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Unlawful lust.

CHAP. XIX. A repetition of sundry.aws.

17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt your own will. thou take her son's daughter, or her 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye ofdaughter's daughter, to uncover her na-fer it, and on the morrow and if aught kedness; for they are her near kinswo- remain until the third day, it shall be burnt men: it is wickedness. in the fire.

18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vcx her, to uncover her nakedness,besides the other in her life-time.

19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among

20 Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thy-his people. self with her.

9 And when ye reap the harvest of 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the seed pass through the fire to Molech, nei- corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather shalt thou profane the name of thy ther the gleanings of thy harvest.

God: I am the LORD.

22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you :

25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in

26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes night until the morning. and my judgments, and shall not commit 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor any of these abominations; neither any of put a stumbling-block before the blind, your own nation, nor any stranger that but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. sojourneth among you : 27 (For all these abominations have judgment; thou shalt not respect the perthe men of the land done, which were be-son of the poor, nor honour the person of fore you, and the land is defiled ;) the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people; neither 29 For whosoever shall commit any of shalt thou stand against the blood of thy these abominations, even the souls that neighbour; I am the LORD. commit them shall be cut off from among 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in their people. thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordi- thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. nance, that ye commit not any one of these 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any abominable customs, which were commit- grudge against the children of thy people, ted before you, and that ye defile not your- but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyselves therein: I am the LORD your God. self: I am the LORD.

CHAP. XIX.

19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-shalt not let thy cattle gender with a di

verse kind: Thou shalt not sow thy field 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the with mingled seed: neither shall a garchildren of Israel, and say unto them, Ye ment mingled of linen and woollen come shall be holy for I the LORD your God upon thee.

am holy. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother a woman that is a bond-maid betrothed to and his father, and keep my sabbaths: Ia husband, and not at all redeemed, nor am the LORD your God. freedom given her; she shall be scourged: 4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to they shall not be put to death, because she yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD was not free. your God. 21 And he shall bring his trespass-of5 ¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-fering unto the LORD, unto the door of the

A repetition of sundry laws. LEVITICUS.

Of cursing parents, &e. tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto for a trespass-offering. Molech, he shall surely be put to death: 22 And the priest shall make an atone- the people of the land shall stone him with ment for him with the ram of the trespass- stones.

offering before the LORD for his sin which 3 And I will set my face against that he hath done; and the sin which he hath man, and will cut him off from among his done shall be forgiven him. people; because he hath given of his 23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, land, and shall have planted all manner of and to profane my holy name.

trees for food; then ye shall count the 4 T And if the people of the land do any fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years ways hide their eyes from the man, when shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill shall not be eaten of. him not;

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.

25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

6 T And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

27 Ye shall not round the corners of 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore and your heads, neither shalt thou mar the be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. corners of thy beard. 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in do them: I am the LORD which sanctify your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks you. upon you: I am the LORD.

9 For every one that curseth his fa29 Do not prostitute thy daughter to ther or his mother, shall be surely put to cause her to be a whore: lest the land death: he hath cursed his father or his fall to whoredom, and the land become mother: his blood shall be upon him. full of wickedness.

30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

10 T And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11 T And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them.

32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter33¶ And if a stranger sojourn with in-law, both of them shall surely be put t thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. death: they have wrought confusion; their 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with blood shall be upon them.

you shall be unto you as one born among 13 If a man also lie with mankind, as you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; he lieth with a woman, both of them have for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: committed an abomination: they shall I am the LORD your God. surely be put to death; their blood shall

measure.

35 T Ye shall do no unrighteousness in be upon them. judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in 14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be 36 Just balances, just weights, a just burnt with fire, both he and they: that ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am there be no wickedness among you. the LORD your God, which brought you 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he out of the land of Egypt. shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. CHAP. XX..

