observed in war.

B. C. 1451.

h Num. 31. 7.

i Josh. 8. 2. † Heb. spoil. & Joshi, 22. 8.

/Num.21.2,3, 35. & 33. 52. ch. 7. 1, 2, Josh. 11. 14.

m ch.7.4.& 12. 30,31, & 18.9. ti Ex. 23. 33.

Or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employ

ed in the siege.

f Heb. to go

thee.

DEUTERONOMY,

12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it :

13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

14 But the women, and the little ones, and ithe cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou † take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

18 That "they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye "sin against the LORD your God.

A stubborn son to be stoned.

| Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, dand lay
not innocent blood unto thy people of Is-
rael's charge. And the blood shall be for-
given them.

9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of in-
nocent blood from among you, when thou
shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.

10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

13 And she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in
thine house, and bewail her father and
her mother a full month: and after that
thou shalt go in unto her, and be her hus-
band, and she shall be thy wife.

14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight
in her, then thou shalt let her go whither
she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all
for money, thou shalt not make merchandise
of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved,
and another hated, and they have borne
him children, both the beloved and the hat-
and if the firstborn son be hers that
was hated:

19 ¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long
time, in making war against it to take it,
thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by
forcing an axe against them: for thou may-ed;
est eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them
down (for the tree of the field is man's
life) to employ them in the siege :

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that from before they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until † it be subdued.

+ Heb. it come down.

a ch. 10. 8.

1 Chr 23. 13. b ch. 17 8, 9. † Heb, mouth.

c See Ps. 19.12. & 26. 6. Matt. 27. 24.

CHAPTER XXI.

16 Then it shall be, iwhen he maketh his
sons to inherit that which he hath, that he
may not make the son of the beloved first-
born before the son of the hated, which is
indeed the firstborn:

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the
hated for the firstborn, by giving him a
double portion of all that he hath for he
right of the firstborn is his.
is the beginning of his strength;
n the

1 The expiation of an uncertain murder. 10 The
usage of a captive taken to wife. 15 The first-
born is not to be disinherited upon private affec-bellious son, which will not obey the voice
18 If a man have a stubborn and re-

tion. 18 A stubborn son is to be stoned to death.
22. The malefactor must not hang all night on a
tree.

Fone be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain :

3 And it shall be, that the city which is
next unto the slain man, even the elders of
that city shall take a heifer, which hath not
been wrought with, and which hath not
drawn in the yoke;

4 And the elders of that city shall bring
down the heifer unto a rough valley, which
is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike
off the heifer's neck there in the valley.
5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall
come near; for "them the LORD thy God
hath chosen to minister unto him, and to
bless in the name of the LORD; and by
their word shall every controversy and
every stroke be tried:

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6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

of his father, or the voice of his mother,
and that, when they have chastened him,
will not hearken unto them:

19 Then shall his father and his mother lay
hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders
of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of
his city, This our son is stubborn and re-
bellious, he will not obey our voice; he is
a glutton, and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he dic: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people THOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or

his sheep go astray, and hide thyself

B. C. 1451.

Jonah 1. 14. † Heb. in the midst.

ech. 19. 13.

|| Or, suffer to grow.

† Heb. make, ƒSee Ps.45.10. or, dress.

g Gen. 34. 2.
'cli. 22. 29.
Judg. 19. 24.
A Gen. 29. 33.

il Chr. 5. 2, & 26. 10.

2 Chr. 11. 19, 22.

& See 1 Chr. 5. 1.

† Heb. that is found with him.

/ Gen. 49. 3. m Gen. 25, 31, 33.

n ch. 13. 5. & 19. 19, 20. & 22. 21, 21. och. 13. 11.

pch. 19. 6. &

22.26.
Acts 23.29. &
25. 11, 25. &
26.31.

Josh. 8. 29. & 10. 26, 27. John 19. 31. " Gal. 3. 13.

† Heb. the curse of God: Sec Nuni.25.

4.

2 Sam. 21. 6. s Lev. 18. 25. Num. 35. 34.

a Ex. 23. 4.

from them thou shalt in any caso bring | of her city shall stone her with stones that them again unto thy brother. she die; because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: iso shalt thou put evil away from among you.

14 And give occasions of speech against hath his privy member cut off, shall

Laws concerning usury.

B. C. 1451.

g Lov. 15. 16.

+ Heb. turneth_toward.

& Lev. 15, 5.

t Heb. sittest down.

i Lev. 26. 12.

+ Heb. nakedness of any thing.

1 Sam.30.15.

+ Heb. is good for him.

/ Ex. 22. 21. | Or, sodomitess.

DEUTERONOMY.

shall enter into the congregation of the
LORD in their third generation.

9 When the host goeth forth against
thine enemies, then keep thee from every
wicked thing.

10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

on,

11 But it shall be, when evening † cometh hhe shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

12 Thou shalt have a place also without
the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy
weapon; and it shall be, when thou t wilt
ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig there-
with, and shalt turn back and cover that
which cometh from thee:

14 For the LORD thy God i walketh in the
midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to
give up thine enemies before thee; there- |
fore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no
+ unclean thing in thee, and turn away from
thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his mas-
ter the servant which is escaped from his
master unto thee:

16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it † liketh him best: (thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a See Prov. 2. whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

m Lev. 19. 29.

