Category:Book of Leviticus

THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS

This Book is called LEVITICUS, because it treats of the Offices, Ministries, Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The Hebrews call it VAICRA, from the word with which it begins.

Leviticus Chapter 1
Of holocausts or burnt offerings.

1:1. The Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:

1:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle, that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:

1:3. If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favorable to him.

A holocaust. . .That is, a whole burnt offering (olokauston), so called, because the whole victim was consumed with fire; and given in such manner to God as wholly to evaporate, as it were, for his honor and glory; without having any part of it reserved for the use of man. The other sacrifices in the Old Testament were either offerings for sin, or peace offerings: and these latter again were either offered in thanksgiving for blessings received; or by way of prayer for new favors or graces. So that sacrifices were then offered to God for four different ends or intentions, answerable to the different obligations which man has to God: 1. By way of adoration, homage, praise, and glory due to his divine majesty. 2. By way of thanksgiving for all benefits received from him. 3. By way of confessing and craving pardon for sins. 4. By way of prayer and petition for grace and relief in all necessities. In the New Law we have but one sacrifice, viz., that of the body and blood of Christ: but this one sacrifice of the New Testament perfectly answers all these four ends; and both priest and people, as often as it is celebrated, ought to join in offering it up for these four ends.

1:4. He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

1:5. He shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.

1:6. When they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints into pieces:

1:7. and shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a pile of wood.

1:8. They shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon: to wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;

'''1:9. The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savor to the Lord.'''

1:10. If the offering be of the flocks, a holocaust of sheep or of goats, he shall offer a male without blemish.

1:11. He shall immolate it at the side of the altar that looks to the north, before the Lord: but the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

1:12. They shall divide the joints, the head, and all that cleave to the liver: and shall lay them upon the wood, under which the fire is to be put.

'''1:13. But the entrails and the feet they shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar for a holocaust, and most sweet savor to the Lord.'''

1:14. But if the oblation of a holocaust to the Lord be of birds, of turtledoves, or of young pigeons:

1:15. The priest shall offer it at the altar: and twisting back the neck, and breaking the place of the wound, he shall make the blood run down upon the brim of the altar.

1:16. But the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast beside the altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be poured out.

'''1:17. He shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savor to the Lord.'''

Leviticus Chapter 2
Of offerings of flour, and firstfruits.

2:1. When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,

'''2:2. and shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests. And one of them shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and all the frankincense; and shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most sweet savor to the Lord.'''

2:3. The remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

Holy of holies. . .That is, most holy, as being dedicated to God, and set aside by his ordinance for the use of his priests.

2:4. But when you offer a sacrifice baked in the oven of flour, to wit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers, anointed with oil:

2:5. If your oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven:

2:6. You shall divide it into little pieces, and shall pour oil upon it.

2:7. If the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the flour shall be tempered with oil.

2:8. When you offer it to the Lord, you shall deliver it to the hands of the priest.

2:9. When he has offered it, he shall take a memorial out of the sacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor to the Lord.

2:10. Whatever is left, shall be Aaron's, and his sons': holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

2:11. Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.

2:12. You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savor of sweetness.

'''2:13. Whatever sacrifice you offer, you shall season it with salt: neither shall you take away the salt of the covenant of your God from your sacrifice. In all your oblations you shall offer salt.'''

Salt. . .In every sacrifice salt was to be used, which is an emblem of wisdom and discretion, without which none of our performances are agreeable to God.

2:14. But if you offer a gift of the firstfruits of your corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, you shall dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shall you offer your firstfruits to the Lord:

2:15. Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of the Lord.

2:16. Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of the corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.

Leviticus Chapter 3
Of peace offerings.

3:1. If his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, and he will offer of the herd, whether male or female: he shall offer them without blemish before the Lord.

Peace offerings. . .Peace, in the scripture language, signifies happiness, welfare or prosperity; in a word, all kind of blessings.--Such sacrifices, therefore, as were offered either on occasion of blessings received, or to obtain new favors, were called pacific or peace offerings. In these, some part of the victim was consumed with fire on the altar of God; other parts were eaten by the priests and by the persons for whom the sacrifice was offered.

3:2. He shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar.

3:3. They shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an oblation to the Lord:  and all the fat that is within,

3:4. The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.

3:5. They shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting fire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savor to the Lord.

3:6. But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the flock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.

3:7. If he offer a lamb before the Lord:

'''3:8. He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim. And it shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.'''

3:9. They shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,

3:10. With the kidneys, and the fat that covers the belly and all the vitals and both the little kidneys, with the fat that is about the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.

3:11. The priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.

3:12. If his offering be a goat, and he offer it to the Lord:

'''3:13. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and shall immolate it in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.'''

3:14. They shall take of it for the food of the Lord's fire, the fat that covers the belly, and that covers all the vital parts:

3:15. The two little kidneys with the caul that is upon them which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.

'''3:16. The priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savor. All the fat shall be the Lord's.'''

3:17. By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Fat. . .It is meant of the fat, which by the prescription of the law was to be offered on God's altar; not of the fat of meat, such as we commonly eat.

Leviticus Chapter 4
Of offerings for sins of ignorance.

4:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

4:2. Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sins through ignorance, and does anything concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

Ignorance. . .To be ignorant of what we are bound to know is sinful; and for such culpable ignorance, these sacrifices, prescribed in this and the following chapter, were appointed.

4:3. If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.

4:4. He shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord.

4:5. He shall take also of the blood of the calf: and carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony.

The blood. . .As the figure of the blood of Christ shed for the remission of our sins, and carried by him into the sanctuary of Heaven.

4:6. Having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

'''4:7. He shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.'''

4:8. He shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering,  ***

4:9. the two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys:

'''4:10. as it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offerings. He shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.'''

4:11. But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet

'''4:12. and the rest of the body, he shall carry forth without the camp into a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he shall burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be burnt in the place where the ashes are poured out.'''

4:13. If all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,

4:14. Afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer for their sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.

'''4:15. The ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord:'''

4:16. The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.

4:17. He shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.

'''4:18. He shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. The rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.'''

4:19. All the fat thereof he shall take off, and shall burn it upon the altar:

'''4:20. Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. The priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.'''

4:21. But the calf itself he shall carry forth outside the camp, and shall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of the multitude.

4:22. If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance do any one of the things that the law of the Lord forbids,

4:23. Afterwards shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a buck goat without blemish, a sacrifice to the Lord.

4:24. He shall put his hand upon its head: and when he has immolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain before the Lord, because it is for sin,

4:25. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for sin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and pouring out the rest at the foot thereof.

'''4:26. But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the victims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin: and it shall be forgiven him.'''

4:27. If any one of the people of the land shall sin through ignorance, doing any of those things that by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and offending,

4:28. and shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a she goat without blemish.

4:29. He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.

4:30. The priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest at its foot.

4:31. But taking off all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the victims of peace offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a sweet savor to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

4:32. But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe without blemish:

4:33. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.

4:34. The priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he shall pour out at its foot.

'''4:35. All the fat also he shall take off, as the fat of the ram that is offered for peace offerings is wont to be taken away: and shall burn it upon the altar, for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord. He shall pray for him and his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.'''

Leviticus Chapter 5
Of other sacrifices for sins.

5:1. If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself has seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

5:2. Whoever touches any unclean thing, either that which has been killed by a beast, or died of itself, or any other creeping thing: and forgets his uncleanness, he is guilty, and has offended.

5:3. If he touches any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to any uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled: and having forgotten it, come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of an offense.

5:4. The person that swears, and utters with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and binds the same with an oath, and his word: and having forgotten it afterwards understands his offense,

5:5. Let him do penance for his sin:

5:6. and offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.

5:7. But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtledoves, or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,

5:8. and he shall give them to the priest: who shall offer the first for sin, and twist back the head of it to the little pinions, so that it stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off.

5:9. Of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and whatever is left, he shall let it drop at its bottom, because it is for sin.

'''5:10. The other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be done. The priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.'''

'''5:11. If his hand be not able to offer two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, he shall offer for his sin the tenth part of an ephi of flour. He shall not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense upon it, because it is for sin.'''

5:12. He shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that offered it:

'''5:13. Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.'''

5:14. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

5:15. If anyone shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offense a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary.

5:16. He shall make good the damage itself which he has done, and shall add the fifth part besides, delivering it to the priest, who shall pray for him, offering the ram: and it shall be forgiven him.

5:17. If anyone sin through ignorance, and do one of those things which by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and being guilty of sin, understand his iniquity:

'''5:18. He shall offer of the flocks a ram without blemish to the priest, according to the measure and estimation of the sin. And the priest shall pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And it shall be forgiven him,'''

5:19. Because by mistake he trespassed against the Lord.

Leviticus Chapter 6
Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings.

6:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6:2. Whoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbor the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;

6:3. Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

6:4. Being convicted of the offense, he shall restore

6:5. All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.

6:6. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offense.

6:7. He shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he has sinned.

6:8. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''6:9. Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust. It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be of the same altar.'''

6:10. The priest shall be vested with the tunic and the linen breeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire has burnt: and putting them beside the altar,

6:11. Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place.

6:12. The fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.

6:13. This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

The perpetual fire. . .This fire came from heaven, (infra. chap. 9.24,) and was always kept burning on the altar, as a figure of the heavenly fire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a Christian.

6:14. This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.

6:15. The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered with oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he shall burn on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odor to the Lord.

6:16. The part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle.

'''6:17. Therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.'''

'''6:18. The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that touches them shall be sanctified.'''

6:19. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''6:20. This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must offer to the Lord, in the day of their anointing. They shall offer the tenth part of an ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.'''

6:21. It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be fried in a fryingpan.

6:22. The priest that rightfully succeeds his father, shall offer it hot, for a most sweet odor to the Lord: and it shall he wholly burnt on the altar.

6:23. For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire: neither shall any man eat thereof.

'''6:24. The Lord spoke to Moses. saying:'''

'''6:25. Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies.'''

6:26. The priest that offers it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle.

'''6:27. Whatever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If a garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a holy place.'''

6:28. The earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken: but if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with water.

6:29. Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

6:30. For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is carried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.

Leviticus Chapter 7
Of sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is to be eaten.

7:1. This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass: it is most holy.

Trespass. . .Trespasses, for which these offerings were to be made, were lesser offenses than those for which the sin offerings were appointed.

7:2. Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a trespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about the altar.

7:3. They shall offer thereof  ***

7:4. The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.

7:5. The priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.

7:6. Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

'''7:7. As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offers it.'''

7:8. The priest that offers the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof.

7:9. Every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and whatever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be the priest's that offers it.

7:10. Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as another.

7:11. This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.

7:12. If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer loaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil.

7:13. Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is offered for peace offerings:

7:14. Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest's that shall pour out the blood of the victim.

7:15. The flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall any of it remain until the morning.

'''7:16. If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day. And if any of it remain until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it.'''

7:17. But whatever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.

'''7:18. If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it profit the offerer. Yea rather, whatever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.'''

'''7:19. The flesh that has touched any unclean thing, shall not be eaten: but shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean shall eat of it.'''

7:20. If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be cut off from his people.

7:21. He that has touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh: shall be cut off from his people.

7:22. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

7:23. Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.

7:24. The fat of a carcass that has died of itself, and of a beast that was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.

7:25. If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.

7:26. Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatever, whether of birds or beasts.

7:27. Every one that eats blood, shall perish from among the people.

7:28. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

7:29. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offers a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof.

'''7:30. He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he has offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,'''

'''7:31. Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.'''

7:32. The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits.

7:33. He among the sons of Aaron, that offers the blood, and the fat: he shall have the right shoulder also for his portion.

7:34. For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.

7:35. This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the office of priesthood,

7:36. The things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.

7:37. This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and for consecration, and the victims of peace offerings:

7:38. Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.

Leviticus Chapter 8
Moses consecrates Aaron and his sons.

8:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:



8:2. Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction: a calf for sin, two rams, a basket with unleavened bread.

8:3. You shall gather together the entire congregation to the door of the tabernacle.

'''8:4. Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And all the multitude being gathered together before the door of the tabernacle:'''

8:5. He said: This is the word that the Lord has commanded to be done.

'''8:6. Immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had washed them,'''

8:7. He vested the high priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tunic: and over it he put the ephod.

8:8. Binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth.

8:9. He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the forehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctification, as the Lord had commanded him.

8:10. He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.

8:11. When he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with its foot, he sanctified with the oil.



8:12. He poured it upon Aaron's head: and he anointed and consecrated him.

8:13. After he had offered his sons, he vested them with linen tunics, and girded them with girdles: and put mitres on them as the Lord had commanded.

