Divers laws

and ordinances 99 Alfo thou shalt not opprefs a stranger :: for ye know the heart of a stranger, feeing ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt.

EXODUS. 16 9 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her; he fhall furely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refufe to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 9 Thou shalt not fuffer a witch to live. 19 Whofoever lieth with a beaft, fhall Turely be put to death.

20 q He that facrificeth unto any god, fave unto the LORD only, he thall be utterly deftroyed.

21 Thou falt neither vex a ftranger, nor oppreis him for ye.were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye thall not afflict any widow, or fatherle's child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wife, and they cry at all unto me: I will furely hear their cry;

24 And my wrath fhall" wax hot, and I will kill you with the fword; and your wives fhall be widows, and your children fatherless.

259 If thou lend money to any of my peo ple that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an ufurer, neither fhalt thou lay upon him ufury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbours raiment to pledge, thou fhalt deliver it unto him, by that the fun goeth down..

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein fhall he fleep? And it fhall come to pafs, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear: for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor Curfe the ruler of thy people..

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the firft of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors: the firk born of thy fons fhalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewife fhalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy fheep: feven days it fhall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou fhalt give it me.

31And ye fhall be holy men unto me: neither fhall ye eat any felh that is torn of beafts in the field: ye fhall caft it to the dogs. CHAP. XXIII.

Of flander and falfe witness. 12 of the fab bath. 13 of idolatry. 20. A bleffing promie fed to the obedient.

Hou fhalt not raife a falfe report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witnefs,

24 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to de evil; neither fhalt thou speak in a caufe, to decline after many, to wreft judgment:

3 Neither halt thou countenance a poor, man in his caufe

4 If thou meet thine enemies ox or his afs going aftray, thou. fhalt furely bring it back to him again.

5 If thou fee the afs of him that hateth thee, ying under his burden,and wouldft forbear to help him; thou fhalt furely help with him. 6 Thou shalt not wreft the judgment of thy poor in his caufe.

Keep thee far from a falfe matter and the innocent and righteous flay thou not For I will not justifie the wicked,

89 And thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wife, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

10 And fix years thou fhalt fow thy land, and fhalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the feventh year thou shalt let it reft, and lie ftill; that the poor of thy peo ple may eat: and what they leave, the beafts of the field fhall eat. In like manner thou fhalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard.

12 Six days thou fhalt do thy work, and on the feventh day thou fhalt reft: that thine ox and thine afs may reft, and the fon of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

13 And in all things that I have faid unto you, be circumfpect and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

149 Three times thou shalt keep a feaft unto me in the year.

15 Thou fhalt keep the feaft of unleavened bread thou fhalt eat unleavened bread fe... ven days, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the month Abib: for in it thou cameft out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:

16 And the feaft of harveft, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou haft fown in the field and the feast of in-gathering which in the end of the year, when thou haft ga thered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males fhall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my facrifice with leavened bread, neither fhall: the fat of my facrifice remain until the morning.

19 The firft of the firft-fruits of thy land thou-fhalt bring into the houfe of the LORD thy God. Thon fhalt not feethe a kid in his mothers milk.

20 9 Behold, I fend an angel before theeto keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, pro voke him not: for he will not pardon your tranfgreffions for my name in him:

22 But if thou fhalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I fpeak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adverfary unto thine adverfaries.

23 For mine angel fhall go before thee and bring thee in unto the Amorites,and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebufites: and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods. nor ferve them, nor do after their works but thou fhalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye thall ferve the LORD your God, and he fhall blefs thy bread and thy water and I will take ficknéfs away from the midft of thee.

26 9 There fhall nothing caft their young, nor be barren in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil..

27 I will fend my fear before thee, and will deftroy all the people to whom thou fhalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

The people promifeth obedience?

Chap. xxiv, xxv.

The glory of God appeareth

28 And I will fend hornets before thee, 13 And Mofes rofe up, and his minifter fo which fhall drive out the Hivite, the Ca- fhua: and Mofes went up into the mount of God. naanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; left the land become defolate, and the beast of the field multiply, against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will fet thy bounds from the Red fea, even unto the fea of the Philiftines, and from the defert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou fhalt drive them out: before thee.

32 Thou fhalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods..

33 They fhall not dwell in thy land, left they make thee fin against me: for if thou forve their gods, it will furely be a fnare

unto thee.

CHAP XXIV. Mofes is called up into the mountain. 3 The people promife obedience. 9 The glory of God appeareth,

And he faid unto Mofes, Come up unto

the LORD, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and feventy of the elders of Ifrael:: and worship ye afar off.

2 And Mofes alone fhall come near the LORD: but they fhall not come nigh, neither fhall the people go up with him.

39 And Mofes came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and faid, All the words which the LORD hath faid, will we do.

4 And Mofes wrote all the words of the LORD, and rofe up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes

of Ifrael.

5 And he fent young men of the children of Ifrael, which offered burnt-offerings, and facrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

6 And Mofes took half of the blood, and put it in bafons; and half of the blood he prinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they faid, All that the LORD hath faid, will we do, and be obedient.

