The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy

Chapter .j.

These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel, on the other side

Iordan in the wilderness and in the fields by the red sea, between

Pharan and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Disahab twelve days journey from

Horeb unto Cades barne, by the way that leadeth unto mount Seir. And it

fortuned the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year, that

Moses spake unto the children of Israel according unto all that the

LORD had given him in commandment unto them, after that he had smote

Sehon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Hesbon, and Og king of

Basan which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei. On the other side Iordan in the

land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law saying: the LORD our God

spake unto us in Horeb saying: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

depart therefore and take your journey and go unto the hills of the

Amorites and unto all places nye there unto: both fields, hills and

dales: and unto the south and unto the sea's side in the land of

Canaan, and unto Libanon: even unto the great river Euphrates. Behold,

I have set the land before you: go in therefore and possess the land

which the LORD sware unto your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to

give unto them and their seed after them. And I said unto you the same

season: I am not able to bear you myself alone. For the LORD your God

hath multiplied you: so that ye are this day as the stars of heaven in

number (the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many

more as ye are, and bless you as he hath promised you) how (said I) can

I myself alone, bear the cumbrance, charge and strife that is among

you: bring therefore men of wisdom and of understanding and expert,

known among your tribes, that I may make them rulers over you. And ye

answered me and said: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done.

And then I took the heads of your tribes, men of wisdom and that were

expert, and made them rulers over you: captains over thousands and over

hundreds, over fifty and over ten, and officers among your tribes. And

I charged your judges the same time saying: hear your brethren and

judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger

that is with him. See that ye know no man in judgement: but hear the

small as well as the great and be afraid of no man, for the law is

God's. {judgment is Gods} And the cause that is too hard for you, bring

unto me and I will hear it. And I commanded you the same season, all

the things which ye should do. And then we departed from Horeb and

walked thorow all that great and terrible wilderness as ye have seen

along by the way that leadeth unto the hills of the Amorites, as the

LORD our God commanded us, and came to Cades barne. And there I said

unto you: Ye are come unto the hills of the Amorites, which the LORD

our God doth give unto us. Behold the LORD thy God hath set the land

before thee, go up and conquer it, as the LORD God of thy fathers

sayeth unto thee: fear not, neither be discouraged. And then ye came

unto me every one and said: Let us send men before us, to search us out

the land and to bring us word again, both what way we shall go up by,

and unto what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well, and

I took twelve men of you, of every tribe one. And they departed and

went up into the high country and came unto the river Escol, and

searched it out, and took of the fruit of the land in their hands and

brought it down unto us and brought us word again and said: it is a

good land which the LORD our God doeth give us. Notwithstanding ye

would not consent to go up, but were disobedient unto the mouth of the

LORD your God, and murmured in your tents and said: because the LORD

hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to

deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us. How shall

we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts saying: the people

is greater and taller than we, and the cities are great and walled even

up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Enakims there.

And I said unto you: dread not nor be afraid of them: The LORD your God

which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that

he did unto you in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness: as

thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee as a man should bear

his son, thorowout all the way which ye have gone, until ye came unto

this place. And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the LORD

your God which goeth the way before you, to search you out a place to

pitch your tents in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to go

and in a cloud by day. And the LORD heard the voice of your words and

was wroth and swore saying, there shall not one of these men of this

froward generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your

fathers, save Caleb the son of Iephune, he shall see it, and to him I

will give the land which he hath walked in and to his children, because

he hath continually followed the LORD. Likewise the LORD was angry with

me for your sakes saying: thou also shalt not go in thither. But Iosua

the son of Nun which stondeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Bold

him therefore for he shall divide it unto Israel. Moreover your

children which ye said should be a prey, and your sons which know

neither good nor bad this day, they shall go in thither and unto them I

will give it, and they shall enjoy it. But as for you, turn back and

take your journey into the wilderness: even the way to the red sea.

Then ye answered and said unto me: We have sinned against the LORD: we

will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded

us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war and were

ready to go up into the hills, the LORD said unto me: say unto them,

see that ye go not up and that ye fight not, for I am not among you:

lest ye be plagued before your enemies. And when I told you ye would

not hear: but disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and went presumptuously

up into the hills. Then the Amorites which dwelt in those hills, came

out against you and chased you as bees do, and hewed you in Seir, even

unto Horma. And ye came again and wept before the LORD: but the LORD

would not hear your voice nor give you audience. And so ye abode in

Cades a long season, according unto the time that ye there dwelt.

Chapter .ij.

Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness, even the way

to the red sea as the LORD commanded me. And we compassed the mountains

of Seir a long time. Then the LORD spake unto me saying: Ye have

compassed these mountains long enough, turn you northward. And warn the

people saying: Ye shall go thorow the coasts of your brethren the

children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you:

But take good heed unto your selves that ye provoke them not, for I

will not give you of their land, no not so much as a foot breadth:

because I have given mount Seir unto Esau to possess. Ye shall buy meat

of them for money to eat, and ye shall buy water of them for money to

drink. For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine

hand, and knew thee as thou wentest thorow this great wilderness.

Moreover the LORD thy God hath been with thee this forty years, so that

thou hast lacked nothing. And when we were departed from our brethren

the children of Esau which dwelt in Seir by the field way from Elath

and Ezion Gaber, we turned and went the way to the wilderness of Moab.

Then the LORD said unto me: see that thou vex not the Moabites, neither

provoke them to battle for I will not give thee of their land to

possess: because I have given Ar unto the children of loth to possess.

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, many and tall,

as the Enakims: which also were taken for giants as the Enakims: And

the Moabites called them Emims. In like manner the Horims dwelt in Seir

before time which the children of Esau cast out, and destroyed them

before them and dwelt there in their stead: as Israel did in the land

of his possession which the LORD gave them. Now rise up (said I) and

get you over the river Zared: and we went over the river Zared. The

space in which we came from Cades barne until we were come over the

river Zared was thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men

of war were wasted out of the host as the LORD sware unto them. For

indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them out of

the host, till they were consumed. And as soon as all the men of war

were consumed and dead from among the people, then the LORD spake unto

me saying: Thou shalt go thorow Ar the coast of Moab this day, and

shalt come nye unto the children of Ammon: see that thou vex them not,

nor yet provoke them. For I will not give thee of the land of the

children of Ammon to possess, because I have given it unto the children

of Loth to possess. That also was taken for a land of giants and giants

dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumims. A

people that was great, many and tall, as the Enakims. But the LORD

destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast them out and they

dwelt there in their stead: as he did for the children of Esau which

dwell in Seir: even as he destroyed the Horims before them, and they

cast them out and dwell in their stead unto this day. And the Avims

which dwelt in Hazarim even unto Aza, the Caphthorims which came out of

Caphthor destroyed them and dwelt in their rooms. Rise up, take your

journey and go over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given into thy hand

Sehon the Amorite king of Hesbon, and his land. Go to and conquer and

provoke him to battle. This day I will begin to send the fear and dread

of thee upon all nations that are under all ports of heaven: so that

when they hear speak of thee, they shall tremble and quake for fear of

thee. Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto

Sihon king of Hesbon, with words of peace saying: Let me go thorow thy

land. I will go always along by the high way and will neither turn unto

the right hand nor to the left. Sell me meat for money for to eat, and

give me drink for money for to drink: I will go thorow by foot only (as

the children of Esau did unto me which dwell in Seir and the Moabites

which dwell in Ar) until I be come over Iordan, into the land which the

LORD our God giveth us. But Sihon the king of Hesbon would not let us

pass by him, for the LORD thy God had hardened his spirit and made his

heart tough because he would deliver him into thy hands as it is come

to pass this day. And the LORD said unto me: behold, I have begun to

set Sihon and his land before thee: go to and conquer, that thou mayst

possess his land. Then both Sihon and all his people came out against

us unto battle at Iahab. And the LORD set him before us, and we smote

him and his sons and all his people. And we took all his cities the

same season, and destroyed all the cities with men, women, and children

and let nothing remain, save the cattle only we caught unto our selves

and the spoil of the cities which we took, from Aroer upon the brink of

the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead: there was

not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto us:

only unto the land of the children of Ammon ye came not, nor {ner} unto

all the coast of the river Iabock nor {ner} unto the cities in the

mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.

Chapter .iij.

Then we turned and went up the way to Basan. And Og the king of Basan

came out against us: both he and all his people to battle at Edrei. And

the LORD said unto me: fear him not, for I have delivered him and all

his people and his land into thy hand and thou shalt deal with him as

thou dealest with Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And

so the LORD our God delivered into our hands, Og also the king of Basan

and all his folk. And we smote him until nought was left him. And we

took all his cities the same season (for there was not a city which we

took not from them) even three score cities, all the region of Argob,

the kingdom of Og in Basan. All these cities were made strong with high

walls, gates and bars, beside unwalled towns a great many. And we

utterly destroyed them, as we played with Sihon king of Hesbon:

bringing to nought all the cities with men, women and children. But all

the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we caught for ourselves. And

thus we took the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of

the Amorites on the other side Iordan, from the river of Arnon unto

mount Hermon (which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, but the Amorites

call it Senir) all the cities in the plain and all Gilead and all Basan

unto Salcha and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. For only

Og king of Basan remained of the remnant of the giants: behold, his

iron bed is yet at Rabath among the children of Ammon nine cubits long

and, four cubits broad, of the cubits of a man. And when we had

conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer which is upon the

river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof unto the

Rubenites, and Gadites. And the rest of Gilead and all Basan the

kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Manasse: all the region of

Argob with all Basan was called the land of giants. Iair the son of

Manasse took all the region of Argob unto the coasts of Gesuri and

Maachati, and called the towns of Basan after his own name: the towns

of [Havoth] Iair unto this day. And I gave half Gilead unto Machir. And

unto Ruben and Gad, I gave from Gilead unto the river of Arnon and half

the valley and the coast, even unto the river Iabock which is the

border of the children of Ammon, and the fields and Iordan with the

coast, from Cenereth even unto the sea in the field which is the salt

sea under the springs of Pisga eastward. And I commanded you the same

time (ye Ruben and Gad) saying: the LORD your God hath given you this

land to enjoy it: see that ye go harnessed before your brethren the

children of Israel, all that are men of war among you. Your wives only,

your children and your cattle (for I wot that ye have much cattle)

shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the LORD have

given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until they also

have conquered the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond

Iordan: and then return again every man unto his possession which I

have given you. And I warned Iosua the same time saying: thine eyes

have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings,

even so the LORD will do unto all kingdoms whither thou goest. Fear

them not, for the LORD your God he it is that fighteth for you. And I

besought the LORD the same time saying: O Lord Iehoua, thou hast begun

to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand, for there is no

God in heaven nor in earth that can do after thy works and after thy

power: let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Iordan, that

goodly high country and Libanon. But the LORD was angry with me for

your sakes and would not hear me, but said unto me, be content, and

speak henceforth no more unto me of this matter; Get thee up into the

top of Pisga and lift up thine eyes west, north, south and east, and

behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this Iordan.

Moreover, charge Iosua and courage him and bold him. For he shall go

over before his people, and he shall divide the land which thou shalt

see unto them. And so we abode in the valley beside Beth Peor.

Chapter .iiij.

And now hearken Israel unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you,

for to do them, that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the

LORD God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall put nothing unto the word

which I command you neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the

commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. Your eyes have

seen what the LORD did unto Baal Peor: for all the men that followed

Baal Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you. But ye that

clave unto the LORD your God, are alive every one of you this day.

Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the LORD my God

commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to

possess it. Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom

and understanding in the sight of the nations: which when they have

heard all these ordinances, shall say: O what a wise and understanding

people is this great nation. For what nation is so great that hath Gods

{Goddes} so nye unto him: as the LORD our God is nye unto us, in all

things, when we call unto him? Yea, and what nation is so great that

hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set

before you this day. Take heed to thy self therefore only and keep thy

soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have

seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of

thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons son's. The day that I

stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when he said unto me, gather

me the people together, that I may make them hear my words that they

may learn to fear me as long as they live upon the earth and that they

may teach their children: ye came and stood also under the hill, and

the hill burnt with fire: even unto the midst of heaven, and there was

darkness, clouds and mist. And the LORD spake unto you out of the fire

and ye heard the voice of the words: But saw no image, save heard a

voice only. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded

you to do, even ten verses and wrote them in two tables of stone. And

the LORD commanded me the same season to teach you ordinances and laws,

for to do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. Take heed unto

yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no

manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of

the fire: lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after

whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman

or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered

fowl that flyeth in the air, or of any manner worm that creepeth on the

earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth: Yea

and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the

son and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven,

shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the

things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations that

are under all quarters of heaven. For the LORD took you and brought you

out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of

inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. Furthermore, the LORD was

angry with me for your sakes and sware, that I should not go over

Iordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the LORD thy

God giveth thee to inheritance. For I must die in this land, and shall

not go over Iordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land.

Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the appointment

of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no

graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden

thee. For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. If

after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt

long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after

the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the

sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him. I call heaven and earth to

record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the

land whither ye go over Iordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your

days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. And the LORD shall

scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the

people whither the LORD shall bring you: and there ye shall serve gods

which are the works of man's hand, wood and stone which neither see nor

hear nor eat nor smell. Neverthelater ye shall seek the LORD your God

even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart

and with all thy soul. In thy tribulation and when all these things are

come upon thee, even in the latter days, thou shalt turn unto the LORD

thy God, and shalt hearken unto his voice. For the LORD thy God is a

pitiful God: he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee, nor forget

the appointment made with thy fathers which he sware unto them. For ask

I pray thee of the days that are past which were before thee, since the

day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven

unto the other, whether anything hath been like unto this great thing

or whether any such thing hath been heard as it is, that a nation hath

heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet

lived? either whether God assayed to go and take him a people from

among nations, thorow temptations and signs and wonders and thorow war

and with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with mighty terrible

sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did unto you in Egypt

before your eyes. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know, how

that the LORD he is God and that there is none but he. Out of heaven he

made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he shewed thee

his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire. And

because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them

and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of

Egypt: to thrust out nations greater and mightier than thou before

thee, to bring thee in and to give thee their land to inheritance: as

it is come to pass this day. Understand therefore this day and turn it

to thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the

earth beneath, there is no more: keep therefore his ordinances, and his

commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with

thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayst prolong thy

days upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee for ever. {thy

life long.} Then Moses severed three cities on the other side Iordan

toward the son rising, that he should flee thither which had killed his

neighbour unwares and hated him not in time past, and therefore should

flee unto one of the same cities and live: Bezer in the wilderness even

in the plain country among the Rubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among

the Gadites and Solan in Basan among the Manassites. This is the law

which Moses set before the children of Israel, and these are the

witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of

Israel after they came out of Egypt, on the other side Iordan in the

valley beside Beth Peor in the land of Sehon king of the Amorites which

dwelt at Hesbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they

were come out of Egypt, and conquered his land and the land of Og king

of Basan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Iordan toward the

son rising: from Aroer upon the bank of the river Arnon, unto mount

Sion which is called Hermon and all the fields on the other side Iordan

eastward: even unto the sea in the field under the springs of Pisga.

Chapter .v.

And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Hear Israel the

ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn

them and take heed that ye do them. The LORD {Loode} our God made an

appointment with us in Horeb. The LORD made not this bond with our

fathers, but with us: we are they, which are all here alive this day.

The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire. And

I stood between the LORD and you the same time, to shew you the saying

of the LORD. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up

into the mount and he said. I am the LORD thy God which brought thee

out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage. Thou shalt have

therefore none other gods in my presence. Thou shalt make thee no

graven Image of any manner likeness that is in heaven above, or in the

earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth. Thou shalt neither

bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God, am a

jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children,

even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me:

and shew mercy upon thousands among them that love me and keep my

commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain:

for the LORD will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain.

Keep the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath

commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour and do all that thou hast to

do, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: thou shalt

do no manner work, neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy

servant nor thy maid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle,

nor the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid

may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the

land of Egypt and how that the LORD God, brought thee out thence with a

mighty hand and a stretched out arm. For which cause the LORD thy God

commandeth thee to keep the Sabbath day. Honour thy father and thy

mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayst

prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which

the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not slee. Thou shalt not break

wedlock. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness

against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbour's wife:

thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, field, servant, maid, ox,

ass nor ought that is thy neighbour's. These words the LORD spake unto

all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness,

with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two

tables of stone and delivered them unto me. But as soon as ye heard the

voice out of the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came unto

me all the heads of your tribes and your elders: and ye said: behold,

the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we

have heard his voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that

God may talk with a man and he yet live. And now wherefore should we

die that this great fire should consume us: If we should hear the voice

of the LORD our God any more, we should die. For what is any flesh that

he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as

we have done and should yet live: Go thou and hear all that the LORD

our God sayeth, and tell thou unto us all that the LORD our God sayeth

unto thee, and we will hear it and do it. And the LORD heard the voice

of your words when ye spake unto me, and he said unto me: I have heard

the voice of the words of this people which they have spoke unto thee,

they have well said all that they have said. Oh that they had such an

heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments alway, that it

might go well with them and with their children for ever. Go and say

unto them: get you into your tents again, but stond thou here before me

and I will tell thee all the commandments, ordinances and laws which

thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give

them to possess. Take heed therefore that ye do as the LORD your God

hath commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the right hand or to

the left: but walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath

commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and

that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Chapter .vi.

These are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the LORD your God

commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go

to possess it: that thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all

his ordinances and his commandments which I command thee, both thou and

thy son and thy son's son all days of thy life, that thy days may be

prolonged. Hear therefore Israel and take heed that thou do thereafter,

that it may go well with thee and that ye may increase mightily: even

as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, a land that floweth

with milk and honey. Hear Israel, the LORD thy God is LORD onely, and

thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, with all thy

soul and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this

day, shall be in thine heart and thou shalt whet them on thy children,

and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou

walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up:

and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they shall be

papers of remembrance between thine eyes, and shalt write them upon the

posts of thy house and upon thy gates. And when the LORD thy God hath

brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers Abraham,

Isaac and Iacob, to give thee with great and goodly cities which thou

buildest not, and houses full of all manner goods which thou filledst

not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, and vines and olive

trees which thou planted not, and when thou hast eaten, and art full:

Then beware lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the

land of Egypt the house of bondage. But fear the LORD thy God and serve

him, and swear by his name, and see that ye walk not after strange gods

{goddes} off the gods of the nations which are about you. For the LORD

thy God is a jealous God among you, lest the wrath of the LORD thy God

wax hot upon thee and destroy thee from the earth. Ye shall not tempt

the LORD your God as ye did at Masa. But see that ye keep the

commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances

which he hath commanded thee, and see thou do that which is right and

good in the sight of the LORD: that thou mayst prosper and that thou

mayst go and conquer that good land which the LORD sware unto thy

fathers, and that the LORD may cast out all thine enemies before thee

as he hath said. When thy son asketh thee in time to come saying: What

meaneth the witnesses, ordinances and laws which the LORD our God hath

commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son: We were bondmen unto

Pharao in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty

hand. And the LORD shewed signs and wonders both great and evil upon

Egypt, Pharao and upon all his household, before our eyes, and brought

us from thence: to bring us in and to give us the land which he sware

unto our fathers. And therefore commanded us to do all these ordinances

and for to fear the LORD our God, for our wealth always and that he

might save us, as it is come to pass this day. Moreover it shall be

righteousness unto us before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep

all these commandments as he hath commanded us.

Chapter .vij.

When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou

goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee: the

Hethites, the Girgosites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pheresites,

the Hevites and the Iebusites. Seven nations more in number and

mightier than thou: and when the LORD thy God hath set them before thee

that thou shouldest smite them, see that thou utterly destroy them and

make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them. Also thou shalt

make no marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son nor

take his daughter unto thy son. For they will make your sons depart

from me and serve strange gods, and then will the wrath of the LORD wax

hot upon you and destroy you shortly. But thus ye shall deal with them:

overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves

and burn their images with fire. For thou art an holy nation unto the

LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people

unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth. It was not because

of the multitude of you above all nations, that the LORD had lust unto

you and chose you. For ye were fewest of all nations: But because the

LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn

unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egypt with a mighty

hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage: even from the hand

of Pharao king of Egypt. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God he

is God and that a true God, which keepeth appointment and mercy unto

them that love him and keep his commandments, even thorowout a thousand

generations and rewardeth them that hate him before his face so that he

bringeth them to nought, and will not defer the time unto him that

hateth him but will reward him before his face. Keep therefore the

commandments, ordinances and laws which I command you this day, that ye

do them. If ye shall hearken unto these laws and shall observe and do

them, then shall the LORD thy God keep appointment with thee and the

mercy which he sware unto thy fathers and will love thee, bless thee

and multiply thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of

thy field, thy corn, thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine oxen and

the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to

give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all nations, there shall be

neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor anything unfruitful

among your cattle. Moreover the LORD will turn from thee all manner

infirmities, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which

thou knowest) upon thee, but will send them upon them that hate thee.

