man shall lie with his uncle's wife- be hath uncovered his uncle's naked- ness— they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ^And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be ihildless.
MYe shaft therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them, that the land, whither [ bring you to dwell therein, vomit LEVITICUS you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said unto you: ' Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples. 25Ye shall therefore separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and ye shall not make your souls detestable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26And ye shall be holy "unto Me; for I the LORD am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be Mine.
27A man also or a woman that diyineth by a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.
O -j And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people; 2except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother; 3and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself. 4He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. *They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer; therefore they shall be holy. 7They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profaned; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. 8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of fchy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. 9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10And ^the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes; "neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12nerther shall he go out of tne sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. ^And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife. 15And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him.
16And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed through- out their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18For whatso- ever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long, LEVITICUS LEVITICUS 19or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; ^no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come to offer the bread of his God. ^He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. ^Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LOED who sanctify them. ^So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
O O And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate them- selves from the holy things of the chil- dren of Israel, which they hallow unto • Me, and that they profane not My holy name: I am the LOED. 3Say unto them: Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LOED, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before Me: I am the LOED. 4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso touch- eth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; 6or whosoever toucheth any swarming thing, where- by he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take unclean- ness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; Hhe soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. 7And when the sun is down, h6 shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. 8That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LOED. 9They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LOED who sanctify them. 10There shall no acommon man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. uBut if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of Ms money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of * That is, one who is not a pnest.
his bread. 12And if a priest's daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things. wBut if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof. 14And if a man eat of the holy thing through error, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing. 15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, wMch they set apart unto the LOED; 16and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LOED who sanctify them.
17And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 18Speak unto Aaron, and to lis sons, and unto all the children of [srael, and say unto them: Whosoever he be of the house of [srael, or of the strangers in Israel, that bringeth his offering, whether it LEVITICUS LEVITICUS be any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings, which are brought unto the LORD for a burnt-offering; 19that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not bring; for it shall not be acceptable for you. 2lAnd whosoever bringeth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LOKD in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for a freewill- offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. ^Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall vnot offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. ^Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing too long or too short, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. ^That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land. 26Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corrup- tion is in them, there is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you. ( 26And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 27When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; but from the eighth day and thenceforth it may be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day. 29And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanks- giving unto the LORD, ye shall sacrifice it that ye may be accepted. 300n the same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until the morning: I am the LORD. 31And ye shall keep My commandments, and do them: I atn the LORD. S2And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, ^that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
00 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: The appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy con- vocations, even these are My appointed seasons. sSix days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation^ ye shall do no manner of work; it is a sabbath unto the LORD in all your dwellings.
^hese are the appointed seasons of the LORD, even holy^ convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their ap- pointed season. 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD'S passover. 6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat un- leavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. 8And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
9And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye are come into the land which 1 give unto you, and shall reap the har- vest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest. uAnd he shall wave LEVITICUS the sheaf before the LOUD, to be accepted for you; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he- lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 13And the meal-offering there- of shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the offer- ing of your God; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the May of rest, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete; 16even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD. 17Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits unto the LORD. 18And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 19And,ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a waveoffering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convoca- tion unto you; ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger I am the LORD your God.
^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: In the 'seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation. 25Ye -shall do no manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
d the LORD spoke unto Moses, » Heb. sabbath.
saying 27Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atone- ment; there shall be a holy convoca- tion unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people. 30And whatsoever soul it be that docth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. 31Ye shall do no manner of work; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all LEVITICUS your dwellings. ^It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.
33And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 350n the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. 36Seven days ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; on the eighth day shall be a holy convoca- tion unto you; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a day of solemn assembly; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
37These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day; 38beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your Vows, and be- side all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. ^And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month. shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-bora in Israel shall dwell in booths; ^hat your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. ^And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the LORD.
O A And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2CCommand the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. 4He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD contin- ually.
5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. 6And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table "before the LORD. 7And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 8Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. 9And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual due/ 10And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyp- LEVITICUS tian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. uAnd the son of the Israehtish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ^And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.
^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 14'Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. 16And he that blas- phemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to ^death; ah1 the congregation shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death. 17And he that smit- eth any man mortally shall surely be put to death. 18And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life. 19And if a man maim his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: 20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath maimed a man, so shall it be rendered unto him. 21And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. ^Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.' ^And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. -And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying: 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof. 4But m the seventh year shall be a sab- bath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard, ^hat which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land 6And the sabbath-produce of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for the settler by thy side that sojourn with thee; 7and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.
8And thou shalt number seven sab- baths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years. 9Then shalt thou make proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make proclama- tion with the horn throughout all your land. 10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the in- habitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto^ his family. "A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be LEVITICUS unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. -^For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13In this year of jubilee ye shall re- turn every man unto his possession. 14And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another. "According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee. 16According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and accord- ing to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee. 17And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God. 18Where- fore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety. 20And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase'; ^then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it [ bring forth produce for the three years. ^And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store. ^And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me. ^And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemp- tion for the land. ^If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold, 26And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it; 27then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession. 28But if he have not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubi- lee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his posses- sion.
29And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption. 30And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee. 3lBut the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reck- oned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption. ^An;! if a man pur- chase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his posses- sion, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the chil- dren of Israel. ^But the fields of the open land about their cities may not* be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
LEVITICUS LEVITICUS 35And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee. 36Take th6u no interest of him or in- crease; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37Thou shalt not give him thy money up- on interest, nor give Mm thy vict- uals for increase. 38I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant. 40As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee. ^Then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. ^For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. ^Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. **And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bond- maids. ^Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten ha your land; and they may be your possession. ^And ye may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession: of them may ye take your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over! another, with rigour.
47And if a stranger who is a settler with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger who is "a settler with thee, or to the offshoot of a stranger's family, ^after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him; 49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may re- deem him; or if he be waxen rich, he may redeem himself. 50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be accord- ing unto the number of years; accord- ing to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. alf there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption. ^As a serv- ant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. ^And if he be not redeemed by any of these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him. ^For unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
^J Ye shall make you no idols, u neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God. 2Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD, LEVITICUS Tipm