Chapter .j.
And the LORD called Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of
witness saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:
Whosoever of you shall bring a gift unto the LORD, shall bring it of
the cattle: even of the oxen and of the sheep. If he bring a
burntoffering of the oxen he shall offer a male without blemish, and
shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of witness, that he may
be accepted before the LORD. And let him put his hand upon the head of
the burntsacrifice, and favour shall be given him to make an atonement
for him, and let him kill the ox before the LORD. And let the priests
Aaron's sons bring the blood and let them sprinkle it round about upon
the altar that is before the door of the tabernacle of witness. And let
the burntofferings be stripped and hewed in pieces. And then let the
sons of Aaron the priest put fire upon the altar, and put wood upon the
fire, and let them lay the pieces with the head and the fat, upon the
wood that is on the fire in the altar. But the inwards and the legs
they shall wash in water, and the priest shall burn altogether upon the
altar, that it be a burnt sacrifice, and an offering of a sweet odour
unto the LORD. If he will offer a burnt sacrifice of the sheep whether
it be of the lambs or of the goats: he shall offer a male without
blemish. And let him kill it on the north side of the altar, before the
LORD. And let the priests Aaron's sons sprinkle the blood of it, round
about upon the altar. And let it be cut in pieces: even with his head
and his fat, and let the priest put them upon the wood that lieth upon
the fire in the altar. But let him wash the inwards and the legs with
water, and then bring altogether and burn it upon the altar: that is a
burntoffering and a sacrifice of sweet savour unto the LORD. If he will
offer a burntoffering of the fowls {|[unto the LORD]|} he shall offer
either of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons. And the priest
shall bring it unto the altar, and wring the neck asunder of it, and
burn it on the altar, and let the blood run out upon the sides of the
altar, and pluck away his crop and his feathers, and cast them beside
the altar on the east part upon the heap of ashes, and break his wings,
but pluck them not asunder. And then let the priest burn it upon the
altar, even upon the wood that lieth upon the fire, a burnt sacrifice
and an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Chapter .ij.
If any soul will offer a meatoffering unto the LORD, his offering shall
be fine flour, and he shall pour thereto oil, and put frankincense
thereon, and shall bring it unto Aaron's sons the priests. And one of
them shall take thereout his handful of the flour, and of the oil with
all the frankincense, and burn it for a memorial upon the altar: an
offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And the remnant of the
meatoffering shall be Aaron's and his sons, as a thing most holy of the
sacrifices of the LORD. If any man bring a meatoffering that is baken
in the oven, let him bring sweet cakes of fine flour mingled with oil,
and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. If thy meatoffering be baken
in the frying pan, then it shall be of sweet flour mingled with oil.
And thou shalt mince it small, and pour oil thereon: and so is it a
meatoffering. If thy meatoffering be a thing broiled upon the gridiron,
of flour mingled with oil it shall be. And thou shalt bring the
meatoffering that is made of these things unto the LORD, and shalt
deliver it unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar, and
shall heave up part of the meatoffering for a memorial, and shall burn
it upon the altar: an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And
that which is left of the meatoffering shall be Aaron's and his sons,
as a thing that is most holy of the offerings of the LORD. All the
meatofferings which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made without
leaven. For ye shall neither burn leaven nor honey in any offering of
the LORD: Notwithstanding ye shall bring the firstlings of them unto
the LORD: But they shall not come upon the altar to make a sweet
savour. All thy meatofferings thou shalt salt with salt: neither shalt
thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy
meatoffering: but upon all thine offerings thou shalt bring salt. If
thou offer a meatoffering of the first ripe fruits unto the LORD, then
take of that which is yet green, and dry it by the fire and beat it
small, and so offer the meatoffering of thy first ripe fruits. And then
pour oil thereto, and put frankincense thereon: and so it is a
meatoffering. And the priest shall burn part of the beaten corn and
part of that oil, with all the frankincense, for a remembrance. That is
an offering unto the LORD.
Chapter .iij.
If any man bring a peaceoffering of the oxen: whether it be male or
female, he shall bring such as is without blemish, before the LORD, and
let him put his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before
the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron's sons the priests,
shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. And they shall
offer of the peaceoffering to be a sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat
that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards: and
the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon the loins: and the caul
that is on the liver, they shall take away with the kidneys. And
Aaron's sons shall burn them upon the altar with the burntsacrifice
which is upon the wood on the fire. That is a sacrifice of a sweet
favour unto the LORD. If a man bring a peaceoffering unto the LORD from
of the flock: whether it be male, or female, it shall be without
blemish. If he offer a lamb, he shall bring it before the LORD, and put
his hand upon his offering's head, and kill it in the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood
thereof round about the altar. And of the peaceoffering they shall
bring a sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat thereof and the rump
altogether, which they shall take off hard by the back bone: and the
fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards
and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and upon the
loins, and the caul that is upon the liver he shall take away with the
kidneys. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar to feed the
LORD's offering withall. If the offering be a goat, he shall bring it
before the LORD and put his hand upon the head of it and kill it before
the tabernacle of witness, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the
blood thereof upon the altar round about. And he shall bring thereof
his offering unto the LORD's sacrifice: the fat that covereth the
inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards and the two kidneys
and the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the caul that
is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. And the priest
shall burn them upon the alter to feed the LORD's sacrifice with all
and to make a sweet savour. And thus shall all the fat be the LORD's,
and it shall be a law forever among your generations after you in your
dwelling places: that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Chapter .iiij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of
Israel and say: when a soul sinneth thorow ignorance, and hath done any
of those things which the LORD hath forbidden in his commandments to be
done: If the priest that is anointed sin and make the people to do
amiss, he shall bring for his sin which he hath done: an ox without
blemish unto the LORD for a sinoffering. And he shall bring the ox unto
the door of the tabernacle of witness before the LORD, and shall put
his hand upon the ox's head and kill him before the LORD. And the
priest that is anointed shall take of the ox's blood, and bring it into
the tabernacle of witness, and shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle thereof seven times before the LORD: even before the hanging
of the holy place. And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
the altar of sweet cense before the LORD which is in the tabernacle of
witness, and shall pour all the blood of the ox upon the bottom of the
altar of burntofferings which is by the door of the tabernacle of
witness. And he shall take away all the fat of the ox that is the
sinoffering: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is
about them, and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and
upon the loins, and the caul upon the liver let them take away also
with the kidneys: as it was taken from the ox of the peaceoffering, and
let the priest burn them upon the altar of burntofferings. But the skin
of the ox and all his flesh with his head, his legs, his inwards with
his dung, shall he carry altogether out of the host unto a clean place:
even where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on wood with fire:
even upon the heap of ashes. If the whole commonalty of the children of
Israel sin thorow ignorance, and the thing be hid from their eyes: so
that they have committed any of these things which the LORD hath
forbidden to be done in his commandments and have offended, and the sin
which they have sinned be afterward known, then shall they offer an ox
for a sinoffering and shall bring him before the tabernacle of witness,
and the elders of the multitude shall put their hands upon his head
before the LORD. And the priest that is anointed shall bring of his
blood into the tabernacle of witness, and shall dip his finger in the
blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD: even before the
vail. And shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is
before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness, and shall pour all the
blood upon the bottom of the altar of burntofferings which is by the
door of the tabernacle of witness, and shall take all his fat from him
and burn it upon the altar, and shall do with his ox as he did with the
sinoffering ox. And the priest shall make an atonement for them, and so
it shall be forgiven them. And he shall bring the ox without the host,
and burn him as he burned the first, so is this the sinoffering of the
commonalty. When a lord sinneth and committeth thorow ignorance any of
these things which the LORD his God hath forbidden to be done in his
commandments and hath so offended: when his sin is shewed unto him
which he hath sinned, he shall bring for his offering an hegoat without
blemish and lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it in the place
where the burntofferings are killed before the LORD: this is a
sinoffering. Then let the priest take of the blood of the sinoffering
with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burntoffering altar,
and pour his blood upon the bottom of the burntoffering altar and burn
all his fat upon the altar, as he doth the fat of the peaceofferings.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin,
and so it shall be forgiven him. If one of the common people of the
land sin thorow ignorance and commit any of the things which the LORD
hath forbidden, in his commandments to be done and so hath trespassed,
when his sin which he hath sinned is come to his knowledge, he shall
bring for his offering, a she goat without blemish for his sin which he
hath sinned, and lay his hand upon the head of the sinoffering, and
slay it in the place of burntofferings. And the priest shall take of
the blood with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the
burntoffering altar, and pour all the blood upon the bottom of the
altar, and shall take away all his fat as the fat of the peaceofferings
is taken away. 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. If he bring a sheep {lamb} and offer it
for a sinoffering, he shall bring a ewe {female} without blemish, and
lay his hand upon the head of the sinoffering, and slay it in the place
where the burntofferings are slain. And the priest shall take of the
blood of the sinoffering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of
the burntoffering altar, and shall pour all the blood thereof unto the
bottom of the altar. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the
fat of the sheep of the peaceofferings was taken away. And the priest
shall burn it upon the altar for the LORD's {lordes} sacrifice, and the
priest shall make an atonement for his sin, and it shall be forgiven
him.
Chapter .v.
When a soul hath sinned and heard the voice of cursing and is a
witness: whether he hath seen or known of it if he have not uttered it,
he shall bear his sin. Either when a man toucheth any unclean thing:
whether it be the carrion of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or
unclean worm and is not ware of it, he is also unclean and hath
offended. Either when he toucheth any uncleanness of man (whatsoever
uncleanness it be that a man is defiled with all) and is not ware of it
and afterward cometh to the knowledge of it, he is a trespasser. Either
when a soul sweareth: so that he pronounceth with his lips to do evil
or to do good (whatsoever it be that a man pronounceth with an oath)
and the thing be out of his mind and afterward cometh to the knowledge
of it, then he hath offended in one of these. Then when he hath sinned
in one of these things, he shall confess that wherein that he hath
sinned, and shall bring his trespassoffering unto the LORD for his sin
which he hath sinned. A female from the flock, whether it be an ewe
{lamb} or a she goat, for a sinoffering. And the priest shall make an
atonement for him for his sin. But if he be not able to bring a sheep,
then let him bring for his trespass which he hath sinned, two turtle
doves or two young pigeons unto the LORD, one for a sinoffering and
another for a burntoffering. And he shall bring them unto the priest,
which shall offer the sinoffering first and wring the neck asunder of
it, but pluck it not clean off. And let him sprinkle of the blood of
the sinoffering upon the side of the altar, and let the rest of the
blood bleed upon the bottom of the altar, and then it is a sinoffering.