Thou shalt bring to nought all nations which the LORD thy God

delivereth thee, thine eye shall have no pity upon them neither shalt

thou serve their gods, for that shall be thy decay. If thou shalt say

in thine heart: these nations are more than I, how can I cast them out?

Fear them not, but remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharao and

unto all Egypt, and the great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the

signs and wonders and mighty hand and stretched out arm wherewith the

LORD thy God brought thee out: even so shall the LORD thy God do unto

all the nations of which thou art afraid. Thereto, the LORD thy God

will send hornets among them until they that are left, and hide them

selves from thee, be destroyed. See thou fear them not for the LORD

{lord} thy God is among you a mighty God and a terrible. The LORD thy

God will put out these nations before thee a little and a little: thou

mayst not consume them at once lest the beasts of the field increase

upon thee. And the LORD {lorde} thy God shall deliver them unto thee

and stir up a mighty tempest among them, until they be brought to

nought. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou

shalt destroy their names from under heaven. There shall no man stond

before thee, until thou have destroyed them. The images of their gods

thou shalt burn with fire, and see that thou covet not the silver or

gold that is on them nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared

therewith. For it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Bring not

therefore the Abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing

as it is: but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must

be destroyed.

Chapter .viij.

All the commandments which I command thee this day ye shall keep for to

do them, that ye may live and multiply and go and possess the land

which the LORD sware unto your fathers. And think on all the way which

the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to

humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether

thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. He humbled thee and made

thee hunger and fed thee with manna which neither thou nor thy father

knew of, to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only: but

by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD must a man live.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy feet swell this

forty years. Understand therefore in thine heart, that as a man

nurtureth his son, even so the LORD thy God nurtureth thee. Keep

therefore the commandments of the LORD thy God that thou walk in his

ways and that thou fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a

good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of springs that

spring out both in valleys and hills: a land of wheat and of barley, of

vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil and

of honey: a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and

where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of

whose hills thou shalt dig brass. When thou hast eaten therefore and

filled thyself, then bless the LORD for the good land which he hath

given thee. But beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, that thou

wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and ordinances which I command

thee this day: yea and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast

built goodly houses and dwelt therein, and when thy beasts and thy

sheep are waxed many and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all

that thou hast increased, then beware lest thine heart rise and thou

forget the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the

house of bondage, and which led thee in the wilderness both great and

terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst {drouth} where

was no water, which brought the water out of the rock of flint: which

fed thee in the wilderness with Man whereof thy fathers knew not, for

to humble thee and to prove thee, that he might do thee good at thy

latter end. And beware that thou say not in thine heart, my power and

the might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts: But remember

the LORD thy God, how that it is he which gave thee power to do

manfully, for to make good the promise which he sware unto thy fathers,

as it is come to pass this day. For if thou shalt forget the LORD thy

God and shalt walk after strange gods and serve them and worship them,

I testify unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. As the

nations which the LORD destroyeth before thee, even so ye shall perish,

because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.

Chapter .ix.

Hear Israel, thou goest over Iordan this day, to go and conquer nations

greater and mightier than thyself: and cities great and walled up to

heaven, and people great and tall, even the children of the Enakims,

which thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say who is able to stond

before the children of Enack? But understand this day that the LORD thy

God which goeth over before thee a consuming fire, he shall destroy

them and he shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them

out, and bring them to nought quickly as the LORD hath said unto thee.

Speak not in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them

out before thee saying: for my righteousness the LORD hath brought me

into possess this land. Nay, but for the wickedness of these nations

the LORD doth cast them out before thee. It is not for thy

righteousness' sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their

land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God

doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the

LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness' sake, that

the LORD thy God doth give thee this good land to possess it, for thou

art a stiffnecked people. Remember and forget not how thou provokedest

the LORD thy God in the wilderness: for since the day that thou camest

out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have

rebelled against the LORD. Also in Horeb ye angered the LORD so that

the LORD was wroth with you, even to have destroyed you, after that I

was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of

appointment which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty

days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water. And the

LORD delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God,

and in them was according to all the words which the LORD said unto you

in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered

together. And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the LORD

gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the testament, and said

unto me: Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which

thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred them selves. They are

turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made

them a god of metal. Furthermore the LORD spake unto me saying: I see

this people how that it is a stiffnecked people, let me alone that I

may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I

will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they. And I

turned away and came down from the hill (and the hill burnt with fire)

and had the two tables of the appointment in my hands. And when I

looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had

made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which

the LORD had commanded you. Then I took the two tables and cast them

out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. And I fell before

the LORD: even as at the first time forty days and nights, and neither

ate bread nor drank water, over all your sins which ye had sinned in

doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and in provoking him. For I was

afraid of the wrath and fierceness wherewith the LORD was angry with

you, even for to have destroyed you; But the LORD heard my petition at

that time also. The LORD was very angry with Aaron also, even for to

have destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aaron also the same

time. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him

with fire and stamped him and ground him a good, even unto small dust.

And I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the

mount. Also at Thabeera and at Masa and at the sepulchres of lust ye

angered the LORD, yea and when the LORD sent you from Cades Barnea

saying: go up and conquer the land which I have given you, ye disobeyed

the mouth of the LORD your God, and neither believed him nor hearkened

unto his voice. Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the

day that I knew you. And I fell before the LORD forty days and forty

nights which I lay there, for the LORD was minded to have destroyed

you. But I made intercession unto the LORD {Lorde} and said: O Lord

Iehoua, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast

delivered thorow thy greatness and which thou hast brought out of Egypt

with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac and Iacob and

look not unto the stubbornness of this people nor unto their wickedness

and sin: lest the land whence thou broughtest them say: Because the

LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them

and because he hated them, therefore he carried them out to destroy

them in the wilderness. Moreover they are thy people and thine

inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy mighty power and with

thy stretched out arm.

Chapter .x.

In the same season the LORD said unto me: hew thee two tables of stone

like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an

Ark of wood, and I will write in the table, the words that were in the

first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

And I made an ark of sethim wood and hewed two tables of stone like

unto the first, and went up into the mountain and the two tables in

mine hand. And he wrote in the tables, according to the first writing

(the ten verses which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the

fire in the day when the people were gathered) {[together]} and gave

them unto me. And I departed and came down from the hill and put the

tables in the ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the

LORD commanded me. And the children of Israel took their journey from

Beroth Ben {of the children of} Iaken to Mosera, where Aaron died and

where he was buried, and Eleazer his son became priest in his stead.