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8 And Mofes took the blood and fprinkled it on the people, and faid, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all thefe words.

Then went up Mofes and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and feventy of the elders of Ifrael

10 And they faw the God of Ifrael: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a fapphire-ftone, and as it were the body of heaven in bis clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Ifrael he laid not his hand: alfo they faw God, and did eat and drink.

129 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of ftone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayef teach them.

14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and behold, Aaron and Hur,are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

15 And Mofes went up into the mount,. and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it fix days and the feventh day. he called unto Mofes out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the fight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of

Ifraet

18 And Mofes went into the midst of

the cloud, and gat him up into the mount and Mofes was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

CHAP. XXV.

The offering for making of the tabernacle. 10 The form of the ark. 17 The mercy-feat.23 The table, 31 and candlestick.

Nd the LORD fpake unto Mofes, fay ing,

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Speak unto the children of Ifrael, that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye fhall take my offering.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and filver, and brafs, 4 And blue, and purple, and fearlet, and fine linen, and goats hair,

And rams skins died red, and badgers skins, and fhittim wood,

6.Oyl for the light, fpices for anointing oyl, and for fweet incenfe,

7 Onyx-ftones, and ftones to be fet in the ephod, and in the breaft-plate

8 And let then make me a fanctuary ; that › I may dwellamongst them.

9 According to all that I fhew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the inftruments thereof, even fo fhall ye make it.

109 And they fhall make an ark of shit tim-wood: two cubits, and a half hat bethe length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

II And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it and fhalt make upon it a crown of gold round about..

12 And thou fhalt caft four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners. thereof; and two rings fhall be in the one fide of it, and two rings in the other fide of it.

13 And thou fhalt make ftaves of fhittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou fhalt put the faves into the rings, by the fides of the ark, that the ark may be born with them.

15 The ftaves fhall be in the rings of the ark: they fhall not be taken from it.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark-the teftimony which I fhall give thee.

17 And thou fhalt make a mercy-feat of pure gold: two cubits and a half fall be the length

thereof

Special things belonging

to the tabernacle. the door of the tent of blue, and purple, and fcarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work.

Chap. xxvij. 15 And thou fhalt make boards for the tabernacle, of hittim-wood, ftanding up. 16 Ten cubits fhall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

17 Two tenons fhall there be in one board, fet in order one against another: thus fhalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the fouth-fide, fouth-ward.

19 And thou halt make forty fockets of filver, under the twenty boards: two fockets under one board for his two tenons, and two fockets under another board for his two tenons.

20 And for the second fide of the tabernacle on the north-fide, there shall be twenty boards,

21 And their forty fockets of filver: two fockets under one board, and two fockets under another board,

22 And for the fides of the tabernacle weft-ward, thou fhalt make fix boards.

23 And two boards fhalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle, in the two fides. 24 And they fhall be coupled together beneath, and they fhall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring thus fhall it be for them both; they fhall be for the two corners.

25 And they fhall be eight boards, and their fockets of filver, fixteen fockets: two fockets under one board, and two fockets under another board.

26 And thou fhalt make bars of fhittim wood: five for the boards of the one fide of the tabernacle,

27 And five bars for the boards of the other fide of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the fide of the tabernacle for the two fides west-ward.

28 And the middle bar in the mids of the boards fhall reach from end to end.

29 And thou halt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou fhalt overlay the bars with gold.

30 And thou fhalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof, which was Thewed thee in the mount.

314 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and fearlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims fhall it be made.

32 And thou fhalt hang it upon four pillars of fhittim-wood,overlaid with gold: their hooks fhall be of gold, upon the four fockets of filver.

33 And thou fhalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayeft bring in thither within the vail, the ark of the teftimo ny: and the vail fall divide unto you, between the holy place and the moft holy.

34 And thou fhalt put the mercy-feat upon the ark of the teftimony in the most holy place. 35 And thou fhalt fet the table without the vail, and the candleftick over against the table on the fide of the tabernacle toward the fouth and thou shalt put the table an the north-fide.

36 And thou faalt make an hanging for

37 And thou fhalt make for the hanging, five pillars of hittim-wood, and overlay them. with gold, and their hooks fhall be of gold: and thou fhalt caft five fockets of brass for them.

CHAP. XXVII. 1 The altar of burnt-offering, with the veffels, 9 The court of the tabernacle. 20 The oyl for the lamp.

ANd thou shalt make an altar of hittin wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad: the altar fhall be four-fquare, and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 And thou fhalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns fhall be of the fame and thou fhalt overlay it with brafs.

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his afhes, and his fhovels, and his bafons, and his flefh-hooks, and his fire-pans: all the veffels thereof thou fhalt make of brais.

4 And thou fhalt make for it a grate of net-work of brais; and upon the net fhalt thou make four brafen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou fhalt put it under the compafs of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midft of the altar.

6 And theu fhalt make ftaves for the altar, ftaves of fhittim-wood, and overlay them with brass.

And the ftaves fhall be put into the rings, and the ftaves fhall be upon the two fides of the altar to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards fhalt thou make it s as it was thewed thee in the mount, fo fhall they make it.

99 And thou fhalt make the court of the tabernacle for the fouth-fide, fouth-ward: there fhall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long, for one fide.

10And the twenty pillars thereof,and their twenty fockets fhall be of brafs: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets fhall be of filver.

Ii And likewile for the north-fide in length, there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars, and their twenty fockets of brafs: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of filver.

12 And for the breadth of the court on the weft-fide, fhall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their lockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the court on the eaft-fide; eaft-ward, fhall be fifty cubits.

14. The hangings of one fide of the gate Shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their lockets three.

15 And on the other fide shall be hangings, fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their fockets three.

169 And for the gate of the court, ha be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and fcarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: and their pil fars fhall be four, and their fockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court hall be filleted with filver: their hooks fball be of filver, and their fockets of brafs.

18 9 The length of the court shall be an

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EXODUS.

The Urim, Thummim, and

hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every 15 And thou fhalt make the breaft-plate where; and the height five cabits of fine of judgment, with cunning work, after the twined linen, and their fockets of brafs. work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of 19 All the veffels of the tabernacle in all gold, of blue, and of purple, and of fcarlet, the fervice thereof, and all the pins thereof, and of fine twined linen thalt thou make it. and all the pins of the court fall be of brass. 16 Four fquare it fhall be being doubled; 20 And thou fhalt command the chil- a fpan fhall be the length thereof, and a span dren of Ifrael, that they bring thee pure fhall be the breadth thereof. oyl-olive beaten, for the light, to caufe the lamp to burn always.

21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which before the teftimony, Aaron and his fons fhall order it from evening to nrorning before the LORD: it shall be a ftatute for ever unto their generations, on the behalf of the children of If rael. CHAP. XXVIII.

Aaron and his fons are fet apart for the priests office. 6 The ephod. 30 The Urim and Thum

mim.

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ther, and his fons with him, from among the children of Ifrael, that he may minifter unto me in the priests office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aarons fons.

2 And thou fhalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty. 3 And thou shalt fpeak unto all that are wife-hearted, whom I have filled with the fpirit of wisdom,that they may make Aarons garments to confecrate him,that he may minifter unto me in the priests office.

4 And these are the garments which they fhall make; a breaft-plate,and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre,and a girdle: and they fhall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his fons, that he may minister unto me in the priests office.

And they fhall take gold, and blue, and purple, and fearlet, and fine linen. 69And they fhall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of fcarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

7 It fhall have the two fhoulder-pieces thereof joyned at the two edges thereof; and fo it fhall be joyned together.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod which upon it, fhall be of the fame, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and fcarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-ftones, and grave on them the names of the chil dren of Ifrael:

10 Six of their names on one tone, and the other fix names of the reft on the other ftone according to their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in ftone, like the engravings of a fignet, fhalt thou engrave the two ftones, with the names of the Children of Ifrael: thou shalt make them to be fet in, ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the two ftones upon the fhoulders of the ephod, for ftones of mes morial unto the children of Ifrael. And Aas ron fhall bear their names before the LORD, upon his two fhoulders for a memorial.

13. And thou fhalt make ouches of gold 14And two chains of pure gold at the ends: fwreathen work shalt thou make them, and gasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

17. And thou fhalt fet in it fettings of ftones, even four rows of Rones: the firfe row fhall be a fardius, a topaz, and a carbun cle: this shall be the first row.

18 And the fecond row shall be an emeraud, a fapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row; a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

20 And the fourth row, a beryl, and ans onyx, and a jafper: they fhall be fet in gold in their enclosings.

21 And the ftones fhall be with the names of the children of Ifrael, twelve, according

net, every one with his name fhall they be according to the twelve tribes.

22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate, chains at the ends of wreathen work, of pure gold.

23 And thou fhalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold,and thalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breaft-plate.

24 And thou fhalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breaft-plate.

25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains, thou shalt faften in the two ouches, and put them on the fhoulder-pieces of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou fhalt put them upon the two ends of the breaft-plate, in the border thereof, which is in the fide of the ephod inward.

27 And two other rings of gold thou fhart make, and fhalt put them on the two fides of the ephod, underneath towards the fore-part thereof,over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

28 And they fhall bind the breaft-plate by the rings thereof, unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breaft-plate be not loofed from the ephod.

29. And Aaron fhall bear the names of thechildren of Ifrael in the breaft-plate of judg ment, upon his heart; when he goeth in to the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.

30 And thou shalt put in the breaft-platé of judgment, the Urim and the Thummim; and they fhall be upon Aarons heart,when he goeth in before the LORD and Aaron fhall bear the judgment of the children of Ifrael upon his heart;before the LORD continually

31q And thou.fhalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

32 And there fhall be an hole in the top of it, in the midft thereof: it fhall have a binding of woven work, round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habera... geon, that it be not rent.

334 And beneath upon the hem of it, thou fhalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purs Ple and of fcaplet round about the hem there