31 You shall teach therefore the children calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times of Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that towards the propitiatory to the east. they may not die in their filth, when they shall 15 And when he hath killed the buck-goat have defiled my tabernacle that is among them. for the sin of the people, he shall carry in 32 This is the law of him that hath the the blood thereof within the veil, as he was issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation. commanded to do with the blood of the calf, 33 And of the woman that is separated in that he may sprinkle it over-against the oracle, her monthly times, or that hath a continual issue of blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her.

CHAP. XVI.

When and how the high-priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast of expiation.

16 And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.

17 § Let no man be in the tabernacle when ND the Lord spoke to Moses, * after the the high-priest goeth into the sanctuary, to pray

they were slain upon their offering strange fire: t

A death of the two sons of Aaron, when for high-priestors house, and for to congregation of Israel, until he come out. 18 And when he is come out to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for himself, and taking the blood of the calf, and of the buck-goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about:

2 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

3 Unless he first do these things: He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust. 4 He shall be vested with a linen tunick, he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head: for these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

19 And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

20 After he hath cleansed the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat:

21 And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins: and praying that they may light on his head, 5 And he shall receive from the whole he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, multitude of the children of Israel two buck-into the desert. goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.

6 And when he hath offered the calf and prayed for himself, and for his own house, 7 He shall make the two buck-goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

8 And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary-goat:

9 That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin:

22 And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert,

23 Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and putting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the sanctuary, and leaving them there,

24 He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments. And after that he is come out and hath offered his own holocaust, and that of the people, he shall 10 But that whose lot was to be the emis-pray both for himself, and for the people: sary-goat, he shall present alive before the Lord, that he may pour out prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness."

25 And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn upon the altar.

26 But he that hath let go the emissarygoat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

11 After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it: 27 But the calf and the buck-goat, that 12 And taking the censer, which he hath | were sacrificed for sin, and whose blood was filled with the burning coals of the altar, and carried into the sanctuary, to accomplish the taking up with his hand the compounded atonement, they shall carry forth without the perfume for incense, he shall go in within camp, || and shall burn with fire, their skins the veil into the holy place: and their flesh, and their dung:

13 That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

Heb. 9. 7.

14 He shall take also of the blood of the • A. M. 2514. Supra, 10. 1.- Exod. 30. 10. CHAP. XVI. Ver. 2. Enter not. No one but the high-priest, and he but once a year, could enter inte sanctuary; to signify that no one could enter

28 And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

29 And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance: The seventh month, the tenth Heb. 13. 11.-¶ Infra, 23, 27, 28. f Luke, 1. 10.

into the sanctuary of heaven, till Christ our highpriest opened it by his passion, Heb. x, 8.

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day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn and shall do no work, whether it be one of among them, eat blood, I will set my face your own country, or a stranger that sojourn-against his soul, and will cut him off from eth among you. among his people:

30 Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins: you shall be cleansed before the Lord.

31 For it is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion. 32 And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement; and he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments, 33 And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, the priests also and all the people.

34 And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once in a year. He did therefore as the Lord had commanded Moses. CHAP. XVII.

11 Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.

13 Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a wild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood, and cover it with earth.

14+ For the life of all flesh is in the blood: therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.

15 The soul that eateth that which died of

No sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the taber- itself, or has been caught by a beast, whether nacle: a prohibition of blood. he be one of your own country or a stranger,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say shall wash his clothes and himself with wader

ing: *

2 Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, saying to them: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded, saying:

3 Any man whosoever of the house of Israel if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp,

4 And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood: as if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his people

and shall be defiled until the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean.

16 But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity. CHAP. XVIII.

Marriage is

prohibited in certain degrees of kindred :

AND the

and all unnatural lusts.

Lord spoke to Moses, say

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.

5 Therefore the children of Israel shall 3 You shall not do according to the custom bring to the priest their victims, which they of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: kill in the field, that they may be sanctified neither shall you act according to the manner to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the country of Chanaan, into which I will of the testimony, and they may sacrifice them bring you, nor shall you walk in their ordifor peace-offerings to the Lord.

the blood upon

nances.