8:14. He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head,

'''8:15. He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at its bottom.'''

8:16. But the *** caul of the liver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the altar.

8:17. The calf with the skin, and the flesh ***, he burnt outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded.

'''8:18. He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head:'''

8:19. He immolated it, and poured its blood round about the altar.

8:20. Cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt in the fire.

8:21. Having first washed the *** feet, and the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar: because it was a holocaust of most sweet odor to the Lord, as he had commanded him.

8:22. He offered also the second ram, in the consecration of priests: and Aaron, and his sons put their hands upon the head thereof.

8:23. When Moses had immolated it, he took of its blood, and touched the tip of Aaron's right ear, and the thumb of his right hand, and in like manner also the great toe of his right foot.

8:24. He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when with the blood of the ram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about.

8:25. But the fat, and the rump, *** and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and with the right shoulder, he separated.

8:26. Taking out of the basket of unleavened bread, which was before the Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake tempered with oil and a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:

'''8:27. Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons. Who having lifted them up before the Lord,'''

8:28. He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust: because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odor of sacrifice to the Lord.

8:29. He took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.

8:30. Taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar, he sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and his sons, and their vestments with it.

'''8:31. When he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded them, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in the basket, as the Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat them.'''

8:32. Whatever shall be left of the flesh and the loaves, shall be consumed with fire.

'''8:33. You shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:'''

8:34. As at this present it has been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished.

'''8:35. Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the watches of the Lord, lest you die. For so it has been commanded me.'''

8:36. Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus Chapter 9
''Aaron offers sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire comes from the Lord upon the altar.''

9:1. When the eighth day was come, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron:

9:2. Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.

9:3. To the children of Israel you shall say: Take a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust.

'''9:4. Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings. And immolate them before the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour tempered with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.'''

9:5. They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before the door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,

'''9:6. Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord has commanded. Do it, and His glory will appear to you.'''

'''9:7. He said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice for your sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for yourself and for the people: and when you have slain the people's victim, pray for them, as the Lord has commanded.'''

9:8. Forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf for his sin.

9:9. His sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at its foot.

9:10. The fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

9:11. But its flesh and skins he burnt with fire outside the camp.

9:12. He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought him its blood, which he poured round about on the altar.

9:13. The victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the head and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.

9:14. Having first washed *** the feet with water.

9:15. Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he goat: and expiating the altar,

9:16. He offered the holocaust.

9:17. Adding in the sacrifice the libations, which are offered withal, and burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning holocaust.

9:18. He immolated also the bullock and the ram, and peace offerings of the people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon the altar round about.

9:19. The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,

'''9:20. They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the altar,'''

9:21. Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

'''9:22. Stretching forth his hands to the people, he blessed them. And so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings being finished, he came down.'''

'''9:23. Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the multitude.'''

9:24. Behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.

Leviticus Chapter 10
''Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things.''



10:1. Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.

10:2. Fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.

'''10:3. Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord has spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. When Aaron heard this, he held his peace.'''

10:4. Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from before the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.

10:5. They went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunics, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.

'''10:6. Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.'''

'''10:7. But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise you shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did all things according to the precept of Moses.'''

10:8. The Lord also said to Aaron:

'''10:9. You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, you nor your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:'''

10:10. and that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

10:11. and may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

10:12. Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies.

10:13. You shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to you and your sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it has been commanded me.

'''10:14. The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, you and your sons, and your daughters with you. For they are set aside for you and your children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.'''

10:15. Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to you and to your sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord has commanded.

'''10:16. While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:'''

10:17. Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.

10:18. Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof has been carried within the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me?

'''10:19. Aaron answered: This day has been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what you see has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?'''

10:20. Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.

Leviticus Chapter 11
The distinction of clean and unclean animals.

11:1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

11:2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth.

11:3. Whatever has the hoof divided, and chews the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.

11:4. But whatever chews indeed the cud, and has a hoof, but divides it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean.

11:5. The cherogrillus which chews the cud, but divides not the hoof, is unclean.

The cherogrillus. . .Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the hedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common in Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We choose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that follow (which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the Greek or Latin names.

11:6. The hare also: for that too chews the cud, but divides not the hoof.

11:7. The swine, which, though it divides the hoof, does not chew the cud.

11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

'''11:9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that has fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.'''

11:10. But whatever does not have fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

'''11:11. and detestable. You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall avoid their carcasses.'''

11:12. All that do not have fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.



11:13. Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.

The griffon. . .Not the monster which the painter represent, which has no being upon earth; but a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the common.

11:14. The kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.

11:15. All that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.

11:16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

11:17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.

11:18. The swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

11:19. The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

11:20. Of things that fly, whatever goes upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.

11:21. But whatever walks upon four feet, but has the legs behind longer, wherewith it hops upon the earth,

11:22. That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.

11:23. But of flying things whatever has four feet only, shall be an abomination to you.

11:24. Whoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:

11:25. and if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.

11:26. Every beast that has a hoof, but divides it not, nor chews the cud shall be unclean: and he that touches it, shall be defiled.

11:27. That which walks upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.

11:28. He that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.

11:29. These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that move upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind:

11:30. the shrew, the chameleon, the stellio, the lizard, and the mole.

'''11:31. All these are unclean. He that touches their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.'''

'''11:32. Upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done. They shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so afterwards shall be clean.'''

11:33. But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled: and therefore is to be broken.

11:34. Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean.

'''11:35. Upon whatever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.'''

'''11:36. But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that touches their carcasses shall be defiled.'''

11:37. If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.

11:38. But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.

11:39. If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that touches its carcass, shall be unclean until the evening.

11:40. He that eats or carries any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.

11:41. All that creeps upon the earth shall be abominable: neither shall it be taken for meat.

11:42. Whatever goes upon the breast on four feet, or has many feet, or trails on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

11:43. Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

'''11:44. For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moves upon the earth.'''

11:45. For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.

'''11:46. You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and creeps on the earth:'''

11:47. That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.

Leviticus Chapter 12
The purification of women after childbirth.

12:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: If a woman *** shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

12:3. On the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:

'''12:4. But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.'''

'''12:5. But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.'''

12:6. When the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.

'''12:7. Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that bears a man child or a maid child.'''



12:8. If her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed.

Leviticus Chapter 13
The law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments.

13:1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

13:2. The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different color or a blister, or as it were something shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or of his sons.

13:3. If he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white and the place where the leprosy appears lower than the skin and the rest of the flesh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his judgment he shall be separated.

13:4. But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the hair be of the former color, the priest shall shut him up seven days.

13:5. The seventh day he shall look on him: and if the leprosy be grown no farther, and has not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut him up again other seven days.

'''13:6. On the seventh day, he shall look on him. If the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean, because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash his clothes, and shall be clean.'''

13:7. But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest and restored to cleanness, he shall be brought to him:

13:8. and shall be condemned of uncleanness.

13:9. If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to the priest:

'''13:10. and he shall view him. When there shall be a white color in the skin, and it shall have changed the look of the hair, and the living flesh itself shall appear:'''

'''13:11. It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the skin. The priest therefore shall declare him unclean: and shall not shut him up, because he is evidently unclean.'''

13:12. But if the leprosy spring out running about in the skin, and cover all the skin from the head to the feet, whatever falls under the sight of the eyes:

13:13. The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy which he has is very clean: because it is all turned into whiteness, and therefore the man shall be clean.

13:14. But when the live flesh shall appear in him:

'''13:15. Then by the judgment of the priest he shall be defiled, and shall be reckoned among the unclean. For live flesh, if it be spotted with leprosy, is unclean.'''

13:16. If again it be turned into whiteness, and cover all the man:

13:17. The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean.

13:18. When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:

13:19. and in the place of the ulcer, there appears a white scar, or somewhat red, the man shall be brought to the priest.

13:20. When he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the other flesh, and the hair turned white: he shall declare him unclean, for the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.

13:21. But if the hair be of the former color, and the scar somewhat obscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it: he shall shut him up seven days.

13:22. If it spread, he shall judge him to have the leprosy:

13:23. But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar of an ulcer: and the man shall be clean.

13:24. The flesh also and skin that has been burnt, and after it is healed has a white or a red scar:

13:25. The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the place thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him unclean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar.

13:26. But if the color of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish lower than the other flesh, and the appearance of the leprosy be somewhat obscure: he shall shut him up seven days,

'''13:27. and on the seventh day he shall view him. If the leprosy be grown farther in the skin, he shall declare him unclean.'''

13:28. But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear, it is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is only the scar of a burning.

13:29. If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall see them,

13:30. and if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard;

13:31. But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh that is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,

'''13:32. and on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep its color, and the place of the blemish be even with the other flesh:'''

13:33. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he shall be shut up other seven days.

13:34. If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his clothes being washed he shall be clean.

13:35. But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin:

13:36. He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean.

13:37. But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.

13:38. If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,

'''13:39. The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness shines in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blemish, and that the man is clean.'''

13:40. The man whose hair falls off from his head, he is bald and clean:

13:41. and if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.

13:42. But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a white or reddish color:

13:43. and the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen in the bald part.

13:44. Now whoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest:

13:45. Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.

13:46. All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone outside the camp.

13:47. A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy

13:48. In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or whatever is made of a skin:

13:49. If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be accounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest.

13:50. He shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days.

'''13:51. On the seventh day when he looks on it again, if he find that it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy. He shall judge the garment unclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found.'''

13:52. Therefore it shall be burnt with fire.

13:53. But if he see that it is not grown,

13:54. He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the leprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.

13:55. When he shall see that the former color is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole.

13:56. But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which is sound.

13:57. If after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire.

13:58. If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time: and they shall be clean.

13:59. This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.

Leviticus Chapter 14
''The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.''

14:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''14:2. This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:'''

14:3. Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

14:4. Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

14:5. He shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

Living waters. . .That is, waters taken from a spring, brook, or river.

14:6. But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

'''14:7. Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.'''

14:8. When the man has washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.

'''14:9. On the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,'''

14:10. On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

A sextary. . .Heb. log: a measure of liquids, which was the twelfth part of a hin; and held about as much as six eggs.

14:11. When the priest that purifies the man, has presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

'''14:12. He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,'''

'''14:13. He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertains to the priest: it is holy of holies.'''

14:14. The priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot.

Taking of the blood, etc. . .These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mysterious and very significative. The sprinkling seven times with the blood of the little bird, the washing himself and his clothes, the shaving his hair and his beard, signify the means which are to be used in the reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by which he is to return to God, viz., by the repeated application of the blood of Christ: the washing his conscience with the waters of compunction: and retrenching all vanities and superfluities, by employing all that is over and above what is necessary in alms deeds. The sin offering, and the holocaust or burnt offering, which he was to offer at his cleansing, signify the sacrifice of a contrite and humble heart, and that of adoration in spirit and truth, with gratitude and thankfulness, for the forgiveness of sins, with which we are ever to appear before the Almighty. The touching the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the great toe of the right foot, first with the blood of the victim, and then with the remainder of the oil, which had been sprinkled seven times before the Lord, signify the application of the blood of Christ, and the unction of the sevenfold grace of the Holy Spirit; to the sinner's right ear, that he may duly hearken to and obey the law of God; and to his right hand and foot, that the works of his hands, and all the steps or affections of his soul, signified by the feet, may be rightly directed to God.

14:15. He shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,

14:16. and shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.

14:17. The rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass:

14:18. and upon his head.

'''14:19. He shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.'''

14:20. Put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man shall be rightly cleansed.

14:21. But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:

14:22. and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.

14:23. He shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.

14:24. The priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.

14:25. The lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.

14:26. But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,

14:27. and dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.

14:28. He shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.

14:29. The other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord for him.

14:30. He shall offer a turtledove, or young pigeon:

14:31. One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.

14:32. This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things that appertain to his cleansing.

14:33. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

14:34. When you shall come into the land of Canaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:

14:35. He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seems to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,

'''14:36. and he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, let all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house.'''

14:37. If he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:

14:38. He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

'''14:39. and returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,'''

14:40. He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

14:41. and that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

14:42. and that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.

14:43. But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth.

14:44. The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

14:45. They shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast its stones and timber, and all the dust outside the town into an unclean place.

14:46. He that enters into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

14:47. and he that sleeps in it, and eats anything, shall wash his clothes.

14:48. But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured.

14:49. For its purification he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

14:50. Having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over living waters,

14:51. He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.



14:52. He shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.

14:53. When he has let the sparrow go to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.

14:54. This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.

14:55. Of the leprosy of garments and houses,

14:56. Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a shining spot, and when the colors are diversely changed:

14:57. That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.

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Leviticus Chapter 15
Other legal uncleannesses.

