coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh,
which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning.
05:016:005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy
gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
05:016:006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest
forth out of Egypt.
05:016:007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and
go unto thy tents.
05:016:008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt
do no work therein.
05:016:009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle
to the corn.
05:016:010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which
thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee:
05:016:011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among
you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place
his name there.
05:016:012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
05:016:013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
05:016:014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that
are within thy gates.
05:016:015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD
thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the
works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
05:016:016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the
LORD empty:
05:016:017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
05:016:018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and
they shall judge the people with just judgment.
05:016:019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
05:016:020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
05:016:021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
05:016:022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy
God hateth.
05:017:001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or
sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that
is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
05:017:002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing
his covenant,
05:017:003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I
have not commanded;
05:017:004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
05:017:005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or
that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
05:017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he
that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of
one witness he shall not be put to death.
05:017:007 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him
to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou
shalt put the evil away from among you.
05:017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then
shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose;
05:017:009 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall
shew thee the sentence of judgment:
05:017:010 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of
that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and
thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform
thee:
05:017:011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the
left.
05:017:012 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the
LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and
thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
05:017:013 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
05:017:014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
are about me;
05:017:015 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD
thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou
set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,
which is not thy brother.
05:017:016 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply
horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way.
05:017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.
05:017:018 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book
out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
05:017:019 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the
days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do
them:
05:017:020 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that
he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or
to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his
kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
05:018:001 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have
no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
05:018:002 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:
the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
05:018:003 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they
shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
and the maw.
05:018:004 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him.
05:018:005 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons
for ever.
05:018:006 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind
unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
05:018:007 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all
his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the
LORD.
05:018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh
of the sale of his patrimony.
05:018:009 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of
those nations.
05:018:010 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch.
05:018:011 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a
wizard, or a necromancer.
05:018:012 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:
and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before thee.
05:018:013 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
05:018:014 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the
LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
05:018:015 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
shall hearken;
05:018:016 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear
again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this
great fire any more, that I die not.
05:018:017 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken.
05:018:018 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him.
05:018:019 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require
it of him.
05:018:020 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
05:018:021 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
which the LORD hath not spoken?
05:018:022 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: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
05:019:001 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
05:019:002 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
05:019:003 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into
three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
05:019:004 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,
that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom
he hated not in time past;
05:019:005 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew
wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down
the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of
those cities, and live:
05:019:006 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his
heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and
slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
hated him not in time past.
05:019:007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
cities for thee.
05:019:008 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised
to give unto thy fathers;
05:019:009 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk
ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for
thee, beside these three:
05:019:010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon
thee.
05:019:011 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die,
and fleeth into one of these cities:
05:019:012 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
may die.
05:019:013 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the
guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with
thee.
05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of
old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt
inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
05:019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of
two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.
05:019:016 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against
him that which is wrong;
05:019:017 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,
which shall be in those days;
05:019:018 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely
against his brother;
05:019:019 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto
his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
05:019:020 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
05:019:021 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
05:020:001 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
05:020:002 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that
the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
05:020:003 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because
of them;
05:020:004 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for
you against your enemies, to save you.
05:020:005 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man
is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated
it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.
05:020:006 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
05:020:007 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die
in the battle, and another man take her.
05:020:008 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?
let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's
heart faint as well as his heart.
05:020:009 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the
armies to lead the people.
05:020:010 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it.
05:020:011 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open
unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found
therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve
thee.
05:020:012 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
05:020:013 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword:
05:020:014 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou
take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
05:020:016 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth
give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
that breatheth:
05:020:017 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and
the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
05:020:018 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,
which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against
the LORD your God.
05:020:019 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
05:020:020 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for
meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
until it be subdued.
05:021:001 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
known who hath slain him:
05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that
is slain:
05:021:003 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which
hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the
yoke;
05:021:004 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall
strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
05:021:005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in
the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be tried:
05:021:006 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain
man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded
in the valley:
05:021:007 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
05:021:008 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of
Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
05:021:009 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.
05:021:010 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the
LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou
hast taken them captive,
05:021:011 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
05:021:012 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
05:021:013 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,
and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
05:021:014 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou
shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her
at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her,
because thou hast humbled her.
05:021:015 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and
they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
05:021:016 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that
which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved
firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the
firstborn:
05:021:017 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:
for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his.
05:021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and
that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto
them:
05:021:019 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate
of his place;
05:021:020 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son
is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is
a glutton, and a drunkard.
05:021:021 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that
he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all
Israel shall hear, and fear.
05:021:022 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
05:021:023 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou
shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is
accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
05:022:001 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them
again unto thy brother.
05:022:002 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it
shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou
shalt restore it to him again.
05:022:003 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou
do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's,
which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do
likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
05:022:004 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by
the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help
him to lift them up again.
05:022:005 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do
so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
05:022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any
tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs,
and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou
shalt not take the dam with the young:
05:022:007 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young
to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest
prolong thy days.
05:022:008 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine
house, if any man fall from thence.
05:022:009 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the
fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy
vineyard, be defiled.
05:022:010 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
05:022:011 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen
and linen together.
05:022:012 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
05:022:013 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
05:022:014 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil
name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to
her, I found her not a maid:
05:022:015 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and
bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the
elders of the city in the gate:
05:022:016 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
05:022:017 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her,
saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the
tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city.
05:022:018 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
him;
05:022:019 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and
give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath
brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
05:022:020 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
found for the damsel: