The Book of Leviticus
Chapter 1
And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If
any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your
offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let
him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary
will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the
LORD.
4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt
offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for
him.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round
about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into
his pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the
head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is
upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and
the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the
sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male
without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood
round about upon the altar.
12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and
his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the
fire which is upon the altar:
13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water:
and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a
burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD
be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
pigeons.
15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring
off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be
wrung out at the side of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and
cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the
ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but
shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar,
upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Chapter 2
1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD,
his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and
put frankincense thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and
he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil
thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the
memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD:
3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's
and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire.
4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken
in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil,
or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan,
it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it
is a meat offering.
7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the
fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of
these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he
shall bring it unto the altar.
9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a
memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD,
shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in
any offering of the LORD made by fire.
12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer
them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet
savour.
13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou
season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings
thou shalt offer salt.
14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits
unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits
green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full
ears.
15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense
thereon: it is a meat offering.
16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of
the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
Chapter 3
1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if
he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it
without blemish before the LORD.
2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering,
and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's
sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round
about.
3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which
is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall
he take away.
5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the
burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering
unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.
7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer
it before the LORD.
8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering,
and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons
shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the
whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the
food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it
before the LORD.
13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill
it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall
sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is
the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is
the LORD's.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Chapter 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul
shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD
concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of
them:
3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the
sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a
young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand
upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the
bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the
congregation:
6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and
sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the
sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the
horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the
tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the
bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock
for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that is upon the inwards,
9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away,
10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice
of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the
burnt offering.
11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with
his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the
camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on
the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be
burnt.
13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through
ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they
have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning
things which should not be done, and are guilty;
14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is
known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and
bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall
be killed before the LORD.
16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the
bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
17 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the
blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the
vail.
18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar
of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it
upon the altar.
20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the
bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall
make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp,
and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the
congregation.
22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through
ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning
things which should not be done, and is guilty;
23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish:
24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat,
and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt
offering.
26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the
fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven
him.
27 And if any one of the common people sin through
ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the
LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt
offering.
30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and
shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat
is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest
shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the
priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven
him.
32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall
bring it a female without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the
burnt offering.
34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the
altar:
35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat
of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and
the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made
by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin
that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Chapter 5
1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and
is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it,
then he shall bear his iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a
carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the
carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also
shall be unclean, and guilty.
3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever
uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do
evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an
oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be
guilty in one of these.
5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD
for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid
of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement
for him concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall
bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a
burnt offering.
8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer
that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his
neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering
upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out
at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering,
according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him
for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil
upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin
offering.
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest
shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the
altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin
offering.
13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as
touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat
offering.
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance,
in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto
the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass
offering.
16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done
in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto
the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which
are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist
it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the
flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance
wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed
against the LORD.
Chapter 6
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD,
and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbour;
3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning
it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning
therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty,
that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing
which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep,
or the lost thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall
even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his
trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD,
a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before
the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath
done in trespassing therein.
8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of
the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon
the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be
burning in it.
10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which
the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall
put them beside the altar.
11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean
place.
12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it
shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning,
and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the
fat of the peace offerings.
13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall
never go out.
14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of
Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of
the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which
is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet
savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat:
with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of
the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto
them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as
is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of
it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be
holy.
19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which
they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it
in the morning, and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is
baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering
shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his
stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be
wholly burnt.
23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten.
24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the
law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed
shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in
the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy:
and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou
shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be
broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and
rinsed in water.
29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it
is most holy.
30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is
brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the
holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
Chapter 7
1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is
most holy.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall
they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle
round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump,
and the fat that covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which
is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall
be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering:
there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith
shall have it.
8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering,
even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which
he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and
all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the
priest's that offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry,
shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine
flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering
leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace
offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation
for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that
sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings
for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall
not leave any of it until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a
voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be
eaten:
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day shall be burnt with fire.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an
abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his
iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not
be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be
clean shall eat thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice
of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness
upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing,
as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean
thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which
pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat
no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the
fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but
ye shall in no wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it
shall be cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be
of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that
offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring
his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD
made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast
may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but
the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest
for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of
the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his
part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken
of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by
a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of
the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the
priest's office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the
children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for
ever throughout their generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat
offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of
the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the
day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto
the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and
the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a
basket of unleavened bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the
assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing
which the LORD commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them
with water.
7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the
girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he
girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him
therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre,
even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot,
to sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head,
and anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon
them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the
sin offering.
15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it
upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the
altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it,
to make reconciliation upon it.
