may turn his fierce anger from you, and shew thee mercy and compassion, and multiply thee, as he promised to thy fathers; 18. When thou shalt hearken to his word, keeping all his commands, doing what is right in his sight.

CHAP. XIV.

WHAT MAY BE EATEN, AND WHAT NOT.

YE who are the children of the Eternal your God, shall not cut yourselves, nor make bald your forehead, on account of the dead (like Pagans). 2. For thou art a people devoted to the Eternal thy God, who hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to him self, above all the nations on earth.

3. Thou shalt eat nothing that is unclean (being unwholesome). 4. These are the beasts fit for food; -the ox, the sheep, and the goat; 5. The hart, the antelope, the fallow deer, the wild goat, the pygarg, the wood goat, and the camelopard; 6. And every beast that cheweth the cud, and is cloven footed, dividing the hoof into two parts: 7. But the camel, the hare, and the rabbit, are unclean, as they divide not the hoof, though they chew the cud; 8. And the swine, though it divide the hoof, as it chews not the cud, is unclean; ye shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their dead carcases.

9. Ye may eat all fishes that have fins and scales; 10. The rest are unsalutary.

11. The unclean birds are, 12. The eagle, the vulture, the ospray, 13. The falcon, the kite, the gledes of every kind; 14. The raven kind; 15. The ostrich kind; the owl, the horned owl, the night hawk, all the hawk kind; 16.The ibis, the swan, 17. The pelican, the magpie, the cormorant, 18. The stork, the heron of every kind, the lapwing, the bat; 19. And every creeping thing that also flieth. 20. Ye may eat all clean fowls.

21. Thou shalt not eat what died of itself; thou

mayst give it to the stranger, or sell it to a foreigner; thou art a people devoted to the Eternal thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk, (as the Heathens do).

22. Thou shalt tithe the produce of thy field. 23. Thou shalt eat the last tithe of thy corn, wine, and oil, and of the firstlings of thy herds and flocks, before the sanctuary of the Eternal thy God, where he hath chosen to manifest his presence, that thou mayest learn to fear him always. 24. But if it be too far distant, 25. Thou shalt sell these tithes, and take the price there, 26. And purchase what meat and drink thou desirest; and eat, and rejoice before the Eternal thy God, with thy household.

27. Thou shalt not neglect the Levite in thy city; for he hath no part in the land with thee. 28. Every third year's tithe thou shalt lay up in thy city, 29. To entertain the Levite, as he hath no share with thee in the land; and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that the Eternal may bless thee in all thy endeavours,

CHAP. XV.

THE SEVENTH YEAR A YEAR OF RELEASE.

At the end of every seven years there shall be a release. 2. Thus every creditor that lendeth any thing to his brother or neighbour shall not require it after that, because it is the Eternal's release. 3. Of a foreigner thou mayest require it, but not of a brother, 4. If he is poor, (that by this means there may be no poor among you), for the Eternal thy. God shall greatly bless thee in the land he giveth thee to possess, 5. If thou carefully hearken to his word, obeying all his commands. 6. That he may bless thee according to his promise, that thou mayest lend to many nations, and not borrow, and reign over many, but none reign over thee.

7. If any of thy brethren be poor in thy city in

the land which the Eternal thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from him; 8. But open it liberally to him, and lend him a sufficiency of what he wanteth for his need. 9. Beware of thinking in thy wicked heart that the seventh year for release is at hand, and thou see his need without pity, giving him nought, and he cry to the Eternal against thee for this thy sin. 10. Thou shalt surely give him without grudging, as for so doing the Eternal thy God shall bless thee in all thy endeavours; 11. For there shall be always poor in the land for the trial of thy charity; therefore I command thee to open thine hand liberally to thy brother, the poor and needy.

12. And if a Hebrew man or woman be sold to thee, being of thy brethren, thou shalt liberate him in the seventh year; 13. And not let him go empty, but give him a compensation, 14. Liberally out of thy flock, and thy barn, and winepress, and of all wherewith the Eternal thy God hath blessed thee.

15. Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Eternal redeemed thee; therefore he commands thee to do thus.

16. But if he finds his situation such that he wishes to continue it, 17. Thou shalt bore his ear, denoting that he is to be a perpetual servant till Jubilee; and with a maid servant it shall be done likewise. 18. Thou shalt not grudge to give a bondservant for six years double compensations of a hired servant, who is but for three years. 19. Thou shalt set apart all the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock that are males to the Eternal; the firstlings of thy bullocks shall do no work, and those of thy sheep shall not be shorn. 20. Thou and thy household shall eat it yearly before the Eternal's sanctuary. 21. If it have any blemish, being lame or blind, thou shalt not sacrifice it. 22. But both the clean and unclean persons may eat it in thy city, as the hart and the roebuck; 23. Only thou shalt not eat the blood, but pour it on the earth as water.

CHAP. XVI.

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, &c.

OBSERVE the month Abib (March), to keep the passover to the Eternal thy God in it, for therein he delivered thee from Egypt, after the night of the passover. 2. Thou shalt sacrifice with it other of ferings of the flock, or of the herd, before his sanctuary, in the place where his name is recorded by the visible symbol of his presence..

3. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; to remember all thy life of coming out of Egypt in haste, and of thine affliction in it. 4. There shall be no leavened bread in all thy coasts for seven days; neither shall the passover flesh sacrificed the first day of the seven at even, remain till the morning.

5. Thou shalt not sacrifice the passover in thy cities; 6. But in the place where the visible symbol of the Divine presence is, and in the evening when the sun's light departs, when thou camest out of Egypt. 7. Thou shalt roast and eat it, and in the morning return home.

8. The first and the seventh day of the passover thou shalt keep holy, doing no work, and in it all shall assemble for divine worship. 9. From this time, when thou beginnest to reap, thou shalt number seven weeks (for Pentecost), as at Sinai. 10. And

then keep a feast to the Eternal thy God, with the tribute of a free-will offering to him (for giving the law), according as he hath blessed thee. 11. And thou shalt rejoice before the Eternal thy God, with thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and stranger, the fatherless, and widow, among you, in the place where the Eternal hath chosen to have his name recorded, by the visible symbol of his presence.

12. Observe all these statutes, remembering that thou wast in bondage in Egypt.

13. Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles (in

September) seven days after thou hast gathered in thy corn, wine, and oil. 14. And rejoice in thy feast, with thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that are in thy city. 15. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast to the Eternal thy God at his sanctuary; because he did bless thee in thy encrease, and in all thy undertakings; therefore thou shalt rejoice in him, (Levit. xxiii. 40).

16. Three times in the year shall all the males appear before the sanctuary, at the feasts of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles; and not without presents, (to entertain the needy). 17. Every one shall give according to his ability, as the Eternal God hath blessed him.

18. Thou shalt appoint judges and officers in all thy cities, in every tribe, to judge the people justly.

19. Thou shalt not pervert judgement by taking bribes, or respecting persons: bribes blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

20. Thou shalt practise justice fully, that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Eternal thy God giveth thee.

21. Thou shalt not plant a grove near the Eternal thy God's altar; 22. Nor have any image; as the Eternal thy God abhors it.

CHAP. XVII.

THINGS SACRIFICED MUST BE SOUND.

THOU shalt not offer beasts, or any thing that hath any blemish, to the Eternal thy God, for that were an abomination to him.

2. If any man or woman, in any of thy cities, hath done wickedly, by transgressing the Eternal thy God's covenant, 3. And worshipping other gods, as the sun, or moon, or stars, which I com manded not; 4. And it be certainly found that