The punishment of a false witness.

1451.

Before

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What cities must be destroyed.

in

h ch. 13. 8.

25.12 33, 34.

iNum. 35.

ch. 21.9.

14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine heritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that 1 Kings 2. the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

31.

k ch.27. 17. Job 24. 2.

Prov.22.28.

Num. 35.

30.

ch. 17. 6.

7.

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 Num. 31. it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

i Josh. 8.2.

15 T'One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sin-Hos. 5. 10. neth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness "rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; on 17 Then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before the LORD, "before the or priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; away. 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisi- & 21. 5. tion and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

20 And those which remain shall hear, and and shall henceforth commit no more any such among you. ES 99 estar inte

Ps.27.12.

& 35. 11.

falling

n ch. 17. 9.

Prov. 19. Dan. 6. 24.

p ch. 13. 5. & 17. 7. &

21.21.422

ch. 17.13. & 21. 21.

shall r ver. 13. for Lev. 24. 20.

WHEN thou goest out to battle against thine

$ Ex. 21.23.

Matt. 5. 38.

Ps. 20.7.

enemies, and seest "horses, and chariots, and a See a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: Isa. 31.1. for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

1

2 And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

21.

Num. 23.

† Heb. Josh.22.8.

1 Num. 21. 2, 3, 35. & 33.52.

ch. 7. 1, 2.

Josh.11.14.

14 But the women, and the little ones, and the 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.

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: mch.7.18 That "they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods; n Ex.23.33. so should ye "sin against the LORD your God.

&12.30, 31. & 18. 9.

19 TWhen 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 mayest eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is the tree of man's life) to employ them in the siege:

| Or, for, Oman,

the field is to be emthe siege. † Heb. to go from

ch. 31. 6, 8. 2Chron.13.

3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not t Heb. ttremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. ch. 1. 30. 5 TAnd the officers shall speak unto the people, Josh.23.10. saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not "dedicated it? let him go and dee return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and Ps.30,title. another man dedicate it.

† Heb. it come down.

18,4 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 an 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; S

6 And all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the Ps. 19. 12. heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

© See

& 26. 6. Matt.27.24.

d Jonah

14. † Heb.

in the midst.

e ch. 19.13.

7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, 1 whom thou hast redeemed, "and lay not innocent blood funto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. pedig fo

9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood

Before

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1451.

Of adultery, &c.

10 TWhen 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:

thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6 TIf a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon Lev. 22 the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take. the dam with the young:

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails: or, 13 And she shall put the raiment of her cap-grow. tivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, make, or, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that, thou shalt go in unto her, and be 10. her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

dress.

f SeePs.45.

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. Gen.34.2. 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and Judg. 19. another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

ch. 22. 29.

24.

33.

i1

Gen. 29.

16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons Chron. to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make 10. the son of the beloved first-born, before the son of i1. 19, 22. the hated, which is indeed the first-born:

2 Chron.

1 Chron. 5.

† Heb. that is

17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, by giving him a double See portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; "the right of the arst-born is his. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice 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;

him.

foundwith Gen. 49.3. 31, 33.

m Gen. 25.

20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, 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 die: "so shalt thou put evil away from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy 29.& 10. 26 of death, and he be to be put to death, and hang him on a tree:

&25. 11, 25.

q Josh. 8.

HOU "shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep a Ex. 23. 4. go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine. own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

4 T Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his Ex. 23. 6.

13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto Judg. 15.1. her, and hate her,

14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her,

17 And lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of. virginity be not found for the damsel:

21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of, her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore Judg. 20.6, in her father's house: 'so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Divers laws and ordinances.

L

Before

1451.

Before

1451.

Vows must be kept.

6 ch.21. 14.

+ Heb.

25 T But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; or, then the man only that lay with her shall die:

I hold of her. 2 Sam. 13.

26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

14.

28 ¶If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, qEx.22.16, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

29 Then the man that lay with her shall give. unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; "because he hath humbled r ver. 24. her, he may not put her away all his days.it 30 TA man shall not take his father's wife, nor 'discover his father's skirt.

3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into a Neh. 13. the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth: generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee. Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee... 5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

of any thing. k1 Sam. 30. 15.

:

15 T*Thou shalt not deliver unto his master 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 Ex. 22.21. of Israel, nor "a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

+ Heb. is good for him.

| Or,

sodomitess.

m Lev. 19. 29.

See Prov.

2. 16.

n Gen. 19.

5.

2 Kings 23. 7.

18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a 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.

19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy Ex. 22.25. brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

Lev. 25. 36,

37.

Neh. 5.2, 7. Ps. 15. 5.

Luke 6.34, 35.

p See Lev. 19. 34. & ch. 15. 3.

q ch. 15. 10.

2.

Num. 30.

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.

21 TWhen thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD Eccl. 5. 4,5. 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.

s Num. 30.

2.

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

14.

