8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coalt, as he hath iworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all thefe commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then thalt thou add three cities more for thec, befides thele three; 10 That innocent blood be not thed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and fo blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and Be in wait for him, and rite up against him, and finite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities; 12 Then the elders of his city fhall fend and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 3 Thine eye thall nor pity kim; but thou thalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from firael, that it may go well with thee. 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbours land-mark, which they of old time have fet In thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to poffefs it. 15 One witnefs fhall not rife up against a man for any iniquity or for any fin, in any fin that he finneth: at the mouth of two witneffes, or at the mouth of three witnelles, thall the matter be established. 16 If a falfe witnefs rife up against any man, to tellify against him that" which is wrong; 17 'Then both the men, between whom the controverly is, thall stand before the LORD, before the pricfts and the judges which thali be in those days. 18 And the judges thall make diligent in quifition: and, behold, if the witnefs be a falfe witness, and hath teftified falfely againft his brother; 19 Then thall ye do unto him as he had thought to have donc unto his brother: fo thalt thou put the evil away from among you. 20 And thofe which remain fhall hear, and fear, and fhall henceforth commit no more any fuch evil among you. 21 And thine eye ihall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, band for hand, foot for foot. CHAP. XX. The priefs exhortation to encourage the people to battle. 10 How to use the cities that accept or refufe the proclamation of peace. 16 What cities must be devoted. 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your ene mies, to fave you. 5 And the officers hall fpeak unto the people, faying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated t let him go and return to his house, lest he dis in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not get eaten of it! let him alfo go and return unto his houfe, lett be die in the battic, and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her let him go and return unto his houfe, left he die in bat tle, and another man take her. 8 And the officers thall fpeak further into the people, and they thall lay, What man i there that is fearful and faint-hearted! let lum go and return unto his house, left his brethrem heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it thall be, when the officers have made an end of fpeaking unto the people. that they thall make captains of the arms to lead the people. 10 When thou comett nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unte it. 11 And it fhall be, if it make thee aniver of peace, a open unto thee, then it thallit, that all the people that is found therein half be tributaries unto thee, and they thall ferve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou thalt befiege it: 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou that fmite every male thereof with the edge of the fword. 14 But the women, and the little one and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the fpoil thereof, thalt thou take una thyfelf: and thou shalt eat the fpoil of thine hemies, which the LORD thy God hath give thee. 15 Thus fhalt thou do unto all the citis which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of thefe people, which the Loan thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt fave alive nothing that breatheth: 17 But thou thalt utterly destroy them namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivite and the Jebufites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done When thou goes out to eat her again unto their gods; fo fhould ye fin again the enemies, and feett horfes chariots, and a people more than thou, benot afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it thall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the prick thall approach, and fpeak unto the people, 3 And fhall fay unto them, Hear, O Ifrael; we approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint: fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them: LORD your God." 19 When thou shalt befiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou thalt not deftroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them for thon mayeft cat of them, and thou inalt not cut them down, (for the tree of the field is mans life to em ploy them in the fiege. 20 Only the trees which thou knowett that they be not trees for meat thou shalt deftro and cut them down; and thou shalt b bulwarks against the city that maketh wat with thee, until it be fubdued. 10 Thou fait not plow with an ox and an afs together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of diverie forts, as of woollen and finen together. 12 Thou thalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy veiture, wherewith thou coveret thyself. 431 If any mantake a wife, and go-in un- And give occafions of speech against her 15Then thall the father of the damsel,and, 16 And the damfels father shall fay unto the 17And,lo,he hath given occafions of speech 19 And they shall amerce him in an hun- 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damfel; 21 They thall then bring out the damfel to the door of her fathers houfe, and the men of her city hall tone her with ftones that the die; because the hath wrought folly in Ifrael, to play the whore in her fathers houfe: to Chalt thou put evil away from among you. 22 If a man be found lying with a wo man married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the wornan, and the woman: fo thalt thou put away evil from Ifrael. 43 If a damfel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye thall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye fhall tone them with tones that they die; the damfel, because the cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neigh bours wife: fo thou thalt put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed damfel in the field, and the man force her, and lic with her, then the man only that lay with her thali die: 26 But unto the damfel thou fhalt do no⚫thing; there is in the damfel no tin worthy of death for as when a man raifeth againt his neighbour, and flayeth him, even fo is this matter: 17 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damfel cried, and there was none to lave her. 28 If a man find a damfel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 19 Then the man that lay with her thall give unto the damfels father fifty shekela of filver, and the shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days, 301 A man fhall not take his fathers wife, nor difcover his fathers skirt. CHAP. XXIII, I who may, or may not, enter into the congreg 2 A baftard thall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation fhall he not enter into the copgregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite fhall not enter into the congregation of the LORD, even to their tenth generation fhall they not enter into the congregation of the Loan 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 fon of Beor, of Pthor of Mefopotamia, to curfe thee. 5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Loza thy God turned the curfe into a bleffing unte thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not feek their peace, nor ther profperity, all thy days for ever. 79Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; forbe is thy brother: thou shalt not abhoran Egyp tian, becaufe thou waft a stranger in his land, 8 The children that are begotten of them fhall enter into the congregation of the Load in their third generation. 94When the host goeth forth against thise enemies, then keep thee from every wick thing. to If there be among you any man that is not clean, by reafon of uncleannels that chanceth him by night, then fhall he go abroad out of the camp; he thall not come within the camp: 11 But it thall be, when evening cometh on, he thall wash himself with water; and when the fun is down he thall come into the camp again. 129 Thou shalt have a place alfo without the camp,whither thou shalt go forth abroad. 13 And thou shall have a paddle upon thy weapon: and it fhall be, when thou wilt cule thyfelfabroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and thalt turn back, and cover that which com eth from thee. 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midit of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee: therefore fhall thy camp be holy, that he fee no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his maf ter the fervant which is escaped from his matter unto thee: 16 He fhall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which ye thall choofe, in one of thy gates where it liketh him beft t thou shalt not opprefs him. 17 There thall be no whore of the daugh ters of Ifrael, nor a Sodomite of the fons f Ifrael. 18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 5¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead thall not marry without unto a ftranger: her husbands brother fhall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an hutbands brotlier unto her. 6 And it thall be, that the firit-born which the beareth thall fuccced in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Ifrael. 7 And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and fay, My hul bands Brother refufeth to raise up unto his brother a name in Ifrael, he will not perform the duty of my husbands brother; 8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and fpeak unto him: and if he fland to it, and fay, I like not to take her; 9 Then thall his brothers wife come unto him, in the prefence of the elders, and loofe his thoe from off his foot, and fpit in his face, and fhall anfwer and fay, So thall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brothers house. 10 And his name thall be called in Ifrael, 1 he houfe of him that hath his thoe loofed. When men ftrive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that fmiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the fecrets; 12 Then thalt thou cut off her hand, thiné eye shall not pity her. 13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverfe weights, a great and a fmall. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house diverse measures, a great and a finall. 15 But thou that have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure thalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do fuch 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 fmote the hindmost of thee, even all that were fee ble behind thee, when thou waft faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee reft from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to poffefs it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou thalt not forget it. CHAP. XXVI. The confeffion of him that offereth the basket of fir-fruits. 16 The eavenant between God and the people. Nd it thall be, when thou art come in A unto the land which the LORD thy God Fiveth thee for an inheritance, and poffeffeft it, and dwelleft therein, A That thou halt 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 baiket, and thait go unto the place which the LORD thy Go thall be in thofe days, and lay unto him, thine hand, and fet it down before the altar 5 And thou halt fpeak and fay before the quas my father; and he went down into LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perth Egypt, and fojourned there with a fewy and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil-intreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and 7 And when we cried unto the LORD G our oppreffion: looked on our affliction, and our labour, and Egypt, with a mighty hand, and with anon 8 And the LORD brought us forth-out ei ftretched arm, and with great terriblestis, and with figns, and with wonders: and hath given as this land, even a land that 9 And he hath brought us into this place. floweth with milk and honey. firft-fruits of the land which thom, O Lake, 10 And now, behold, I have brought the haft given me. And thou thalt fet it befor the LORD thy God, and worthip before the LORD thy God. 11 And thou fhalt rejoice in every good to thee, and unto thine house, thou, and tit thing which the LORD thy God hath given on Levite, and the ftranger that is among you 12 When thou haft made an end of tith year, which is the year of tithing, and bat ing all the tithes of thine increase the the given it unto the Levite, the franger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eu within thy gates, and be filled; thy God, I have brought away the hallowed 13 Then thou shalt fay before the Let given them unto the Levite, and unto the things out of mine house, and allo lave franger, to the fatherlefs, and to the widow, thou half commanded me: I have not tra according to all thy commandments, which greffed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: ing, neither have I taken away aught thereaf 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourn for any unclean ufe, nor given ought there for the dead; but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou haft commanded me: 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, the land which thou haft given us, as the from heaven, and blefs thy people Ifrael, and fwareft unto our fathers, a land that flowers with milk and honey. commanded thee to do these statutes and to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, |