offerings longing to the same, to be a
sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And ye shall offer an he goat for a sinoffering: and two lambs
of one year old for peaceofferings. And the priest shall wave them
with the bread of the first fruits before the Lord, and with the two
lambs. And they shall be holy unto the Lord, and be the priests. And
ye shall make a proclamation the same day that it be an holy feast
unto you, and ye shall do no laborious work therein. And it shall be
a law for ever throughout all your habitations unto your children
after you.
When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean
riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of
thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I
am the Lord your God.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say: The first day of the seventh month shall be a
rest of remembrance unto you, to blow horns in an holy feast it
shall be, and ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye shall
offer sacrifice unto the Lord.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: also the tenth day of
the self seventh month, is a day of atonement, and shall be on holy
feast unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and offer sacrifice
unto the Lord. Moreover ye shall do no work that same day, for it is
a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the Lord your
God. For whatsoever soul it be that humbleth not himself that day,
he shall be destroyed from among his people. And whatsoever soul do
any manner work that day, the same I will destroy from among his
people. See that ye do no manner work therefore. And it shall be a
law for ever unto your generations after you in all your dwellings.
A Sabbath of rest it shall be unto you, and ye shall humble your
souls. The ninth day of the month at evening and so forth from
evening to evening again, ye shall keep your Sabbath.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say: the fifteenth day of the same seventh month shall
be the feast of tabernacles seven days unto the Lord. The first day
shall be an holy feast, so that ye shall do no laborious work
therein. Seven days ye shall offer sacrifice unto the Lord, and the
eighth day shall be an holy feast unto you, and ye shall offer
sacrifice unto the Lord. It is the end of the feast, and ye shall do
no laborious work therein.
These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim holy
feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the Lord, burntofferings,
meatofferings, and drinkofferings every day: beside the sabbaths of
the Lord, and beside your gifts, and all your vows, and all your
freewill offerings which ye shall give unto the Lord.
Moreover in the fifteenth day of the seventh month after that
ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep holy day
unto the Lord seven days long. The first day shall be a day of rest,
and the eighth day shall be a day of rest. And ye shall take you the
first day, the fruits of goodly trees and the branches of palm trees
and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and shall
rejoice before the Lord seven days. And ye shall keep it holy day
unto the Lord seven days in the year. And it shall be a law for ever
unto your children after you, that ye keep that feast in the seventh
month. And ye shall dwell in booths seven days: even all that are
Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, that your children after you
may know how that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: for I am the Lord your
God. And Moses told all the feasts of the Lord unto the children of
Israel.
*frumenty; boiled in milk with
sugar and spices
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The 24th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying: command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee,
pure oil olive beaten for lights to pour into the lamps always,
without the veil of witness within the tabernacle of witness. And
Aaron shall dress them both evening and morning before the Lord
always. And if shall be a law for ever among your children after
you. And he shall dress the lamps upon the pure candlestick before
the Lord perpetually.
And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve wastels
thereof, two tenth deals shall every wastel be. And make two rows of
them, six on a row upon the pure table before the Lord, and put pure
frankincense upon the rows. And it shall be bread of remembrance,
and an offering to the Lord. Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows
before the Lord evermore, given of the children of Israel, that it
be an everlasting covenant. And they shall be Aarons and his sons,
and they shall eat them in the holy place. For they are most holy
unto him of the offerings of the Lord, and shall be a duty for ever.
And the son of an Israelitish wife whose father was an
Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. And this son of the
Israelitish wife and a man of Israel, strove together in the host.
And the Israelitish womans son blasphemed the name and cursed, and
they brought him unto Moses. And his mothers name was Salomith, the
daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan: and they put him in ward,
that Moses should declare unto them what the Lord said thereto. And
the Lord spake unto Moses saying, bring him that blasphemed without
the host, and let all that heard him, put their hands upon his head,
and let all the multitude stone him. And speak unto the children of
Israel saying: Whosoever curseth his God, shall bear his sin: And he
that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall die for it: all the
multitude shall stone him to death. And the stranger as well as the
Israelite if he curse the name, shall die for it.
