4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sab-| 27 The value of the fruits shall be counted bath to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou from that time when he sold it: and the overshalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. plus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall 5 What the ground shall bring forth of itself, receive his possession again. thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to the land:

6 But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy man-servant, to thy maid-servant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee:

7 All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty nine years: 9 And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.

10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family: 11 Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the first-fruits of the vines, 12 Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them. 13 In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.

14 When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.

15 And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.

16 The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

17 Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God. 18 Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,

19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no man's

invasion.

20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits? 21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years: 22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store. 23 The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsmen will, he may redeem what he had sold.

26 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

28 But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

29 He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:

30 If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

31 But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields: if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner. 32 The houses of Levites, which are in the cities, may always be redeemed: 33 If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel. 34 But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession. 35 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee, 36 Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upor usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God. 39 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bond-servants :

40 But he shall be as a hireling and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,

41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

42 For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:

43 Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God. 44 Let your bond-men, and your bond-women, be of the nations that are round about you. 45 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants: 46 And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

47 If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race: 48 After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Ch. 25. v. 10. Remission. That is, a general release and discharge from debts and bondage, and a reinstat ing of every man in his former possessions.

49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself, 50 Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.

51 If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.

52 If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years, 53 His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

54 And if by these means he cannot be re-ground shall not bring forth her increa deemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.

55 For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. CHAP. XXVI.

God's promises to them that keep his commandments And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors.

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3 If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons,

4 And the ground shall bring forth its increase, and the trees shall be filled with fruit.

5 The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear. 6 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters. 7 You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you.

8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

the trees yield their fruit.

21 If you walk contrary to me, and v hearken to me, I will bring seven time plagues upon you for your sins:

22 And I will send in upon you the b the field, to destroy you and your catt make you few in number, and that you ways may be desolate.

23 And if even so you will not ame will walk contrary to me:

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24 I also will walk contrary to you, a strike you seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring in upon you the that shall avenge my covenant. you shall flee into the cities, I will se pestilence in the midst of you, and yo be delivered into the hands of your ener

26 After I shall have broken the staff bread: so that ten women shall bake you in one oven, and give it out by weigh you shall eat, and shall not be filled. 27 But if you will not for all this hea me, but will walk against me: 28 I will also go against you with o fury, and I will chastise you with seven] for your sins,

29 So that you shall eat the flesh of yo and of your daughters.

30 I will destroy your high places, an your idols. You shall fall among the your idols, and my soul shall abhor you 31 Insomuch that I will bring your citie wilderness, and I will make your sand desolate, and will receive no more you odours.

32 And I will destroy your land, ar 10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, enemies shall be astonished at it, whe new coming on, you shall cast away the old.shall be the inhabitants thereof. 11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off. 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

13 I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them, and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright: 14 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,

15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my A. M. 2514. Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 5. 8. Ps. 96. 7.-b Deut. 28.

1.- 2 Cor. 6. 16.- Deut. 28. 15. Malac. 2. 2.

33 And I will scatter you among the G and I will draw out the sword after you, a land shall be desert, and your cities des 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabb the days of her desolation: when you sh 35 In the enemy's land, she shall keep bath, and rest in the sabbaths of her des because she did not rest in your sabbath you dwelt therein.

36 And as to them that shall remain I will send fear in their hearts in the ec of their enemies, the sound of a flying le terrify them, and they shall flee as it we

the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,

37 And they shall every one fall upon their brethren, as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

38 You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy's land shall consume you.

39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own:

40 Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary

unto me.

41 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land, until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins.

42 And I will remember my covenant, that made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. will remember also the land:

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43 Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws. 44 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.

45 And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

CHAP. XXVII.
Of vows and tythes.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

11 An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:

12 Who judging whether it be good or bad shall set the price:

13 Which if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part. 14 If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad, and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint. 15 But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation ove and above, and shall have the house 16 And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sowed with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.

17 If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning, as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated. 18 But if some time after: the priest shall reckon the money according to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated.

19 And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it. 20 And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more:

21 For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of the priests. 22 If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanctified to the Lord, 23 The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of years: unto the jubilee: and he that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord. 24 But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.

25 All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols. 26 The first-born, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be sil-bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord's.

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation. 3 If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he shall give fifty sicles of ver, after the weight of the sanctuary: 4 If a woman, thirty.

5 But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten. 6 From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given five sicles: for a female three. 7 A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen sicles: a woman ten.

8 If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give.

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27 And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem it, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was estimated by thee. 28 Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold, neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord. 29 And any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die. 30 All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.

9 But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy, 10 And cannot be changed, that is to say, nei- 31 And if any man will redeem his tithes, he ther a better for a worse, nor a worse for a bet-shall add the fifth part of them. ter. And if he shall change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord.

32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord. 33 It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad,

A. M. 2514.- Exod. 30. 13. Num. 3. 47. Ezec. 45. 12.- neither shall it be changed for another. If any

Jas. 6. 17. & 25.

man change it: both that which was changed, 34 These are the precepts which the and that for which it was changed, shall be commanded Moses for the children of Isr sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed. mount Sinai.

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS.

This fourth Book of Moses is called NUMBERS, because it begins with the numbering of the people. T brews, from its first words, call it VAIEDABBER. It contains the transactions of the Israelites from the month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until the beginning of the eleventh month fortieth year; that is, a history almost of thirty-nine years.

44 These are they who were numbered by 13 And the whole army of his fighting men, Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Is-that were numbered, were fifty nine thousand rael, every one by the houses of their kindreds. three hundred. 45 And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to war, 46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

47 But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.

48 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 49 Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt chou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

14 In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.

15 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty five thousand six hundred and fifty.

16 All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall march in the second place.

17 And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the officers of the Levites and their 50 But appoint them over the tabernacle of the troops. As it shall be set up, so shall it be taken testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and what-down. Every one shall march according to soever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They their places, and ranks. shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture 18 On the west side shall be the camp of the thereof: and they shall minister, and shall en- sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama, camp round about the tabernacle. the son of Ammiud.

51 When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.

52 And the children of Israel shail camp every man by his troops and bands and army.

19 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty thousand five hundred.

20 And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whose prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

21 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were thirty two thousand

53 But the Levites shall pitch their tents round
about the tabernacle, lest there come indigna-
tion upon the multitude of the children of Is-two hundred.
rael, and they shall keep watch, and guard the
tabernacle of the testimony.

54 And the children of Israel did according to all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.

CHAP. II.

The order of the tribes in their camp. ND the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

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.22 In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the
prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.
23 And the whole army of his fighting men,
that were reckoned up, were thirty five thousand
four hundred.

24 All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and eight thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the third place.

25 On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisad

2 All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the taber-dai. nacle of the covenant.

3 On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab. 4 And the whole sum of the fighing men of his stock, were seventy four thousand six hundred. 5 Next unto him, they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son of Suar.

6 And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty four thousand four hundred.

7 In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.

8 And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty seven thousand four hundred.

9 All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty six thousand four hundred and they by their troops shall march first. 10 In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:

11 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty six thousand five hundred.

12 Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

A. M. 2514. A. C. 1490.

26 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were sixty two thousand seven hundred.

27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.

28 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty one thousand five hundred.

29 of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan. 30 The whole army of his fighting men were fifty three thousand four hundred. 31 All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last. 32 This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

33 And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.

34 And the children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the fa milies and houses of their fathers.