And let him offer the second for a burntoffering as the manner is: and
so shall the priest make an atonement for him for the sin which he hath
sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. And yet if he be not able to
bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons, then let him bring his
offering for his sin: the tenth part of an Epha of fine flour for a
sinoffering, but put none oil thereto neither put any frankincense
thereon, for it is a sinoffering. And let him bring it to the priest,
and the priest shall take his handful of it and burn it upon the altar
for a remembrance to be a sacrifice for the LORD: that is a
sinoffering. And let the priest make an atonement for him for his sin
(whatsoever of these he hath sinned) and it shall be forgiven. And the
remnant shall be the priest's, as it is in the meatoffering. And the
LORD communed with Moses saying: when a soul trespasseth and sinneth
thorow ignorance in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring
for his trespass unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock
valued at two sicles after the holy sicle, {[of the sanctuary,]} for a
trespassoffering. And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath
done in the holy thing, and put the fifth part more thereto, and give
it unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with
the ram of the trespassoffering, and it shall be forgiven him. When a
soul sinneth and committeth any of these things which are forbidden to
be done by the commandments of the LORD: though he wist it not, he hath
yet offended and is in sin, and shall bring a ram without blemish out
of the flock that is esteemed to be worth a sinoffering, unto the
priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for the
ignorance which he did, and was not ware, and it shall be forgiven him.
This is a trespassoffering, for he trespassed against the LORD.
Chapter .vi.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: when a soul sinneth and
trespasseth against the LORD, and denied unto his neighbour that which
was taken him to keep, or that was put under his hand, or that which he
hath violently taken away, or that which he hath deceived his neighbour
of with subtlety, or hath found that which was lost and denieth it, and
sweareth falsely, in whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and sinneth
therein; Then when he hath sinned or trespassed, he shall restore again
that he took violently away, or the wrong which he did, or that which
was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, or
whatsoever it be about which he hath sworn falsely, he shall restore it
again in the whole sum, and shall add the fifth part more thereto and
give it unto him to whom it pertaineth, the same day that he offereth
for his trespass, and shall bring for his trespassoffering unto the
LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, that is esteemed worth a
trespassoffering unto the priest. And the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD, and it shall be forgiven him in
whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and trespasseth therein. And the
LORD spake unto Moses saying: Command Aaron and his sons saying: this
is the law of the burntoffering. The burntoffering shall be upon the
hearth of the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the
altar shall burn therein. And the priest shall put on his linen alb and
his linen breeches upon his flesh, and take away the ashes which the
fire of the burntsacrifice in the altar hath made, and put them beside
the altar, and then put off his raiment and put on other and carry the
ashes out without the host unto a clean place. The fire that is upon
the altar shall burn therein and not go out. And the priest shall put
wood on the fire every morning, and put the burntsacrifice upon it, and
he shall burn thereon the fat of the peaceofferings. The fire shall
ever burn upon the altar, and never go out. This is the law of the
meatoffering: Aaron's sons shall bring it before the LORD, unto the
altar: and one of them shall take his handful of the flour of the
meatoffering and of the oil with all the frankincense which is thereon,
and shall burn it unto a remembrance upon the altar to be a sweet
savour of the memorial of it unto the LORD. And the rest thereof, Aaron
and his sons shall eat: unleavened it shall be eaten in the holy place:
even in the court of the tabernacle of witness they shall eat it. Their
part which I have given them of my sacrifice, shall not be baken with
leaven, for it is most holy, as is the sinoffering, and trespass
offering. All the males among the children of Aaron, shall eat of it:
and it shall be a duty for ever unto your generations of the sacrifices
of the LORD, neither shall any man twitch it, but he that is hallowed.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: this is the offering of Aaron and
of his sons which he shall offer unto the LORD in the day when they are
anointed: the tenth part of an Epha of flour, which is a daily
meatoffering perpetually: half in the morning and half at night: and in
the frying pan it shall be made with oil. And when it is fried, thou
shalt bring it in as a baken meatoffering minced small, and shalt offer
it for a sweet savour unto the LORD. And that priest of his sons that
is anointed in his stead, shall offer it: and it shall be the LORD's
{lordes} duty for ever, and it shall be burnt altogether. For all the
meatofferings of the priests shall be burnt altogether, and shall not
be eaten. And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and
unto his sons and say: This is the law of the sinoffering. In the place
where the burntoffering is killed, shall the sinoffering be killed also
before the LORD, for it is most holy. The priest that offereth it shall
eat it in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle of
witness. No man shall touch the flesh thereof, save he that is
hallowed. And if any raiment be sprinkled therewith, it shall be washed
in an holy place, and the earthen pot that it is sodden in shall be
broken. If it be sodden in brass, then the pot shall be scoured and
plunged {rinsed} in the water. All the males among the children of
Aaron {the priests} shall eat thereof, for it is most holy.
Notwithstanding no sinoffering that hath his blood brought into the
tabernacle of witness to reconcile with all in the holy place, shall be
eaten: but shall be burnt in the fire.
Chapter .vij.
This is the law of the trespassoffering which is most holy. In the
place where the burntoffering is killed, the trespassoffering shall be
killed also: and his blood shall be sprinkled round about upon the
altar. And all the fat thereof shall be offered: the rump and the fat
that covered the inwards, and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth
on them and upon the loins: and the caul on the liver shall be taken
away with the kidneys: And the priest shall burn them upon the altar,
to be an offering unto the LORD: this is a trespass offering. All the
males among the priests shall eat thereof in the holy place, for it is
most holy. As the sinoffering is, so is the trespass offering, one law
serveth for both: and it shall be the priests that reconcileth
therewith. And the priest that offered a man's burntoffering, shall
have the skin of the burntoffering which he hath offered. And all the
meatofferings that are baken in the oven, and all that is dressed upon
the gridiron and in the frying pan, shall be the priests that offereth
them. And all the meatofferings that are mingled with oil or dry, shall
pertain unto all the sons of Aaron, and one shall have as much as
another. This is the law of the peaceofferings which shall be offered
unto the LORD. If he offer to give thanks, he shall bring unto his
thankoffering: sweet cakes mingled with oil and sweet wafers anointed
with oil, and cakes mingled with oil of fine flour fried, and he shall
bring his offering upon cakes made of leavened bread unto the
thankoffering of his peaceofferings, and of them all he shall offer one
to be an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priests that
sprinkleth the blood of the peaceofferings. And the flesh of the
thankoffering of his peaceofferings shall be eaten the same day that it
is offered, and there shall none of it be laid up until the morning. If
it be a vow or a freewill offering that he bringeth, the same day that
he offereth it, it shall be eaten, and that which remaineth may be
eaten on the morrow: but as much of the offered flesh as remaineth unto
the third day shall be burned with fire. For if any of the flesh of the
peaceofferings be eaten the third day then shall he that offered it
obtain no favour, neither shall it be reckoned unto him: but shall be
an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear the sin
thereof. The flesh that twicheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten,
but burnt with fire: and all that be clean in their flesh, may eat
flesh. If any soul eat of the flesh of the peaceofferings, that pertain
unto the LORD, and his uncleanness yet upon him, the same soul shall
perish from among his people. Moreover if a soul twich any unclean
thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man or of any unclean beast or
any abomination that is unclean: and then eat of the flesh of the
peaceofferings which pertain unto the LORD, that soul shall perish from
his people. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the
children of Israel and say: Ye shall eat no manner fat of oxen, sheep
or goats: neverthelater the fat of the beast that dieth alone and the
fat of that which is torn with wild beasts, may be occupied in all
manner uses: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. For whosoever eateth
the fat of the beast of which men bring an offering unto the LORD, that
soul that eateth it shall perish from his people. Moreover ye shall eat
no manner of blood, wheresoever ye dwell, whether it be of fowl or of
beast. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood the same
soul shall perish from his people. And the LORD talked with Moses
saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: He that offereth his
peaceoffering unto the LORD, shall bring his gift unto the LORD of his
peaceofferings: his own hands shall bring the offering of the LORD:
even the fat upon the breast he shall bring with the breast to wave it
a waveoffering before the LORD. And the priest shall burn the fat upon
the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons. And the right
shoulder they shall give unto the priest, to be an heave offering, of
their peaceofferings. And the same that offereth the blood of the
peaceofferings and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the
right shoulder unto his part, for the wavebreast and the heaveshoulder
I have taken of the children of Israel, even of their peaceofferings,
and have given it unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons: to be a duty
for ever of the children of Israel. This is the anointing of Aaron and
of the sacrifices of the LORD, in the day when they were offered to be
priests unto the LORD, which the LORD commanded to be given them in the
day when he anointed them, of the children of Israel, and to be a duty
for ever among their generations. This is the law of burntofferings, of
meatofferings, of sinofferings, of trespassofferings, of fullofferings,
of peaceofferings, which the LORD commanded Moses in the mount of
Sinai, in the day when he commanded the children of Israel to offer
their offerings unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter .viij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the vestures and the anointing oil, and an ox for a sinoffering and
two rams and a basket of sweet bread: and gather all the community
together unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Moses did as
the LORD commanded him, and the people gathered them selves together
unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Moses said unto the
people: this is the thing which the LORD commanded to do. And Moses
brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water, and put upon
him the alb and gird him with a girdle, and put upon him the tunicle,
and put the Ephod thereon, and girded him with the broidered girdle of
the Ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastlap
thereon, and put in the breastlap light and perfectness. And he put the
mitre upon his head, and put upon the mitre even upon the forefront of
it, the golden plate of the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the habitation and all
that was therein and sanctified them, and sprinkled thereof upon the
altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, and the
laver with his foot, to sanctify them. And he poured of the anointing
oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him to sanctify him. And he brought
Aaron's sons and put albs upon them, and girded them with girdles, and
put bonnets upon their heads: as the LORD commanded Moses. And the
sinoffering was brought. And Aaron and his sons put their hands upon
the head of the ox of the sinoffering. And when it was slain, Moses
took of the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about
with his finger and purified it, and poured the blood unto the bottom
of the altar and sanctified it and reconciled it. And he took all the
fat that was upon the inwards and the caul that was on the liver and
the two kidneys with their fat and burned it upon the altar. But the
ox, the hide, his flesh and his dung, he burnt with fire without the
host, as the LORD commanded Moses. And he brought the ram of the
burntoffering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of
the ram, and it was killed. And Moses sprinkled the blood upon the
altar round about, and cut the ram in pieces and burnt the head, the
pieces and the fat, and washed the inwards and the legs in water, and
burn the ram every whit upon the altar. That was a burnt sacrifice of a
sweet savour, and an offering unto the LORD, as the LORD commanded
Moses. And he brought the other ram that was the fulloffering, and
Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram: And when
it was slain, 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. Then were Aaron's sons brought, and Moses
put of the blood on the tip of the right ear of them, and upon the
thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right
feet, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he took
the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the
caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat and their right
shoulder. And out of the basket of sweet bread that was before the
LORD, he took one sweet cake of oiled bread and one wafer, and put them
on the fat and upon the right shoulder, and put altogether upon Aaron's
hands and upon his sons' hands, and waved it a waveoffering before the
LORD. And then Moses took them from of their hands again, and burnt
them upon the altar, even upon the burntoffering: These are the
fullofferings of a sweet savour and a sacrifice unto the LORD. And
Moses took the breast and waved it a waveoffering before the LORD, of
the ram of the fullofferings: and it was Moses' part, as the LORD
commanded Moses. And Moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood
which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his
vestments and upon his sons and on their vestments with him, and
sanctified Aaron and his vestures and his sons and his sons' vestures
also. Then Moses said unto Aaron and his sons: boil the flesh in the
door of the tabernacle of witness, and there eat it with the bread that
is in the basket of fullofferings, as the Lord commanded saying: Aaron
and his sons shall eat it: and that which remaineth of the flesh and of
the bread, burn with fire. And see that ye depart not from the door of
the tabernacle of witness seven days long: until the days of your
fullofferings be at an end. For seven days must your hands be filled,
as they were this day: even so the LORD hath commanded to do, to
reconcile you with all. See therefore that ye abide in the door of the
tabernacle of witness day and night seven days long: and keep the watch
of the LORD that ye die not: for so I am commanded. And Aaron and his
sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Chapter .ix.
