morning. 4. Thus shall the lamps upon the pure golden candlestick be arranged, by a perpetual sta tute in your generations.

5. And twelve cakes shall be baken of fine flour, two tenth parts of an ephath in one cake. 6. Thoushalt set them in two rows, six in a pile, on the pure. golden table before the Eternal. 7. Thou shalt put pure incense on each row, to be burnt for a memorial instead of the bread, a fire offering to the Eternal, on the Sabbath, when the bread is eaten : 8. Every Sabbath he shall so place it in order before the Eternal, being taken from the Israelites, by a perpetual covenant for this end. 9. It shall be Aaron's and his sons', to eat in the holy place, being to him most holy of the Eternal's fire-offerings, by a perpetual statute.

10. Now the son of a Jewess, and of an Egyptian, went out from among the Israelites, and strove with a man of Israel in the camp. 11. His mother's name was Shelomith, Dibri's daughter, of Dan's tribe. And he blasphemed the Eternal's name, and cursed. 12. Then they brought him to Moses, and put him in ward, till the Eternal's mind was known to them.

13. The Eternal said to Moses, 14. Bring him who cursed out of the camp, and let all that heard him lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone him. 15. And say to the Israelites, Whoever revileth his God shall bear the pu nishment of his sin. 16. Whoever blasphemeth the Eternal's name, whether he be a stranger or born in the land, shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him. 17. And he that committeth any murder shall surely be put to death. 18. And he that killeth any man's beast shall make full reparation to the owner, by giving him another equally good. 19. And if any one wittingly do hurt to his neighbour, according to what he hath done, shall it be done to him. 10. Blemish for blemish, eye

for eye, tooth for tooth; 22. Restitution in kind or value shall be made for his neighbour's goods, and retaliation for the injury done to his person. 22. The law shall be the same for the stranger and the native, saith the Eternal your God.

23. Then Moses commanded the Israelites to bring him that cursed out of the camp, and stone him; and they did as the Eternal commanded Moses.

CHAP. XXV.

THE SABBATICAL, AND JUBILEE YEARS.

THE Eternal said also to Moses at Mount Sinai, 2. Say to the Israelites, When ye come into the land I give you, it shall rest the seventh year, as a Sabbath to the Eternal. 3. Ye shall sow your fields, and prune your vineyards, and gather their fruit six years, 4. But not on the seventh; 5. For thou shalt not reap what grows on thy field without culture, nor gather the grapes of thy vine that was not prun. ed; it is a year of rest to the land. 6. The self-crop shall be a common good for thee, and thy man-ser vant, and maid-servant, and thy hired labourer, and the stranger among you; 7. And for thy cattle, and for the wild beasts of the field.

8. And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven (i. e. forty-nine years). 9. Then shall the Jubilee trumpet be sounded, on the tenth day of the seventh month, through all the land, being the great day of atonement. 10. Ye shall hal

low the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty through all the land, to all its inhabitants; and every man shall have his mortgaged habitation or inheritance restored to him, and recover all he had forfeited or lost, since the last Jubilee.

11. The Jubilee shall be a joyful sound of good news and glad tidings to you; therefore ye shall not sow, nor reap, what groweth of itself, nor gather the grapes of thy vineyard undressed, in the fiftieth year.

12. Being the Jubilee, it shall be holy to you; ye shall eat therein in common what the field produceth.

13. And every one shall return to his former house or possession, which by poverty, or any other necessity, he had lost. 14. Thou shalt not take the advantage of the ignorance or necessity of thy neighbour, in buying or selling; nor any way oppress one another.

15. According to the number of years from the last Jubilee until the next, shall possessions and their fruits be valued, which thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, or sell to him; 16. Their price shall be more or less, according to that number.