He that killeth any man, shall die for it, but he that killeth
a beast shall pay for it, beast for beast. If a man maim his
neighbor, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him again: *broke
for broke, eye for eye and tooth for tooth: even as he hath maimed a
man, so shall he be maimed again. So now he that killeth a beast,
shall pay for it: but he that killeth a man, shall die for it. Ye
shall have one manner of law among you: even for the stranger as
well as for one of your selves, for I am the Lord your God.
And Moses told the children of Israel, that they should bring
him that had cursed, out of the host, and stone him with stones. And
the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
* broke might be
broken skin for broken skin or bone for bone
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The 25th Chapter
And the Lord
spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the children of
Israel and say unto them. When ye be come in to the land which I
give you, let the land rest a Sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou
shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vines and
gather in thy fruits. But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of
rest unto the land. The Lords Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt
neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines.
The corn that groweth by itself thou shalt not reap, neither
gather the grapes that grow without thy dressing: but it shall be a
Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless the Sabbath of the land
shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy servant and for thy
maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth
with thee: and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Then number seven
weeks of years, that is, seven times seven years: and the space of
the seven weeks of years will be unto thee forty nine years. And
then thou shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the
seventh month, which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make
the horn blow, even throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow
the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all
the inhabiters thereof. It shall be a year of jubilee unto you and
ye shall return: every man unto his possession and every man unto
his kindred again. A year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be
unto you. Ye shall not sow neither reap the corn that groweth by
itself, nor gather the grapes that grow without thy labor. For it is
a year of jubilee and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye
shall eat of the increase of the field. And in this year of jubilee
ye shall return, every man unto his possession again.
When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbor or buyest of thy
neighbors hand, ye shall not oppress one another: but according to
the number of years after the jubilee year, thou shalt buy of thy
neighbor, and according unto the number of fruit years, he shall
sell unto thee. According unto the multitude of years, thou shalt
increase the price thereof and according to the fewness of years,
thou shalt minish the price: for the number of fruit he shall sell
unto thee. And see that no man oppress his neighbor, but fear thy
God. For I am the Lord your God. Wherefore do after mine ordinances
and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell in the land in
safety. And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your
fill and dwell therein in safety.
If ye shall say, what shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch
as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase. I will send my
blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit
for three years: and ye shall sow the eighth year and eat of old
fruit until the ninth year, and even until her fruits come, ye shall
eat of old store. Wherefore the land shall not be sold for ever,
because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners
with me: and ye shall throughout all the land of your possession,
let the land go home free again.
When thy brother is waxed poor and hath sold away of his
possession: if any of his kin come to redeem it, he shall buy out
that which his brother sold. And though he have no man to redeem it
for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again,
then let him count how long it hath been sold, and deliver the rest
unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return unto his
possession again. But and if his hand cannot get sufficient to
restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it, until the jubilee: and in the year
of Jubilee it shall come out, and he shall return unto his
possession again.
If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it
out again any time within a whole year after it is sold: and that
shall be the space in which he may redeem it again. But and if it be
not bought out again within the space of a full year, then the house
in the walled city shall be stablished for ever unto him that bought
it and to his successors after him and shall not go out in the year
of jubilee. But the houses in villages which have no walls round
about them, shall be counted like unto the fields of the country,
and may be bought out again at any season, and shall go out free in
the year of jubilee.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites and the houses in
the cities of their possessions the Levites may redeem at all
seasons. And if a man purchase ought of the Levites: whether it be
house or city that they possess, the bargain shall go out in the
year of jubilee for the houses of the cities of the Levites, are
their possessions among the children of Israel. But the fields that
lie round about their cities, shall not be bought: for they are
their possessions for ever. If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen
in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or a sojourner, and
let him live by thee. And thou shalt take none *usury of him, nor
yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with
thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon *usury, nor lend him of
thy food to have advantage by it: for I am the Lord your God which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan
and to be your God.