And the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of
Israel, and said unto Aaron: take a calf for a sinoffering, and a ram
for a burntoffering: both without blemish, and bring them before the
LORD. And unto the children of Israel he spake saying: take ye an he
goat for a sinoffering, and a calf and a lamb both two of a year old,
and without blemish for a burnt sacrifice, and an ox and a ram for
peaceofferings, to offer before the LORD, and a meatoffering mingled
with oil, for today the LORD will appear unto you. And they brought
that which Moses commanded unto the tabernacle of witness, and all the
people came and stood before the LORD. And Moses said: this is the
thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and then the glory of
the LORD shall appear unto you. And Moses said unto Aaron: go unto the
altar and offer thy sinoffering, and make an atonement for thee and for
the people: and then offer the offering of the people and reconcile
them also, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Aaron went unto the altar,
and slew the calf that was his sinoffering. 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 the blood unto the
bottom of the altar. And the fat and the two kidneys with the caul of
the liver of the sinoffering, he burnt upon the altar, as the LORD
commanded Moses: but the flesh and the hide, he burnt with fire without
the host. Afterward he slew the burntoffering, and Aaron's sons brought
the blood unto him, and he sprinkled it round about upon the altar. And
they brought the burntoffering unto him in pieces and the head also,
and he burnt it upon the altar, and did wash the inwards and the legs,
and burnt them also upon the burntoffering in the altar. And then he
brought the people's offering and took the goat that was the people's
sinoffering, and slew it and offered it for a sinoffering: as he did
the first. And then brought the burntoffering and offered it as the
manner was, and brought the meatoffering and filled his hand thereof,
and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice in the
morning. Then he slew the ox and the ram that were the people's
peaceofferings, and Aaron's sons brought the blood unto him, and he
sprinkled it upon the altar round about, and took the fat of the ox and
of the ram: the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the
kidneys and the caul of the liver: and put them upon the breasts and
burnt it upon the altar: but the breasts and the right shoulders Aaron
waved before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Aaron lift up
his hand over the people and blessed them, and came down from offering
of sinofferings, burntofferings and peaceofferings. Then Moses and
Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness and came out again and
blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the
people. And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
upon the altar: the burntoffering and the fat. And all the people saw
it and shouted, and fell on their faces.
Chapter .x.
And Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his censor,
and put fire therein, and put cense upon, and brought strange fire
before the LORD: which he commanded them not, and there went a fire out
from the LORD, and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Then
Moses said unto Aaron: this is it that the LORD spake saying: I will be
sanctified in them that come nye me, and before all the people I will
be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Misael and
Elisaphan the sons of Uriel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them: go
to and carry your brethren from the holy place out of the host. And
they went to them and carried them in their albs out of the host, as
Moses bade. And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his
eldest sons: uncover not your head neither rent your clothes, lest ye
die and wrath come upon all the people, let your brethren the hole
house of Israel, beweep the burning which the LORD hath burnt. But go
ye not out from the door of the tabernacle of witness, lest ye die: for
the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did as Moses bade.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron saying: drink no wine nor strong drink,
neither thou nor thy sons with thee: when ye go into the tabernacle of
witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children
after you: that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
between unclean and clean, and that ye may teach the children of Israel
all the ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of
Moses. And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his sons
that were left: take the meatoffering that remaineth of the sacrifices
of the LORD, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most
holy: eat it therefore in the holy place, because it is thy duty and
thy sons' duty of the sacrifice of the LORD: for so I am commanded. And
the wavebreast and heaveshoulder eat in a clean place: both thou and
thy sons and thy daughters with thee. For it is thy duty, and thy sons'
duty with thee, of the peaceofferings of the children of Israel. For
the heaveshoulder and the wavebreast which they bring with the
sacrifices of the fat, to wave it before the LORD, shall be thine and
thy sons' with thee, and be a law for ever, as the LORD hath commanded.
And Moses sought for the goat that was the sinoffering, and see, it was
burnt. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron,
which were left alive saying: wherefore have ye not eaten the
sinoffering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy: and forasmuch as
it is given you to bear the sin of the people, and make agreement for
them before the LORD? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within
the holy place, therefore should ye have eaten it in the holy place as
I commanded. And Aaron said unto Moses: behold, this day have they
offered their sinoffering and their burntoffering before the LORD, and
it is chanced me after this manner. If I should eat of the sinoffering
today, would the LORD be content with all? And when Moses heard that,
he was content.
Chapter .xi.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say: these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all
the beasts that are on the earth: whatsoever hath hoof and divideth it
into two claws and cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat of them that chew cud and have
hoofs. The camel, for he cheweth cud but he divideth not the hoof into
two claws, therefore he shall be unclean unto you. And the cony, for he
cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof into two claws, therefore he
is unclean to you. And the hare, for he likewise cheweth the cud, but
divideth not the hoof into two claws, he is therefore unclean to you.
And the swine, for though he divide the hoof into two claws, yet he
cheweth not the cud and therefore is unclean to you. Of their flesh see
that ye eat not, and their carcasses see that ye twich not for they are
unclean to you. These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, seas and rivers, that
shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas and
rivers of all that move and live in the waters, shall ye abhor. See
that ye eat not of their flesh, and also that ye abhor their carcasses:
for all that have no fins nor scales in the waters, shall be
abomination unto you. These are the fowls which ye shall abhor and
which shall not be eaten, for they are an abomination. The eagle, the
goshawk, the cormorant, the kite, the vulture and all his kind and all
kind of ravens, the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the
sparrowhawk, and all the kind: the little owl, the stork, the great
owl, the back, the pelican, the pye, the heron, the jay with the kind,
the lapwing and the swallow. And all fowls that creep and go upon all
fours shall be an abomination unto you. Yet these may ye eat of all the
fowls that move and go upon four feet: even those that have no knees
above upon their feet to leap withal upon the earth, even these of them
ye may eat: the arb and all his kind: the Soleam with all his kind: the
Hargol and all the kind, and the Hagab and all his kind. All other
fowls that move and have four feet, shall be abomination unto you. In
such ye shall be unclean whosoever touch the carcass of the shall be
unclean unto the even, and whosoever beareth the carcass of them, shall
wash his clothes and shall be unclean until even. Among all manner
beasts, they that have hoofs and divide them not into two claws or that
chew not the cud, shall be unclean unto you: and all that twicheth them
shall be unclean. And all that goeth upon his hands among all manner
beasts that go on all fours, are unclean unto you: and as many as twich
their carcasses, shall be unclean until the evening. And he that
beareth the carcass of them, shall wash his clothes and be unclean
until the even, for such are unclean unto you. And these are also
unclean to you among the things that creep upon the earth: the weasel,
the mouse, the toad and all his kind, the hedgehog, stellio, the
lizard, the snail and the mole: These are unclean to you among all that
move, and all that twich them when they be dead, shall be unclean until
the evening. And whatsoever any of the dead carcasses of them fall
upon, shall be unclean: whatsoever vessel of wood it be, or raiment, or
skin, or bag or whatsoever thing it be that any work is wrought with
all. And they shall be plunged in the water and be unclean until the
even, and then they shall be clean again. All manner of earthen vessel
whereinto any of them falleth, is unclean with all that therein is: and
ye shall break it. All manner meat that is eaten, if any such water
come upon it, it shall be unclean. And all manner drink that is drunk
in all manner such vessels, shall be unclean. And whether it be oven or
kettle, it shall be broken. For they are unclean and shall be unclean
unto you: Neverthelater, yet the fountains and wells and ponds of
water, shall be clean still. But whosoever twicheth their carcasses,
shall be unclean. If the dead carcass of any such fall upon any seed
used to sow, it shall yet be clean still: but and if any water be
poured upon the seed and afterward the dead carcass of them fall
thereon, then it shall be unclean unto you. If any beast of which ye
eat die, he that twicheth the dead carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. And he that eateth of any such dead carcass, shall wash his
clothes and remain unclean until the evening. And he also that beareth
the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes and be unclean until even.
All that crawleth upon the earth, is an abomination and shall not be
eaten. And whatsoever goeth upon the breast, and whatsoever goeth upon
four or more feet among all that crawleth upon the earth, of that see
ye eat not: for they are abominable. Make not your souls abominable.
Make not your souls abominable with nothing that creepeth, neither make
your souls unclean with them: that ye should be defiled thereby. For I
am the LORD your God, be sanctified therefore that ye may be holy, for
I am holy: and defile not your souls with any manner thing that
creepeth upon the earth. For I am the LORD that brought you out of the
land of Egypt to be your God: be holy therefore, for I am holy. This is
the law of beast and fowl and of all manner thing that liveth and
moveth in the water and of all things that creep upon the earth, that
ye may put difference between unclean and clean, and between the beasts
that are eaten and the beasts that are not eaten.
Chapter .xij.
And the LORD spake Unto Moses and said: speak unto the children of
Israel and say: when a woman hath conceived and hath borne a man child,
she shall be unclean seven days: even in like manner as when she is put
apart in time of her natural disease. And in the eighth day the flesh
of the child's foreskin shall be cut away. And she shall continue in
the blood of her purifying thirty three days, she shall twitch no
hallowed thing nor come in to the sanctuary, until the time of her
purifying be out. If she bear a maidchild, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as when she hath her natural disease. And she shall continue
in the blood of her purifying sixty six days. And when the days of her
purifying are out: whether it be a son or a daughter, she shall bring a
lamb of one year old for a burntoffering and a young pigeon or a
turtledove for a sinoffering unto the door of the tabernacle of witness
unto the priest: which shall offer them before the LORD, and make an
atonement for her, and so she shall be purged of her issue of blood.
This is the law of her that hath borne a child, whether it be male or
female. But and if she be not able to bring a sheep, then let her bring
two turtles or two young pigeons: the one for the burntoffering, and
the other for the sinoffering. And the priest shall make an atonement
for her, and she shall be clean.
Chapter .xiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying: when there
appeareth a rising in any man's flesh either a scab or a glistering
white: as though the plague of leprosy were in the skin of his flesh,
then let him be brought unto Aaron the priest or unto one of his sons
the priests, and let the priest look on the sore that is in the skin of
his flesh. If the hair in the sore be turned unto white, and the sore
also seem to be lower than the skin of his flesh, then it is surely a
leprosy, and let the priest look on him and make him unclean. If there
be but a white pleck in the skin of his flesh, and seem not to be lower
than the other skin nor the hair thereof is turned unto white: then let
the priest shut him up seven days. And let the priest look upon him the
seventh day: if the sore seem to him to abide still and to go no
further in the skin, then let the priest shut him up yet seven days
more. {mo} And let the priest look on him again the seventh day. Then
if the sore be waxed blackish, and is not grown abroad in the skin, let
the priest make him clean, for it is but a scurf. And let him wash his
clothes, and then he is clean. But and if the scab grow in the skin
after that he is seen of the priest again. If the priest see that the
scab be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is
surely a leprosy. If the plague of leprosy be in a man, let him be
brought unto the priest, and let the priest see him. If the rising
appear white in the skin, and have also made the hair white, and there
be raw flesh in the sore also: then it is an old leprosy in the skin of
his flesh. And the priest shall make him unclean, and shall not shut
him up for he is unclean. If a leprosy break out in the skin and cover
all the skin from the head to the foot over all wheresoever the priest
looketh, then let the priest look upon him. If the leprosy have covered
all his flesh, let him make {judge} the disease clean: for inasmuch as
he is altogether white he is therefore clean. But and if there be raw
flesh on him when he is seen, then he shall be unclean. Therefore when
the priest seeth the raw flesh, let him make him unclean. For inasmuch
as his flesh is raw, he is unclean and it is surely a true leprosy. But
and if the raw flesh depart again and change unto white, then let him
come to the priest and let the priest see him: If the sore be changed
unto white, let the priest make {judge} the disease clean, and then he
is clean. When there is a beal in the skin of any man's flesh and is
healed and after in the place of the beal there appear a white rising
either a shining white somewhat reddish, let him be seen of the priest.
If when the priest seeth him it appear lower than the other skin and
the hair thereof be changed unto white, let the priest make {judge} him
unclean: for it is a very leprosy, that is broken out in the place of
the beal. But and if when the priest looketh on it there be no white
hairs therein neither the scab lower than the other skin and be
somewhat blackish, then the priest shall shut him apart seven days. If
it spread abroad in the mean season, then let the priest make {judge}
him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But and if the glistering white abide
still in one place and go no further, then it is but the print of the
beal, and the priest shall make {judge} him clean. When the skin of any
man's flesh is burnt with fire that it be raw and there appear in the
burning a glistering white that is somewhat reddish or altogether
white, let the priest look upon it. If the hair in that brightness be
changed to white and it also appear lower than the other skin, then it
is a leprosy that is broken out in the place of the burning. And the
priest shall make {judge} him unclean, for it is a leprosy. But and if
(when the priest looketh on it) he see that there is no white hair in
the brightness, and that it is no lower than the other skin, and that
it is also blackish, then let the priest shut him up seven days. And if
(when the priest looketh on him the seventh day) it be grown abroad in
the skin, let him make {judge} him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But
and if that brightness abide still in one place and go no further in
the skin and be blackish, then it is but a rising in the place of the
burning, and the priest shall make him clean: for it is but the print
of the burning only. When either man or woman hath a breaking out upon
the head or the beard, let the priest see it. And if it appear lower
than the other skin, and there be therein golden hairs and thin, let
the priest make {judge} him unclean, for it is a breaking out of
leprosy upon the head or beard. If (when the priest looketh on the
breaking out) he see that it is no lower than the other skin and that
there are black hairs therein, let him shut him up seven days. And let
the priest look on the disease the seventh day: and if the breaking out
be gone no further neither be any golden hairs therein neither the scab
be lower than the other skin, then let him be shaven, but let him not
shave the scab, and let the priest shut him up seven days more. And let
the priest look on the breaking out the seventh day again: If the
breaking out be gone no further in the skin nor more lower than the
other skin, then let the priest make {judge} him clean, and let him
wash his clothes and then he is clean. If the breaking out grow in the
skin after that he is once made {judged} clean, let the priest see him.
If it be grown abroad indeed in the skin, let the priest seek no
further for any golden hairs, for he is unclean. But and if he see that
the scab stond still, and that there is black hair grown up therein,
then the scab is healed and he is clean: and the priest shall make
{judge} him clean. If there be found in the skin of the flesh of man or
woman a glistering white, let the priest see it. If there appear in
their flesh a glistering white somewhat blackish, then it is but
freckles grown up in the skin: and he is clean. If a man's hair fall
off his head, then he is headbald and clean. If his hair fall before in
his forehead, then he is foreheadbald and clean. If there be in the
bald head or bald forehead a reddish white scab, then there is leprosy
sprung up in his bald head or bald forehead. And let the priest see it:
and if the rising of the sore be reddish white in his bald head or
forehead after the manner of a leprosy in the skin of the flesh, then
he is a leper and unclean: and the priest shall make {judge} him
unclean, for the plague of his head. And the leper in whom the plague
is, shall have his clothes rent and his head bare and his mouth muffled
and shall be called unclean. And as long as the disease lasteth upon
him, he shall be unclean: for he is unclean, and shall therefore dwell
alone, and even without the host shall his habitation be. When the
plague of leprosy is in a cloth: whether it be linen or woollen, yea
and whether it be in the warp or woof of the linen or of the woollen:
either in a skin or any thing made of skin, if the disease be pale or
somewhat reddish in the cloth or skin: whether it be in the warp or the
woof or any thing that is made of skin, then it is a very leprosy, and
must be shewed unto the priest. And when the priest seeth the plague,
let him shut it up seven days, and let him look on the plague the
seventh day. If it be increased in the cloth: whether it be in the warp
or woof or in a skin or in anything that is made of skin, then the
plague is a fretting leprosy, and it is unclean: And that cloth shall
be burnt, either warp or woof, whether it be woollen or linen or any
thing that is made of skin wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting
leprosy, and shall be burnt in the fire. If the priest see that the
plague hath fretten no further in the cloth: either in the warp or woof
or in whatsoever thing of skin it be, then let the priest command then
to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and let him shut it up seven
days more. And let the priest look on it again after that the plague is
washed. If the plague have not changed his fashion though it be spread
no further abroad, it is yet unclean. And see that ye burn it in the
fire, for it is fretten inward: whether in part or in all together. But
and if the priest see that it is somewhat blackish after that it is
washed, let him rent it out of the cloth, or out of the skin or out of
the warp or woof. But and if it appear any more in the cloth either in
the warp or in the woof or in anything made of skin, then it is a
waxing plague. And see that ye burn that with fire, wherein the plague
is. Moreover the cloth either warp or woof or whatsoever thing of skin
it be which thou hast washed and the plague be departed from it, shall
be washed once again: and then it is clean. This is the law of the
plague of leprosy in a cloth whether it be woollen or linen: either
whether it be in the warp or woof, or in anything made of skins, to
make {judge} it clean or unclean.
Chapter .xiiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: this is the law of a leper when
he shall be cleansed: He shall be brought unto the priest, and the
priest shall go out without the host and look upon him. If the plague
of leprosy be healed in the leper, then shall the priest command that
there be brought for him that shall be cleansed two living birds that
are clean, and cypress {cedar} wood, and a piece of purple cloth and
hyssop. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed
over {in} an earthen vessel of running water. And the priest shall take
the living bird and the cypress {cedar} wood and the purple and the
hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running water and sprinkle it upon him that must
be cleansed of his leprosy seven times and cleanse him, and shall let
the living bird go free into the fields. And he that is cleansed shall
wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water,
and then he is clean. And after that he shall come into the host, but
shall tarry without his tent seven days. When the seventh day is come,
he shall shave off all his hair both upon his head and his beard and on
his brows: and even all the hair that is on him, shall be shaven off.
And he shall wash his clothes and his flesh in water, and then he shall
be clean. And when the eighth day is come, let him take two lambs
without blemish and a ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three
tenth deals of fine flour for a meatoffering mingled with oil, and a
log of oil. Then let the priest that maketh him clean, bring the man
that is made clean with those things before the LORD unto the door of
the tabernacle of witness. And let the priest take one of the lambs and
offer him for a trespassoffering, and the log of oil: and wave them
before the LORD. And then let him slay the lamb in the place where the
sinoffering and the burntoffering are slain: even in the holy place.
For as the sinoffering is, even so is the trespassoffering the
priest's: for it is most holy. Then let the priest take of the blood of
the trespassoffering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him
that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot. Then let the priest take of the log of
oil, and pour it into the palm of his left hand and dip his right
finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand, and let him
sprinkle it with his finger seven times before the LORD. 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 cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: even upon the
blood of the trespass offering. And the remnant of the oil that is in
the priest's hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is cleansed:
and so shall be priest make an atonement for him before the LORD. Then
let the priest offer the sinoffering, and make an atonement for him
that is cleansed for his uncleanness. And then let the burntoffering be
slain, and let the priest put both the burntoffering and the
meatoffering upon the altar; and make an atonement for him, and then he
shall be clean. If he be poor and can not get so much, then let him
bring one lamb for a trespassoffering to wave it and to make an
atonement for him, and a tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meatoffering, and a log of oil, and two turtle doves or two young
pigeons which he is able to get, and let the one be a sinoffering and
the other a burntoffering. And let him bring them the eighth day for
his cleansing unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of witness
before the LORD. And let the priest take the lamb that is the
trespassoffering and the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD. And
when the lamb of the trespassoffering is killed, the priest shall take
of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of his
right ear that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot. And the priest shall pour of the
oil into his right hand, and shall sprinkle with his finger of the oil
that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD. And the priest
shall put of the oil that is in his hand, upon the tip of the right ear
of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon
the great toe of his right foot: even in the place where the blood of
the trespassoffering was put. And the rest of the oil that is in his
hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is cleansed: to make an
atonement for him before the LORD. And he shall offer one of the turtle
doves or of the young pigeons, such as he can get: the one for a sin
offering and the other for a burntoffering upon the altar. And so shall
the priest make an atonement for him that is cleansed before the LORD.
This is the law of him that hath the plague of leprosy, whose hand is
not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing. And the LORD
spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: when ye be come unto the land of
Canaan which I give you to possess: if I put the plague of leprosy in
any house of the land of your possession, let him that owneth the house
go and tell the priest saying: me think that there is as it were a
leprosy in the house. And the priest shall command them to rid all
things out of the house, before the priest go in to see the plague:
that he make not all that is in the house unclean, and then the priest
shall go in and see the house. If the priest see that the plague is in
the walls of the house, and that there be hollow streaks pale or red
which seem to be lower than the other parts of the wall, then let the
priest go out at the house doors, and shut up the house for seven days.
And let the priest come again the seventh day and see it: if the plague
be increased in the walls of the house, let the priest command them to
take away the stones in which the plague is, and let them cast them in
a foul place without the city, and scrape the house within round about,
and pour out the dust without the city in a foul place. And let them
take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other
mortar, and plaster the house withal. If now the plague come again and
break out in the house, after that they have taken away the stones and
scraped the house, and after that the house is plastered anew: let the
priest come and see it. And if then he perceive that the plague hath
eaten further in the house, then it is a fretting leprosy that is in
the house, and it is unclean. Then they shall break down the house:
both stones, timber and all the mortar of the house, and carry it out
of the city unto a foul place. Moreover he that goeth into the house
all the while that it is shut up, shall be unclean until night. And he
that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and he also that
eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. But and if the priest come
and see that the plague hath spread no further in the house after that
it is new plastered, then let him make it clean for the plague is
healed. And let him take to cleanse the house withal: two birds,
cypress wood, and purple cloth and hyssop. And let him kill one of the
birds over {in} an earthen vessel of {with} running water: and take the
cypress {cedar} wood, the hyssop, the purple and the living bird, and
dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and
sprinkle upon the house seven times, and cleanse the house with the
blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living
bird, and with the cypress wood, and the hyssop, and the purple cloth.
And he shall let the living bird flee out of the town into the wild
fields, and so make an atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
This is the law of all manner plague of leprosy and breaking out, and
of the leprosy of cloth and house: and of risings, scabs and glistering
white, to teach when a thing is unclean or clean. This is the law of
leprosy.
Chapter .xv.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: Speak unto the children
of Israel and say unto them: every man that hath a running issue in his
flesh, is unclean by the reason of his issue. And hereby shall it be
known when he is unclean. If his flesh run, or if his flesh congeal by
the reason of his issue, then he is unclean. Every couch whereon he
lieth and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean. He that
twicheth his couch, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with
water, and be unclean until the even. He that sitteth on that whereon
he sat, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and be
unclean until the evening. And he that twicheth his flesh shall wash
his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the evening.
If any such spit upon him that is clean, he must wash his clothes and
bathe himself in water and be unclean until even. And whatsoever saddle
that he rideth upon, shall be unclean. And whosoever twicheth anything
that was under him, shall be unclean unto the evening. And he that
beareth any such things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water and be unclean unto the even, and whosoever he twicheth (if he
have not first washed his hands in water) must wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean unto the evening. And if he
twich a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: and all vessels of wood
shall be rinsed in the water. When he that hath an issue is cleansed of
his issue, let him number seven days after he is clean, and wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and then he is clean.
And the eighth day let him take two turtle doves or two young pigeons,
and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of witness,
and give them unto the priest. And the priest shall offer them: the one
for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering: and make an
atonement for him before the LORD, as concerning his issue. If any
man's seed depart from him in his sleep, he shall wash his flesh in
water and be unclean until evening. And all the clothes or furs whereon
such seed chanceth shall be washed with water and be unclean unto the
evening. And if a woman lie with such a one, they shall wash them
selves with water and be unclean until even. When a woman's natural
course of blood runneth, she shall be put apart seven days: and
whosoever twicheth her shall be unclean unto the evening. And all that
she lieth {[or sitteth]} upon as long as she is put apart shall be
unclean. And whosoever twicheth her couch shall wash his clothes and
bathe himself with water and be unclean unto the evening. And whosoever
twicheth anything that she sat upon, shall wash his clothes and wash
himself also in water, and be unclean unto the even: so that whether he
twich her couch or anything whereon she hath sitten, he shall be
unclean unto the evening. And if a man lie with her in the mean time,
he shall be put apart as well as she and shall be unclean seven days,
and all his couch wherein he sleepeth shall be unclean. When a woman's
blood runneth long time: whether out of the time of her natural course:
as long as her uncleanness runneth, she shall be unclean after the
manner as when she is put apart. All her couches whereon she lieth (as
long as her issue lasteth) shall be unto her as her couch when she is
put apart. And whatsoever she sitteth upon, shall be unclean, as is her
uncleanness when she is put apart. And whosoever twicheth them, shall
be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and
be unclean unto evening. And when {But if} she is cleansed {be clean}
of her issue, let her count her seven days, after that she is clean.
And the eighth day let her take two turtles or two young pigeons and
bring them unto the priest unto the door of the tabernacle of witness.
And the priest shall offer the one for a sinoffering, and the other for
a burntoffering: and so make an atonement for her before the LORD, as
concerning her unclean issue. Make the children of Israel to keep them
selves from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness:
when they have defiled my habitation that is among them. This is the
law of him that hath a running sore, and of him whose seed runneth from
him in his sleep and is defiled therewith, and of her that hath an
issue of blood as long as she is put apart, and of whosoever hath a
running sore whether it be man or woman, and of him that sleepeth with
her that is unclean.
Chapter .xvi.
And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they had offered before the LORD and died: And he said unto Moses:
speak unto Aaron thy brother that he go not at all times into the holy
place, that is whithin the vail that hangeth before the mercy seat
which is upon the ark that he die not. For I will appear in a cloud
upon the mercy seat. But of this manner shall Aaron go in into the holy
place: with a young ox {bullock} for a sinoffering, and a ram for a
burntoffering. And he shall put the holy linen alb upon him, and shall
have a linen breech upon his flesh, and shall gird him with a linen
girdle, and put the linen mitre upon his head: for they are holy
raiments. And he shall wash his flesh with water, and put them on. And
he shall take of the multitude of the children of Israel two goats for
a sinoffering and a ram for a burntoffering. And Aaron shall offer the
ox for his sinoffering and make an atonement for him and for his house.
And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD in the
door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron cast lots over the two
goats: one lot for the LORD, and another for a scapegoat. And Aaron
shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for
a sinoffering. But the goat on which the lot fell to scape, he shall
set alive before the LORD to reconcile with and to let him go free into
the wilderness. And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sinoffering, and
reconcile for himself and for his household, and kill him. And then he
shall take a censer full of burning coals out of the altar that is
before the LORD, and his handful of sweet cense beaten small, and bring
them within the vail and put the cense upon the fire before the LORD:
that the cloud of the cense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the
witness, that he die not. And he shall take of the blood of the ox and
sprinkle it with his finger before the mercy seat eastward: even seven
times. Then shall he kill the goat that is the people's sinoffering,
and bring his blood within the vail, and do with his blood as he did
with the blood of the ox, and let him sprinkle it toward the mercy
seat, and before the mercy seat: and reconcile the holy place from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their trespasses and
all their sins. And so let him do also unto the tabernacle of witness
that dwelleth with them, even among their uncleannesses. And there
shall be nobody in the tabernacle of witness, when he goeth in to make
an atonement in the holy place, until he come out again. And he shall
make an atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the
multitude of Israel. Then he shall go out unto the altar that stondeth
before the LORD, and reconcile it, and shall take of the blood of the
ox and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar
round about, and sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven
times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the
children of Israel. And when he hath made an end of reconciling the
holy place and the tabernacle of witness and the altar, let him bring
the live goat and let Aaron put both his hands upon the head of the
live goat, and confess over him all the misdeeds of the children of
Israel, and all their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put
them upon the head of the goat and send him away by the hands of one
that is acquainted in the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him
all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goat go
free in the wilderness. And let Aaron go in to the tabernacle of
witness and put off the line clothes which he put on when he went in
into the holy place, and leave them there. And let him wash his flesh
with water in the holy place, and put on his own raiment, and then come
out and offer his burntoffering and the burntoffering of the people,
and make an atonement for himself and for the people, and the fat of
the sinoffering let him burn upon the altar. And let him that carried
forth the scapegoat, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and
then come into the host again. And the ox of the sinoffering and the
goat of the sinoffering (whose blood was brought in to make an
atonement in the holy place) let one carry out without the host and
burn with fire: both their skins, their flesh and their dung. And let
him that burneth them, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water,
and then come into the host again. And it {this} shall be an ordinance
for ever unto you. And even in the tenth day of the seventh month, ye
shall humble your souls and shall do no work at all: whether it be one
of your selves or a stranger that sojourneth among you, for that day
shall an atonement be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins
before the LORD, and ye shall be clean. It shall be a Sabbath of rest
unto you, and ye shall humble your souls, and it shall be an ordinance
for ever. And the priest that is anointed and whose hand was filled to
minister in his father's stead, shall make the atonement and shall put
on the holy linen {[clothes and holy]} vestments, and reconcile the
holy sanctuary and the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and shall
make an atonement also for the priests and for all the people of the
congregation. And this shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you to
make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
year: and it was done even as the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter .xvij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: 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 charged saying: whatsoever he be of the house of
Israel that killeth an ox, lamb or goat in the host or out of the host
and bringeth them not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, to
offer an offering unto the LORD before the dwelling place of the LORD,
blood shall be imputed unto that man, as though he had shed blood, and
that man shall perish from among his people. Wherefore let the children
of Israel bring their offerings they offer in the wide field, unto the
LORD: even unto the door of the tabernacle of witness and unto the
priest, and offer them for peaceofferings unto the LORD. And the priest
shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD in the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and burn the fat to be a sweet savour unto the
LORD. And let them no more offer their offerings unto devils, after
whom they go an whoring. And this shall be an ordinance for ever unto
you thorowout your generations. And thou shalt say unto them:
whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that
sojourn among you that offereth a burntoffering or any other offering,
and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness to offer
unto the LORD, that fellow shall perish from among his people. And
whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that
sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face
against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among
his people, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given
it unto you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for
blood shall make an atonement for the soul. And therefore I said unto
the children of Israel: see that no soul of you eat blood, nor yet any
stranger that sojourneth among you. Whatsoever man it be of the
children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that
hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour
out the blood and cover it with earth. For the life of all flesh is in
the blood, 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 in his
blood, and whosoever therefore eateth it shall perish. And whatsoever
soul it be that eateth that which died alone or that which was torn
with wild beasts: whether it be one of your selves or a stranger, he
shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean
unto the even, and then is he clean. But and if he wash them not nor
wash his flesh he shall bear his sin.