17. Ye shall fear God, and deal in no injustice or oppression, saith the Eternal your God. 18. If ye observe my statutes and judgements, it shall be well with you; ye shall possess your land in peace and safety; 19. And it shall be fruitful, and yield you plenty of provision. 20. Say not, What shall we eat the seventh year, as we neither sow nor gather fruits? 21. For I will ordain such blessings for you in the sixth year, that it shall produce fruit for three years. 22. Ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit, until the ninth year's fruits be ripe.

23. Ye shall not sell lands forever, for the land is mine, and ye are but strangers and sojourners with me in it. 24. Land shall be sold with the condition of being redeemable. 25. So that if thy brother, or neighbour, become poor, and sell some of his possession, if his brother, or any of his kindred chuse, he may redeem it: 26. Or if he that sold it become able to redeem it, 27. Let him count the years since it has been sold, and restore the surplus unto him who bought it, that he may return to his possession. 28. But if he that bought it be not able to restore it, he shall possess it, till the Jubilee; when all possessions return to their former owners. 29. If one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, may redeem it within a year after it was sold:

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30. But if it be not redeemed then, it shall be excepted, and not return in the Jubilee to its former possessor; because it is in a walled city.

31. But the houses in villages, without walls, shall be reckoned as the lands in the country, they may be redeemed; and they shall return to their former possessors at the Jubilee.

32. The Levites' cities, and their houses in cities, may be redeemed by them at any time. 33. Whatever houses or cities they sell shall return to them at the Jubilee; for they have no other possessions among the Israelites, 34. Except the fields of the suburbs of their cities, which may not be sold, for they are their perpetual possession.

35. If thy reighbour become poor and distressed, thou shalt relieve him, that he may live comfortably with thee: though he be a stranger or sojourner, thoushalt treat him as a brother. 36. Thou shalt take no usury or reward of him, for money or victuals; but fear thy God, that he may live with thee, 37, 38. Saith the Eternal, your God, who delivered you from Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39. If thy neighbour become poor, and be sold to thee for his debt, he shall not serve thee as a bondservant; 40. But as a hired sojourner, till the Jubilee; 41. And then shall he depart from thee, with his children, to his own family, and his father's house and possession. 42. For they are my servants, (saith the Eternal), whom I delivered from Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men. 43. Thou shalt fear thy God, and not rule over them with rigour.

44. Thy bond-men, and bond-maids, shall be of the Heathens among you (who chose rather to sell themselves, to serve thee, than to depart from thy land, or become proselytes, and renounce their idolatry). 45. Thou mayst also purchase the children of strangers that sojourn with thee for bond-men, being born in thy land, (if they chuse rather to be such,

than to renounce idolatry, and worship the Eternal, or depart from his land). 46. But with those of your race that worship your God, it shall not be so, ye shall not rule with severity.

47. If a sojourning stranger become rich among you, and thy brother become poor beside him, and sell himself to him or his posterity, 48. He may be redeemed by one of his brethren; 49. As his uncle, or his uncle's son, or any that is nearly relat ed; or if he is able, he may redeem himself. 50. And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he sold himself to him till the Jubilee; and the price of the redemption shall be accordingly: and according to the time of an hired servant, 51. Shall he give back of the money, for which he was bought. 52, 53. As a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: thou shalt not suffer any to rule with rigour. 54. If an Israelite be not redeemed till the Jubilee, he and his children shall then be free: 55. For the Israelites are my servants, whom I redeemed from Egypt, saith the Eternal, your God.

CHAP. XXVI.

OF IDOLATRY, RELIGIOUSNESS, &c.

YE shall make no carved idols or statues, nor set up emblematic stones in your land, to adore at them; for I, the Eternal, am your God: 2. Therefore shall ye keep my Sabbaths, and reverence mine ordinances, saith the Eternal. 3. If ye walk according to my laws, and keep my commands, 4. Then I will give you the former and latter rain in their due seasons, (October and March, to make the seed spring up and fill the ear); and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall produce their fruits. 5. Your threshing shall continue to the vintage,and it shall continue until seed-time, and ye shall have abundance of provision, and dwell in your land safely; 6. For I will give peace in the land: