Chapter 1
1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your
offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him
offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own
voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD.
4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering;
and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the
blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his
pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head,
and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is
upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the
priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep,
or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male
without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle
his blood round about upon the altar.
12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his
fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is
on the fire which is upon the altar:
13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and
the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is
a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the LORD.
14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of
fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of
young pigeons.
15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off
his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall
be wrung out at the side of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast
it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not
divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar,
upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Chapter 2
1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his
offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it,
and put frankincense thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he
shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the
oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest
shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his
sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire.
4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the
oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with
oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it
shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a
meat offering.
7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan,
it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these
things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest,
he shall bring it unto the altar.
9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's
and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall
be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey,
in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them
unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a
sweet savour.
13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season
with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine
offerings thou shalt offer salt.
14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the
LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits
green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of
full ears.
15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon:
it is a meat offering.
16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the
beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
Chapter 3
1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he
offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish before the LORD.
2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar
round about.
3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the
LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.
7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it
before the LORD.
8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's
sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the
altar.
9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the
whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the
fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the
inwards,
10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food
of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before
the LORD.
13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron
shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering
made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food
of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is
the LORD's.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor
blood.
Chapter 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin
through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD
concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do
against any of them:
3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of
the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath
sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin
offering.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon
the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's
blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle
of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the
sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the
tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of
the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering,
which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for
the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards,
9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away,
10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of
peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar
of the burnt offering.
11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his
head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp
unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him
on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he
be burnt.
13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through
ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly,
and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of
the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are
guilty;
14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known,
then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin,
and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon
the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall
be killed before the LORD.
16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's
blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
17 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the
altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of
the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the
altar.
20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock
for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest
shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and
burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering
for the congregation.
22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance
against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning
things which should not be done, and is guilty;
23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge;
he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish:
24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill
it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the
altar of burnt offering.
26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of
the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be
forgiven him.
27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance,
while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the
LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be
guilty;
28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge:
then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom
of the altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is
taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the
priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the
LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it
shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it
a female without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the
burnt offering.
34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom
of the altar:
35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the
lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the
offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make
an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be
forgiven him.
Chapter 5
1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a
witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter
it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase
of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the
carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from
him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness
it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or
to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an
oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he
shall be guilty in one of these.
5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his
sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make
an atonement for him concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for
his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering.
8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that
which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from
his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon
the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung
out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according
to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him
for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he
shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense
thereon: for it is a sin offering.
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall
take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on
the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching
his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat
offering.
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in
the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his
trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks,
with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of
the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in
the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give
it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be
forgiven him.
17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he
wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock,
with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his
ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be
forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed
against the LORD.
Chapter 6
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie
unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or
in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath
deceived his neighbour;
3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it,
and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth,
sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that
he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing
which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered
him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the
day of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he
hath done in trespassing therein.
8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the
burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning
upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the
altar shall be burning in it.
10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes
which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments,
and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall
not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every
morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he
shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never
go out.
14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat
offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which
is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for
a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with
unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the
court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them
for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy,
as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It
shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them
shall be holy.
19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they
shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken,
thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat
offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead
shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall
be wholly burnt.
23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt:
it shall not be eaten.
24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of
the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is
most holy.
26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy
place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and
when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment,
thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken:
and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured,
and rinsed in water.
29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
holy.
30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into
the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the
holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
Chapter 7
1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most
holy.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they
kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he
sprinkle round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and
the fat that covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering
made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be
eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is
one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith
shall have it.
8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even
the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering
which he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all
that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the
priest's that offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all
the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he shall offer unto the LORD.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with
the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil,
and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with
oil, of fine flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened
bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an
heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that
sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he
shall not leave any of it until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary
offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be
eaten:
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third
day shall be burnt with fire.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be
accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it:
it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall
bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be
eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all
that be clean shall eat thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his
uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the
uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable
unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be
cut off from his people.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no
manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of
that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use:
but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that
eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of
fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even
that soul shall be cut off from his people.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth
the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring
his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the
breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the
breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an
heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the
peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for
his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of
the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto
his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of
Israel.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the
anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the
LORD in the priest's office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of
Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever
throughout their generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering,
and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of
the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day
that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their
oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the
anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams,
and a basket of unleavened bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was
gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which
the LORD commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with
water.
7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle,
and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and
he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it
unto him therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even
upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and
anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his
foot, to sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and
girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron
and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for
the sin offering.
15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the
altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the
caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and
Moses burned it upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he
burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the
altar round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and
the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses
burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for
a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it
upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon
the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right
hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was
upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before
the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the
right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands,
and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on
the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a
sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering
before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses'
part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which
was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with
him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him.
31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it
with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I
commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall
ye burn with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration
be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do,
to make an atonement for you.
35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of
the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded
by the hand of Moses.
Chapter 9
1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron
and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and
offer them before the LORD.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take
ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb,
both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to
day the LORD will appear unto you.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew
near and stood before the LORD.
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded
that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto
you.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy
sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for
thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the
people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the
sin offering, which was for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the
altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of
the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the
camp.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented
unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the
altar.
13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the
pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon
the burnt offering on the altar.
15 And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat,
which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and
offered it for sin, as the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according
to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful
thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice
of the morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented
unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round
about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that
which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above
the liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat
upon the altar:
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave
offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed
them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the
burnt offering, and peace offerings.
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the
glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all
the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Chapter 10
1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them
his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them
not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
they died before the LORD.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake,
saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and
before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his
peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your
brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the
camp; as Moses had said.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes;
lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let
your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
which the LORD hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is
upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with
thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations:
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
between unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth
of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without
leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due,
and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire:
for so I am commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a
clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee:
for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of
the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with
the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave
offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons'
with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering,
and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy
place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear
the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them
before the LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy
place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I
commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered
their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and
such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin
offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of
the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Chapter 11
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the
beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the
earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth
the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
hoof; he is unclean unto you.
7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted,
yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye
not touch; they are unclean to you.
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever
hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing
which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat
of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall
be an abomination unto you.
13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among
the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the
eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
15 Every raven after his kind;
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
after his kind,
17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
abomination unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that
goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap
withal upon the earth;
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and
the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet,
shall be an abomination unto you.
24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the
carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is
not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you:
every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso
toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto
you.
29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and
the tortoise after his kind,
30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
snail, and the mole.
31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth
touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth
fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or
raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any
work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean
until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth,
whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water
cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in
every such vessel shall be unclean.
35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth
shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they
shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean
unto you.
36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of
water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase
shall be unclean.
37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed
which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their
carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth
the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the
carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even.
41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall
be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon
all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are
an abomination.
43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping
thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean
with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall
ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy.
46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every
living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature
that creepeth upon the earth:
47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and
between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not
be eaten.
Chapter 12
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have
conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean
seven days; according to the days of the separation for her
infirmity shall she be unclean.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying
three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor
come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood
of her purifying threescore and six days.
6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son,
or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for
a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin
offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest:
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This
is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring
two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt
offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Chapter 13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a
scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like
the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the
priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the
flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the
plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a
plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and
pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in
sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the
plague seven days:
5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold,
if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread
not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days
more:
6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread
not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but
a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he
hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen
of the priest again.
8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a
leprosy.
9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
brought unto the priest;
10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be
white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there
be quick raw flesh in the rising;
11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest
shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he
is unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his
head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy
have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that
hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to
be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he
shall come unto the priest;
17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be
turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean
that hath the plague: he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a
boil, and is healed,
19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a
bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to
the priest;
20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight
lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy
broken out of the boil.
21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be
somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it
is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot
burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright
spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair
in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper
than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning:
wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the
plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin,
but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven
days:
27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it
be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in
the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the
burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an
inflammation of the burning.
29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be
in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin
hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry
scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there
is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that
hath the plague of the scall seven days:
32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague:
and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the
priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall:
and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in
sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him
clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall
be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow
hair; he is unclean.