And from thence they departed unto Gudgod: and from Gudgod to Iathbath,

a land of rivers of water. And the same season the LORD separated the

tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the appointment of the LORD and to

stond before the LORD, and to minister unto him and to bless in his

name unto this day. Wherefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance

with their brethren. The LORD he is their inheritance, as the LORD thy

God hath promised them. And I tarried in the mount, even as at the

first time forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me

at that time also, so that the LORD would not destroy thee. And the

LORD said unto me: up and go forth in the journey before the people and

let them go in and conquer the land which I sware unto their fathers to

give unto them. And now Israel what is it that the LORD thy God

requireth of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God and to walk in all his

ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart

and with all thy soul, that thou keep the commandments of the LORD and

his ordinances which I command thee this day, for thy wealth. Behold,

heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, and the earth

with all that therein is: only the LORD had a lust unto thy fathers to

love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them of all

nations, as it is come to pass this day Circumcise therefore the

foreskin of your hearts, and be no longer stiffnecked. For the LORD

your God, he is God of gods {God of goddes} and Lord of lords, {lorde

of lordes} a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth no

man's person nor taketh gifts: but doeth right unto the fatherless and

widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment. Love

therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers your selves in the land

of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God and serve him and cleave

unto him and swear by his name, for he is thy praise and he is thy God

that hath done these great and terrible things for thee, which thine

eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls,

and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven in

multitude.

Chapter .xi.

Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his

laws and his commandments alway. And call to mind this day that which

your children have neither known nor seen: even the nurture of the LORD

your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his stretched out arm: his

miracles and his acts which he did among the Egyptians, even unto

Pharao the king of Egypt and unto all his land: and what he did unto

the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses and chariots, how he

brought the water of the red sea upon them as they chased you, and how

the LORD hath brought them to nought unto this day: and what he did

unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place: and what he

did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, how the

earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and

their tents, and all their substance that was in their possession, in

the midst of Israel. For your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the

LORD which he did. Keep therefore all the commandments which I command

thee this day that ye may be strong and go and conquer the land whither

ye go to possess it, and that ye may prolong your days in the land

which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their

seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land whither

thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence thou

camest out, where thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy

labour as a garden of herbs: but the land whither ye go over to possess

it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of

heaven, and a land which the LORD thy God careth for. The eyes of the

LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto

the latter end of the year. If thou shalt hearken therefore unto my

commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the LORD your

God and serve him with all your hearts and with all your souls: then he

will give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and

the latter, and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil.

And he will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle: and thou shalt eat

and fill thyself. But beware that your hearts deceive {disceave} you

not that ye turn aside and serve strange gods and worship them, and

then the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and shut up the heaven that

there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye

perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Put up

therefore these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind

them for a sign unto your hands, and let them be as papers of

remembrance between your eyes, and teach them your children: so that

thou talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou

walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up:

yea and write them upon the doorposts of thine house and upon thy

gates, that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children

upon the earth which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as

long as the days of heaven last upon the earth. For if ye shall keep

all these commandments which I command you, so that ye do them and love

the LORD your God and walk in all his ways and cleave unto him. Then

will the LORD cast out all these nations {[and ye shall conquer them

which are]} both greater and mightier than your selves. All the places

whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: even from

the wilderness and from Libanon and from the river Euphrates, even unto

the uttermost sea shall your coasts be. There shall no man be able to

stond before you: the LORD your God shall cast the fear and dread of

you upon all lands whither ye shall come, as he hath said unto you.

Behold, I set before you this day, a blessing and a curse: a blessing:

if ye hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God which I

command you this day: And a curse: if ye will not hearken unto the

commandments of the LORD your God: but turn out of the way which I

command you this day to go after strange gods which ye have not known.

When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou

goest to possess it, then put the blessing upon mount Garizim and the

curse upon mount Ebal, which are on the other side Iordan on the back

side of the way toward the going down of the son in the land of the

Cananites which dwell in the fields over against Gilgal beside Moreh

grove. For ye shall go over to go and possess the land which the LORD

your God giveth you, and shall conquer it and dwell therein. Take heed

therefore that ye do all the commandments and laws, which I set before

you this day.

Chapter .xij.

These are the ordinances and laws which ye shall observe to do in the

land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, as

long as ye live upon the earth. See that ye destroy all places where

the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and

on high {an hye} hills and under every green tree. Overthrow their

altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and hew

down the images of their gods, and bring the names of them to nought

out of that place. See ye do not so unto the LORD your God but ye shall

enquire the place which the LORD your God shall have chosen out of all

your tribes to put his name there and there to dwell. And thither thou

shalt come, and thither ye shall bring your burnt sacrifices and your

offerings, your tithes and heave offerings of your hands, your vows and

free will offerings and thy first born of your oxen and of your sheep.

And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice

in all that ye lay your hands on, both ye and your households, because

the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. Ye shall do after nothing that we

do here this day, every man what seemeth him good in his own eyes. For

ye are not yet come to rest nor unto the inheritance which the LORD

your God giveth you. But ye shall go over Iordan and dwell in the land

which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and he shall give you

rest from all your enemies round about: and ye shall dwell in safety.

Therefore when the LORD your God hath chosen a place to make his name

dwell there, thither ye shall bring all that I command you, your

burntsacrifices and your offerings, your tithes and the heaveofferings

of your hands and all your godly vows which ye vow unto the LORD. And

ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, both ye, your sons and your

daughters, your servants and your maids and the Levite that is within

your gates for he hath neither part nor inheritance with you. Take heed

that thou offer not thy burntofferings in whatsoever place thou seest:

but in the place which the LORD shall have chosen among one of thy

tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt

do all that I command thee. Notwithstanding thou mayst kill and eat

flesh in all thy cities, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after according to

the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee both the

unclean and the clean mayst thou eat, even as the roe and the hart:

only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water. Thou mayst

not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thy

oil, either the firstborn of thine oxen or of thy sheep, neither any of

thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewillofferings or heave

offerings of thine hands: but thou must eat them before the LORD thy

God, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen: both thou thy son

and thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid and the Levite that is

within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, in

all that thou puttest thine hand to. And beware that thou forsake not

the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. If (when the LORD thy

God hath enlarged thy coasts as he hath promised thee) thou say: I will

eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh: then thou shalt eat

flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth. If the place which the LORD thy God

hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou mayst

kill of thy oxen and of thy sheep which the LORD hath given thee as I

have commanded thee, and thou mayst eat in thine own city whatsoever

thy soul lusteth. Neverthelater, as the roe and the hart is eaten, even

so thou shalt eat it: the unclean and the clean indifferently thou

shalt eat. But be strong that thou eat not the blood. For the blood,

that is the life: and thou mayst not eat the life with the flesh: thou

mayst not eat it: but must pour it upon the earth as water. See thou

eat it not therefore that it may go well with thee and with thy

children after thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in

the sight of the LORD. But thy holy things which thou hast and thy

vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the LORD hath chosen,

and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, both flesh and blood upon the

altar of the LORD thy God, and the blood of thine offerings thou shalt

pour out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and shalt eat the flesh.

Take heed and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go

well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou

doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

When the LORD thy God hath destroyed the nations before thee, whither

thou goest to conquer them, and when thou hast conquered them, and

dwelt in their lands: Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after

them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not

after their gods saying: how did these nations serve their gods, that I

may do so likewise? Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:

for all abominations which the LORD hated did they unto their gods. For

they burnt both their sons and their daughters with fire unto their

gods. But whatsoever I command you that take heed ye do: and put nought

thereto, nor take ought there from.

Chapter .xiij.

If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and give thee

a sign or a wonder, and that sign or wonder which he hath said come to

pass, and then say: let us go after strange gods which thou hast not

known, and let us serve them: hearken not unto the words of that

prophet or dreamer of dreams. For the LORD thy God tempteth you, to

wete whether ye love the LORD your God with all your hearts and with

all your souls. For ye must walk after the LORD your God and fear him

and keep his commandments and hearken unto his voice and serve him and

cleave unto him. And that prophet or dreamer of dreams shall die for

it, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God

which brought you out of the land of Egypt and delivered you out of the

house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God

commanded thee to walk in: and so thou shalt put evil away from thee.

If thy brother the son of thy mother or thine own son or thy daughter

or the wife that lieth in thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own

soul unto thee, entice thee secretly saying: let us go and serve

strange gods which thou hast not known nor yet thy fathers, of the gods

of the people which are round about thee, whether they be nye unto thee

or far off from thee, from the one end of the land unto the other. See

thou consent not unto him nor hearken unto him: no, let not thine eye

pity him nor have compassion on him, nor keep him secret, but cause him

to be slain: Thine hand shall be first upon him to kill him: and then

the hands of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones that

he die, because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the LORD

thy God which brought thee out of Egypt the house of bondage. And all

Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more and such wickedness as

this is, among them. If thou shalt hear say of one of thy cities which

the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell in, that certain being the

children of Belial are gone out from among you and have moved the

inhabiters of their city saying: let us go and serve strange gods which

ye have not known. Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If

it be true and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought

among you: then thou shalt smite the dwellers of that city with the

edge of the sword, and destroy it merciless and all that is therein,

and even the very cattle thereof with the edge of the sword. And gather

all the spoil of it into the midst of the streets thereof, and burn

with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the

LORD thy God. And it shall be an heap for ever and shall not be built

again. And see that there cleave nought of the damned thing in thine

hand, that the LORD may turn from his fierce wrath and shew thee mercy

and have compassion on thee and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto

thy fathers: when thou hast hearkened unto the voice of the LORD thy

God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day so that

thou do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

Chapter .xiiij.

Ye are the children of the LORD your God, cut not your selves nor make

you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death. For thou art an

holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be

a several people unto himself, of all the nations that are upon the

earth. Ye shall eat no manner of abomination. These are the beasts

which ye shall eat of: oxen, sheep and goats, hart, roe and bugle, hart

{wild} goat, unicorn, origen and Camelion. And all beasts that cleave

the hoof, and slit it into two claws and chew the cud, them ye shall

eat. Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of

them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the

coney. For they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are

unclean unto you: and also the swine, for though he divide the hoof,

yet he cheweth not cud, and therefore is unclean unto you: Ye shall not

eat of the flesh of them nor touch the dead carcasses of them. These ye

shall eat of all that are in the waters: All that have fins and scales.

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of that ye may not eat, for

that is unclean unto you. Of all clean birds ye shall eat, but these

are they of which ye may not eat: the eagle, the goshawk, the

cormorant, the ixion, the vultur, the kite and her kind, and all kind

of ravens, the Ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk and

all her kind, the little owl, the great owl, the back, the bittern, the

pye, the stork, the heron, the Iay in his kind, the lapwing, the

swallow. And all creeping fowls are unclean unto you and may not be

eaten of: but of all clean fowls ye may well eat. Ye shall eat of

nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger

that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayst sell it unto an Alien. For

thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a

kid in his mother's milk. Thou shalt tithe all the increase of thy seed

that cometh out of the field year by year. And thou shalt eat before

the LORD thy God in the place, which he hath chosen to make his name

dwell there the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and

the firstborn of thine oxen and of thy flock that thou mayst learn to

fear the LORD thy God alway. If the way be too long for thee, so that

thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from the

which the LORD thy God hath chosen to set his name there (for the LORD

thy God hath blessed thee) then make it in money and take the money in

thine hand, and go unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen,

and bestow that money on whatsoever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen,

sheep, wine and good drink, and on whatsoever thy soul desireth, and

eat there before the LORD thy God and be merry: both thou and thine

household and the Levite that is in thy city. See thou forsake not the

Levite, for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee. At the end

of three years, thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine increase

the same year and lay it up within thine own city, and the Levite shall

come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the

stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are whithin thy city

and shall eat and fill them selves: that the LORD thy God may bless

thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.

Chapter .xv.

At the end of seven years thou shalt make a free year. And this is the

manner of the free year, whosoever lendeth ought with his hand unto his

neighbour, may not ask again that which he hath lent, of his neighbour

or of his brother: because it is called the LORD's {lordes} free year,

yet of a stranger thou mayst call it home again. But that which thou

hast with thy brother thine hand shall remit, and that in any wise,

that there be no beggar among you. For the LORD shall bless the land

which the LORD thy God giveth thee, an heritance to possess it: so that

thou hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and do all

these commandments which I command you this day: yea and then the LORD

thy God shall bless thee as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt lend

unto many nations, and shalt borrow of no man, and shalt reign over

many nations, but none shall reign over thee. When one of thy brethren

among you is waxed poor in any of thy cities within thy land which the

LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou harden not thine heart nor shut

to thine hand from thy poor brother: But open thine hand unto him and

lend him sufficient for his need which he hath. And beware that there

be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest say: The

seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand, and therefore it grieve

thee to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry

unto the LORD against thee and it be sin unto thee: But give him, and

let it not grieve thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the

LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou

puttest thine hand to. For the land shall never be without poor.

Wherefore I command thee saying: open thine hand unto thy brother that

is needy and poor in thy land. If thy brother an Hebrew sell himself to

thee, or an Hebrewess, he shall serve thee six years and the seventh

year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him

out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: but shalt

give him of thy sheep and of thy corn and of thy wine, and give him of

that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. And remember that

thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God

delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this thing today. But

and if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he

loveth thee and thine house and is well at ease with thee. Then take an

awl and nail his ear to the door therewith and let him be thy servant

forever, and unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. And let it

not grieve thine eyes to let him go out from thee, for he hath been

worth a double hired servant to thee in his service six years. And the

LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. All the firstborn

that come of thine oxen and of thy sheep that are males, thou shalt

hallow unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt do no service with the

firstborn of thy sheep: but shalt eat them before the LORD thy God year

by year in the place which the LORD hath chosen both thou and thine

household. If there be any deformity therein, whether it be lame or

blind or whatsoever evil favouredness it hath, thou shalt not offer it

unto the LORD thy God: But shalt eat it in thine own city, the unclean

and the clean indifferently, as the roe and the hart. Only eat not the

blood thereof, but pour it upon the ground as water.

Chapter .xvi.

Observe the month of Abib, and offer passover unto the LORD thy God.

For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by

night: Thou shalt therefore offer passover unto the LORD thy God, and

sheep and oxen in the place which the LORD shall choose to make his

name dwell there. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread therewith: but shalt

eat therewith the bread of tribulation seven days long. For thou camest

out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayst remember the day

when thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all days of thy life. And

see that there be no leavened bread seen in all thy coasts seven days

long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast

offered the first day at evening, until the morning. Thou mayst not

offer passover in any of thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name

dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover at evening about the going

down of the son, even in the season that thou camest out of Egypt. And

thou shalt seethe and eat {[it]} in the place which the LORD thy God

hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent. Six

days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day is for the people

to come together to the LORD thy God, that thou mayst do no work. Then

reckon the seven weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the

sicle beginneth in the corn, and keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD

thy God, that thou give a freewilloffering of thine hand unto the LORD

thy God according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. And rejoice

before the LORD thy God both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant

and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the

stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place

which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there. And

remember that thou was a servant in Egypt, that thou observe and do

these ordinances. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven

days long, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. And

thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast, both thou and thy son, thy

daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite, the stranger, the

fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities. Seven days thou shalt

keep holy day unto the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD shall

choose: for the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits and in

all the works of thine hands, and thou shalt be all together gladness.

Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy

God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in

the feast of weeks and in the booth feast. {feast of the tabernacles.}

And they shall not appear before the LORD empty: but every man with the

gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which

he hath given thee. Iudges and officers thou shalt make thee in all thy

cities {gates} which the LORD thy God giveth thee thorowout thy tribes:

And let them judge the people righteously. Wrest not the law nor know

any person neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and

pervert the words of the righteous. But in all things follow

righteousness, that thou mayst live and enjoy the land which the LORD

thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt plant no grove of whatsoever trees it

be, nye unto the altar of the LORD thy God which thou shalt make thee.

Thou shalt set thee up no pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.

Chapter .xvij.

Thou shalt offer unto the LORD thy God no ox or sheep wherein is any

deformity, whatsoever evil favouredness it be: for that is an

abomination unto the LORD thy God. If there be found among you in any

of thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee man or woman that hath

wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, that they have

gone beyond his appointment, so that they have gone and served strange

gods and worshipped them, whether it be the son or moon or anything

contained in heaven which I forbade, and it was told thee and thou hast

heard of it: Then thou shalt enqui:re diligently. And if it be true and

the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought in Israel, then

thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman which have committed that

wicked thing, unto thy gates and shalt stone them with stones and they

shall die. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is

worthy of death, die: but at the mouth of one witness he shall not die.

And the hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and

afterward the hands of all the people: so shalt thou put wickedness

away from thee. If a matter be too hard for thee in judgement between

blood and blood, plea and plea, plage and plage in matters of strife

within thy cities: Then arise and get thee up unto the place which the

LORD thy God hath chosen, and go unto the priests the Levites, and unto

the judge that shall be in those days, and ask, and they shall shew

thee how to judge. And see that thou do according to that which they of

that place(which the LORD hath chosen shew thee, and see that thou

observe to do according to all that they inform thee. According to the

law which they teach thee and manner of judgement which they tell thee,

see that thou do and that thou bow not from that which they shew thee,

neither to the right hand nor to the left. And that man that will do

presumptuously, so that he will not hearken unto the priest that

stondeth there to minister unto the LORD thy God or unto the judge,

shall die: and so thou shalt put away evil from Israel. And all the

people shall hear and shall fear, and shall do no more presumptuously.

When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee and

enjoyest it and dwellest therein: If thou shalt say, I will set a king

over me, like unto all the nations that are about me: Then thou shalt

make him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose. One of thy

brethren must thou make king over thee, and mayst not set a stranger

over thee which is not of thy brethren. But in any wise let him not

hold too many horses, that he bring not the people again to Egypt

thorow the multitude of horses, forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto

you: ye shall henceforth go no more again that way. Also he shall not

have too many wives, lest his heart turn away, neither shall he gather

him silver and gold too much. And when he is sitten upon the seat of

his kingdom, he shall write him out this second law in a book taking a

copy of the priests' the Levites'. And it shall be with him and he

shall read there in all days of his life that he may learn to fear the

LORD his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances

for to do them: that his heart arise not above his brethren and that he

turn not from the commandment: either to the right hand or to the left:

that both he and his children may prolong their days in his kingdom in

Israel.

Chapter .xviij.

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor

inheritance with Israel. The offerings of the LORD and his inheritance

they shall eat, but shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the

LORD he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. And this is

the duty of the priests, of the people and of them that offer, whether

it be ox or sheep: They must give unto the priest, the shoulder and the

two cheeks and the maw, the first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and

the first of thy sheep shearing must thou give him. For the LORD thy

God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stond and to minister in

the name of the LORD: both him and his sons for ever. If a Levite come

out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a

sojourner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which

the LORD hath chosen: he shall there minister in the name of the LORD

his God as all his brethren the Levites do which stond there before the

LORD. And they shall have like portions to eat, beside that which

cometh to him of the patrimony of his elders. When thou art come into

the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to

do after the abominations of these nations. Let there not be found

among you that maketh his son or his daughter go thorow fire, either a

bruterar or a maker of dismal days or that useth witchcraft {or that

useth withcraft, or a chooser out of days or that regardeth the flyeng

of souls} or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or that speaketh {counseleth}

with a spirit, or a soothsayer or that talketh with them that are dead.

{prophesiar or that asketh the advise of the dead.} For all that do

such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these

abominations the LORD thy God doeth cast them out before thee, be pure

therefore with the LORD thy God. For these nations which thou shalt

conquer, hearken unto makers {choosers out} of dismal days and

bruterars. {prophesyars, or profit-seers} But the LORD thy God

permitteth not that to thee. The LORD thy God will stir up a Prophet

among you: even of thy brethren like unto me: and unto him ye shall

hearken according to all that thou desiredest of the LORD thy God in

Horeb in the day when the people were gathered saying: Let me hear the

voice of my LORD God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I

die not. And the LORD said unto me: they have well spoken, I will raise

them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put

my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall

command him. And whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he

shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet which

shall presume to speak ought in my name which I commanded him not to

speak, and he that speaketh in the name of strange gods, the same

prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, how shall I know

that which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the

name of the LORD, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the

thing which the LORD hath not spoken. But the prophet hath spoken it

presumptuously: be not afeared therefore of him.

Chapter .xix.

When the LORD thy God hath destroyed the nations whose land the LORD

thy God giveth thee, and thou hast conquered them and dwellest in their

cities and in their houses: thou shalt appoint three cities in the land

which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it: thou shalt prepare

the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth

thee to possess it: thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of

thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three

parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither. And this is

the cause of the slayer that shall flee thither and be saved: If he

smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time past: As when

a man goeth unto the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and as his

hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helve

and smiteth his neighbour that he die: the same shall flee unto one of

the same cities and be saved. Lest the executer of blood follow after

the slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is

long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause worthy of death in him,

inasmuch as he hated not his neighbour in time past. Wherefore I

command thee saying: see that thou appoint out three cities. And if the

LORD thy God enlarge thy coasts as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and

give thee all the land which he said he would give unto thy fathers (so

that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee

this day, that thou love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever)

then thou shalt add three cities more unto those three, that innocent

blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to

inherit, and so blood come upon thee. But and if there be any man that

hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him

and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities. Then

let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him

into the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die. Let thine eye

have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from

Israel, and happy art thou. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark

which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou

inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.

One witness shall not rise against a man in any manner trespass or sin,

whatsoever sin a man sinneth: But at the mouth of two witnesses or of

three witnesses shall all matters be tried. If an unrighteous witness

rise up against a man to accuse him of trespass: then let both the men

which strive together stond before the LORD, before the priests and the

judges which shall be in those days, and let the judges enquire a good.

And if the witness be found false and that he hath given false witness

against his brother then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to do

unto his brother, and so thou shalt put evil away from thee. And other

shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such

wickedness among you. And let thine eye have no compassion, but life

for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for

foot.

Chapter .xx.

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses

and chariots and people more than thou, be not afeared of them, for the

LORD thy God is with thee which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

And when ye are come nye unto battle, let the priest come forth and

speak unto the people and say unto them: Hear Israel, ye are come unto

battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faint, neither fear

nor be amazed nor a dread of them. For the LORD thy God goeth with you

to fight for you against your enemies and to save you. And let the

officers speak unto the people saying: If any man have built a new

house and have not dedicate it, let him go and return to his house lest

he die in the battle, and another dedicate it. And if any man have

planted a vineyard and have not made it common, let him go and return

again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another make it

common. And if any man be betrothed unto a wife and have not taken her,

let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle

and another take her. And let the officers speak further unto the

people and say. If any man fear and be fainthearted, let him go and

return unto his house, lest his brother's heart be made faint as well

as his. And when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the

people, let them make captains of war over them. When thou comest nye

unto a city to fight against it, offer them peace. And if they answer

thee again peaceably, and open unto thee, then let all the people that

is found therein be tributaries unto thee and serve thee. But and if

they will make no peace with thee, then make war against the city and

besiege it. And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine

hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword, save the

women and the children and the cattle and all that is in the city and

all the spoil thereof take unto thyself and eat the spoil of thine

enemies which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thus thou shalt do unto all

the cities which are a great way off from thee and not of the cities of

these nations. But in the cities of these nations which the LORD thy

God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that

breatheth. But shalt destroy them without redemption, both the

Hethites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pherezites, the Hevites and

the Iebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee, that they teach

you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their

gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God. When thou hast

besieged a city long time in making war against it to take it, destroy

not the trees thereof, that thou wouldest thrust an axe unto them. For

thou mayst eat of them, and therefore destroy them not. For the trees

of the fields are no men that they might come against thee to besiege

thee. Neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eat not of

them, thou mayst destroy and cut them down and make bulwarks against

the city that maketh war with thee, until it be overthrown.

Chapter .xxj.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to

possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him:

Then let thine elders and thy judges come forth and meet unto the

cities that are round about the slain. And let the elders of that city

which is next unto the slain man, take an heifer that is not laboured

with nor hath drawn in the yoke, and let them bring her unto a valley

where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off her head there in

the valley. Then let the priests the sons of Levi come forth (for the

LORD thy God hath chosen them to minister and to bless in the name of

the LORD and therefore at their mouth shall all strife and plague be

tried.) And all the elders of the city that is next to the slain man

shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the plain,

and shall answer and say: our hands have not shed this blood neither

have our eyes seen it. Be merciful LORD unto thy people Israel which

thou hast delivered and put not innocent blood unto thy people Israel:

and the blood shall be forgiven them. And so shalt thou put innocent

blood from thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the

sight of the LORD. When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the

LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast take

them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a

fantasy unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife. Then bring

her home to thine house and let her shave her head and pare her nails

and put her raiment that she was taken in from her, and let her remain

in thine house and beweep her father and her mother a month long and

after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife. And if

thou have no favour unto her, then let her go whither she lusteth: for

thou mayst not sell her for money nor make chevisance of her, because

thou hast humbled her. If a man have two wives, one loved and another

hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and also the

hated. If the firstborn be the son of the hated: then when he dealeth

his goods among his children, he may not make the son of the beloved

firstborn before the son of the hated which is indeed the firstborn:

But he shall know the son of the hated for his firstborn, that he give

him double of all that he hath. For he is the first of his strength,

and to him belongeth the right of the firstbornship. If any man have a

son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto

the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught

him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them: Then let his father

and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city

and unto the gate of that same place, and say unto the elders of the

city. This our son is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken

unto our voice, he is a rioter and a drunkard. Then let all the men of

that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil

away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear. If a man have

committed a trespass worthy of death and is put to death for it and

hanged on tree: let not his body remain all night upon the tree, but

bury him the same day. For the curse of God is on him that is hanged.

Defile not thy land therefore, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to

inherit.

Chapter .xxij.

If thou see thy brother's ox or sheep go astray, thou shalt not

withdraw thyself from them: But shalt bring them home again unto thy

brother. If thy brother be not nye unto thee or if thou know him not,

then bring them unto thine own house and let them be with thee, until

thy brother ask after them, and then deliver him them again. In like

manner shalt thou do with his ass, with his raiment and with all lost

things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast found, and thou

mayst not withdraw thyself. If thou see that thy brother's ass or ox is

fallen down by the way, thou shalt not withdraw thyself from them: but

shalt help him to heave them up again. The woman shall not wear that

which pertaineth unto the man, neither shall a man put on woman's

raiment. For all that do so, are abomination unto the LORD thy God. If

thou chance upon a bird's nest by the way, in whatsoever tree it be or

on the ground, whether they be young or eggs, and the dam sitting upon

the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take the mother with the

young. But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young, that

thou mayst prosper and prolong thy days. When thou buildest a new

house, thou shalt make a battlement unto the roof, that thou lade not

blood upon thine house, if any man fall thereof. Thou shalt not sow thy

vineyard with divers seed: lest thou hallow the seed which thou hast

sown with the fruit of thy vineyard. Thou shalt not plough with an ox

and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment made of wool and

flax together. Thou shalt put ribbons upon the four quarters of thy

vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself. If a man take a wife and when

he hath lien with her hate her and lay shameful things unto her charge

and bring up an evil name upon her and say: I took this wife, and when

I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then let the father of the

damsel and the mother bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity,

unto the elders of the city, even unto the gate. And let the damsel's

father say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife

and he hateth her: and lo, he layeth shameful things unto her charge

saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are the tokens

of my daughter's virginity. And let them spread the vesture before the

elders of the city. Then let the elders of that city take that man and

chastise him and merce him in an hundred sicles of silver and give them

unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name

upon a maid in Israel. And she shall be his wife, and he may not put

her away all his days. But and if the thing be of a surety that the

damsel be not found a virgin, let them bring her unto the door of her

father's house, and let the men of that city stone her with stones to

death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in

her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee. If a man

be found lying with a woman, that hath a wedded husband, then let them

die either other of them: both the man that lie with the wife and also

the wife: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a maid be

handfasted unto an husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay

with her, then ye shall bring them both out unto the gates of that same

city and shall stone them with stones to death: The damsel because she

cried not being in the city: And the man, because he hath humbled his

neighbour's wife, and thou shalt put away evil from thee. But if a man

find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her:

Then the man that lay with her shall die alone, and unto the damsel

thou shalt do no harm: because there is in the damsel no cause of

death. For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him,

even so is this matter. For he found her in the fields and the

betrothed damsel cried: but there was no man to succour her. If a man

find a maid that is not betrothed and take her and lie with her and be

found: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's

father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he

hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days. No man

shall take his father's wife, nor unhele his father's covering.

Chapter .xxiij.