ites, and the Jebuzites, these shall ye utterly destroy, as the Eternal your God commanded you, 18. That ye may not learn their abominable idol atries. 19. When you besiege a city long, beware of cutting down fruit-trees to employ in the siege, as they support the life of man: 20. Others only you may cut down to employ in the siege. CHAP. XXI. EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. If one be found murdered in the land which the Eternal your God hath given you, and the murderer be not found, nor known, 2. Then the elders and judges shall measure the distance to the cities around. Then the elders of the city next to the murdered, shall take a beeve that hath not bore the yoke, 4. And shall bring it to the valley that hath not been cultivated, and strike off its head there: Then the priests, Levi's sons, shall approach, as the Eternal your God hath chosen them to minister to him, and to bless the people in his name; and by their word shall every controversy and strife be decided (being accompanied with the other elders or judges). 6. Then all the elders of the city next to the murdered shall wash their hands over the slain beeve; 7.And say, We know not who murdered this man. 8. Be mersiful, O Eternal, to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redemed, and who are innocent of this blood; then they shall not be charged guilty of it. 9. Thus shall ye remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when ye do what is right in the sight of the Eternal. 10. When the Eternal your God delivers your enemies, against whom ye fought, into your hand, 11. And thou seest among the captives a beautiful woman, whom thou desirest for a wife; 12. Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails, 13. And put off the raiment of her captivity, and bewail her father and mother in thine house a full month, and after that thou shalt make her thy wife. 14. But if thou delightest not in her, thou shalt not sell her for a bond-woman, nor make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her, but thou shalt let her go whither she will. 15. If a man have two wives, having both children, and love the one more than the other; if the first-born be her's that was less beloved, 16. He may not give the birth-right to the first son of the most beloved, 17. But the first son of the other, being the first-born son, shall have the double portion, as belonging to the first-born. 18. A stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey his father and mother, nor be amended by chastisement, 19. Shall be brought by his parents to the elders of the city at the gate; 20. Who shall be informed that their son is stubborn, rebellious, and disobedient, a profligate, and a drunkard; 21. And all the men of the city shall stone him to death, that all Israel may hear and fear: so shall ye remove evil from among you. 22. If a man commit a notorious crime, for which he is not only to be put to death, but after that hung up as a spectacle between heaven and earth (as accursed from both), 23. His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but be removed out of sight, being buried that very day, that the land which the Eternal your God hath given you be not polluted, for he that is hanged, has the curse of God upon him and the tree. CHAP. XXII. OF EQUITY AND HUMANITY. If thou see thy neighbour's cattle wander, thou shalt not neglect them, but bring them back to him; 2. And if the owner live far from thee, or thou know him not, thou shalt bring the straying cattle to thy habitation, and keep them till he seek after them, and then restore them. 3. With any thing which is lost that thou findest, thou shalt do likewise; thou mayest not neglect it. 4. If thou see thy neighbour's ox or ass fall down under his burden, thou shalt help him to lift them up. 5. A woman shall not put on a man's apparel, nor any thing pertaining to him; nor shall a man wear a woman's dress, for this is an abomination before the Eternal thy God. 6. If by chance thou findest a nest on thy way, and the mother sitting on the eggs or the young, thou shalt not take her with them, 7. But let her go, lest thy too great cruelty make it go ill with thee, and cut short thy life. 8. When thou buildest a house thou shalt make a battlement around the flat roof, lest any walking thereon fall off from it, and the guilt of his blood be upon thine house. 9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard or field with a mixture of divers seeds (as the heathens do, magically and superstitiously), to pollute it. 10. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together (as the heathens do, superstitiously). 11. Thou shalt not wear a garment mixt of differ ent things, such as woolen and linen (after the magical customs of the heathens). 12. Thou shalt make tiers at the corners of thy vesture to bind it on lest it open, and thou be uncovered to thy shame. 13. If any man take a wife and dislike her, 14. And raise an evil report against her, saying, She was not a virgin; 15. Then her parents shall bring the evidences of her virtue to the elders of the city at the gate. 16.The father shall say, I gave this man my daughter for a wife, and he hateth her; 17. And raised an evil report against her, saying, She was not a virgin, and they shall shew the evidences of her virtue before the elders of the city; 18. Who shall chastise him, 19. And amerce him in an hun. red shekels of silver to be given to her father, because he hath raised an evil report against a virgin, in Israel, and she shall continue to be his wife: all his days he may not put her away. 20. But if what he says be true, and there be no evidences of her virginity produced, 21. Then she shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and stoned to death, in the same manner as an adulteress, because she acted the whore in her father's house, and imposed upon her husband, working folly in Israel: thus shall ye remove evil from you. 22. And if a man have connexion with a married woman they shall both be put to death; so shall ye put away evil from Israel. 23. If a virgin promised in marriage to a man, have carnal connexion with another man in the city, without violence, 24. They shall both be stoned to death at the gate, as an adulterer and an adulteress, the woman because she concurred without violence, and the man because he humbled his neighbour's betrothed wife. Thus shall ye remove evil from among you. 25. But if a man find a betrothed maid in the field, and violently humble her, he only shall die: 26. She is not worthy of death, because she suffered violence, like one that is murdered by his neighbour, 27. When there was none to deliver. 28. If a man seduce a virgin who is not promised to be given in marriage, 29. He shall give her father fifty shekels of silver (as the dowery of a virgin), and she shall be his wife; because he humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30. A man shall not marry any of his father's wives after his death. CHAP. XXIII. WHO MAY BE ENROlled. A MALE not perfect in his sex shall not be enrolled in the catalogue with the rest. 2. Nor shalt thou intermarry with the bastards of a common strumpet, until the tenth generation. 3. Nor with any man of Ammon's or Moab's incestuous race, till the same term, that is forever (because relation by blood is no further reckoned): 4. Because also of their want of hospitality; yea, and enmity to you when strangers, as they went not to meet you with bread and water in the way from Egypt; but sent for Balaam from Mesopotamia, and hired him to curse you. 5. But the Eternal your God turned the intended curse into a blessing, because he lov ed you. 6. Thou shalt never promote their welfare or prosperity. 7. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; nor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8. Their offspring shall be numbered in the Eternal's congregation for intermarriage in the third generation. 9. When thine host attacks thine enemies, beware of doing any thing that is wrong. 10. If any be unclean, the uncleanness happen. ing by night, he shall go out of the camp all that day, 11. And wash himself, and in the evening come into the camp when the sun's light departs. 12. Thou shalt also go out of the camp to a destined place, 13. And with an instrument for the purpose, bury thy excrements (that the air be not rendered infectious by putrefaction): 14.For the Eternal thy God is in the midst of thy camp, to preserve thee from every evil, and to defeat thine enemies; therefore shall thy camp be pure, that he may behold no impurity or indecency, to forsake thee. 15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the |