privy to it, he shall make restitution. 13. If it be torn in pieces, he shall bring them for an evidence, and not make up the loss.

14. If one borrow another's beast, and it be hurt, or die, he shall make it good. 15. But not so, if the owner be with it: if it was gotten as a pledge of hire, it shall stand for the hire.

16. If a man seduce a maid, who is not promised to be married to another, he shall take her for a wife, Deut. xxii. 28, 29. 17. If her father will not consent to give her, he shall still pay according to the dowry of virgins.

18. An impostor shall not be suffered to live.

19. Whoever hath carnal connection with a beast shall be put to death.

20. Whoever worshippeth any god but the Eternal, shall be anathematized.

21. Ye shall not vex nor distress a stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22. Neither shall ye afflict the widow, or the fatherless. 23. If they are afflicted by thee, and cry to the Eternal, he will hearken to them. 24. And his wrath shall be kindled against you, and destroy you by the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25. If thou lend money to any of the poor of my people, thou shalt not make him pay usury. 26. If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment for a pledge thou shalt return it before night, 27. To cover him from the night's cold, or to sleep in; for if he cry to the Eternal, he is merciful, and will hearken to him.

28. Thou shalt not revile magistrates, nor speak evil of dignities.

29. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy fruits, and of thy wine and oil: thy first-born, if - sons, thou shalt devote to the Eternal: 30. And also the firstlings of thy oxen and sheep, on the eighth day of their age, having been seven with its

dam. 31. Ye shall be a holy people to the Eternal, and not any way polute yourselves, as by eating the flesh of beasts torn in the field; ye shall let the dogs

eat it.

CHAP. XXIII.

OF SLANDER and faLSE WITNESS.

THOU shalt not propagate a false report; nor join the wicked to be an unjust witness. 2. Thou shalt not follow the example, of the great, or the multitude, to do evil; 3. Nor prevent justice for the great, by speaking for a wrong cause, to gratify any, not even a poor man.

4. If thou find thine enemy's cattle wandering, 5. Or in danger of being lost, or in distress; thou shalt rescue them, and bring them back safe to him.

6. Thou shalt not do injustice to a poor man, to favour the rich. 7. Keep from all falsehood, and injustice: slay not, nor do any injury to the innocent and the righteous; for the Eternal will not acquit the wicked. 8. Thou shalt take no gifts for bribes, for these blind even the wise, and pervert the judgement, that otherwise would be just.

9. Thou shalt do no injury to the stranger; ye know the feelings of strangers, as ye were strangers in Egypt; ye shall shew kindness to such.

10. Six years shall ye sow and gather the fruits of the land; 11. And let it rest the seventh, that the poor may eat what groweth of itself that year; and that the wild animals may eat what they leave. 12. With thy vineyard, and oliveyard, thou shalt do likewise.

13. Observe circumspectly all that I have commanded you let not the names of false gods, be so much as mentioned among you.

14. You shall keep three solemn festivals to the Eternal yearly. 15. The passover with the feast of unleavened bread seven days, as you have been coin

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manded, in the time appointed in the month Abib, (March) when you came out of Egypt; every one shall bring an offering to the feast. 16. The feast of Pentecost, (fifty days after, for receiving the law at Sinai), when you shall bring the first fruits of the harvest labours; and the feast of in-gathering, and tabernacles, at the end of the civil year, (in September) Lev. xxiii. 40. 17. These three times every male shall appear before the Eternal at his temple and altar, for solemn service.

18. You shall not offer leavened bread with the blood of the sacrifice,nor delay offering the fat until the morning. 19. The best of your first fruits you shall bring for an offering to the house of the Eternal your God. You shall not seethe a kid in its mother's milk, (as the Heathens do).

20. Behold, I send an angel before you to guide you in the way, and bring you to the place I promis ed you. 21. Be not rebellious against him, for he will not spare your offences; obey his voice, and provoke him not, for my name and authority is in him. 22. If you sincerely obey him, and do all I command you, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and afflict those that afflict you; 23. For mine angel will go before you, and bring you to the land of the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Girgasites, Perizites, Hivites, and Jebusites, whom I will cut off (for their wickedness).

24. You shall not worship their gods, but utterly destroy their images, and not do according to their works. 25. Ye shall serve the Eternal your God, and he will bless your provision, your bread, and your water, and remove diseases from you. 26. Nothing shall be barren or abortive in your land: and you shall fulfil the number of your years, and not be cut off in the midst of them.

27. I will send my terror before you, and overthrow all that oppose you, and make all your enemies flee before you. 28. Yea, I will send hornets

before you to drive out the Canaanitish nations: 29. But not in one year, lest the land be desolate, and beasts of prey multiply against you; 30. But by degrees, till you multiply so as to fill the land. 31. And I will make your boundaries from the Red Sea (the Arabic Gulf), to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desart of Arabian Sur, to the river Eu phrates.

32. You shall make no covenant with the people of the land; nor sacrifice to their gods. 33. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against the Eternal; for if ye serve their gods, it will be a snare unto you.

CHAP. XXIV.

MOSES CALLED UP TO THE MOUNT.

THEN the Eternal called Moses, saying, Come up to the mount, with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, and the seventy elders appointed judges, and let the people worship at a distance. 2. But Moses alone shall come near to the Eternal, even into the cloud which covereth the mountain.

3. Now Moses descending rehearsed to the peo ple all the statutes and judgements of the Eternal. They answered all with one consent, All that the Eternal hath said, we will do.

4. And Moses having written all which the Eternal spoke, (except the decalogue, which the Eternal wrote on two tables of stone, chap. xxxii. 16.) he rose early, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel. 5. And he took the first-born to offer peace-offerings, burnt-offerings, and sacrifices of oxen, to the Eternal: 6. And he put one half of the blood in basons, and sprinkled the other on the altar. 7. And having read the book of the covenant (xx. xxi. xxii. xxiii.) in the hearing of the

people, they said, All that the Eternal hath spoken will we do, and be obedient.

8. Then Moses took the blood and sprinkled it: on the people, saying, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Eternal hath made with you con. cerning all these things.

9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders, ascending, 10. Had a vision of the God of Israel: there was under the appearance of his feet the likeness of a paved work of saphire, like the brightness of heaven. 11. And these nobles of Israel were not struck dead by the vision of the celestial glory, (Rev. i. 17.), but were able to eat and drink.

12. The Eternal said again to Moses, Come up to the mount, and wait there till I give thee the tables of stone, with the law and commands which I have written, to instruct them.

13. Then Moses rose, with his attendant Joshua, and going up to the mount of God, 14. He said to the elders, Wait here till we.return to you. As Aaron and Hur are with you, if any man have a cause, let him bring it to them.

15. Then Moses ascended the mount, and a cloud covered it six days. 16. And the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud. 17. And the appearance of the Eternal's glory, which abode on the top of Mount Sinai, was like devouring fire in the Israelites' sight.

18. And Moses was in the midst of the cloud on the mount, forty days and forty nights.

CHAP. XXV.

FROM CHAP. XXV. TO XXXI. IS CEREMONIAL.

THE Eternal said to Moses, 2. Say to the Israelites, let every one bring me an offering that giveth it willingly and heartily. 3. Gold, silver, brass, 4. Blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, 5. Ram's