Christ the Prophet to be heard. DEUTERONOMY. thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 1 The cities of refuge. · CHAP. XIX. WHEN the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God give.h thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 10 There shall not be found among 4 And this is the case of the slayyou any one that maketh his son or er, which shall flee thither, that he his daughter to pass through the fire, may live whoso killeth his neighbour or that useth divination, or an ob-ignorantly, whom he hated not in time server of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a ne cromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. 15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he sha!! speak unto them all that I sball command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously thou shalt not be afraid of him. past; 5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of these cities, and live: 6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do thein, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities inore for thee, besides these three. 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mottally, that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land mark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; Punishment of a false witness. CHAP. XX. What cities must be destroyed. 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; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; is And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: 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 bear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. CHAP. XX. city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall he, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 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 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. 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give WHEN thou goest out to battle thee for an inheritance, thou shalt against thine enemies, and seest save alive nothing that breatheth: horses, and chariots, and a people 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy more than thou, be not afraid of them: namely, the Hittites, and the them: for the LORD thy God is with Amorites, the Canaanites, and the thee, which brought thee up out of Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jethe land of Egypt. busites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people," 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. 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not 19 When thou shalt besiege a city your hearts faint, fear not, and do not a long time, in making war against it iremble, neither be ye terrified be-to take it, thou shalt not destroy the cause of them; 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. trees thereof by forcing an axe against 5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that hath built a new house, and hath that they be not trees for meat, thou not dedicated it? let him go and re-shait destroy and cut them down; and turn unto his house, lest he die in the thou shalt build bulwarks against the battle, and another man dedicate it. city that maketh war with thee, until 6 And what man is he that bath it be subdued. planted a vineyard, and hath not yer caten of it? let him also go and re-IF one be found slain in the land turn unto his house, lest he die m the battle, 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 house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 6 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted let him go and return umo his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. CHAP. XXI. 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 mea sure 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 shali take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 9 And it shall be, when the officers. 4 And the elders of that city shall have made an end of speaking unto bring down the heifer unto a rough the people, that they shall make cap- valley, which is neither eared nor tains of the armies to lead the people.sown, and shall strike off the heifer's 10 When thou comest nigh unto a neck there in the valley: Expiation of uncertain murder. - DEUTERONOMY. Humanity to brethren. 5 And the priests the sons of Levi 20 And they shal! say unto the elde shail come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto ham, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shail every controversy and every stroke be tried: 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, either have our eyes seen it. 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 of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy 23 His body shall not remain all people Israel, whom thou hast re-night upon the tree, but thou shalt in deemned, and lay not innocent blood any wise bury him that day; (for he unto thy people of Istael's charge. that is hanged is accursed of God;) And the blood shall be forgiven that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. them. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent 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 lands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire tinto 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; 12 And she shall put the raiment of Ler captivity from of 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 husband, and she Suall 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 inake merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. CHAP. XXII. THOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or bis sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother he not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto the own. house, and it shall be with thee unti 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 raument 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 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shali a man put on a weinan's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 15¶ If a man have two wives, one be- 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before. loved, and another hated, and they thee in the way in any tree, or on the have born him children, both the be-ground, whether they be young ones, loved and the hated; and if the first-or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the born son be her's that was hated; young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt Lot take the dam with the young: 16 Then it shail be, when 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 first-that thou mayest prolong thy days. born; 7 but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-börn, by giving him a double portion of all that he bath: for Le is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his. 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. 9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy 18 If a man have a stubborn and re-seed which thou hast sown, and the bellious son, which will not obey the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. 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 hoid on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place: 10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together." 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyst.f. Divers laws and ordinances. CHAP. XXIII. Divers laws and ordinance. 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasion 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 tokçut 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 Ger; 17 And lo, he hath given occasion 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. 19 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: 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 be, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his rather's skirt. CHAP. XXIII. TTE that is wounded in the stones, 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shail he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congrega tion 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 be cause they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopo tania, 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. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not ablior an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall store her with stones that she die because she bath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's 9 The children that are begotten of house: so shalt thou put evil away them shall enter into the congrefrom among you. gation of the LORD in their third generation. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then 9 When the host goeth forth against they shail both of them die, both the thine enemies, then keep thee from man that lay with the woman, and the every wicked thing. woman: so shalt thou put away evil from israel. 10 If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of unclean23 If a damsel that is a virgin beness that chanceth him by night, then betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 24 Then ye shall bring them both 11 But it shall be, when evening out unto the gate of that city, and ye cometh on, he shall wash himself with shall stone them with stones that they water; and when the sun is down, he die: the damsel, because she cried shall come into the camp again. not, being in the city; and the man, 12 Thou shalt have a place also . because he hath humbled his neigh-without the camp, whither thou shalt bour's wife so thou shalt put away go forth abroad: evil from among you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed dunse in the field, and the man torce her, and be with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon. thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wiit ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: 20 But unto the damsel thou shalt 14 For the LORD thy God walketh do nothing there is in the damsel no in the midst of thy camp, to deliver sin worthy of death: for as when a man thee, and to give up thine enemies riseth against his neighbour, and slay-before thee: therefore shall thy camp et him, evea so is tais matter: 27 For be found her in the field, and the betrothed danse! cried, and there war none to save her. be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 99 a man fina dansel that is a Tingin, which is not betrothed, and 16 He shall dwell with thee, even lay bid on her, and lie with her, and among you, in that place which he they be it La; la chic ue of thy gates, vibere DEUTERONOMY. of divorce, pledger, taketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of ne sons of Israel. 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 vew: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy 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. 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. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt 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. justice, and charity. 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; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague of la prosv, 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 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto 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. 19 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 he righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired 24 When thou comest into thy servant that is poor and needy, whe neighbour's vineyard, then thou may-ther he be of thy brethren, or of thy est cat grapes thy fill, at thine own strangers that are in thy land within thy pleasure but thou shalt not put any in gates: thy vessel. 15 At his day thou shalt give him his 25 When thou comest into the stand-hire, neither shall the sun go down ing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou upon it; for he is poor, and setteth mayest pluck the ears with thine his heart upon it: lest le cry against band: but thou shalt not move a thee unto the LORD, and it be sin un sickle unto thy neighbour's standing to thee. corn. CHAP. XXIV. 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 in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his bouse. 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; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may 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. 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, 19 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 work of 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. 5When a man bath taken a new 21 When thou gatherest the grapes wife, he shall not go out to war, nei-of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean ther shal! he be charged with any it afterward: it shall be for the stran business: but he shall be free at home ger, for the fatherless, and for the wione year, and shall cheer up his wife dow. which he hath taken. 22 And thou shalt remember that |