When the priests are to LEVITICUS. abstain from holy things. be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which goeth unto the holy things, which the chilsanctify you, am holy. dren of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having 9 And the daughter of any priest, if his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall she profane herself by playing the whore, be cut off from my presence: I am the she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt Lord. with fire. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron 10 ¶ And he that is the high priest among is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall his brethren, upon whose head the anoint- not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. ing oil was poured, and that is consecrated And whoso toucheth any thing that is unto put on the garments, shall not uncover clean by the dead, or a man whose seed his head, nor rend his clothes; goeth from him; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take unclean12 Neither shall he go out of the sanc-ness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath : tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food. 8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whoso- 10 There shall no stranger eat of the ever he be of thy seed in their generations holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an that hath any blemish, let him not approach hired servant, shall not eat of the holy to offer the bread of his God: thing. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a 11 But if the priest buy any soul with blemish, he shall not approach: a blind his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, born in his house: they shall eat of his or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; meat. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and 21 No man that hath a blemish of the is returned unto her father's house, as in seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh her youth, she shall eat of her father's to offer the offerings of the LORD made by meat; but there shall no stranger eat therefire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come of. nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 14 ¶ And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest, with the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD: 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to trespass, when they eat their holy things: his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. for I the LORD do sanctify them. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, CHAP. XXII. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-saying ing, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that and unto all the children of Israel, and say they separate themselves from the holy unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house things of the children of Israel, and that of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that they profane not my holy name in those will offer his oblation for all his vows, and things which they hallow unto me: I am the for all his free-will-offerings, which they LORD. will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offer 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all ing: your seed among your generations, that 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male CHAP. XXIII. The age of the sacrifice. Of sundry feasts. without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, | 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month or of the goats. at even is the LORD's passover. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same shall ye not offer: for it shall not be ac-month is the feast of unleavened bread unto ceptable for you. the LORD: seven days ye must eat unlea 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of vened bread. peace-offerings unto the LORD to accom- 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy plish his vow, or a free-will-offering in convocation: ye shall do no servile work beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be therein. accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or hav- by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the ing a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall seventh day is an holy convocation, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make do no servile work therein. an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 9 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, say unto them, When ye be come into the that mayest thou offer for a free-will-offer- land which I give unto you, and shall reap ing; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or the priest: cat; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ve offer the bread of your God of any of these because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat two tenth-deals of fine flour mingled with is brought forth, then it shall be seven days oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD under the dam; and from the eighth day for a sweet savour: and the drink-offering and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of ofering made by fire unto the LORD. an hin. 28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one dav. 29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up, ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD. 32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you, 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD. CHAP. XXIII. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say Aing, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 ¶ And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete : 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-deals: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, they are the first-fruits unto the LORD. 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 3¶ Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy | 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the convocation: ye shall do no work therein: goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. dwellings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with 4 These are the feasts of the LORD, the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offereven holy convocations, which ye shall pro- ing before the LORD, with the two lambs: claim in their seasons. they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. The feast of tabernacles. LEVITICUS. The shew-bread. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self- 38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and same day, that it may be an holy convoca- beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, tion unto you: ye shall do no servile work and beside all your free-will-offerings, which therein. It shall be a statute for ever in all ye give unto the LORD. your dwellings throughout your generations. 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the 22 And when ye reap the harvest of fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto your land, thou shalt not make clean rid- the LORD seven days: on the first day stu dance of the corners of thy field when thou be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall reapest, neither shalt thou gather any glean- be a sabbath. ing of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them 40 And ye shall take you on the first day unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the boughs of goodly trees, branches of the LORD your God. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire booths: unto the LORD. 26 saying, 43 That your generations may know And the LORD spake unto Moses, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD. CHAP. XXIV. 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; it shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work. It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at even: from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say ing, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your genera tions. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually. 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth-deals shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, say- 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense ing, The fifteenth day of this seventh month upon each row, that it may be on the bread shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven for a memorial, even an offering made by days unto the LORD. fire unto the LORD. 35 On the first day shall be an holy con- 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order vocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. before the LORD continually, being taken 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering from the children of Israel by an everlastmade by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth ing covenant. day shall be an holy convocation unto you, 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire and they shall eat it in the holy place: for unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and it is most holy unto him of the offerings of ye shall do no servile work therein. the LORD made by fire by a perpetual sta 37 These are the feasts of the LORD, tute. which ye shall proclaim to be holy convo- 10 And the son of an Israelitish wocations, to offer an offering made by fire man, whose father was an Egyptian, went unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-out among the children of Israel; and this offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, son of the Israelitish woman and a man of every thing upon his day: Israel strove together in the camp; Sabbath of the seventh year. The year of jubilee. 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. CHAP. XXV. 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed: and they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 8 ¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, years. saying, 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed with- the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of out the camp; and let all that heard him the seventh month, in the day of atonement lay their hands upon his head, and let all shall ye make the trumpet sound throughthe congregation stone him. out all your land. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the chil- 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, dren of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it his God shall bear his sin. 16 And he that blasphemeth the name shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, return every man unto his possession, and and all the congregation shall certainly ye shall return every man unto his family. stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. 17 ¶ And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. 18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done unto him: 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a another: man, so shall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. 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 shall sell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth 23 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones and the children of Israel he sell unto thee. did as the LORD commanded Moses. CHAP. XXV. ND the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say 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 shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for am the LORD your God. I 18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 5 That which groweth of its own accord 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat, for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be! meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, of the old store. 23 The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. The usage of bondmen. LEVITICUS. The redemption of servants. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and both he and his children with him, and heth sold away some of his possession, and shall return unto his own family, and unto if any of his kin come to redeem it, then the possession of his fathers shall he return. shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself 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 sold it; that he may return unto his possession. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. 29¶ And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold: within a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them, shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32 Notwiths anding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 42 For they are my servants which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bond-men, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your landand they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. 47 And if a sojourner or a stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that direlleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 33 And if a man purchase of the Le- 50 And he shall reckon with him that vites, then the house that was sold, and the bought him, from the year that he was sold city of his possession shall go out in the to him, unto the year of jubilee: and the year of jubilee; for the houses of the cities price of his sale shall be according unto of the Levites are their possession among the number of years, according to the time the children of Israel. of an hired servant shall it be with him. 34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with 35 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, him. to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; I am the LORD your God. thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant : 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee : 41 And then shall he depart from thee, CHAP. XXVI. YE |