Chapter .xviij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. Wherefore after the
doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not:
neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whether I will bring
you, neither walk ye in their ordinances, but do after my judgments,
and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the LORD your God.
Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which if a man do he
shall live thereby: for I am the LORD. See that ye go to none of your
nyest kindred for to uncover their secrets, for I am the LORD. The
secrets of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy
mother, therefore shalt thou not discover her secrets. The secrets of
thy father's wife shalt thou not discover, for they are thy father's
secrets. Thou shalt not discover the privity of thy sister, the
daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or
without. Thou shalt not discover the secrets of thy son's daughter or
thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity: Thou shalt not
discover the secrets of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to
thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not discover
her secrets. Thou shalt not uncover the secrets of thy father's sister,
for she is thy father's next kin. {kinswoman.} Thou shalt not discover
the secrets of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kin.
{kinswoman.} Thou shalt not open {uncover} the secrets of thy father's
brother: that is thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine
aunt. Thou shalt not discover {privities} the secrets of thy
daughter-in-law she is thy son's wife: therefore uncover not her
secrets. Thou shalt not unhele the secrets of thy brother's wife, for
that is thy brother's privity. Thou shalt not discover the privates of
the wife and her daughter also, neither shalt thou take her son's
daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their secrets, they are
her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. Thou shalt not take a wife
and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her secrets
as long as she liveth. Thou shalt not go unto a woman to open her
secrets, {uncover her privity} as long as she is put apart for her
uncleanness. Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile
thyself with her. Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto
Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the LORD.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is
abomination. Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to defile thyself
therewith, neither shall any woman stond before a beast to lie down
thereto, for that is abomination. Defile not your selves in any of
these things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which
I cast out before you: and the land is defiled, and I will visit the
wickedness thereof upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters.
Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgements, and see that ye
commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger
that sojourneth among you (for all these abominations have the men of
the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled)
lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed
out the nations that were there before you. For whosoever shall commit
any of these abominations, the same souls that commit them shall perish
from among their people. Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances,
that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed
before you: that ye defile not your selves therewith for I am the LORD
your God.
Chapter .xix.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto all the multitude of
the children of Israel, and say unto them. Be holy for I the LORD your
God am holy. See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and
that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God. Ye shall not turn
unto idols nor make you gods of metal: I am the LORD your God. When ye
offer your peaceofferings unto the LORD, ye shall offer them that ye
may be accepted. And it shall be eaten the same day ye offer it and on
the morrow, but whatsoever is left on the third day shall be burnt in
the fire. If it be eaten the third day, it shall be unclean and not
accepted. And he that eateth it shall bear his sin, because he hath
defiled the hallowed things of the LORD, and that soul shall perish
from among his people. When ye reap down the ripe corn of your land, ye
shall not reap down the utmost borders of your fields, neither shalt
thou gather that which is left behind in thy harvest. Thou shalt not
pluck in all thy vineyard clean, neither gather in the grapes that are
overscaped. But thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. I am
the LORD your God. Ye shall not steal neither lie, neither deal falsely
one with another. Ye shall not swear by my name falsely: that thou
defilest not the name of thy God, I am the LORD. Thou shalt not beguile
thy neighbour with cavillations, neither rob him violently, neither
shall the workman's labour abide with thee until the morning. Thou
shalt not curse the deaf, neither put a stumbling block before the
blind: but shalt fear thy God. I am the LORD. Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgement. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour
the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously. Thou shalt not
go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou
help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thine heart but shalt in any wise rebuke thy
neighbour: that thou bear not sin for his sake. Thou shalt not avenge
thyself nor bear hate in thy mind against the children of thy people,
but shalt love thy neighbour even as thyself. I am the LORD. Keep mine
ordinances. Let none of thy cattle gender with a contrary kind, neither
sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shalt thou put on any garment
of linen and woollen. If a man have to do with a woman that is bond and
hath been meddled with all of another man which neither is bought nor
freedom given her, there shall be a pain upon it: but they shall not
die, because she was not made free. And he shall bring for his
trespassoffering unto the LORD: even unto the door of the tabernacle of
witness, a ram for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make an
atonement for him with the ram of the trespassoffering before the LORD,
for his sin which he hath done: and it shall be forgiven him, as
concerning the sin which he hath done. And when ye come to the land and
have planted all manner of trees whereof men eat, ye shall hold them
uncircumcised as concerning their fruit: even three years shall they be
uncircumcised unto you and shall not be eaten of, and the fourth year
all the fruit of them shall be holy and acceptable to the LORD. And the
fifth year may ye eat of the fruit of them, and gather in the increase
of them: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall eat nothing with the blood,
ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days, ye shall not round
the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard.
Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks
upon you: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not pollute thy daughter, that thou
wouldest maintain her to be an whore: lest the land fall to whoredom,
and wax full of wickedness. See that ye keep my Sabbaths and fear my
sanctuary: I am the LORD. Turn not to them that work with spirits,
neither regard them that observe dismal days: that ye be not defiled by
them, for I am the LORD your God. Thou shalt rise up before the
hoarhead, and reverence the face of the old man and dread thy God, for
I am the LORD. If a stranger sojourn by thee in your land, see that ye
vex him not: But let the stranger that dwelleth with you, be as one of
your selves, and love him as thy self, for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. Ye shall do no unrighteousness
in judgement neither in meteyard, weight or measure. But ye shall have
true balances, true weights, a true Epha and a true hin. I am the LORD
your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should
observe all mine ordinances and judgments and that ye should keep them:
I am the LORD.
Chapter .xx.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: tell the children of Israel,
whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that
dwell in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Moloch he shall die for
it: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set
my face upon that fellow, and will destroy him from among his people:
because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to defile my
sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name. And though that the people of
the land hide their eyes from that fellow, when he giveth of his seed
unto Moloch, so that they kill him not: yet I will put my face upon
that man and upon his household, {generation} and will destroy him and
all that go a whoring with him and commit whoredom with Moloch from
among their people. If any soul turn unto them that work with spirits
or makers of dismal days {turn him to enchanters or expounders of
tokens} and go a whoring after them, I will put my face upon that soul
and will destroy him from among his people. Sanctify your selves
therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. And see that ye keep
mine ordinances and do them. For I am the LORD which sanctify you.
Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on
his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother. He that breaketh
wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke
wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise. If a man
lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's secrets, they shall
both die for it, their blood be upon their heads. If a man lie with his
daughter- in-law they shall die both of them: they have wrought
abomination, their blood upon their heads. If a man lie with the
mankind after the manner as with womankind, they have both committed an
abomination and shall die for it. Their blood be upon their heads. If a
man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall
burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among
you. If a man lie with a beast he shall die, and ye shall slay the
beast. If a woman go unto a beast and lie down thereto: thou shalt kill
the woman and the beast also they shall die, and their blood be upon
their heads. If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his
mother's daughter, and see her secrets, and she see his secrets also:
it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their
people; he hath seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear
his sin. If a man lie with a woman in time of her natural disease and
unheal {uncover} her secrets and uncover {open} her fountain, and she
also open the fountain of her blood, they shall both perish from among
their people. Thou shalt not uncover the secrets of thy mother's sister
nor of thy father's sisters, for he that doth so, uncovereth his next
kin: and they shall bear their misdoing. If a man lie with his uncle's
wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's secrets: they shall bear their sin,
and shall die childless. If a man take his brother's wife, it is an
unclean thing, he hath uncovered his brother's secrets, they shall be
childless therefore. See that ye keep therefore all mine ordinances and
all my judgements, and that ye do them: that the land whither I bring
you to dwell therein, spew you not out. And see that ye walk not in the
manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed
all these things, and I abhorred them. But I have said unto you that ye
shall enjoy their land, and that I will give it unto you to possess it:
even a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God,
which have separated you from other nations: that ye should put
difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls
and them that are clean. Make not your souls therefore abominable with
beasts and fowls, and with all manner thing that creepeth upon the
ground, which I have separated unto you to hold them unclean. Be holy
unto me, for I the LORD am holy and have severed you from other
nations: that ye should be mine. If there be man or woman that worketh
with a spirit or a maker of dismal days, {expoundeth tokens} they shall
die for it. Men shall stone them with stones, and their blood shall be
upon them.
Chapter .xxj.
And the LORD said unto Moses: speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron
and say unto them: A priest shall defile himself at the death of none
of his people, but upon his kin that is nye unto him: as his mother,
father, son, daughter and brother: and on his sister as long as she is
a maid and dwelleth nye him and was never given to man: on her he may
defile himself. But he shall not make himself unclean upon a ruler of
his people to pollute himself withal. They shall make them no baldness
upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any
marks in their flesh. They shall be holy unto their God, and not
pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the
bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy. They
shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her
husband: for a priest is holy unto his God. Sanctify him therefore, for
he offereth up the bread of God: he shall therefore be holy unto thee,
for I the LORD which sanctify you, am holy. If a priest's daughter fall
to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore she shall be
burnt with fire. He that is the high priest among his brethren upon
whose head the anointing oil was poured and whose hand was filled to
put on the vestments, shall not uncover his head nor rent his clothes,
neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on
his father or mother, neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he
pollute not the holy place of his God, for the crown of the anointing
oil of God, is upon him. I am the LORD. He shall take a maiden unto his
wife: but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a
maiden of his own people to wife, that he defile not his seed upon his
people. For I am the LORD which sanctify him. And the LORD spake unto
Moses saying, speak unto Aaron and say: No man of thy seed in their
generations that hath any deformity upon him, shall prease for to offer
the bread of his God: For none that hath any blemish shall come near:
whether he be blind, lame, snoutnosed, or that hath any monstrous
member, or broken footed, or broken handed, or crook backed, or
perleyed, or goggle eyed, or mangy or skald, or hath his stones broken.