If thy brother that dwelleth by thee wax poor and sell
himself unto thee, thou shalt not let him labor as a bondservant
doth: but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with
thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee, and then shall
he depart from thee: both he and his children with him, and shall
return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of his
fathers: for they are my servants which I brought out of the land of
Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen. See therefore that thou
reign not over him cruelly, but fear thy God. If thou wilt have
bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that
are round about you, and of the children of the strangers that are
sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you,
which they begat in your land. And ye shall possess them and give
them unto your children after you, to possess them for ever: and
they shall be your bond men. But over your brethren the children of
Israel, ye shall not reign one over another cruelly.
When a stranger and a sojourner waxeth rich by thee, and thy
brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poor and sell himself unto the
stranger that dwelleth by thee or to any of the strangers kin: after
that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one of his brethren may
buy him out: whether it be his uncle or his uncles son, or any that
is nigh of kin unto him of his kindred: either if his hand can get
so much he may be loosed. And he shall reckon with him that bought
him, from the year that he was sold in unto the year, of jubilee and
the price of his buying shall be according unto the number of years,
and he shall be with him as a hired servant. If there be yet many
years behind, according unto them he shall give again for his
deliverance, of the money that he was sold for. If there remain but
few years unto the year of jubilee, he shall so count with him, and
according unto his years give him again for his redemption, and
shall be with him year by year as an hired servant and the other
shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight. If he be not bought
free in the meantime, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee
and his children with him: for the children of Israel are my
servants which I brought out of the land of Egypt.
*usury: to use a person; have
influence over him by lending money goods, favors or bribes …and
also interest taking against loans.
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The 26th Chapter
I am the Lord your God. Ye shall
make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar,
neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow
yourselves thereto: for I am the Lord your God: keep my Sabbaths and
fear my sanctuary. For I am the Lord.
If ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments
and do them, then I will send you rain in the right season and your
land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall give
their fruit. And the threshing shall reach unto wine harvest, and
the wine harvest shall reach unto sowing time, and ye shall eat your
bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in your land peaceably. And
I will send peace in your land, that ye shall sleep, and no man
shall make you afraid.
And I will rid evil beasts out of your land, and there shall
no sword go throughout your land. And ye shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you upon the sword. 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 upon the sword. And I
will turn unto you and increase you and multiply you, and set up my
testament with you. And ye shall eat old store, and cast out the old
for plenteousness of the new. I will make my dwelling place among
you, and my soul shall not loathe you. And I will walk among you and
will be your God, and ye shall be my people. For I am the Lord your
God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye
should not be their bondmen, and I brake the bows of your yokes, and
made you go up right.
But and if ye will not hearken unto me, nor will do all these
my commandments, or if ye shall despise mine ordinances either if
your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my
commandments, but shall break mine appointment: then I will do this
again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling and
fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle, and with sorrows of heart.
And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your
enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall
flee when no man followeth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then will
I punish you seven times more for your sins, and will break the
pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over you as hard
as iron, and your land as hard as brass. And so your labor shall be
spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase, neither
the trees of the land shall give their fruits.
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. I will send in wild beasts upon you, which shall rob you of
your children and destroy your cattle, and make you so few in number
that your high ways shall grow unto a wilderness.
And if ye will not be learned yet for all this but shall walk
contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you and will
punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword upon
you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled
unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, ye shall be
delivered into the hands of your enemies. And when I have broken the
staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one
oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then
shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, but shall
walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary unto you also
wrathfully and will also chastise you seven times for your sins: so
that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your
daughters. And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and
overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of
your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities
desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell
the savours of your sweet odors.
And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your
enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it. And I will strew you
among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your
land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. Then the land shall
rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your
enemies land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in
her Sabbaths. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest, for that
it could not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.
And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that
the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall
flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following
them. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a
sword even no man following them, and ye shall have no power to
stand before your enemies: And ye shall perish among the heathen,
and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their
unrighteousness, even in their enemies land, and also in the
misdeeds of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confess
their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers in their trespasses
which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they
have walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary
unto them, and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And
then at the least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and
then they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds.