24 TWhen thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into the standing-corn of Matt. 12. thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand: but thou shalt not move a sickle Luke 6. 1. unto thy neighbour's standing-corn.

1. Mark 2. 23.

a Matt. 5.

31. & 19. 7. Mark 10. 4.

+ Heb. matter of

CHA P. XXIV.

1 Of divorce. 6, 10 Of pledges. 7 Of man-stealers. 14 The hire is to be given. 16 Of justice. 19 Of charity.

WHEN a "man hath taken a wife, and married

her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found † some uncleanness nakedness. in her then let him write her a bill of † divorcement, cutting off 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.

† Heb.

b Jer. 3. 1.

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;

4Her former husband which sent her away, may ats not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

c ch. 20. 7. 5 TWhen a man hath taken a new wife, he shall + Heb. not go out to war, † neither shall he be charged with thing shall any business: but he shall be free at home one year, pass upon and shall 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. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die'; fch.19.19. and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

e Ex. 21.16.

Of justice and charity.

g Lev. 13.2.
& 14. 2.
h See Luke

unto 17.82, forth

1 Cor. 10. 6. 1490.

i Num. 12. 10.

lend the

10 When thou dost † lend thy brother any thing,t Heb. thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge: ton of any 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man tongid". 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. 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 an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 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: "lest 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,neithershall the children be put to deathforthe fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, 'nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Ex.22.26.

1Job 20.11.

13. & 31.20. 2 Cor. 9.13.

m ch, 6, 25.

Tim.1.18. Ps. 106, 31. Dan. 4.27. Lev. 19. Jer. 22. 13. James 5.4.

& 112. 9.

n Mal. 3.5.

o

13.

+ Heb. lifteth his soul unto

it."

Ps. 25. 1. &

18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the workof thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, † thou 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 vine-Heb, yard, 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 after thee. bond-man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

u

10.& 23. 22.

Ps. 41. 1. Prov.19.17.

F there be a controversy between men, and they a ch.19.17. come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

See Prov.

17. 15.

c Luke 12.

of unjust weights. Before ther shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his 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. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and m Ruth 4. speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, "I like not to take her,

14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small:

15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; "that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unThess.4.6. righteously,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;

& 34. 26.

Num. 18.13.

Prov. 3. 9.

e

11.

24, :

f Job 18.3.

ch. 12.

g Prov. 12.

10.

1 Cor. 9. 9.

1 Tim.5.18.

3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these Heb. with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

thresheth.

11.

h Matt. 22. 24.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he Mark 12.19. +treadeth out the corn.

Or,

Luke20.28, next kinsman.

Ruth 1. 12,

6.

d Gen. 43. 1, 2. & 45.

CHAP. XXVI.

The covenant between God and the people.

AND 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 "ready to perish was my father';

C

The covenant between God and the people.

Before CHRIST 1451.

and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there or with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

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

af

our

7 And "when we cried unto the LORD God of fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression : 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

e Gen. 46.

Aets 7. 15.

ƒ Gen. 46. 27.

ch. 10. 22.

Before CHRIST 1452.

b Josh. 8. 32.

g Ex. 1. 11, / Ex. 2. 23, 24, 25. & 3. 9. & 4. 31.

Ex. 12.37,

&

ch. 5. 15.

k ch. 4. 34.

11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

30.

12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the "tithes of thine increase the third year, which is n Lev. 27. 'the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Le-Num. 18. vite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, ch. 14. 28, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:

13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, "neither have I forgotten them:

14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

24.

29.

Josh. 8.30.

dEx.20.25

Josh. 8. 31.

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.

9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed and hearken, O ech. 26. 18. Israel, this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God..

Isa. 63.15. Zech. 2. 13.

& 26. 1.

ch. 4. 16,

Isa. 44. 9.

23. & 5. 8. Hos. 13. 2.

k SeeNum.

Jer. 11. 5.

1 Cor. 14. 16.

1 Ex. 20.12. & 21. 17.

Lev. 19. 3. ch. 21. 18.

16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark: and all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander Prov.22.28. out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment x.22.21, of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.

m ch.19.14.

n Lev, 19.

14.

22.

ch. 10. 18.

& 21. 17. Mal. 3. 5.

p Lev. 18.8. & 20. 11.

ch. 22. 30.

7 Lev. 18.

23. & 20.15.

Lev. 18.9.

& 20. 17.

8 Lev.18.17.

& 20. 14.

0

20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen.

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast and all the people shall say, Amen..

:

22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mo 21.12.14 ther: and all the people shall say, Amen.

Ex. 20.13.

Lev. 24. 17. Num. 35.

23 'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-inch. 19. 11. law and all the people shall say, Amen.

31.

u. Ex. 23.7,

8.

ch. 10. 17.

& 16. 19.

Ezek.22.12.

2: ch. 28.15.

24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly and all the people shall say, Amen.

u

25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an Ps. 119. 21. innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen, 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words

Jer. 11. 3.

Gal. 3. 10.

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