No man that is deformed of the seed of Aaron the priest, shall come nye
to offer the sacrifices of the LORD. If he have a deformity, he shall
not prese to offer the bread of his God. Notwithstanding he shall eat
of the bread of his God: even as well of the most holy, as of the holy:
but shall not go in unto the vail nor come nye the altar, because he is
deformed, that he pollute not my sanctuary, for I am the LORD that
sanctify them. And Moses told it unto Aaron and to his sons, and unto
all the children of Israel.
Chapter .xxij.
And the LORD communed with Moses saying: bid Aaron and his sons that
they abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which
they have hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I
am the LORD. Say unto them: whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generation after you, that goeth unto the hallowed things which the
children of Israel shall have hallowed unto the LORD, his uncleanness
shall be upon him: and that soul shall perish from out of my sight. I
am the LORD. None of the seed of Aaron that is a leper or that hath a
running sore, shall eat of the hallowed things until he be clean. And
whosoever twitcheth any unclean soul or man whose seed runneth from him
by night, or whosoever twicheth any worm that is unclean to him, or man
that is unclean to him, whatsoever uncleanness he hath: the same soul
that hath twiched any such thing, shall be unclean until even, and
shall not eat of the hallowed things until he have washed his flesh
with water. And then when the son is down he shall be clean and shall
afterward eat of the hallowed things: for they are his food. Of a beast
that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to
defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. But let them keep therefore
mine ordinance, lest they lade sin upon them and die therein when they
have defiled them selves: for I am the LORD which sanctify them. There
shall no stranger eat of the hallowed things, neither a guest of the
priests, or an hired servant. But if the priest buy any fowl with money
he may eat of it, and he also that is born in his house may eat of his
bread. If the priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she may not
eat of the hallowed heave offerings. Notwithstanding if the priest's
daughter be a widow or divorced and have no child but is returned unto
her father's house again, she shall eat of her father's bread as well
as she did in her youth. But there shall no stranger eat thereof. If a
man eat of the hallowed things unwittingly, he shall put the fifth part
thereunto, and make good unto the priest the hallowed thing. And let
the priests see, that they defile not the hallowed things of the
children of Israel which they have offered unto the LORD, lest they
lade them selves with misdoing and trespass in eating their hallowed
things, for I am the LORD which hallow them. And the LORD spake unto
Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and his sons and unto all the children
of Israel and say unto them, whatsoever he be of the house of Israel or
stranger in Israel that will offer his offering: whatsoever vow or
freewill offering it be which they will offer unto the LORD for a
burntoffering to reconcile them selves, it must be a male without
blemish of the oxen, sheep or goats, let them offer nothing that is
deformed for they shall get no favour therewith. If a man will offer a
peaceoffering unto the LORD and separate a vow or a freewill offering
of the oxen or the flock, it must be without deformity, that it may be
accepted. There may be no blemish therein: whether it be blind, broken,
wounded or have a wen, or be mangy or scabbed; see that ye offer no
such unto the LORD, nor put an offering of any such upon the altar unto
the LORD. An ox or a sheep that hath any member out of proportion,
mayst thou offer for a freewill offering: but in a vow it shall not be
accepted. Thou shalt not offer unto the LORD that which hath his stones
bruised, broken, plucked out or cut away, neither shalt make any such
in your land, neither of a stranger's hand shall ye offer an offering
to your God of any such. For they mar all in that they have deformities
in them, and therefore can not be accepted for you. And the LORD spake
unto Moses saying: when an ox, a sheep or a goat is brought forth, it
shall be seven days under the dam. And from the eighth day forth, it
shall be accepted unto a gift in the sacrifice of the LORD. And whether
it be ox or sheep, ye shall not kill it, and her young: both in one
day. When ye will offer a thankoffering unto the LORD, ye shall so
offer it that ye may be accepted. And the same day it must be eaten up,
so that ye leave none of it until the morrow. For I am the LORD, keep
now my commandments and do them, for I am the LORD. And pollute not my
holy name, that I may be hallowed among the children of Israel. For I
am the LORD which hallow you, and brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God: for I am the LORD.
Chapter .xxiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them: These are the feasts of the LORD which ye
shall call holy feasts. Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the
Sabbath of rest an holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for
it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell. These are the
feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy in their seasons. The
fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's Passover.
And the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of sweet bread
unto the LORD, seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. The first day
shall be an holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious work
therein. But ye shall offer sacrifices unto the LORD seven days, and
the seventh day also shall be an holy feast, so that ye may do no
laborious work therein. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak
unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come into the
land which I give unto you and reap down your harvest, ye shall bring a
sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest, and he shall
wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you: and even the
morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer
the day when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old
for a burntoffering unto the LORD: and the meatoffering thereof, two
tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil to be a sacrifice unto the
LORD of a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereto, the fourth deal
of an hin of wine. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn,
nor frumenty of new corn: until the self same day that ye have brought
an offering unto your God. And this shall be a law for ever unto your
children after you, wheresoever ye dwell. And ye shall count from the
morrow after the Sabbath: even from the day that ye brought the sheaf
of the waveoffering, seven weeks complete: even unto the morrow after
the seventh week ye shall number fifty days. And then ye shall bring a
new meatoffering unto the LORD. And ye shall bring out of your
habitations two wave loaves made of two tenth deals of fine flour
leavened and baken, for first fruits unto the LORD. And ye shall bring
with the bread seven lambs without deformity of one year of age, and
one young ox, and two rams, which shall serve for burntofferings unto
the LORD, with meatofferings and drink offerings longing to the same,
to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And ye shall offer
an he goat for a sinoffering: and two lambs of one year old for
peaceofferings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
first fruits before the LORD, and with the two lambs. And they shall be
holy unto the LORD, and be the priest's. And ye shall make a
proclamation the same day that it be an holy feast unto you, and ye
shall do no laborious work therein. And it shall be a law for ever
thorowout all your habitations unto your children after you. When ye
reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy
field, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy harvest: but
shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your
God. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of
Israel and say: The first day of the seventh month shall be a rest of
remembrance unto you, to blow horns in an holy feast it shall be, and
ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye shall offer sacrifice
unto the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: also the tenth day
of the self seventh month, is a day of atonement, and shall be on holy
feast unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and offer sacrifice unto
the LORD. Moreover ye shall do no work the same day, for it is a day of
atonement to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. For
whatsoever soul it be that humbleth not himself that day, he shall be
destroyed from among his people. And whatsoever soul do any manner work
that day, the same I will destroy from among his people. See that ye do
no manner work therefore. And it shall be a law for ever unto your
generations after you in all your dwellings. A Sabbath of rest it shall
be unto you, and ye shall humble your souls. The ninth day of the month
at evening and so forth from evening to evening again, ye shall keep
your Sabbath. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the
children of Israel and say: the fifteenth day of the same seventh month
shall be the feast of tabernacles seven days unto the LORD. The first
day shall be an holy feast, so that ye shall do no laborious work
therein. Seven days ye shall offer sacrifice unto the LORD, and the
eighth day shall be an holy feast unto you, and ye shall offer
sacrifice unto the LORD. It is the end of the feast, and ye shall do no
laborious work therein. These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall
proclaim holy feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the LORD,
burntofferings, meatofferings, and drinkofferings every day: beside the
Sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and all your vows, and all
your freewill offerings which ye shall give unto the LORD. Moreover in
the fifteenth day of the seventh month after that ye have gathered in
the fruits of the land, ye shall keep holy day unto the LORD seven days
long. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eighth day shall be
a day of rest. And ye shall take you the first day, the fruits of
goodly trees and the branches of palm trees and the boughs of thick
trees, and willows of the brook, and shall rejoice before the LORD
seven days. And ye shall keep it holy day unto the LORD seven days in
the year. And it shall be a law for ever unto your children after you,
that ye keep that feast in the seventh month. And ye shall dwell in
booths seven days: even all that are Israelites born, shall dwell in
booths, that your children after you may know how that I made the
children of Israel dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land
of Egypt: for I am the LORD your God. And Moses told all the feasts of
the LORD unto the children of Israel.
Chapter .xxiiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel
that they bring unto thee, pure oil olive beaten for lights to pour
into the lamps always, without the vail of testimony {witness} within
the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron shall dress them both evening and
morning before the LORD always. And if shall be a law for ever among
your children after you. And he shall dress the lamps upon the pure
candlestick before the LORD perpetually. And thou shalt take fine flour
and bake twelve wastels thereof, two tenth deals shall every wastel be.
And make two rows of them, six on a row upon the pure table before the
LORD, and put pure frankincense upon the rows. And it shall be bread of
remembrance, and an offering to the LORD. Every Sabbath he shall put
them in rows before the LORD evermore, given of the children of Israel,
that it be an everlasting covenant. And they shall be Aaron's and his
sons, and they shall eat them in the holy place. For they are most holy
unto him of the offerings of the LORD, and shall be a duty for ever.