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

Aing

16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

2T Again thou shalt say to the children 17 And if a man shall take his sister, his of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children father's daughter, or his mother's daughaf Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn ter, and see her nakedness, and she see his

Of the priests' mourning,

CHAP. XXI.

marriages, and blemishes. nakedness: it is a wicked thing; and they a chief man among his people, to profane shall be cut off in the sight of their peo- himself.

ple: he hath uncovered his sister's naked- 5 They shall not make baldness upon ness; he shall bear his iniquity. their head, neither shall they shave off the 18 And if a man shall lie with a wo-corner of their beard, nor make any cutman having her sickness, and shall uncover tings in their flesh.

her nakedness; he hath discovered her 6 They shall be holy unto their God, fountain, and she hath uncovered the and not profane the name of their God: fountain of her blood: and both of them for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, shall be cut off from among their people. and the bread of their God they do offer : 19 And thou shalt not uncover the therefore they shall be holy. nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy 7 T They shall not take a wife that is a father's sister: for he uncovereth his near whore, or profane; neither shall they take kin: they shall bear their iniquity. a woman put away from her husband: for

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's he is holy unto his God. wife, he bath uncovered his uncle's naked- 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, ness: they shall bear their sin; they shall for he offereth the bread of thy God: he die childless. shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall for his mother; inherit their land, and I will give it unto 12 Neither shall he go out of the sancyou to possess it, a land that floweth with tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his milk and honey: I am the LORD your God; for the crown of the anointing oil of God, which have separated you from other his God is upon him: I am the LORD. people.

25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as un

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Anto the priests the sons of Aaron, ND the LORD said unto Moses, Speak and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and] for his brother,

13 ¶ And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

14 A widow, or divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his seed. among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

17 T Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God:

18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,

20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, er scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by unto him, which hath had no husband: for fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come ner may he be defiled. nigh to offer the bread of his God.

4 But he shall not defile himself, being

22 He shall eat the bread of his God,

When the priests are to

LEVITICUS.

abstain from holy things. both of the most holy, and of the holy. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part nor come nigh unto the altar, because he thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the hath a blemish; that he profane not my priest, with the holy thing. sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify

them.

24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAP. XXII.

15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD:

16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things:

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-for the LORD do sanctify them.

ing,

17 And the LORD spake unto Moses,

2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, that they separate themselves from the

18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, holy things of the children of Israel, and and unto all the children of Israel, and say that they profane not my holy name in unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house those things which they hallow unto me: of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that I am the LORD. will offer his oblation for all his vows, and

3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of for all his free-will-offerings, which they all your seed among your generations, that will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offergoeth unto the holy things, which the ing:

children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a having his uncleanness upon him, that soul male without blemish of the beeves, of the shall be cut off from my presence: I am sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that

the LORD.

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acis a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall ceptable for you.

not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of And whoso toucheth any thing that is un-peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomclean by the dead, or a man whose seed plish his vow, or a free-will-offering in goeth from him;

5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath :

6 T The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food.

8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them."

10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

11 But if the priest buy any soul with 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is goat is brought forth, then it shall be born in his house: they shall eat of his seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be ac12 If the priest's daughter also be mar-cepted for an offering made by fire unto the ried unto a stranger, she may not eat of an LORD. offering of the holy things.

meat.

13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat thereof

28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

29 T And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.

30 On the same day it shall be eaten up,

Of sundry feasts.

CHAP. XXIII.

The day of atonement. ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: for ever throughout your generations in all I am the LORD. your dwellings.

31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,

33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD, CHAP. XXIII.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

15 T And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete : 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering unto the LORD.

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-deals: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, they are the first-fruits unto the LORD.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the 18 And ye shall offer with the bread LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy seven lambs without blemish of the first convocations, even these are my feasts. year, and one young bullock, and two 3 Six days shall work be done: but rams: they shall be for a burnt-offering the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, unto the LORD, with their meat-offering, a holy convocation: ye shall do no work and their drink-offerings, even an offering therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in made by fire of sweet savour unto the all your dwellings. LORD.

4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave6 And on the fifteenth day of the same offering before the LORD, with the two month is the feast of unleavened bread lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat for the priest. unleavened bread. 21 And

7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work therein.

9¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be a holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein. It shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave and say unto them, When ye be come into them unto the poor, and to the stranger: the land which I give unto you, and shall I am the LORD your God. reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall 23 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your saying, harvest unto the priest :

24 Speak unto the children of Israel, 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before saying, In the seventh month, in the first the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, morrow after the sabbath the priest shall a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a wave it. holy convocation.

12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

26 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses,

13 And the meat-offering thereof shall saying, be two tenth-deals of fine flour mingled 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh with oil, an offering made by fire unto the month there shall be a day of atonement; LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink- it shall be a holy convocation unto you, offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an part of a hin. offering made by fire unto the LORD.

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor 28 And ye shall do no work in that same parched corn, nor green ears, until the day; for it is a day of atonement, to make self-same day that ye have brought an an atonement for you before the LORD offering unto your God: It shall be a statute your God.

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