6 And the priest shall pour 4 You shall do my judgments, and shall the altar of the Lord, at the door of the ta- observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. bernacle of the testimony, and shall burn the I am the Lord your God. fat for a sweet odour to the Lord, 5 Keep my laws and my judgments,

7 And they shall no more sacrifice their which if a man do, he shall live in them. I victims to devils, with whom they have com-am the Lord.

mitted fornication. It shall be an ordinance 6 No man shall approach to her that is for ever to them and to their posterity. near of kin to him, to uncover her naked 8 And thou shalt say to them: The man ness. I am the Lord.

of the house of Israel, and of the strangers 7 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness who sojourn among you, that offereth a ho- of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: locaust or a victim, she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover 9 And bringeth it not to the door of the her nakedness. tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be 8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of offered to the Lord, shall perish from among thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of his people. thy father.

10 If any man whosoever of the house of

• A. M. 2514.

+ Gen. 9. 4. Supra, 7. 26.

9 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness

CHAP. XVII. Ver. 3. If he kill, &c. That is, Ver. 10. Eat blood. To eat blood was forbidden in order to sacrifice. The law of God forbids sacri- in the law; partly, because God reserved it to himfices to be offered in any other place but at the taber-self, to be offered in sacrifices on the altar, as to the rcle or temple of the Lord; to signify that no sacri- Lord of life and death; and as a figure of the blood fice would be acceptable to God, out of his true of Christ; and partly, to give men a horror of shedemple, the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church. Iding blad. Gen. ix. 4, 5, 6.

of thy sister by father or by mother, whether | 29 Every soul that shall commit any of born at home or abroad. these abominations, shall perish from the

10 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness midst of his people. of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's 30 Keep my commandments. Do not the daughter because it is thy own nakedness. things which they have done, that have been 11 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness before you, and be not defiled therein. I of thy father's wife's daughter, whom she am the Lord your God.

bore to thy father, and who is thy sister.

12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness

CHAP. XIX.

of thy father's sister: because she is the flesh Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial. of thy father. Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness THE peak to all the congregation of the

of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh.

14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.

15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

3 Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

4 Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God. 5 If ye offer in sacrifice a peace-offering the Lord, that he may be favourable,

16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the naked-to ness of thy brother.

6 You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next day: and whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire.

17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife, and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to discover her shame: because they 7 If after two days any man eat thereof, are her flesh, and such copulation is incest. The shall be profane and guilty of impiety: 18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her, neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living. 19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed. 21 *Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination.

8 And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord, and that soul shall perish from among his people.

9 | When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shall not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain.

10 Neither shalt thou gather the bunches, and grapes that fall down in thy vineyard, but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God.

11 You shall not steal. You shall not lie, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour. 12 ¶ Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God.

23 Thou shalt not copulate with any beast, neither shalt thou be defiled with it. †AI am the Lord. woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime. 24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

26 Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments, and do not any of these abominations: neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Infra, 20. 2.- Infra, 20. 16.- A. M. 2514. Supra, 11. 44. 1 Peter, 1. 16.-|| Infra, 23. 22. Exod. 20. 7.-** Eccli. 10. 6.-†† Deut. 24. 14.

13 ** Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. ++ The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.

14 Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

15 Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly.‡‡ Respect not the person of the poor, nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.

16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

17 §§ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy Tob. 4. 15.- Deut. 1. 17. and 16. 19. Prov. 24. 23. Eccli. 42. 1. James, 2. 2.-§§ 1 John 2. 11. and 3. 14.

CHAP. XVIII. Ver. 23. Because it is a heinous sed by the word confusion, signifying the shainefulPrime. In Hebrew, this word heinous crime is expres-ness and baseness of this abominable sin,

ا.

heart, but reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. + Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

19 Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37 Keep all my precepts, and all my judg. ments, and do them. I am the Lord. CHAP. XX.