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and
the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses
burned it upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung,
he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon
the altar round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the
head, and the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and
Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a
sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration:
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and
put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right
hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood
upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands,
and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that
was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys,
and their fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was
before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread,
and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right
shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons'
hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt
them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a
sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave
offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses'
part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood
which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and
sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him.
31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the
flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it
with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded,
saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread
shall ye burn with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be
at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to
do, to make an atonement for you.
35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the
LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses.
Chapter 9
1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called
Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them
before the LORD.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak,
saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a
lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt
offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to
sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to
day the LORD will appear unto you.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and
stood before the LORD.
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD
commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto
you.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer
thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for
thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and
make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf
of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar,
and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the
liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without
the camp.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons
presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the
altar.
13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with
the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt
them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
15 And he brought the people's offering, and took the
goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered
it for sin, as the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful
thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the
morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of
peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto
him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump,
and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above
the liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the
fat upon the altar:
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for
a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and
blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the
burnt offering, and peace offerings.
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the
LORD appeared unto all the people.
24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and
consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the
people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Chapter 10
1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of
them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured
them, and they died before the LORD.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD
spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before
all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of
Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your
brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out
of the camp; as Moses had said.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest
ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren,
the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath
kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is
upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye
die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy,
and between unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the
statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside
the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is
thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire:
for so I am commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in
a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they
be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of
peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring
with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering
before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a
statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin
offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the
holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the
iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the
LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the
holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I
commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they
offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and
such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day,
should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Chapter 11
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto
them,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the
beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the
earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and
cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew
the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth
the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall
ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and
in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing
which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall
not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in
abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that
shall be an abomination unto you.
13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination
among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the
eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
15 Every raven after his kind;
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and
the hawk after his kind,
17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great
owl,
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier
eagle,
19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the
lapwing, and the bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
abomination unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing
that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal
upon the earth;
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his
kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four
feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth
the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof,
and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every
one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the
tortoise after his kind,
30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and
the snail, and the mole.
31 These are unclean to you among all that creep:
whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the
even.
32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead,
doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or
raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is
done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even;
so it shall be cleansed.
33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them
falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break
it.
34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such
water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every
such vessel shall be unclean.
35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase
falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they
shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto
you.
36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty
of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be
unclean.
37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing
seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of
their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that
toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase
of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth
upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that
creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an
abomination.
43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any
creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean
with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile
yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land
of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy.
46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of
every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature
that creepeth upon the earth:
47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean,
and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be
eaten.
Chapter 12
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman
have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven
days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she
be unclean.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her
purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor
come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of
her purifying threescore and six days.
6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a
son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering,
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the
priest:
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an
atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood.
This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall
bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering,
and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement
for her, and she shall be clean.
Chapter 13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising,
a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague
of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of
his sons the priests:
3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of
the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague
in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy:
and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh,
and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven
days:
5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not
in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day:
and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in
the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he
shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after
that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen
of the priest again.
8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth
in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a
leprosy.
9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
brought unto the priest;
10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the
rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there
be quick raw flesh in the rising;
11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the
priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is
unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even
to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the
leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath
the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be
unclean.
15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce
him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto
white, he shall come unto the priest;
17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the
plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean
that hath the plague: he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was
a boil, and is healed,
19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising,
or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the
priest;
20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in
sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out
of the boil.
21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no
white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat
dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread
not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him
clean.
24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is
a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot,
somewhat reddish, or white;
25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the
hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than
the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no
white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but
be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and
if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread
not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning,
and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the
burning.
29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the
beard;
30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if
it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin
hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even
a leprosy upon the head or beard.
31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no
black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague
of the scall seven days:
32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow
hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave;
and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days
more:
34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in
sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and
he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his
cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the
scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he
is unclean.
37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that
there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their
flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright
spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot
that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is
bald; yet is he clean.
41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of
his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a
white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his
bald forehead.
43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the
rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald
forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall
pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall
be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper
lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he
shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp
shall his habitation be.