16.

n Gen, 19. 5. 2 Kings 23.7.

o Ex. 22. 25.

37.

Neh. 5. 2, 7.
Ps. 15. 5.
Luke 6. 34,
35.

19 ° Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy Lev. 25. 36, brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : 20 ? Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

p See Lev. 19. 31. & ch. 15. 3.

g ch. 15. 10. Num. 30. 2. Ecc. 5.4, 5.

Num. 30. 2.

21 ¶ When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou Ps. 66. 13, 14. shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

|

Of pledges, manstealers, &c.

she find no favour in his eyes, because he
hath found some uncleanness in her: then
let him write her a bill of † divorcement,
and give it in her hand, and send her out
of his house.

2 And when she is departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man's
wife.

3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

5 When a man hath taken a new wife,
he shall not go out to war, † neither shall he
+
be charged with any business: but he shall
be free at home one year, and shall d cheer
up his wife which he hath taken.

6 No man shall take the nether or the
upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh
a man's life to pledge.

c ch. 20. 7. + Heb.

not

7 ¶ If a man be found stealing any of eEx. 21. 16. his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; ƒ and thou shalt | ƒch. 19. 19. put evil away from among you.

8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

9 h Remember what the LORD thy God did iunto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

10 ¶ When thou dost † lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

13 k In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

14 Thou shalt not " oppress a hired seryant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

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15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire,
neither shall the sun go down upon it; for
he is poor, and † setteth his heart upon it:
Plest he cry against thee unto the LORD,
and it be sin unto thee.

16 The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, neither shall the children
be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judg-
ment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless;
nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Law of raising up seed.

bless thee in all the work of thine ed in the land which the LORD thy God

20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, tthou shalt not go over the boughs again : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondinan in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

CHAPTER XXV.

1 Stripes must not exceed forty. 4 The ox is not
to be muzzled. 5 Of raising seed unto a brother.
110f the immodest woman. 13 Of unjust weights.
17 The memory of Amalek is to be blotted out.

IF there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the bSee Prov. 17. judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

15.

2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be

giveth thee.

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he "feared not God.

B. C. 1451.

3 Prov. 11, 1. 1 Thess. 4. 6.

t Ex. 17. 8.

u Ps. 36. 1. Prov. 16. 6. Rom. 3. 18.

1 Sam. 15.3.

19 Therefore it shall be, "when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out y Ex. 17. 14. the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

CHAPTER XXVI.

1 The confession of him that offereth the basket of
firstfruits. 12 The prayer of him that giveth
his third year's tithes. 16 The covenant between
God and the people.

worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall AN

cause him to lie down, dand to be beaten
before his face, according to his fault, by a
certain number.

3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not
exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat
him above these with many stripes, then
thy brother should ƒ seem vile unto thee.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when
he treadeth out the corn.

5 ThIf brethren dwell together, and one
of them die, and have no child, the wife of
the dead shall not marry without unto a
stranger her husband's brother shall go
in unto her, and take her to him to wife,
and perform the duty of a husband's brother
unto her.

6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth ishall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that this name be not put out of Israel.

7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

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8 Then the elders of his city shall call him,
and speak unto him: and if he stand to it,
and say,
I like not to take her;
9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto
him in the presence of the elders, and "loose
his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face, and shall answer and say, So shall it
be done unto that man that will not "build
up his brother's house.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel,
The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
11 When men strive together one with
another, and the wife of the one draweth
near for to deliver her husband out of the
hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth
forth her hand, and taketh him by the
secrets:

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, ? thine eye shall not pity her.

ND it shall be, when thou art come in
unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein;

2 That thou shalt take of the first of all
the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring
of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt
go unto the place which the LORD thy God
shall choose to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that
shall be in those days, and say unto him, I
profess this day unto the LORD thy God,
that I am come unto the country which the
LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket out
of thine hand, and set it down before the
altar of the LORD thy God.

5 And thou shalt speak and say before the
LORD thy God, "A Syrian dready to perish
was my father; and he went down into
Egypt, and sojourned there with a few,
and became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous:

6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even ta land | Ex. 3. 8. that floweth with milk and honey.

10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good | mch, 12, 7, 12,
18. & 16. 11.
thing which the LORD thy God hath given
unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and
the Levite, and the stranger that is among
you.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag
+ divers weights, a great and a small:
12 When thou hast made an end of tith-
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house ing all the "tithes of thine increase the
t divers measures, a great and a small: third year, which is the year of tithing,
15 But thou shalt-have a perfect and just and hast given it unto the Levite, the stran-
weight, a perfect and just measure shaltger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they
thou have: "that thy days may be lengthen may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

n Lev, 27. 30. Num. 18. 24.

a chỉ 14. 28,29,

DEUTERONOMY.

over Jordan, that ye shall set up these A

stones, which I command you this day, "in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

ND it shall come to pass, "if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt | hearken unto the voice of the LORD thyf ver. 11. God.

3 d Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be ƒthe fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.