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30 For on that Day fhall the Priest make an ATONEMENT for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be CLEAN from all your SINS before the LORD.

31 It fhall be a Sabbath of Reft unto you, and ye fhall AFFLICT your SOULS by a Statute for ever.

32 And the Pricft whom he fhall anoint, and whom he fhall confecrate to minifter in the Priest's Office in his Father's Stead, fhall make the ATONEMENT, and shall put on the linen Cloaths, even the holy Garments.

33 And he shall make an Atonement for the holy Sanctuary, and he shall make an Atonement for the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and for the Altar: and he shall make an Atonement for the Priefts, and for all the People of the Congregation.

34 And this fhall be an everlafting Statute unto you to make an ATONEMENT for the Children of Ifrael, for all their SINS, ONCE a YEAR. And he did as the LORD commanded Mofes.

CHA P. XVII.

1 The Blood of the flain Beasts must be offered to the LORD at the Door of the Tabernacle. 7 They must not offer to Devils. 10 All eating of Blood is forbidden; 15 and all that dieth alone, or is torn.

CHA P. XVIII.

Unlawful Marriages. 19 Unlawful Lufts.

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Of him that giveth of his Seed to Molech: 4 Of him that favoureth fuch an one. 6 Of going to Wizards. 7 Of Sanctification. 9 Of him that curfeth his Parents. 10 Of Adultery. 11, 14, 17, 19 Of Inceft. 13 Of Sodomy. 15 Of Befliality. 18 Of Uncleanness. 22 Obedience is required with Holiness. 27 Wizards must be put to Death.

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1 Of the Priests Mourning: 6 Of their Holiness: 8 Of their Estimation 7, 13 Of their Marriages. 16 The Priefts that have Blemishes must not minifter in the Sanctuary.

CHA P. XXII.

The Priests in their Uncleanness must abstain from the Holy Things: 6 How they shall be cleanfed. 10 Who of the Prief's Houfe may eat of the Holy Things. 17 The Sacrifices must be without Blemish. 26 The Age of the Sacrifice. 29 The Law of eating the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving.

CHA P. XXIII.

1 The Feafts of the LORD. 3 The Sabbath. 4 The Pa ver. 9 The Sheaf of Firft-fruits. 15 The Feast of Penteco/?. 22 Gleanings to be left for the Poor. 23 The Feast of Trumpets. 26 The Day of Atonement. 33 The Feaft of Tabernacles.

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1 The Oyl for the Lamps. 5 The Shew-bread. 10 Shelomith's Son blafphemeth. 13 The Law of Blafphemy, 17 of Murder, 18 of Damage. 23 The Blafphemer is ftoned.

CHA P. XXV.

1 The Sabbath of the feventh Year. fiftieth Year 14 Of Oppreffion. dience. 23 The Redemption of Land, paffion of the Poor. 39 The Ufage Redemption of Servants.

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8 The Jubilee in the 18 A Bleffing of Obe29 of Houses. 35 Comof Bond-men. 47 The

AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes in Mount Sinai,

faying,

2 Speak unto the Children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, When ye come into the Land which I give you, then shall the Land keep a SABBATH unto the LORD.

3 Six Years thou fhalt fow thy Field, and fix Years thou

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alt prune thy Vineyard, and gather in the Fruit thereof. 4 But in the feventh Year fhall be a Sabbath of Rest unto the Land, a Sabbath for the LORD: thou fhalt neither fow thy Field, nor prune thy Vineyard.

5 That which groweth of its own Accord of thy Harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the Grapes of thy Vine undreffed for it is a Year of REST unto the Land.

6 And the Sabbath of the Land fhall be Meat for you; for thee, and for thy Servant, and for thy Maid, and for thy hired Servant, and for thy Stranger that fojourneth with thee,

7 And for thy Cattle, and for the Beafts that are in thy Land, fhall all the Increase thereof be Meat.

8 And thou fhalt number feven Sabbaths of Years unto thee, feven times feven Years, and the Space of the feven Sabbaths of Years fhall be unto thee forty and nine Years.

9 Then fhalt thou caufe the Trumpet of the JUBILEE to found, on the tenth Day of the feventh Month; in the Day of ATONEMENT fhall ye make the Trumpet found throughout all your Land.

10 And ye shall hallow the FIFTIETH YEAR and proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land, unto all the Inhabitants thereof it fhall be a JUBILEE unto you, and ye shall return every Man unto his Poffeffion, and ye fhall return every Man unto his Family.

11 A Jubilee fhall that fiftieth Year be unto you: ye fhall not fow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the Grapes in it, of thy Vine undreffed.

12 For it is the JUBILEE, it fhall be HOLY UNTO YOU! ye fhall eat the Increase thereof out of the Field.

13 In the Year of this Jubilee ye fhall return every Man unto his Poffeffion.

14 And if thou fell ought unto thy Neighbour, or buyest ought of thy Neighbour's Hand; ye fhall not OPPRESS one another.

15 According to the Number of Years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy Neighbour; and according unto the Number of Years of the Fruits he fhall fell unto thee.

16 According to the Multitude of Years thou fhalt increafe the Price thereof, and according to the Fewness of Years thou fhalt diminish the Price of it: for according to the Number of the Years of the Fruits doth he fell unto thee,

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17 Ye fhall not therefore OPPRESS one another; but thou shalt FEAR thy GOD for I am the LORD your GOD.

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18 Wherefore ye fhall do my STATUTES, and keep my JUDGMENTS, and do them; and ye fhall dwell in the Land in Safety.

19 And the Land shall yield her Fruit, and ye fhall eat your Fill, and dwell therein in Safety.

20 And if ye fhall fay, What fhall we eat the feventh Year? behold, we fhall not fow, nor gather in our Increafe :

21 Then I will command my Bleffing upon you in the fixth Year, and it fhall bring forth Fruit for three Years.

22 And ye fhall fow the eighth Year, and eat yet of old Fruit, until the ninth Year; until her Fruits come in, ye fhall eat of the old Store.

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a. i. 17 Learn to do well, feek Judgment RELIEVE the OPPRESSED, JUDGE The FATHERLESS, PLEAD for the WIDOW

and now am old; yet have I not Pal xxxvii. 25 I have been young,

feen the RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN, nor

his Se-d begging Bread

26 HE IS ever MERCIFUL, and LEND

ETH: and his SE D IS BLESSED. 27 Depart from Evil, and do Good; and dwell for evermore

28 For the LORD LOVETH JUDGMENT, and forfaketh not his Saints, they are preferved for evermore: but the Seed of the Wicked fhall be cut off

Pfal. ix. 9 The LORD will be a REFUGE for the OPPRESSED, a Refuge in Times of Trouble.

Pro xxviii. 3 A poor Man that ing Rain which leaveth no Food. OPPRESSETH the Poor, is like a fweep

Pal. Ixxii. 8 They are corrupt, and fpeak wickedly concerning Op PRESSION: they fek loftily.

Ifa. v. 7 He looked for Judgment, bur behold OPPRESSion; for Righte ourne's, but behold a Cry.

I a. XXX. 12 Wherefore thus faith the HOLY ONE of Ifrael, Because ye detpife this Word, and TRUST in OP PRESSION and Perverlenets, and ftay thereon:

13 Therefore this Iniquity fhall be to you as a Breach ready to fall, Breaking cometh fuddenly at an Infwelling out in a high Wall whofe

ftant.

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26 And if the Man have none to redeem it, and himfelf be able to redeem it:

27 Then let him count the Years of the Sale thereof, and restore the Overplus unto the Man to whom he fold it; that he may return unto his Poffeffion.

28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is fold shall remain in the Hand of him that hath bought it, until the Year of Jubilee and in the Jubilee it fhall go out, and he fhall return unto his Poffeffion.

29 And if a Man fell a Dwelling-houfe in a walled City, then he may redeem it within a whole Year after it is fold within a full Year may he redcem it.

30 And if it be not redeemed within the Space of a full Year; then the Houfe that is in the walled City, hall be eftablifhed for ever to him that bought it throughout his Generations: it fhall not go out in the Jubilee.

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31 But the Houfes of the Villages which have Walls round about them, fhall be counted as the Fields of the Countrey: they may be redeemed, and they fhall go out in the Jubilce.

32 Notwithstanding, the Cities of the Levites, and the Houfes of the Cities of their Poffeffion, may the Levites redeem at any Time.

bour's Wife, neither hath come near to a menftruous Woman,

7 And hath not OPPRESSED any, but hath restored to the Debtor his Pledge, hath fpoiled none by Violence, hath given his Bread to the ked with a Garment, Hungry, and hath covered the Na

8 He that hath not given forth

upon Ufury, neither hath taken any

Increase, that hath withdrawn his Hand from Iniquity, hath executed TRUE JUDGMENT between Man and Man,

9 Hath walked in my Statutes, and hath kept my Judgments to deal truly; he is juft, he thall furely live, faith the LORD GOD.

Zech. vii. 8 And the Word of the

LORD came unto Zechariah, faying,

9 Thus fpeaketh the LORD of HOSTS, faying, Execute true Judgment, and fhew Mercy and Compalfions every Man to his Brother.

To And OPPRESS not the Widow, nor the Fatherlels, the Stranger, nor the Poor, and let none of you imagine Evil against his Brother in your

Heart.

Mal. iii. 5 I will come near to you to JUDGMENT, and I will be a swift Witnefs against the Sorcerers, and falle Swearers, and against those that against the Adulterers, and against OPPRESS the HIRELING in his WAGES, the Widow, and the FATHERLESS, and his RIGHT, and FEAR NOT me, faith that TURN afide the STRANGER FROM the LORD of HOSTS.

6 For I am the LORD, I CHANGE NOT therefore ye Sons of Jacob are not confumed.

Ifa. lviii. 6 Is not this the Faft that I have chofen? to loofe the Bands of DENS, and to let the OPPRESSED GO Wickednets, to UNDO the HEAVY BURFREE, and that ye break every Yoke.

the HUNGRY, and that thou bring the 7 Is it not to DEAL thy BREAD to Poor that are caft out to thy Houte?

when thou feeft the Naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyfelf from thine own Flesh.

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8 Then fhall thy Light break forth as the Morning, and thine Health Righteoutnefs fhall go before thee; fhall spring forth speedily and thy

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