47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in,
whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of
woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the
garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any
thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the
priest:
50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up
it that hath the plague seven days:
51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if
the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof,
or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a
fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or
woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is:
for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague
be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
any thing of skin;
54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing
wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it
is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the
plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is
fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be
somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the
woof:
57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague:
thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever
thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from
them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment
of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins,
to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Chapter 14
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the
priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to
be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be
killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar
wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running
water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed
from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let
the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes,
and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be
clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad
out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave
all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his
hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash
his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs
without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and
three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and
one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the
man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him
for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall
kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as
the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most
holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the
trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right
ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and
pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil
that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger
seven times before the LORD:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall
the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest
shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make
an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and
afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he
shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he
is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt
offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, before the LORD.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass
offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering,
and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and
put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right
foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger
some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the
LORD:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon
the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
atonement for him before the LORD.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of
the young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before
the LORD.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of
leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his
cleansing.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give
to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the
land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the
priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the
house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the
house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in
the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see
the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the
plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or
reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door
of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and
shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the
stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean
place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the
city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the
place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister
the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the
house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped
the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if
the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house;
it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it,
and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall
carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while
that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes;
and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and,
behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was
plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the
plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and
cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen
vessel over running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and
the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain
bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city
into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be
clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy,
and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a
house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright
spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this
is the law of leprosy.
Chapter 15
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue
he is unclean.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether
his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it
is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is
unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that
hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is
clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the
issue shall be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him
shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and
hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath
the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in
water.
13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his
issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and
wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be
clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the
priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him,
then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the
even.
17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed
of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the
even.
18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean
until the even.
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her
flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth
her shall be unclean until the even.
20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation
shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she
sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be
upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth
shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out
of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the
days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue
shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth
upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two
turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement
for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from
their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him
whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that
hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with
her that is unclean.
Chapter 16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two
sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy
brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail
before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will
appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy
garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them
on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt
offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his
house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before
the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot
for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot
fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the
scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement
with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his
house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for
himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of
fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the
LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon
the testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the
mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that
is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that
blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the
mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place,
because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of
the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place,
until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his
household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the
LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the
altar round about.
19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of
the children of Israel.
20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy
place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall
bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the
live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon
the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man
into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
wilderness.
23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when
he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy
place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for
himself, and for the people.
25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the
altar.
26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall
wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into
the camp.
27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for
the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy
place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the
fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the
camp.
29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in
the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your
souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you:
30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for
you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the
LORD.
31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall
afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall
make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy
garments:
33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary,
and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and
for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all
the people of the congregation.
34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to
make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 17
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD
hath commanded, saying,
3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that
killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of
the camp,
4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle
of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and
that man shall be cut off from among his people:
5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring
them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar
of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn
the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto
devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for
ever unto them throughout their generations.
8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of
the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that
offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut
off from among his people.
10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or
of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood;
I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut
him off from among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it
is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul
of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among
you eat blood.
13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any
beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof,
and cover it with dust.
14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for
the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall
eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the
blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself,
or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country,
or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he
shall bear his iniquity.
Chapter 18
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I
am the LORD your God.
3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt,
shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I
bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their
ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to
walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments:
which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to
him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy
mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover
her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not
uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father,
or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad,
even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy
daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs is thine own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten
of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in
law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's
wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is
wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex
her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover
her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy
neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the
fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the
LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
is abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down
thereto: it is confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in
all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,
and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own
nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land
done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it,
as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their
people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit
not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you,
and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your
God.
Chapter 19
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am
holy.
3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and
keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten
gods: I am the LORD your God.
5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the
morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the
fire.
7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is
abominable; it shall not be accepted.
8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his
iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and
that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the
gleanings of thy harvest.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the
poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie
one to another.
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither
shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him:
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until
the morning.
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock
before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt
not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am
the LORD.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon
him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am
the LORD.
19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy
cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with
mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come
upon thee.
20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a
bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom
given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because
she was not free.
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD,
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a
trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the
ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath
done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have
planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto
you: it shall not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be
holy to praise the LORD withal.
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit
thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD
your God.
26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither
shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a
whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of
wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary:
I am the LORD.
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither
seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour
the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto
you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Chapter 20
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel,
Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall
surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with
stones.
3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut
him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their
eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him
not:
5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against
his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to
commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar
spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my
face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am
the LORD your God.
8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the
LORD which sanctify you.
9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother
shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his
blood shall be upon him.
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's
wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the
adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath
uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them
shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood
shall be upon them.
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is
wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be
no wickedness among you.
15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put
to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down
thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's
daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of
their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his
iniquity.
18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her
sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her
fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of
them shall be cut off from among their people.
19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near
kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath
uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless.
21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an
unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be
childless.
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, spue you not out.
23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation,
which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land,
and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk
and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other
people.
25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts
and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make
your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living
thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as
unclean.
26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy,
and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or
that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with
stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Chapter 21
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the
sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead
among his people:
2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his
mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for
his brother.
3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him,
which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among
his people, to profane himself.
5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither
shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in
their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the
name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the
bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane;
neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy
unto his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the
bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which
sanctify you, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself
by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with
fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon
whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on
the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile
himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is
upon him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot,
these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to
wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for
I the LORD do sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed
in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer
the bread of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall
not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any
thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in
his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the
priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he
hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his
God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh
unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto
all the children of Israel.
Chapter 22
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they
profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am
the LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among
your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of
Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul
shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath
a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
seed goeth from him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may
be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever
uncleanness he hath;
6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean
until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh
with water.
7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall
afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he
shall not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.
9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear
sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify
them.
10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a
sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing.
11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall
eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his
meat.
12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a
stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced,
and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her
youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger
eat thereof.
14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he
shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the
priest with the holy thing.
15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when
they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for
all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer
unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish,
of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer:
for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or
sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish
therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or
scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an
offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing
superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill
offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised,
or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof
in your land.
25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread
of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and
blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought
forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day
and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and
her young both in one day.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto
the LORD, offer it at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave
none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I
am the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be
hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow
you,
33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God: I am the LORD.
Chapter 23
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the
sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is
the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the
LORD's passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast
of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened
bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the
harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your
harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be
accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave
it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an
he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the
LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals
of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for
a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the
fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor
green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto
your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the
sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering;
seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye
number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the
LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves
of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with
leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without
blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall
be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their
drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the
LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace
offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they
shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may
be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it
shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest,
neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave
them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the
seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a
memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall
be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a
day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your
God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted
in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that
same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute
for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall
afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto
even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The
fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for
seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink
offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts,
and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye
give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye
have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the
LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth
day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of
goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and
willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven
days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days
in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall
celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are
Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children
of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
feasts of the LORD.
Chapter 24
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto
thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn
continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of
the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning
before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your
generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick
before the LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes
thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon
the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that
it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting
covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall
eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of
the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was
an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the
Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of
the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's
name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD
might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and
let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall
surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone
him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he
blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to
death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast
for beast.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he
hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and
he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the
stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your
God.
23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they
should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with
stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Chapter 25
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto
the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor
prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou
shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is
a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for
thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant,
and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee,
seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years
shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound
on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye
make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall
be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall
not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the
grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man
unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest
ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou
shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the
fruits he shall sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase
the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt
diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the
fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou
shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh
year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old
fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the
old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is
mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some
of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he
redeem that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be
able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return
unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that
which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until
the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return
unto his possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,
then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full
year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for
ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out
in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round
about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the
houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any
time.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house
that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of
jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be
sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay
with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a
sojourner; that he may live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy
God; that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend
him thy victuals for increase.
38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your
God.
39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor,
and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall
be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his
children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt
fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt
have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye
buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do
sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are
with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your
possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your
bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall
not rule one over another with rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and
thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the
stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's
family:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of
his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him,
or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he
be able, he may redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the
year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his
sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of
an hired servant shall it be with him.
51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them
he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he
was bought for.
52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of
jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall
he give him again the price of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and
the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall
go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they
are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the
LORD your God.
Chapter 26
1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither
rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone
in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I
am the LORD.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and
do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their
fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the
vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to
the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie
down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of
the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred
of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall
before you by the sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful,
and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old
because of the new.
11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall
not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye
shall be my people.
13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken
the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all
these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that
ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over
you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the
eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for
your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be
slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye
shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will
make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land
shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield
their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken
unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your
sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob
you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number;
and your high ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things,
but will walk contrary unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will
punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge
the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your
cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered
into the hand of the enemy.
26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your
bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but
walk contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I,
even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye eat.
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your
images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my
soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet
odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your
enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw
out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land
rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it
did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound
of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a
sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before
a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before
your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of
your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity
of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me,
and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also
my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember;
and I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy
her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept
of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised
my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their
enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy
them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their
God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of
their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the
sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which
the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the
hand of Moses.
Chapter 27
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by
thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty
years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be
thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years
old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the
female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old,
then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for
the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a
male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten
shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall
present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him;
according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto
the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be
holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad,
or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then
it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not
offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before
the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or
bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a
fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto
the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as
the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it,
and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of
a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the
seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of
silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile,
according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the
priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain,
even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy
estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise
redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation
unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold
the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall
be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be
the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he
hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine
estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto
him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land
did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the
shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the
LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it
is the LORD's.
27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem
it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it
thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy
estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall
devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted
thing is most holy unto the LORD.
29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be
redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of
the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the
LORD.
31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he
shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock,
even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the
LORD.
33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither
shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the
change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.