15:1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

15:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that has an issue of seed, shall be unclean.

Issue of seed shall be unclean. . .These legal uncleannesses were instituted in order to give the people a horror of carnal impurities.

15:3. Then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humor, at every moment, cleaves to his flesh, and gathers there.

15:4. Every bed on which he sleeps, shall be unclean, and every place on which he sits.

15:5. If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

'''15:6. If a man sit where that man has sitten, he also shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.'''

'''15:7. He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water shall be unclean until the evening.'''

15:8. If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

15:9. The saddle on which he has sitten shall be unclean.

'''15:10. And whatever has been under him that has the issue of seed, shall be unclean until the evening. He that carrieth any of these things, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.'''

15:11. Every person whom such a one shall touch, not having washed his hands before, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.

15:12. If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: but if a vessel of wood, it shall be washed with water.

'''15:13. If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean.'''

15:14. On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.

15:15. Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue of his seed.

15:16. The man from whom the seed goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

15:17. The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.

15:18. The woman, with whom he acts, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.

15:19. The woman, who at the return of the month, has her issue, shall be separated seven days.

15:20. Every one that touches her, shall be unclean until the evening.

15:21. Every thing that she sleeps on, or that she sits on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.

'''15:22. He that touches her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.'''

15:23. Whoever shall touch any vessel on which she sits, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.

15:24. If a man acts with her in the time of her flowers, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be defiled.

15:25. The woman that has still issue many days out of her ordinary time, or that ceases not to flow after the monthly courses, as long as she is subject to this disease, shall be unclean, in the same manner as if she were in her flowers.

15:26. Every bed on which she sleeps, and every vessel on which she sits, shall be defiled.

15:27. Whoever touches them shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.

15:28. If the issue stops and ceases to run, she shall count seven days of her purification:

15:29. and on the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

15:30. and he shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and he shall pray for her before the Lord, and for the issue of her uncleanness.

15:31. You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have defiled my tabernacle that is among them.

15:32. This is the law of him that has the issue of seed, and that is defiled by this act.

15:33. Of the woman that is separated in her monthly times, or that has a continual issue, and of the man that sleeps with her.

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Leviticus Chapter 16
''When and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast of expiation.''

16:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:

16:2. He commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron your brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

Enter not. . .No one but the high priest, and he but once a year, could enter into the sanctuary; to signify that no one could enter into the sanctuary of Heaven, until Christ our high priest opened it by His passion. Heb. 10.8.

'''16:3. Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.'''

'''16:4. He shall be vested with a linen tunic: he shall cover himself with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.'''

16:5. He shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.

16:6. When he has offered the cattle and prayed for himself and for his own house:

16:7. He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

16:8. Casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:

16:9. That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin.

16:10. But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.

16:11. After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf: and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it.

16:12. Taking the censer, which he has filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:

16:13. That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, its cloud and vapor may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

16:14. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.

16:15. When he has killed the buck goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was commanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it over against the oracle:

'''16:16. and may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.'''



16:17. Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goes into the sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel, until he come out.

16:18. When he has come out to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for himself: and taking the blood of the calf, and of the buck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about.

16:19. Sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

16:20. After he has cleaned the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat.

'''16:21. Putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offenses and sins. Praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.'''

16:22. When the goat has carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert:

16:23. Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and removing the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the sanctuary, and leaving them there,

'''16:24. He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments. After that when he comes out and has offered his own holocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and for the people.'''

16:25. The fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the altar.

16:26. But he that has let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

16:27. But the calf and the buck goat, that were sacrificed for sin, and whose blood was carried into the sanctuary to accomplish the atonement, they shall carry their skins and their flesh *** outside the camp and burn with fire.

16:28. Whoever burns them shall wash his clothes and flesh with water: and so shall enter into the camp.

'''16:29. This shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The seventh month, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourns among you.'''

'''16:30. Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins. You shall be cleansed before the Lord.'''

16:31. For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

'''16:32. The priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement. He shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.'''

16:33. He shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.

'''16:34. This shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. He did therefore as the Lord had commanded Moses.'''

Leviticus Chapter 17
No sacrifices to be offered except at the door of the tabernacle: a prohibition of blood.

