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LEVITICUS XIX.

A repetition of sundry laws.

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of z Ch. xi. 4. Israel, and say unto them, "Ye shall be holy for I the LORD your God am holy.

& xx. 7, 26. Pet. i. 16.

a Ch. xxiii.

22.

b Ex. xx. 7.
Deut. v. 11.
Matt. v. 33.
James v. 12.

c Ecclus. x. 6.

3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.

6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow and if ought remain until the third day, it shall

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be burnt in the fire.

7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

12 ¶ And ye shall not b swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

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13 ¶ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob d Deut. xxiv. him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

14, 15. Tob.

iv. 14.

e Deut. xxvii. 18.

f Ex. xxiii. 2,

3. Deut. i. 17. & xvi. 19.

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14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

15¶Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the 23. James ii. 9. person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Prov. xxiv.

g1 John ii. 11.

16 ¶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:

thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not A.C. 1490. suffer sin upon him.

h Ecclus. xix;

xviii. 15.

18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against 13. Matt. the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, +‡betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; § she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.

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Or, that

thou bear not sin for him.

Matt. v. 43. Rom. xiii. 9. James ii. 8.

& xxii. 39.

Gal. v. 14.

for, abused Heb. re

by any.

proached by, or, for man Or, they.

Heb. there shall be a

scourging.

* Heb, holi

ness of

LORD.

25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, praises to the that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

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26¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, nei❤ k Ch. xxi. 5. ther shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard..

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28 Ye shall not 'make any cuttings in your flesh for the 1 Deut. xiv. 1. dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

fane.

29 ¶ Do not + prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to + Heb. probe a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 ¶Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

32¶Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

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m Ex. xxii.

21. & xxiii. 9.

n Exod. xii. 48, 49,

ye

33 ¶ And

shall not

if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, * vex him.

34" But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be

* unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

o Prov xi. 1. & xvi. 11.

& xx. 10.

1.Heb. stones.

35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

36° Just balances, just † weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

LEVITICUS XX.

1 Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech. 4 Of him that favoureth such an one. 6 Of going to wizards. 7 Of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adultery. 11, 14, 17, 19 Of incest. 13 Of sodomy. 15 Of beastiality. 18 Of uncleanness. 22 Obedience is required with holiness. 27 Wizards must be put to death.

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Again, 23 thou shalt say to the children of Israel, p Ch. xviii. 21. P Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

5 Then will I set my face against that man, and against

23. Idolatry was punished by the Mosaic law, because was treason and rebellion against their sovereign. God assumed the title of King of Israel, that adherence to his worship might be a proof of allegiance, and idolatry be more certainly and rigorously prohibited. And the justice and wisdom of this dispensation will be more evident, if we consider that the idolatry of the nations which surrounded Israel did not consist in speculative opinions only, but in acts of open homage to the personified powers of nature, or to the spirits of deified men; and murder and every abomination were enumerated among the proofs of homage to these false gods. Human sacrifices-offering up their children, and passing them through the fire to Moloch-the prostitution of their young women -the shameful rites of Baal Peor, &c. &c. were crimes deserving of death, in every well-ordered community. Vide Michaelis, Com. &c. b. v. ch. ii. art. 246.

his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring A.C, 1490. after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among

their people.

6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy I am the LORD your God.

for 9 Ch. xi. 44.

8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

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9 ¶ For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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& xix. 2.
1 Pet. i. 16.

Ex. xxi. 17. Matt. xv. 4.

Prov. xx. 20.

22. John viii.

10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with ano- s Deut. xxii. ther man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his 4,5. neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath t Ch. xviii. 8. uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely

be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

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13" If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a u Ch. xviii. woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you:

15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death and ye shall slay the beast.

16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

x Ch. xviii.

23.

17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's y Ch. xviii. 9. daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath covered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Ch. xviii. 19.

* Heb. made

naked.

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* Heb. a separation.

a Ch. xviii. 26.

b Ch. xviii.

25.

19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin they shall bear their iniquity.

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20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

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22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, b spue you not out.

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these e Deut. ix. 5. things, and therefore I abhorred them.

d Ch. xi. 47. Deut. xiv. 4.

24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

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25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or +Or, moveth. by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that +creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am 1 Pet. i. 16. holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

e Ver. 7.
Ch. xix. 2.

f Deut. xviii. 11. 1 Sam. xxviii. 7.

Or, being an husband among his

people, he

shall not defile

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27 ¶ A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

LEVITICUS XX1.

1 Of the priests' mourning. 6 Of their holiness. 8 Of their estimation. 7, 13 Of their marriages. 17 The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary.

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1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man

himself for his among his people, to profane himself.

wife, &c.

g Ch. xix. 271

5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, nei

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