THE BOOK OF
LEVITICUS
CHAPTERS 19-27
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto
them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
3 Ye shall fear
every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your
God.
4 Turn ye not
unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
5 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 ought 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.
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 neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall
not abide with thee all night until the morning.
14 Thou shalt not
curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
15 Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor
honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy
neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not
go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
17 Thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour,
and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not
avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
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.
20 And whosoever
lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and
not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
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 trespass offering.
22 And the priest
shall make an 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 done shall be forgiven him.
23 And when ye
shall come into the land, and shall have planted 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.
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 upon you: I
am the LORD.
29 Do not
prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
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.
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.
34 But the
stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and
thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I
am the LORD your God.
35
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or
in 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.
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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.
3 And I will set
my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because
he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane
my holy name.
4
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.
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 you.
9
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put
to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
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.
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 daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they
have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination: 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.
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 be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
17
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his
mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a
wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath
uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
18 And if a man
shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and 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.
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 his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless.
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.
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 manners of the nation, which I cast out
before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
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 beasts 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.
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
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.
1 ¶ And 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:
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, being a chief man among his people, to
profane himself.
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.
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.
7 They shall not
take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put
away 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.
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.
13
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a
divorced woman, or profane, or an 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,
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.
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 brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt,
or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or
hath his stones broken;
21 No man that
hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall 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 shall 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.
1 ¶ And 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.
3 Say unto them,
Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the
holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his
uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from 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 by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
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
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.
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 an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
11
But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and
he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
12 If the priest's
daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the
holy things.
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 in her youth, she shall eat
of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
14 And if a man
eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof
unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
15 And they shall
not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them
to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the
LORD do sanctify them.
17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto
Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all
his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt
offering;
19 Ye shall offer
at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the
goats.
20
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not
be acceptable for you.
21 And whosoever
offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or
a freewill offering in 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.
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,
27 When a
bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days
under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28
And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in
one day.
29 And when ye
will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own
will.
30 On the same
day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the
LORD.
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.
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which
ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work
be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye
shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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.
6 And on the
fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first
day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is
an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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 reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall
wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall
offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first
year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat
offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an
offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall
eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day
that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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 firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall
offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one
young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD,
with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by
fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a 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 firstfruits for a wave offering before
the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy
convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a
statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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: I am the LORD your God.
23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the
month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no
servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
26 And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the
tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict
your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall
do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement
for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever
soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever
soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy
from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no
manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
32
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls:
in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate
your sabbath.
33 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be
the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein.
36 Seven days ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be
an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the
feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the
sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and
beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the
fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall
take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees,
and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice
before the LORD your God seven days.
41
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It
shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the
seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell
in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your
generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am
the LORD your God.
44 And Moses
declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the
children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the
vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order
it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a
statute for ever in your generations.
4 He shall order
the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
5
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth
deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt
set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt
put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath
he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the
children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be
Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most
holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 ¶ And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father
was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the
Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the
Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put
him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth
him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation
stone him.
15 And thou shalt
speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear
his sin.
16 And he that
blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the
congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD,
shall be put to death.
17 And he that
killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
18 And he that
killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
19 And if a man
cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a
blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that
killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be
put to death.
22 Ye shall have
one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
23 And Moses
spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had
cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel
did as the LORD commanded Moses.
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in
mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give
you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou
shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in
the fruit thereof;
4
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a
sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth
of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes
of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath
of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy
stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy
cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof
be meat.
8 ¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou
cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month,
in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your
land.
10
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout
all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you;
and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every
man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall
that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of
thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the
jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the
field.
13 In the year of
this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou
sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According to
the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and
according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
16 According to
the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the
price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he
sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not
therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD
your God.
18 Wherefore ye
shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land
shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye
shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor
gather in our increase:
21
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall
bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall
sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her
fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
23 ¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is
mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the
land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother
be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin
come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man
have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
28 But if he be
not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand
of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall
go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not
redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled
city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his
generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
31
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall
be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall
go out in the jubile.
32
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities
of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
33
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and
the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses
of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field
of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual
possession.
35
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then
thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he
may live with thee.
36 Take thou no
usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with
thee.
37 Thou shalt not
give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38 I am the LORD your
God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, and to be your God.
39 ¶ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen
poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
40
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and
shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
41 And then shall
he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto
his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 For they are
my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not
rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both thy
bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that
are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of
the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which
they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall
take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a
possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the
children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
47
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that
dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by
thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
48 After that he is
sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is
nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may
redeem himself.
50 And he shall
reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the
year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of
years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
51
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give
again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52 And if there
remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and
according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
53
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall
not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be
not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both
he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me
the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.
1 ¶ Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither
rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in
your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
2
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3 If ye walk in
my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will
give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the
trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing
shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give
peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I
will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your
land.
7
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the
sword.
8 And five of you
shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight:
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 For I will have
respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my
covenant with you.
10
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
11 And I will set
my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will
walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am the LORD
your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not
be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 ¶ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do
all these commandments;
15 And if ye
shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will
not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do
this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause
sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it.
17 And I will set
my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate
you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will
not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will
break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your
earth as brass:
20 And your
strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase,
neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will
bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 I will also
send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy
your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk
contrary unto me;
24 Then will I
also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will
bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant:
and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the
pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 And when I
have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one
oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat,
and not be satisfied.
27
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto
me;
28 Then I will
walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven
times for your sins.
29 And ye shall
eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will
make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will
not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will
bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will
scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land
shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the
land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your
enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in
your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them
that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the
lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and
they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none
pursueth.
37
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when
none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 And ye shall
perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that
are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they
pine away with them.
40 ¶ If they shall confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against
me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I
also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be
humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I
remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while
she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of
their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because
their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for
all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
45 But I will for
their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out
of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I
am the LORD.
46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made
between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy
estimation.
3 And thy
estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years
old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of
the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a
female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy
estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be
from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the
male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three
shekels of silver.
7
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy
estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be
poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest,
and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the
priest value him.
9
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all
that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
10 He shall not
alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall
at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be
any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
12 And the priest
shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the
priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will
at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctify
his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether
it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that
sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the
money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his
possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an
homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify
his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall
reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the
year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that
sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth
part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to
another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field,
when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field
devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man
sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the
priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of
the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing
unto the LORD.
24 In the year of
the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy
estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs
shall be the shekel.
26 ¶ Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be
the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it
is the LORD'S.
27
And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to
thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not
redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
28
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD
of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession,
shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most
holy unto the LORD.
29 None devoted,
which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to
death.
30 And all the
tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the
tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
31
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add
thereto the fifth part thereof.
32 And concerning
the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the
rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
33 He shall not
search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof
shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the
commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in
mount Sinai.