God's place of worship to be kept. CHAP. XII. Blood forbidden. 26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day and to the inheritance which the LORD a blessing and a curse: your God giveth you. 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day; 10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all yourenemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety: 11 Then there shall be a place which 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods the LORD your God shall choose to cause which ye have not known. his name to dwell there; thither shall ye 29 And it shall come to pass when the bring all that I command you; your burntLORD thy God hath brought thee in unto offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, the land whither thou goest to possess it, and the heave-offering of your hand, and that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount all your choice vows which ye vow unto Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. the LORD: 30 Are they not on the other side Jor- 12 And ye shall rejoice before the dan, by the way where the sun goeth LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and down in the land of the Canaanites, which your daughters, and your men-servants, dwell in the champaign over against Gil- and your maid-servants, and the Levite gal, beside the plains of Moreh? that is within your gates; forasmuch as he 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go hath no part nor inheritance with you. in to possess the land which the LORD 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer your God giveth you, and ye shall possess not burnt-offerings in every place that it, and dwell therein. thou seest: 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. THES CHAP. XII. 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. HESE are the statutes and judgments 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill which ye shall observe to do in the and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever land which the LORD God of thy fathers thy soul lusteth after, according to the giveth thee to possess it, all the days that blessing of the LORD thy God which he ye live upon the earth. hath given thee: the unclean and the clean 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the may eat thereof, as of the roe-buck, and places, wherein the nations which ye shall as of the hart. possess served their gods, upon the high 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; mountains, and upon the hills, and under ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. every green tree: 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, and break their pillars, and burn their or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds groves with fire; and ye shall hew down or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which the graven images of their gods, and destroy thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or the names of them out of that place. heave-offering of thy hand: 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the 6 But unto the place which the LORD LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy your God shall choose out of all your tribes son, and thy daughter, and thy man-serto put his name there, even unto his habi- vant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite tation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hands unto. come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your 19 Take heed to thyself that thou fortithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, sake not the Levite as long as thou livest and your vows, and yourfree-will-offer- upon the earth. ings, and the firstlings of your herds, and 20 When the LORD thy God shall of your flocks: enlarge thy border, as he hath promised And there ye shall eat before the thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusthouseholds, wherein the LORD thy God eth after. bath blessed thee. 21 If the place which the LORD thy 8 Ye shall not do after all the things God hath chosen to put his name there be that we do here this day, every man what- too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy soever is right in his own eyes. herd and of thy flock, which the LORD 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest hath given thee, as I have commanded Entreers to idolatry DEUTERONOMY. to be stoned to death. thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates what- God and fear him, and keep his comsoever thy soul lusteth after. mandments, and obey his voice, and ye : 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart shall serve him, and cleave unto him. is eaten, so thou shalt eat them the un- 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of elean and the clean shall eat of them alike. dreams, shall be put to death; because he 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the hath spoken to turn you away from the blood for the blood is the life; and thou LORD your God, which brought you out mayest not eat the life with the flesh. of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee pour it upon the earth as water. out of the way which the LORD thy God com25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may manded thee to walk in. So shalt thou go well with thee, and with thy children put the evil away from the midst of thee. afterthee, when thou shalt do that which is 6 If thy brother, the son of thy moright in the sight of the LORD. ther, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the 26 Only thy holy things which thou wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, go unto the place which the LORD shall saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offer- fathers; ings, the flesh and the blood, upon the 7 Namely, of the gods of the people altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood which are round about you, nigh unto of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon thee, or far off from thee, from the one end the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou of the earth even unto the other end of the shalt eat the flesh. earth; 28 Observe and hear all these words 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, which I command thee, that it may go nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine well with thee, and with thy children eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, after thee for ever, when thou doest that neither shalt thou conceal him: which is good and right in the sight of the 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thy LORD thy God. hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou suc- 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones ceedest them, and dwellest in their that he die; because he hath sought to land; thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be which brought thee out of the land of not snared by following them, after that Egypt from the house of bondage. they be destroyed from before thee; and 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, that thou inquire not after their gods, say- and shall do no more any such wickedness ing, How did these nations serve their as this is, among you. gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. CHAP. XIII. IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath giv en thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the it into the midst of the street thereof, and words of that prophet, or that dreamer of shalt burn with fire the city, and all the dreams for the LORD your God proveth spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy you, to know whether ye love the LORD God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it your God with all your heart and with all shall not be built again. Jour soul. 17 And there shall cleave nought of 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your the cursed thing to thy hand: that the Beasts clean and unclean. CHAP. XIV, XV. The year of release. LORD may turn from the fierceness of dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the bis anger, and shew thee mercy, and have stranger that is in thy gates, that he may compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. CHAP. XIV. E are the children of the LORD your Yard: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy 2 For thou art a holy people unto the flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen LORD thy God always. thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, 24 And if the way be too long for thee, above all the nations that are upon the earth. so that thou art not able to carry it; or if 3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild-ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the boof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,or for strong 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: of them that chew the cud, or of them that and thou shalt eat there before the LORD divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and the hare, and the coney for they chew thy household. the cud, but divide not the hoof; there- 27 And the Levite that is within thy fore they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. 