28. Ye shall not make any cuttings, nor any marks upon your bodies, for the dead, saith the Eternal.

29. Expose not your daughters to be harlots; lest whoredom, and every wickedness, fill the land. 30. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence mine ordinances, saith the Eternal.

31. Regard not necromancers, or speakers from the bowels, nor seek after fortune-tellers, to pollute yourselves, saith the Eternal.

32. Thou shalt rise and give place to the hoary head, and honour the aged, from reverence to thy God, saith the Eternal.

33. And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, thou shalt not disquiet him, 34. But behave friendly to him, treating him as a native, and love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in Egypt; I am the Eternal your God.

35. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, nor in rule, weight or measure, 36. But keep just ones, saith the Eternal your God, who delivered you from Egyptian bondage. 37. Therefore shall ye observe all his ordinances, and practice his pre cepts, saith the Eternal.

CHAP. XX,

NEW PROHIBITIONS OF IDOLATRY, &c.

THE Eternal said also to Moses, 2. Thou shalt say again to the Israelites, If any of you, or of the strangers among you, offer any of his children to Molech, he shall be stoned to death by the people. 3. For I will be against such a man, to cut him off from among his people, because he hath despised my worship, to profane my holy name. 4. And if any of the people shut their eyes at such a man, and cut him not off; 5. Then I will be against such a man, and his house, to cut him off, and all that go a whoring with him to Molech.

6. And I will be against such as go astray after

necromancers, pretending to recal departed spirits by magic arts, and to divine; and cut them off from their people.

7. Purify yourselves and be holy, for I the Eternal, your God, am holy. 8. Ye shall observe my statutes; I am the Eternal who sanctify you.

9. Whoever curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death; his blood shall be on his own head. 10. And if any commit adultery, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

11. And if any humble his father's wife, both he and she shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

12. And if any humble his daughter-in-law, they shall be put to death, they have done incest; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

13. And if any man have connection with the male sex, as with the female, they shall both be put to death, having committed abomination; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

14. And if a man take to his bed both daughter and mother, it is incestuous wickedness, for which both he and they shall be burnt; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

15, 16. And if a man or a woman have connection with a beast, they shall be put to death, and it shall be slain; their blood shall be on their own heads.

17. And if a man humble his sister, his father's or his mother's daughter, or expose one another's nakedness, it is a shameless wickedness, they shall be cut off from the people; their blood shall be on their own heads.

18. And if a man have connection with a woman in her sickness, they shall both be cut off from among the people, uncovering her blood, and corrupting it.

19. And if any humble his father's or his mother's sister, their blood shall be upon them.

20. And if any humble his uncle's wife, their

blood shall be on their own heads, they shall die childless.

21. And if a man take his brother's wife, who was divorced, it is abomination; they shall be childless.

22. Ye shall observe all my statutes, and judge. ments, diligently, that the land which I bring you to vomit you not out.

23. Ye shall not conform to the manners of the nations I cast out before you; because they com. mitted all these things, I abhorred them,

24. But I separated you from other people, and promised, and will give you that land which floweth with milk and honey: I, the Eternal, am your God,

25. Ye shall distinguish between clean and unelean beasts, and fowls; and not pollute yourselves thereby, or by any creeping thing, which I appoint ed to be separated from you, as unclean.

26. Ye shall be a holy people to me, for I, the Eternal, am holy, and separated you from other people, to be mine.

27. A man or woman that is a necromancer, conjuring departed spirits, to divine for imposture, shall be stoned to death; their blood shall be on their own heads.

CHAP. XXI.

LAWS FOR THE PRIESTS.

THE Eternal said also to Moses, Tell the priests, Aaron's sons, that none of them shall defile themselves for the dead, that are not nearly related to them, by touching or burying them, and thus be interrupted in performing their office; 2. But for their parents, or children, or brothers, 3. Or sisters by both parents, that are virgins, they may defile themselves by funeral offices.

4. But the high priest shall not defile himself, to profane himself, he being the chief man among his

people. 5. The priests shall not make their heads bald, nor shave the corners of their beards, nor make any cutting in their flesh, (as others do, in their mourning): 6. For they shall be holy to their God, and shall not by these things profane his name, because they offer the fire-offerings of the Eternal, and the sacred loaves of bread, for a memorial of the twelve tribes, to their God; therefore they shall be holy. 7. They shall not marry a profane woman, or a prostitute, or a divorced one; because they are consecrated to God.

8. Therefore the people shall account them sacred, as he offereth the sacred bread, as a memorial of them to their God; for the Eternal who sanctifies them is holy. 9. And if a priest's daughter pollute herself by whoredom, she dishonours her father; she shall be burnt.

10. And the high priest, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, being consecrated to put on the sacred garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes, in mourning. 11. Nor shall he approach any dead body, to defile himself, not even for his father or mother. 12. Neither shall be depart from the sanctuary of his God, lest he profane it; for the anointing oil of his God, and the holy crown, is upon his head, saith the Eternal.

13. He shall marry a virgin of his own people; 14. Not a widow, nor one divorced, or profane, or a strumpet, 15. That he may not produce a profane offspring, unfit for the sacred office among his people; for the Eternal hath consecrated him.

16. The Eternal said also to Moses, 17. Say to Aaron, If any of thy posterity, in any age, hath any blemish, he shall not execute the priest's office, or approach to God to offer sacrifices, or the sacred bread, the memorial of the people. 18. If he be blind, or lame, or in any thing defective, or superfluous, or deformed, 19. Or has a foot or hand maimed, 20. Or be crooked, or a dwarf, or with a

fault in his eye, or the scurvy, or a rupture, or not perfect in his sex; 21, 22. Such may eat the consecrated, most sacred bread of the loaves, and the sacred bread of the peace-offerings: 23. But he shall not go into the holy place, before the vail, nor ap proach the altar, that he profane not the sanctuary, which the Eternal hath consecrated.

24. Then Moses told these things to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelites.

CHAP. XXII.

PRIESTS WHEN TO KEEP FROM HOLY THINGS,

THE Eternal said also to Moses, 2. Tell Aaron and his sons, to separate themselves from the conse crated offerings of the Israelites, (when they have any uncleanness); that they profane not my holy name in these things which they consecrate to me. 2. Say to them, Whoever of your seed, in any age, approaches the sacred things the Israelites consecrate to the Eternal, having any uncleanness, he shall be cut off from my presence, saith the Eternal, 1 Cor. xi. 29.

4. If any man have the leprosy, or gonorrhea is sue, he shall not eat of the sacred things till he is clean.

5. Whoever toucheth any thing unclean by the dead, or on his seminal fluid, or on any creeping thing, which may pollute him, or one that hath any uncleanness, 6. Shall be unclean till the even, and not eat of the secret things, unless he wash himself in water. 7. And when the sun's light is gone, he shall become clean, and afterward eat of the sacred things, because they are his portion.

8. He shall not eat what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, to pollute himself, saith the Eternal.

9. They shall observe my precepts, that they become not guilty, and die, if they profane the holy things, which I, the Eternal consecrate.