DEUTERONOMY and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. 6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof wholly cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye may eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you; 8and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
9These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 10and whatso- ever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
U0f all clean birds ye may eat. ^But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; wand the glede; and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds; 14and every raven after its kinds; "and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea- mew, and the hawk after its kinds; 16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl; 17and the peli- can, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant; *8and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19And all winged swarm- ing things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten. 200f all clean winged things ye may eat.
21Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself; thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people unto the LOUD thy f God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's f Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which is brought forth in the field year by year. ^And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first- lings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. ^And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee; 25then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose. 26And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul de- sireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for what- soever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27Ajad the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no por- tion nor inheritance with thee.
28At the end of every three years, even in the same year, thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine in- crease, and shalt lay it up within thy rtes. 29And the Levite, because he ith no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the father- less, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. "I K At the end of every seven years AtJ thou shalt make a release. 2And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he DEUTERONOMY hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. 30f a foreign- er thou mayest exact it; but what- soever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. 4Howbeit there shall be no needy among you — for the LORD will surely bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to pos- sess it — 5if only thou diligently heark- en unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day. 6For the LORD thy God will bless thee, as He promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not bor- row; and thou shalt rule over many na- tions, but they shall not rule over thee. 7If there be among you a ^needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; 8but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him suf- ficient for his need in that which he wanteth. 9Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand7; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee. 10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. uFor the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy poor and needy brother, in thy land.'
12lf thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. ^And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; 14thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing- floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God re- deemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; 17then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. -And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do like- wise. 18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.
"All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. 20Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 21And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. ^hou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. ^Only thou shalt not DEUTERONOMY eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water. "j £J Observe the month of Abib, and •L*J keep the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2And thou shalt sacrifice the passover- offering unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread there- with, even the bread of affliction; for in haste didst thou come forth out of the land of Egypt; that thou may- est remember the day when thou earnest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, re- main all night until the morning, ^hou mayest not sacrifice the pass- over-ofTering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee; 6but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou earnest forth out of Egypt. 7And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the' seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.
9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee. llAnd thou shalt re- joice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid- servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13Thou shalt keep the feast of taber- nacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing- floor and from thy winepress. 14And thou shalt re j oice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine in- crease, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful. l6Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty; 17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee.
OTMDttl 18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD DEUTERONOMY thy God giveth thee, tribe by tribe; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not re- spect persons; neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pecvert the words of the righteous. 20Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
21Thou shalt not plant thee ^ Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. ^Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth. 1 rr Thou shalt not sacrifice unto x ' the Lop thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
2If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing His covenant, sand hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have commanded not; 4and it be told thee, and thou hear it, then shalt thou inquire diligently, and, be- hold, if it be true, and the thing cer- tain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; ^hen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who have done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them with stones, that they die. 6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood • and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the pkce which the LORD thy God shall choose. 9And thou shalt come unto the priests the Leyites, and unto the judge that shall be^in those days; and thou shalt in- quire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment. 10And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall de- clare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee. "According to the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. ^And the man that doeth pre- sumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt exterminate the evil from Israel. ^And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein; and shalt say: 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me'; 15thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother. 160nly he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LOED hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.' "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his king- dom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 19And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LOED his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 20that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and bis children, in the midst of Israel.
"J Q The priests the Levites, even -1-0 all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LOED made by fire, and His inherit- ance. 2And they shall have no in- heritance among their brethren; the LOED is their inheritance, as He hath spoken unto them.
8And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. ^e first-fruits of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5For the LOED thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LOED, him and his sons for ever.
6And it a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which the LOED shall choose; 7then he shall minister in the name of the LOED his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LOED. 8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which is his due ac- cording to the fathers7 houses.
°When thou art come into the land which the LOED thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daugh- ter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, nor a charm- er, or one that ^consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. ^For. whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LOED; and because of these abominations the LOED thy God is driving them out from before thee. MThou shalt be whole-hearted with the LOED thy God. 14For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LOED thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. UA prophet will the LOED thy God raise up unto thee, from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto hJTn ye shall hearken; According to all that thou didst desire of the LOED thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LOED my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not/ l7And the LORD said unto me: 'They DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY have well said that which they have spoken. 18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall com- mand him. 19And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken un- to My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him. 20But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die/ 21And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken97 ^When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken; the prophet hath spoken it presump- tuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.
1 Q When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations, whose, land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou dost succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 2thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither. 4And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbour un- awares, and hated him not in time past; 5as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live; 6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, be- cause the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not deserv- ing of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. ^Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.7 8And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which He promised to give unto thy fathers — 9if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I com- mand thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in His ways — then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three, lothat innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inherit- ance, and so blood be upon thee.
uBut if any man hate his neigh- bour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die; and he flee into one of these cities; ^then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13Thme eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
14Thou shalt not remove thy neigh- bour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in' thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
160ne witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the, mouth of two witnesses, or at DEUTERONOMY the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. 36If an un- righteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; 17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days. 18And the judges shall inquire dili- gently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 20And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit, no more any such evil in the midst of thee. 2lAnd thine eye shall not pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
OA When thou goest forth to battle ^ w against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 3and shall say unto them: 'Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your heart faint; fear not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them; *for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.' 6And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying: 'What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him, go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6And what man is there Jiat hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lebt he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. 7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her/ 8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: ' What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest Ins brethren's heart melt as his heart.' 9And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people. 10When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. uAnd it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee. ^And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. ^And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; 14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. ^hua shalt thou do tihto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16Howbeit of the cities of these ^ peo- ples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, I7but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the DEUTERONOMY Oanaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; 18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, and so ye sin against the LORD your God.
19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, but thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tiee of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee? 200nly the trees of which thou know- est that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bul- warks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall. O ~| If one be found slain in the land A -1- which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him; Hhen thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall meas- ure unto the cities which are Around about hiTn that is slain. sAnd it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. 4And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near— for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto