mourn for your sins, during the past year; and neither you, nor your strangers, shall do any work: 30. For on that day shall the high-priest make atonement for you (it is the great day of repentance and atonement yearly), that you may be cleansed from all your sins before the Eternal. 31. It shall be a great Sabbath to you, wherein ye shall humble and afflict your souls for your sins, every year. 32. And every anointed consecrated priest, that succeeds his father in his office, shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments, and make the atone. ment, 33. Propitiating for the tabernacle, the sanc tuary, the altar, and for the priests, and all the people.

34. This shall be a perpetual ordinance to you, to make atonement for all the Israelites' sins, once a year. And the high-priest did as the Eternal com manded by Moses.

CHAP. XVII.

THE BLOOD OF BEASTS MUST BE OFFEred.

THEN the Eternal said to Moses, 2. Say to Aaron and his sons, and all the Israelites, The Eter nal hath commanded, 3. That if any Israelite or sojourner kill an ox, a lamb, or a goat, in the camp, or out of it, to sacrifice it, 4. And bring it not to the tabernacle door, to offer his sacrifice there to the Eternal; or any who kills such to eat, and brings not their blood to offer it before the Eternal at his altar, shall be punished as one having shed blood, and be exterminated from his people; 5. So that the Israelites may not offer their sacrifices in the open field, but bring them to the tabernacle door to the priest, and offer them for thank-offerings to the Eternal; 6. That the priest may sprinkle the blood on the Eternal's altar at the tabernacle door, and burn the fat for a sweet savour.

7. They shall no more offer their sacrifices to de

mons (under the figure of he-goats), as the nations do after which they go a whoring. This shall be an ordinance to them for ever in all their generations.

8. And if any among you, whether Israelite or a stranger, offer any sacrifice, 9. And bring it not to the tabernacle door, to offer it to the Eternal, he shall be exterminated from his people.

10. And if any, whether an Israelite or a strang. er, eat any blood, my wrath shall wax hot against that man, and cut him off from among his people: 11. For the life is in the blood, and I have appoint ed it to make atonement for your lives on the altar, for it is by blood that atonement is made for the soul, Acts xv. 29. Heb. ix. 22.

12. Therefore I said to the Israelites, None of you, nor any stranger among you, shall eat blood. 13. And whether an Israelite or a stranger among you, taketh any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust; 14. For the life of every creature is in the blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

15. Ye shall not eat what dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts (because the blood is in it); if any, whether an Israelite or a stranger, do so, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening; 16. Which if he do not, he shall bear his iniquity.

CHAP. XVIII.

CANAANITISH CUSTOMS FORBIDDEN.

THE Eternal said also to Moses, 2. Tell the Israelites, As I, the Eternal, am their God, 3. They shall not conform to the evil customs and manners of the Egyptians among whom they dwell, nor to those of the Canaanites, into whose land I will bring them.

4. Ye shall keep my laws, and walk in my ways; I the Eternal am your God: 5. Which if you do,

it shall be well with you, (in the land I give you).

6. You shall not marry, or have any sexual connection with any near relations; 7. As father of mother; 8. Nor thy father's wife (who is not thy mother); 9. Nor thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or of thy mother; 10. Nor thy son's daugh ter, or thy daughter's daughter; 11. Nor thy father's wife's daughter; 12. Nor thy father's sister; 13. Nor thy mother's sister; 14. Nor thy father's brother's wife; 15. Nor thy son's wife; 16. Nor thy brother's wife; 17. Nor of both a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter;-they are too nearly related; it is incest wickedness: 18. Nor shalt thou take a wife to her sister while she lives, to excite jealousy.

19. Thou shalt not approach a woman during her menstruation, or any female uncleanness.

20. Thou shalt not approach thy neighbour's wife. 21. Thou shalt devote none of thy children to pass through the fire, for idolatry to Moloch, and so profane the name of the Eternal thy God.

22. Thou shalt not have connection with mankind as with woman-kind; it is an abomination. 23. Nor shall either man or woman have such connection with beasts; it is confusion.

24. Defile not yourselves by any such pollutions as the nations did which I cast out before cast out before you; be cause they did so, 25. And defiled my land; it loathes and vomits out its inhabitants; therefore do I punish them for their iniquities.

26. But ye shall observe my statutes and ordinances, that neither you nor your strangers among you do any such abominations, 27, 28. That it vomit not you out also. 29. For whoever do such abominations shall be cut off. 30. From all such customs shall ye abstain, and not defile yourselves; for I the Eternal am your God.

CHAP. XIX.

VARIOUS PRECEPTS.

AGAIN the Eternal said to Moses, 2. Say to all the congregation of the Israelites, Be ye holy, for I the Eternal, your God, am holy.

3. Every one shall reverence his parents, and keep my Sabbaths: I, the Eternal, am your God. 4. Turn not away from me to worship idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I, the Eternal, am your God.

5. And if ye offer an eucharistic sacrifice to the Eternal, and wishing it to be accepted, 6. It shall be eaten the day it is offered, and on the morrow; but if any of it remain till the third day, it shall be burnt; 7. For if it be eaten on that day, it is profaned, and shall not be accepted, S. And he who eateth it shall bear the punishment of his iniquity, because he hath profaned what was hallowed to the Eternal; he shall be exterminated from his people.

9. And when ye reap your harvest, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor gather the gleanings of your harvest; 10. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor gather every grape in it; but leave them for the poor and the stranger: I, the Eternal, am your God.

11. Ye shall not steal, nor deal falsely and deceitfully with one another.

12. You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Eter

nal.

13. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, nor oppress him; the wages of a hireling shalt thou not detain all night.

14. Thou shalt not revile the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but fear thy God: I am the Eternal (who give thee these commands). 15. Ye shall give no unrighteous judgement, e

ther to favour the poor or respect the great, but shall judge justly.

16. Thou shalt not go about as a false accuser among thy people; nor allow thy neighbour's blood to be shed, saith the Eternal.

17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother, or thy neighbour, in thy heart, but rebuke him, that ye may not share in his sin.

18. Thou shalt not be revengeful, or spiteful, against thy people, but shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, saith the Eternal.

19. Thou shalt keep my precepts; thou shalt not let thy cattle propagate with different kinds; nor sow thy field with mingled seeds; nor put on a garment of linen and woolen, (superstitiously, like Pagans).

20. Whoever seduceth his bond-maid, who was betrothed to a husband, but not redeemed, nor had got her freedom, shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, as she was not free. 21. And he shall bring a ram for a trespass-offering, to the tabernacle door, before the Eternal; 22. And the priest shall make atonement for him, that his sin may be remitted.

23. And when ye come into the land which ye are to possess, and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you shall not eat their fruit for three years (being so long unsalutary); it shall be accounted uncircumcised. 24. And in the fourth year, it shall be all consecrated with thanksgiving to the Eternal, (for the widow, fatherless, and strangers). 25. But in the fifth year you shall eat the fruit, which it shall produce abundantly, by the blessings of the Eternal, your God.

26. Ye shall eat nothing with the blood in it; nor use enchantments, nor observe times as lucky, or unlucky.

27. You shall not (superstitiously, or necromantically,) shave the co:ners of your heads or beards