9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: gates; thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thon shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto which are within thy gates, shall come, you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. CHAP. XV. AT the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour, shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release: 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. The feast of the passover. 19 T All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God 21 And if there be any blemish therein, giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto brother: the LORD thy God. 8 But thou shalt open thy hand wide 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: unto him, and shalt surely lend him suffi- the unclean and the clean person shall eat cient for his need, in that which he wanteth. it alike, as the roe-buck, and as the hart. 9 Beware that there be not a thought 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground year, the year of release, is at hand; and as water. thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, CHAP. XVI. unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin OBSERVE the month of Abib, and unto thee. keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt thy heart shall not be grieved when thou by night. givest unto him: because that for this 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in passover unto the LORD thy God, of the all thy works, and in all that thou puttest Hock and the herd, in the place which the thy hand unto. LORD shall choose to place his name there. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread the land: therefore I command thee, say- with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleaing, Thou shalt open thy band wide un-vened bread therewith, even the bread of to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy affliction; (for thou camest forth out of the needy, in thy land. land of Egypt in haste:) that thou mayest 12 And if thy brother, a Hebrew remember the day when thou camest forth man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thee, and serve thee six years; then in the thy life. seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, 15 And thou shalt remember that thou there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, even, at the going down of the sun, at the and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, place which the LORD thy God shall I will not go away from thee; because he choose: and thou shalt turn in the mornloveth thee and thy house, because he ing, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened is well with thee; 17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and bread: and on the seventh day shall be a thrust it through his earunto the door, and he solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thou shalt do no work therein. thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. 9¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, thee: begin to number the seven weeks when thou sendest him away free from from such time as thou beginnest to put the thee: for he hath been worth a double sickle to the corn. hired servant to thee, in serving thee six 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of years: and the LORD thy God shall bless weeks unto the LORD thy God with a trithee in all that thou doest. bute of a free-will-offering of thy hand The feast of tabernacles, & CHAP. XVII. nant, Idolaters must be slain. which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy any of thy gates which the LORD thy God God, according as the LORD thy God hath giveth thee, man or woman that hath blessed thee: wrought wickedness in the sight of the 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, in transgressing his coveLORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast bath chosen to place his name there. heard of it, and inquired diligently, and 12 And thou shalt remember that thou behold, it be true, and the thing certain, wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt that such abomination is wrought in Israel: observe and do these statutes. 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of or that woman, which have committed tabernacles seven days, after that thou that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine. that man or that woman, and shalt stone 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, them with stones, till they die. thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of and the Levite, the stranger, and the fa- death be put to death; but at the mouth of therless, and the widow, that are within one witness he shall not be put to death. thy gates: 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn first upon him to put him to death, and atfeast unto the LORD thy God in the place terward the hands of all the people. So which the LORD shall choose: because the thou shalt put the evil away from among LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine you. increase, and in all the works of thy 8 If there arise a matter too hard for bands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. thee in judgment, between blood and 16 ¶ Three times in a year shall all thy blood, between plea and plea, and between males appear before the LORD thy God in stroke and stroke, being matters of controthe place which he shall choose; in the versy within thy gates: then shalt thou feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast arise, and get thee up into the place which of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: the LORD thy God shall choose; and they shall not appear before the LORD 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests empty: the Levites, and unto the judge that shall 17 Every man shall give as he is able, be in those days, and inquire; and they according to the blessing of the LORD thy shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: God which he hath given thee. 10 And thou shalt do according to the 18 Judges and officers shalt thou sentence, which they of that place which make thee in all thy gates, which the the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy and thou shalt observe to do according to tribes: and they shall judge the people all that they inform thee: with just judgment. eous. 11 According to the sentence of the law 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou which they shall teach thee, and accordshalt not respect persons, neither take a ing to the judgment which they shall tell gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline wise, and pervert the words of the right- from the sentence which they shall shew Chee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 20 That which is altogether just shalt 12 And the man that will do presumpthou follow, that thou mayest live, and in-tuously, and will not hearken unto the herit the land which the LORD thy God priest that standeth to minister there begiveth thee. fore the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and HOU shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, Thy God anybullock, or sheep, where- and shalt say, I will set a king, over me, in is blemish, or any evil favouredness: like as all the nations that are about me; for that is an abomination unto the LORD 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king thy God. over thee whom the LORD thy God shall 21 If there be found among you, within choose: one from among thy brethren shalt |