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Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye
not do; and after the doings of the
land of Canaan, whither I bring
you, shall
ye not do; neither shall
ye walk in their ordinances.

p 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. p 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her d 4 Ye shall do my judgments, and daughter, neither shalt thou take her keep mine ordinances, to walk son's daughter, or her daughter's therein: I am the LORD your God. daughter, to uncover her nakedness; d5 Ye shall therefore keep my sta-for they are her near kinswomen; tutes and my judgments; which if a it is wickedness. man do, he shall live in them; I am the LORD.

p 6 ¶ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

p 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

p 19 Also thou shalt not approach
unto a woman to uncover her na-

p 7 The nakedness of thy father, or
the nakedness of thy mother, shalt for her uncleanness.

kedness, as long as she is put apart

thou not uncover: she is thy mo-p 20 Moreover, thou shalt not lie ther; thou shalt not uncover her na-carnally with thy neighbour's wife, kedness.

p 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

to defile thyself with her.

p 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the P 9 The nakedness of thy sister, name of thy God: I am the LORD. the daughter of thy father, or daugh-p22 Thou shalt not lie with manter of thy mother, whether she be kind as with womankind: it is born at home, or born abroad, even abomination.

their nakedness thou shalt not un-p 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any

cover.

p 10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

p 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter; begotten of thy father, (she is thy sister,) thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

beast, to defile thyself therewith; neither shall 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.

w 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

p 12 Thou shalt not uncovere nakedness of thy father's sister; she is thy father's near kinswoman. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my p 13 Thou shalt not uncover the statutes and my judgments, and nakedness of thy mother's sister: shall not commit any of these abomifor she is thy mother's near kins-nations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

woman.

p 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife she is thine aunt.

p 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

w 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you,

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w 29 For whosoever shall commit profane the name of thy God, any of these abominations, even the am the LORD. souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. d 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.

p 13 ↑ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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p 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy

God: I am the LORD.

judge thy neighbour.

15. 1 Ye shall do no unrighteousses, saying, ness in judgment: thou shalt not red 2 Speak unto all the congrega-spect the person of the poor, nor tion of the children of Israel, and honour the person of the mighty: say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for but in righteousness shalt thou I the LORD your God am holy. d 3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his p 16 Thou shalt not go up and mother and his father, and keep my down as a tale-bearer among thy sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. people; neither shall thou stand p4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor against the blood of thy neighbour: make to yourselves molten gods: II am the LORD. am the LORD your God. L5 ¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.

6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow. and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.

7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

P 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

d 18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the chil dren of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

d 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed; neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

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. d 9 ¶ And when ye reap the har-p 20 T And whosoever lieth carvest of your land, thou shalt not nally with a woman that is a bondwholly reap the corners of thy field, maid, betrothed to a husband, and neither shalt thou gather the glean- not at all redeemed, nor freedom ings of thy harvest. given her; she shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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.

21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a tresp 11 Ye shall not steal, neither pass-offering. deal falsely, neither lie one to ano-t 22 And the priest shall make an ther.

p 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou

atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the LORD, for his sin which he hath

done; and the sin which he hath just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye done shall be forgiven him. have: I am the LORD your God, L23 And when ye shall come which brought you out of the land into the land, and shall have planted of Egypt. all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten of.

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 LORD your God.

d 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. CHAP. XX.

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ses, saying,

p 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

L 26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood; neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 3 And I will set my face against L27 ¶ Ye shall not round the cor- that man, and will cut him off from ners of your heads, neither shalt among his people; because he hath thou mar the corners of thy beard. given of his seed unto Molech, to dep 28 Ye shall not make any cut-file my sanctuary, and to profane tings in your flesh for the dead, nor my holy name. print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

p 29 ¶ Do not prostitute thy daugh-
ter, to cause her to be a whore; lest
the land fall to whoredom, and the
Jand become full of wickedness.
d 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths,
and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.

4 T And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill 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.

p 31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after w 6 And the soul that turneth afwizards, to be defiled by them: Iter such as have familiar spirits, and am the LORD your God. 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.

d 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.

33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not

vex him.

d7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

t8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the LORD which sanctify you.

34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt 9 For every one that curseth love him as thyself; for ye were his father or his mother shall be surestrangers in the land of Egypt: Ily put to death: he hath cursed his am the LORD your God. father or his mother: his blood shall

d35 Ye shall do no unrighteous-be upon him.
ness in judgment, in mete yard, in
weight, or in measure.

36 Just balances, just weights, a

p 10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adulte

ry with his neighbour's wife, the his uncle's nakedness: they shall adulterer and the adulteress shall bear their sin: they shall die childsurely be put to death. less.

11 And the man that lieth with p 21 And if a man shall take his his father's wife, hath uncovered his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; father's nakedness: both of them he hath uncovered his brother's nashall surely be put to death; their kedness: they shall be childless. blood shall be upon them. d 22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all p 12 And if a man lie with his my statutes, and all my judgments, daughter-in-law, both of them shall and do them: that the land, whither surely be put to death: they have I bring you to dwell therein, spue wrought confusion; their blood shall you not out. be upon them.

P.
13 ¶ If a man also lie with man-
kind, as he lieth with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomi-
nation: they shall surely be put to
death their blood shall be upon
them.

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.

w 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.

w 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast they shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them.

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

b 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasis and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as

unclean.

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p 17 And if a man shall take his sis-d 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: ter, his father's daughter, or his mo- for I the LORD am holy, and have ther's daughter, and see her naked-severed you from other people, that ness, and she see his nakedness; it ye should be mine. is a wicked thing; and they shall be p 27 ¶ A man also, or woman, that cut off in the sight of their people hath a familiar spirit, or that is a he hath uncovered his sister's na- wizard, shall surely be put to death kedness; he shall bear his iniquity.they shall stone them with stones; 18 And if a man shall lie with a their blood shall be upon them. woman having her sickness, and CHAP. XXI. shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. p 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered

ND the LORD said unto Moses,

Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: L 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;

3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

4 But he shall not defile himself, generations that hath any blemish, being a chief man among his people, let him not approach to offer the to profane himself. bread of his God:

5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. d 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer therefore they shall be holy.

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,

19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,

20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his p 7 They shall not take a wife stones broken:

that is a whore, or profane; neither L 21 No man that hath a blemish of shall they take a woman put away the seed of Aaron the priest shail from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

8 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. L 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

22 He shail eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy;

23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

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CHAP. XXII. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.

L 13 And he shall take a wife in L3 Say unto them, Whosoever he her virginity. be of all your seed, among your ge14 A widow, or a divorced wo-nerations, that goeth unto the holy man, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

L17 Speak unto Aaron, saying,
Whosoever he be of thy seed in their

things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off froin my presence: I am the LORD.

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. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean

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