AN

Divers crimes to be punished with death. ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of 20 If a man carnally lie with a woman that Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, is a bond servant and marriageable, and yet give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they him die: the people of the land shall stone him. both shall be scourged, and they shall not be 3 And I will set my face against him: and put to death, because she was not a free woman I will cut him off from the niidst of his pec21 And for his trespass he shall offer a rample, because he hath given of his seed to to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and the testimony: profaned my holy name.

22 And the priest shall pray for him and for his sin before the Lord, and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven. 23 When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit-trees, you shall take away the first-fruits of them: the fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat of them.

24 But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to the praise of the Lord. 25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof, gathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.

26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

27 Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

4 And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:

5 I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.

6 The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

7¶ Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.

8 Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

28 You shall not make any cuttings in 9** He that curseth his father, or mother, your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you dying let him die: he hath cursed his father, make in yourselves any figures or marks: Iand mother, let his blood be upon him. am the Lord.

10+ If any man commit adultery with 29 Make not thy daughter a common the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled wife, let them be put to death, both the with wickedness. Jadulterer and the adulteress.

30 Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

31 Go not aside after wizards, neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

32 Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord 33 If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him :

34 But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

35 Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

11 If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

12 If any man lie with his daughter-inlaw, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them. 13 If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them.

14 If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime: he shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.

15 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill.

1 Pet. 1. 16.—** Exod. 21. 17. Prov. 20. 20. Mat. 15. 4. Mark, 7. 10.-†† Deut. 22. 22. John, 8. 5.

36 Let the balance be just and the weights • Eccli. 19. 13. Mat. 18. 15. Luke 17. 3.-+ Mat. 5. 43. and 22. 39. Luke, 6. 27. Rom. 13. 9. Exod. 22. 21.-§ A. M. 2514. Supra, 18. 21. CHAP. XIX. Ver. 19. Different seeds; &c. This law tends to recommend simplicity and plain dealing in all things, and to teach the people not to join any false worship or heresy with the worship of the true God, CHAP. XX. Ver. 15. The beast also ye shal kit Ver. 23. The first-fruits. Praputia, literally, their The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of fore-skins; it alludes to circumcision, and signifies the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such that for the first three years the trees were to be as labomination.

uncircumcised, and their fruit unclean; till in the fourth year their increase was sanctified and given to the Lord, that is, to the priests.

16* The woman that shall lie under any mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, beast, shall be killed together with the same: for his brother also, their blood be upon them.

17 If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime they shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness, and they shall bear their iniquity.

3 And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband:

4 But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

5 Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

6 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name: for they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God, and therefore they shall be holy.

18 If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people. 7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or 19 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt away from her husband: because they are by thy father: he that doth this, hath un-consecrated to their God,

covered the shame of his own flesh, both 8 And offer the loaves of proposition. shall bear their iniquity. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

20 If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin: they shall die without children.

21 He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be without children.

22 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or bird, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.

26+ You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine. 27 A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.

CHAP. XXL

Ordinances relating to the priests.
HE Lord said also to Moses: § Speak
To the priests the sons of Aaron, and

thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest in-
our an uncleanness at the death of his citizens:

2 But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that is to say, for his father and for his Supra, 18. 23.- 1 Pet. 1. 16.- Deut. 18. 1 Kings, 28. 7.- A. M. 2514.- Supra,

11.

9 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

10 The high-priest, that is to say, the priest, is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood, and who hath been vested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall not rend his garments:

11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:

12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

13** He shall take a virgin unto his wife: 14 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people:

15 He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his na tion: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

18 Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose,

19 If his foot, or if his hand be broken, 20 If he be crook-backed, or blear-eyed, or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture:

21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish, he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

23 Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a 19. 27. Ezec. 44. 20.-¶ Supra, 19. 29,-*Ezec. 44. 22.

CHAP. XXI. Ver. 1. An uncleanness, viz., such touching it; or in going into the house, or assisting was contracted in laying out the dead body, or at the funeral, &c.