And the son of an Israelitish wife whose father was an Egyptian, went
out among the children of Israel. And this son of the Israelitish wife
and a man of Israel, strove together in the host. And the Israelitish
woman's son blasphemed the name and cursed, and they brought him unto
Moses. And his mother's name was Selamith, the daughter of Dibri of the
tribe of Dan: and they put him in ward, that Moses should declare unto
them what the LORD said thereto. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying,
bring him that cursed {blasphemed} without the host, and let all that
heard him, put their hands upon his head, and let all the multitude
stone him. And speak unto the children of Israel saying: Whosoever
curseth his God, shall bear his sin: And he that blasphemeth the name
of the LORD, shall die for it: all the multitude shall stone him to
death. And the stranger as well as the Israelite if he curse the name,
shall die for it. He that killeth any man, shall die for it, but he
that killeth a beast shall pay for it, beast for beast. If a man maim
his neighbour, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him again: broke
for broke, eye for eye and tooth for tooth: even as he hath maimed a
man, so shall he be maimed again. So now he that killeth a beast, shall
pay for it: but he that killeth a man, shall die for it. Ye shall have
one manner of law among you: even for the stranger as well as for one
of your selves, for I am the LORD your God. And Moses told the children
of Israel, that they should bring him that had cursed, out of the host,
and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Chapter .xxv.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the
children of Israel and say unto them: When ye be come in to the land
which I give you, let the land rest a Sabbath unto the LORD. Six years
thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vines and
gather in thy fruits. But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest
unto the land. The LORD's Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt neither
sow thy field, nor cut thy vines. The corn that groweth by itself thou
shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that grow without thy
dressing: but it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless
the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy
servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger
that dwelleth with thee: and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are
in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Then number seven
weeks of years, that is, seven times seven years: and the space of the
seven weeks of years will be unto thee forty nine years. And then thou
shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the seventh month,
which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make the horn blow,
even thorowout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty thorowout the land unto all the inhabiters
thereof. It shall be a year of horns blowing unto you and ye shall
return: every man unto his possession and every man unto his kindred
again. A year of horns blowing shall that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye
shall not sow neither reap the corn that groweth by itself, nor gather
the grapes that grow without thy labour. For it is a year of horns
blowing and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat of the
increase of the field. And in this year of horns blowing ye shall
return, every man unto his possession again. When thou sellest ought
unto thy neighbour or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not
oppress one another: but according to the number of years after the
trompet year, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the
number of fruit years, he shall sell unto thee. According unto the
multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof and according
to the fewness of years, thou shalt minish the price: for the number of
fruit he shall sell unto thee. And see that no man oppress his
neighbour, but fear thy God. For I am the LORD your God. Wherefore do
after mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell
in the land in safety. And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall
eat your fill and dwell therein in safety. If ye shall say, what shall
we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our
increase?. I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it
shall bring forth fruit for three years: and ye shall sow the eighth
year and eat of old fruit until the ninth year, and even until her
fruits come, ye shall eat of old store. Wherefore the land shall not be
sold for ever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and
sojourners with me: and ye shall thorowout all the land of your
possession, let the land go home free again. When thy brother is waxed
poor and hath sold away of his possession: if any of his kin come to
redeem it, he shall buy out that which his brother sold. And though he
have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to
buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and
deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return
unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get sufficient
to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it, until the horn year: {jubilee} and in
the horn year {of Jubilee} it shall come out, and he shall return unto
his possession again. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,
he may buy it out again any time within a whole year after it is sold:
and that shall be the space in which he may redeem it again. But and if
it be not bought out again within the space of a full year, then the
house in the walled city shall be stablished for ever unto him that
bought it and to his successors after him and shall not go out in the
trompet year. {of jubilee} But the houses in villages which have no
walls round about them, shall be counted like unto the fields of the
country, and may be bought out again at any season, and shall go out
free in the trompet year. {of jubilee} Notwithstanding the cities of
the Levites and the houses in the cities of their possessions the
Levites may redeem at all seasons. And if a man purchase ought of the
Levites: whether it be house or city that they possess, the bargain
shall go out in the trompet year {of jubilee} for the houses of the
cities of the Levites, are their possessions among the children of
Israel. But the fields that lie round about their cities, shall not be
bought: for they are their possessions for ever. If thy brother be
waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or
a sojourner, and let him live by thee. And thou shalt take none usury
of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may
live with thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon usury, nor lend
him of thy food to have advantage by it for I am the LORD your God
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan and to be your God. If thy brother that dwelleth by thee wax
poor and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not let him labour as a
bondservant doeth: but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall
be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the trompet year, {of jubilee}
and then shall he depart from thee: both he and his children with him,
and shall return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of
his fathers; for they are my servants which I brought out of the land
of Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen. See therefore that thou
reign not over him cruelly, but fear thy God. If thou wilt have
bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are
round about you, and of the children of the strangers that are
sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you, which
they begat in your land. And ye shall possess them and give them unto
your children after you, to possess them for ever: and they shall be
your bond men. But over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall
not reign one over another cruelly. When a stranger and a sojourner
waxeth rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poor
and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth by thee or to any of
the stranger's kin: after that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one
of his brethren may buy him out: whether it be his uncle or his uncle's
son, or any that is nye of kin unto him of his kindred: either if his
hand can get so much he may be loosed. And he shall reckon with him
that bought him, from the year that he was sold in unto the trompet
year, and the price of his buying shall be according unto the number of
years, and he shall be with him as a hired servant. If there be yet
many years behind, according unto them he shall give again for his
deliverance, of the money that he was sold for. If there remain but few
years unto the trompet year, he shall so count with him, and according
unto his years give him again for his redemption, and shall be with him
year by year as an hired servant, and the other shall not reign cruelly
over him in thy sight. If he be not bought free in the meantime, then
he shall go out in the trompet year and his children with him; for the
children of Israel are my servants which I brought out of the land of
Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Chapter .xxvi.
Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any
pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow
your selves thereto: for I am the LORD your God; keep my Sabbaths and
fear my sanctuary. For I am the LORD. If ye shall walk in mine
ordinances and keep my commandments and do them, then I will send you
rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the
trees of the field shall give their fruit. And the threshing shall
reach unto wine harvest, and the wine harvest shall reach unto sowing
time, and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in
your land peaceably. And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall
sleep, and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out
of your land, and there shall no sword go thorowout your land. And ye
shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the
sword. 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 upon the sword. And I will turn unto you and increase you and
multiply you, and set up my testament with you. And ye shall eat old
store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. I will make
my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. And I
will walk among you and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the
Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I brake the bows of
your yokes, and made you go up right. But and if ye will not hearken
unto me, nor will do all these my commandments, or if ye shall despise
mine ordinances either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will
not do all my commandments, but shall break mine appointment: then I
will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling
and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle, and with sorrows of
heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it. And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your
enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee
when no man followeth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, then will I punish you seven times more for your sins, and
will break the pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over
you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass. And so your labour
shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase,
neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits. 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. I will send in wild
beasts upon you, which shall rob you of your children and destroy your
cattle, and make you so few in number that your high ways shall grow
unto a wilderness. And if ye will not be learned yet for all this but
shall walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword
upon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled
unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, ye shall be
delivered into the hands of your enemies. And when I have broken the
staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven
and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat
and shall not be satisfied. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, but shall walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary
unto you also wrathfully, and will also chastise you seven times for
your sins: so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of
your daughters. And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills,
and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of
your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities
desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell
the savours of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land unto a
wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at
it. And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. Then
the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye
in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and
rejoice in her Sabbaths. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest,
for that it could not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. And
upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into
their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf
that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled
a sword, and shall fall no man following them. And they shall fall one
upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and
ye shall have no power to stond before your enemies: And ye shall
perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you
up. And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their
unrighteousness, even in their enemies' land, and also in the misdeeds
of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confess their
misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers in their trespasses which
they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have
walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them,
and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the
least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they
shall make an atonement for their misdeeds. And I will remember my bond
with Iacob and my testament with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham,
and will think on the land. For the land shall be left of them and
shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without
them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they
despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances. And yet for
all that when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not so cast
them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly
destroy them and break mine appointment with them: for I am the LORD
their God. I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the
heathen to be their God: for I am the LORD. These are the ordinances,
judgements, and laws which the LORD made between him and the children
of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Chapter .xxvij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel
and say unto them: If any man will give a singular vow unto the LORD
according to the value of his soul, then shall the male from twenty
years unto forty be set at fifty sicles of silver, after the sicle of
the sanctuary, and the female at thirty sicles. And from five years to
twenty the male shall be set at twenty sicles, and the female at ten
sicles. And from a month unto five years, the male shall be set at five
sicles of silver, and the female at three. And the man that is forty
and above, shall be valued at fifteen sicles, and the woman at ten. If
he be too poor so to be set, then let him come before the priest: and
let the priest value him, according as the hand of him that vowed is
able to get. If it be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto
the LORD: all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD, shall be holy.
He may not alter it nor change it: a good for a bad or a bad for good.
If he change beast for beast, then both the same beast and it also
wherewith it was changed shall be holy. If it be any manner of unclean
beast of which men may not offer unto the LORD, let him bring the beast
before the priest and let the priest value it. And whether it be good
or bad as the priest setteth it, so shall it be. And if he will buy it
again, let him give the fifth part more to that it was set at. If any
man dedicate his house, it shall be holy unto the LORD. And the priest
shall set it; whether it be good or bad, and as the priest hath set it,
so it shall be. If he that sanctified it will redeem his house, let him
give the fifth part of the money that it was judged at thereto, and it
shall be his. If a man hallow a piece of his inherited land unto the
LORD, it shall be set according to that it beareth. If it bear an homer
of barley, it shall be set at fifty sicles of silver. If he hallow his
field immediately from the trompet year, it shall be worth according as
it is esteemed. But and if he hallow his field after the trumpet year,
the priest shall reckon the price with him according to the years that
remain unto the trumpet year, and thereafter it shall be lower set. If
he that sanctified the field will redeem it again, let him put the
fifth part of the price that it was set at, thereunto, and it shall be
his: if he will not it shall be redeemed no more. But when the field
goeth out in the trompet year, it shall be holy unto the LORD: even as
a thing dedicated, and it shall be the priest's possession. If a man
sanctify unto the LORD a field, which he hath bought and is not of his
inheritance, then the priest shall reckon with him what it is worth
unto the trompet year, {year of jubilee} and he shall give the price
that it is set at the same day, and it shall be holy unto the LORD. But
in the trompet year, the field shall return unto him of whom he bought
it, whose inheritance of land it was. And all setting shall be
according to the holy sicle. One sicle maketh twenty geras. But the
firstborn of the beasts that pertain unto the LORD, may no man
sanctify: whether it be ox or sheep, for they are the LORD's already.
If it be an unclean beast, then let him redeem it as it is set at, and
give the fifth part more thereto. If it be not redeemed, then let it be
sold as it is rated. Notwithstanding no dedicated thing that a man
dedicateth unto the LORD, of all his goods, whether it be man or beast
or land of his inheritance, shall be sold or redeemed: for all dedicate
things are most holy unto the LORD. No dedicated thing therefore that
is dedicate of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die. All these
tithes of the land, whether it be of the corn of the field or fruit of
the trees, shall be holy unto the LORD. If any man will redeem ought of
his tithes, let him add the fifth part more thereto. And the tithes of
oxen and sheep and of all that goeth under the herdman's keeping, shall
be holy tithes unto the LORD. Men shall not look if it be good or bad
nor shall change it. If any man change it then both it and that it was
changed withall, shall be holy and may not be redeemed. These are the
commandments which the LORD gave Moses in charge to give unto the
children of Israel in mount Sinai.
The end of the third book of Moses.