37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is
black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh
bright spots, even white bright spots;
39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots
in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled
spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald;
yet is he clean.
41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his
head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white
reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his
bald forehead.
43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the
rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his
bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the
flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall
pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be
rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his
upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be
defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp
shall his habitation be.
47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it
be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen;
whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or
in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing
of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the
priest:
50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it
that hath the plague seven days:
51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the
plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the
plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof,
in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague
is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
any thing of skin;
54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing
wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is
washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour,
and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it
in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or
without.
56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat
dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the
woof:
57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or
in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague:
thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of
skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed
from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be
clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of
woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of
skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Chapter 14
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest
shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in
the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet,
and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed
in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood,
and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the
living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the
running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall
let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may
be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall
tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all
his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also
he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and
three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled
with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man
that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a
trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill
the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for
as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass
offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right
ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it
into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is
in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger
seven times before the LORD:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the
priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass
offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the
priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness;
and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat
offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement
for him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take
one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able
to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a
burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing
unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, before the LORD.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering,
and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the
priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering,
and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own
left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of
the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon
the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right
foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall
put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
atonement for him before the LORD.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the
young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before the LORD.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy,
whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his
cleansing.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you
for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of
the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest,
saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the
house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is
in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall
go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague
be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or
reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall
look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones
in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean
place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off
without the city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place
of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall
plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,
after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath
scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the
house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the
timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall
carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it
is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he
that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and,
behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house
was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean,
because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar
wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the
scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house
seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird,
and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with
the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the
open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall
be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and
scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is
the law of leprosy.
Chapter 15
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any
man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue
he is unclean.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his
flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his
issue, it is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean:
and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean;
then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue
shall be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be
unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the
issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed
in water.
13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then
he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and
wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and
shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves,
or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the
priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he
shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the
even.
17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the
even.
18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the even.
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be
blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth
her shall be unclean until the even.
20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall
be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth,
when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon
him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he
lieth shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of
the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall
be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall
be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she
sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or
two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her
uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose
seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath
an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.
Chapter 16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons
of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother,
that he come not at all times into the holy place within the
vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die
not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the
linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are
holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and
so put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for
a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his
house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the
LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the
LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell,
and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement
with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for
his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which
is for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from
off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD,
that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is
upon the testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle
it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the
mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for
the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with
that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle
it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of
the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the
tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the
midst of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy
place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of
Israel.
18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD,
and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns
of the altar round about.
19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger
seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness
of the children of Israel.
20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place,
and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall
bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live
goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting
them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a
land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
wilderness.
23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation,
and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he
went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and
put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an
atonement for himself, and for the people.
25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into
the camp.
27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the
sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in
the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they
shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe
his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own
country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you,
to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before
the LORD.
31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict
your souls, by a statute for ever.
32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's
stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, even the holy garments:
33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he
shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation,
and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the
priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 17
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children
of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD
hath commanded, saying,
3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth
an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of
the camp,
4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the
tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he
hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his
people:
5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they
may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace
offerings unto the LORD.
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the
LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn
the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,
after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for
ever unto them throughout their generations.
8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you,
that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be
cut off from among his people.
10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of
blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth
blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given
it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth
among you eat blood.
13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of
the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth
any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the
blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the
life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all
flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut
off.
15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that
which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own
country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then
shall he be clean.
16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall
bear his iniquity.
Chapter 18
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
LORD your God.
3 After the doings of the land of 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.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
therein: I am the LORD your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which
if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,
to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother,
shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it
is thy father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born
abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
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.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of
thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister:
she is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister:
for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,
thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:
she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife:
it is thy brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her
daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her
near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to
uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's
wife, to defile thyself with her.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire
to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am
the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
therewith: neither 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:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity
thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and
shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your
own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even
the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their
people.
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.
Chapter 19
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 honor 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.
Chapter 20
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.
Chapter 21
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.
Chapter 22
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
be 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.
Chapter 23
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.
Chapter 24
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.
Chapter 25
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.
Chapter 26
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 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.
Chapter 27
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.
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