And I will remember my bond with Jacob and my testament with
Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will think on the land.
For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her
Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an
atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and
their souls refused mine ordinances. And yet for all that when they
be in the land of their enemy, I will not so cast them away nor my
soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy them and
break mine appointment with them: for I am the Lord their God. I
will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I
brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to
be their God: for I am the Lord.
These are the ordinances, judgements, and laws which the Lord
made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the
hand of Moses.
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The 27th Chapter
And the Lord
spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the Children of Israel and say
unto them: If any man will give a singular vow unto the Lord
according to the value of his soul, then shall the male from twenty
years unto forty be set at fifty sickles of silver, after the sickle
of the sanctuary, and the female at thirty sickles. And from five
years to twenty the male shall be set at twenty sickles, and the
female at ten sickles. And from a month unto five years, the male
shall be set at five sickles of silver, and the female at three. And
the man that is forty and above, shall be valued at fifteen sickles,
and the woman at ten. If he be too poor so to be set, then let him
come before the priest: and let the priest value him, according as
the hand of him that vowed is able to get.
If it be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto the
Lord: all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord, shall be holy.
He may not alter it nor change it: a good for a bad or a bad for
good. If he change beast for beast, then both the same beast and it
also wherewith it was changed shall be holy. If it be any manner of
unclean beast of which men may not offer unto the Lord, let him
bring the beast before the priest and let the priest value it. And
whether it be good or bad as the priest setteth it, so shall it be.
And if he will buy it again, let him give the fifth part more to
that it was set at.
If any man dedicate his house, it shall be holy unto the Lord.
And the priest shall set it, whether it be good or bad, and as the
priest hath set it, so it shall be. If he that sanctified it will
redeem his house, let him give the fifth part of the money that it
was judged at thereto, and it shall be his.
If a man hallow a piece of his inherited land unto the Lord,
it shall be set according to that it beareth. If it bear an homer of
barley, it shall be set at fifty sickles of silver. If he hallow his
field immediately from the year of jubilee, it shall be worth
according as it is esteemed. But and if he hallow his field after
the trumpet year, the priest shall reckon the price with him
according to the years that remain unto the trumpet year, and
thereafter it shall be lower set.
If he that sanctified the field will redeem it again, let him
put the fifth part of the price that it was set at, thereunto, and
it shall be his: if he will not it shall be redeemed no more. But
when the field goeth out in the year of jubilee, it shall be holy
unto the Lord: even as a thing dedicated, and it shall be the
priests possession.
If a man sanctify unto the Lord a field, which he hath bought
and is not of his inheritance, then the priest shall reckon with him
what it is worth unto the year of jubilee, and he shall give the
price that it is set at the same day, and it shall be holy unto the
Lord. But in the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of
whom he bought it, whose inheritance of land it was.
And all setting shall be according to the holy sickle. One
sickle maketh twenty geras.
But the first born of the beasts that pertain unto the Lord,
may no man sanctify: whether it be ox or sheep, for they are the
Lords already. If it be an unclean beast, then let him redeem it as
it is set at, and give the fifth part more thereto. If it be not
redeemed, then let it be sold as it is rated.
Notwithstanding no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto
the Lord, of all his goods, whether it be man or beast or land of
his inheritance, shall be sold or redeemed: for all dedicate things
are most holy unto the Lord. No dedicate thing therefore that is
dedicate of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die.
All these tithes of the land, whether it be of the corn of the
field or fruit of the trees, shall be holy unto the Lord. If any man
will redeem ought of his tithes, let him add the fifth part more
thereto. And the tithes of oxen and sheep and of all that goeth
under the herdsmans keeping, shall be holy tithes unto the Lord. Men
shall not look if it be good or bad nor shall change it. If any man
change it then both it and that it was changed withall, shall be
holy and may not be redeemed.
These are the commandments which the Lord gave Moses in charge
to give unto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
The end of the
third book of Moses
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