Unlawful lust. CHAP. XIX. A repetition of sundry.aws. 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vcx her, to uncover her nakedness,besides the other in her life-time. 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. 8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neigh25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and bour, neither rob him: the wages of him the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. that is hired shall not abide with thee all 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither sha! any woman stand before a beast to lie. down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes night until the morning. 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of put a stumbling-block before the blind, 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in your own nation, nor any stranger that but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. of sojourneth among you : judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 27 (For all these abominations have 28 That the land spue not you out also, 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke bear 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. any Aing 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: Thou shalt not sow thy field : upon thee. 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the with mingled seed: neither shall a garchildren of Israel, and say unto them, Ye ment mingled of linen and woollen come God your shall be holy for I the LORD 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with am holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother a woman that is a bond-maid betrothed to and his father, and keep my sabbaths: Ia husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged: am the LORD your God. 4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to they shall not be put to death, because she yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD was not free. your God. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XIX. 21 And he shall bring his trespass-of5¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-fering unto the LORD, unto the door of the 101 A repetition of sundry laws. LEVITICUS. Of cursing parents, &e. tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto for a trespass-offering. Molech, he shall surely be put to death: 22 And the priest shall make an atone- the people of the land shall stone him with ment for him with the ram of the trespass-stones. offering before the LORD for his sin which 3 And I will set my face against that he hath done; and the sin which he hath man, and will cut him off from among his done shall be forgiven him. people; because he hat given of his 23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, land, and shall have planted all manner of and to profane my holy name. trees for food; then ye shall count the 4 T And if the people of the land do any fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years ways hide their eyes from the man, when shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill shall not be eaten of. him not; 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 6 ¶ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: "I am the LORD which sanctify 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield_unto you the increase thereof: I am the ORD your God. 26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks you. upon you: I am the LORD. 9 For every one that curseth his fa 29 Do not prostitute thy daughter to ther or his mother, shall be surely put to cause her to be a whore: lest the land death: he hath cursed his father or his fall to whoredom, and the land become mother: his blood shall be upon him. full of wickedness. 10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. 11 ¶ And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughterin-law, both of them shall surely be put t. death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among 13 ¶ If a man also lie with mankind, as you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; he lieth with a woman, both of them have for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: committed an abomination: they shall I am the LORD your God. surely be put to death; their blood shall 35 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in be upon them. judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 14 ¶ And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they: that there be no wickedness among you. 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say- be put to death; their blood shall be upon measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. CHAP. XX.. 2 Again thou shalt say to the children 17 And if a man shall take his sister, his of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children father's daughter, or his mother's daughaf Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn ter, and see her nakedness, and she see his Of the priests' mourning, CHAP. XXI. marriages, and blemishes. nakedness: it is a wicked thing; and they a chief man among his people, to profane shall be cut off in the sight of their peo- himself. ple: he hath uncovered his sister's naked- 5 They shall not make baldness upon ness; he shall bear his iniquity. their head, neither shall they shave off the 18 And if a man shall lie with a wo-corner of their beard, nor make any cutman having her sickness, and shall uncover tings in their flesh. her nakedness; he hath discovered her 6 They shall be holy unto their God, fountain, and she hath uncovered the and not profane the name of their God: fountain of her blood: and both of them for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, shall be cut off from among their people. and the bread of their God they do offer : therefore they shall be holy. 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy 7 They shall not take a wife that is a father's sister: for he uncovereth his near whore, or profane; neither shall they take kin: they shall bear their iniquity. a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 8 T Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the man-to put on the garments, shall not uncover ners of the nations which I cast out before his head, nor rend his clothes; you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall for his mother; inherit their land, and I will give it unto 12 Neither shall he go out of the sancyou to possess it, a land that floweth with tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his milk and honey: I am the LORD your God; for the crown of the anointing oil of God, which have separated you from other his God is upon him: I am the LORD. people. 13 ¶ And he shall take a wife in her 25 Ye shall therefore put difference be-virginity. 21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. tween clean beasts and unclean, and be- 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or tween unclean fowls and clean: and ye profane, or a harlot, these shall he not shall not make your souls abominable by take: but he shall take a virgin of his own beast or by fowl, or by any manner of liv-people to wife. ing thing that creepeth on the ground, 15 Neither shall he profane bis seed which I have separated from you as un-among his people: for I the LORD do sancclean. tify him. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God: CHAP. XXI. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, AND the LORD said unto Moses, Speak ND the LORD said unto Moses, Speak and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, er scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by unto him, which hath had no husband: for fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come Der may he be defiled. nigh to offer the bread of his God. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. 27¶ A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them. When the priests are to LEVITICUS. abstain from holy things. both of the most holy, and of the holy. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part nor come nigh unto the altar, because he thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the hath a blemish; that he profane not my priest, with the holy thing. sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD: 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAP. XXII. 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: Ating, ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-for I the LORD do sanctify them." 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and and unto all the children of Israel, and say that they profane not my holy name in unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house those things which they hallow unto me: of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that I am the LORD. will offer his oblation for all his vows, and 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of for all his free-will-offerings, which they all your seed among your generations, that will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offergoeth unto the holy things, which the ing: children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a having his uncleanness upon him, that soul male without blemish of the beeves, of the shall be cut off from my presence: I am sheep, or of the goats. the LORD. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of And whoso toucheth any thing that is un-peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomclean by the dead, or a man whose seed plish his vow, or a free-will-offering in goeth from him; beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath : 6 T 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. 23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye 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. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11 But if the priest buy any soul with 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is goat is brought forth, then it shall be born in his house: they shall eat of his seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be ac12 If the priest's daughter also be mar-cepted for an offering made by fire unto the ried unto a stranger, she may not eat of an LORD. offering of the holy things. meat. 28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as 29 T And when ye will offer a sacrifice in her youth, she shall eat of her father's of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at meat; but there shall no stranger eat your own will. thereof 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up, 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. 10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. Of sundry feasts. CHAP. XXIII. The day of atonement. ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: for ever throughout your generations in all I am the LORD. your dwellings. 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. 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. Aing 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the 18 And ye shall offer with the bread LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy seven lambs without blemish of the first convocations, even these are my feasts. year, and one young bullock, and two 3¶ Six days shall work be done: but rams: they hall be for a burnt-offering the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, unto the LORD, with their meat-offering, a holy convocation: ye shall do no work and their drink-offerings, even an offering therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in made by fire of sweet savour unto the all your dwellings. LORD. 4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats fora sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a waveoffering before the LORD, with the two 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat for the priest. unleavened bread. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self7 In the first day ye shall have a holy same day, that it may be a holy convocaconvocation: ye shall do no servile work tion unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein. therein. It shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your gene 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the rations. seventh day is a holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work therein. 9¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: am the LORD your God. 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall I reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall 23 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest : saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before saying, In the seventh month, in the first the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, morrow after the sabbath the priest shall a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a wave it. holy convocation. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein; wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without ble- but ye shall offer an offering made by fire mish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. unto the LORD. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 13 And the meat-offering thereof shall saying, be two tenth-deals of fine flour mingled 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh with oil, an offering made by fire unto the month there shall be a day of atonement; LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink- it shall be a holy convocation unto you, offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an part of a hin. offering made by fire unto the LORD. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor 28 And ye shall do no work in that same parched corn, nor green ears, until the day; for it is a day of atonement, to make self-same day that ye have brought an an atonement for you before the LORD offering unto your God: It shall be a statute your God. |