17:1. The Lord said to Moses,

17:2. Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, saying to them: This is the word, which the Lord has commanded, saying:

17:3. Any man whoever of the house of Israel, if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp,

If he kill, etc. . .That is, in order to sacrifice. The law of God forbids sacrifices to be offered in any other place but at the tabernacle or temple of the Lord; to signify that no sacrifice would be acceptable to God, out of his true temple, the one holy, catholic, apostolic church.

'''17:4. Offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood. As if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his people.'''

17:5. Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they may sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.

17:6. The priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and shall burn the fat for a sweet odor to the Lord.

17:7. They shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils ***'''. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.'''

17:8. You shall say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among you, that offers a holocaust or a victim,

17:9. and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, shall perish from among his people.

17:10. If any man whoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Eat blood. . .To eat blood was forbidden in the law; partly, because God reserved it to himself, to be offered in sacrifices on the altar, as to the Lord of life and death; and as a figure of the blood of Christ; and partly, to give men a horror of shedding blood. Gen. 9.4, 5, 6.

17:11. Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

17:12. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.

17:13. Any man whoever of the children of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a wild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood, and cover it with earth.

'''17:14. For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to the children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whoever eats it, shall be cut off.'''

17:15. The soul that eats that which died of itself, or has been caught by a beast, whether he be one of your own country or a stranger, shall wash his clothes and himself with water, and shall be defiled until the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean.

17:16. But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus Chapter 18
Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred.

18:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: I am the Lord your God.

'''18:3. You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Canaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.'''

'''18:4. You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.'''

18:5. Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

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18:24. Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

18:25. and with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

'''18:26. Keep My ordinances and My judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you.'''

18:27. For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

18:28. Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

18:29. Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.

'''18:30. Keep My commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.'''

Leviticus Chapter 19
Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial.

19:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''19:2. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And you shall say to them: Be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.'''

'''19:3. Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep My sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.'''

'''19:4. Turn not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.'''

19:5. If you offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he may be favorable:

'''19:6. You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next day. Whatever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire.'''

19:7. If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety:

'''19:8. and shall bear his iniquity, because he has defiled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.'''

19:9. When you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shall you gather the ears that remain.

'''19:10. Neither shall you gather the bunches and grapes that fall down in your vineyard: but shall leave them to the poor and the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God.'''

'''19:11. You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbor.'''

'''19:12. You shall not swear falsely by My name, nor profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.'''

'''19:13. You shall not calumniate your neighbor, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that has been hired by you shall not abide with you until the morning.'''

19:14. You shall not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but you shall fear the Lord your God, because I am the Lord.

'''19:15. You shall not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Respect not the person of the poor: nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge your neighbor according to justice.'''

'''19:16. You shall not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.'''

19:17. You shall not hate your brother in your heart: But reprove him openly, lest you incur sin through him.

'''19:18. Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of your citizens. You shall love your friend as thyself. I am the Lord.'''

'''19:19. Keep ye my laws. You shall not make your cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. You shall not sow your field with different seeds. You shall not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.'''

Different seeds, etc. . .This law tends to recommend simplicity and plain dealing in all things, and to teach the people not to join any false worship or heresy with the worship of the true God.

19:20. If a man acts with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

19:21. For his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

19:22. The priest shall pray for him: and for his sin before the Lord: and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.

'''19:23. When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them. The fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall you eat of them.'''

19:24. But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to the praise of the Lord.

'''19:25. In the fifth year you shall eat its fruits, gathering its increase. I am the Lord your God.'''

'''19:26. You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.'''

19:27. Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

'''19:28. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.'''

19:29. Make not your daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

'''19:30. Keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.'''

'''19:31. Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.'''

'''19:32. Rise up before the hoary head, and honor the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.'''

19:33. If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him:

'''19:34. But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.'''

19:35. Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

'''19:36. Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.'''

'''19:37. Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.'''

Leviticus Chapter 20
Divers crimes to be punished with death.

20:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''20:2. Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land shall stone him.'''

20:3. I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, and has defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

20:4. If the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that has given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:

20:5. I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, *** out of the midst of their people.

20:6. The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, *** I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

20:7. Sanctify yourselves, and be holy: because I am the Lord your God.

'''20:8. Keep My precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctifies you.'''

'''20:9. He that curses his father, or mother, dying let him die. He has cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.'''

20:10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbor's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

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'''20:14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he has done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.'''

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20:22. Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

'''20:23. Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them.'''

'''20:24. But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.'''

'''20:25. Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shown you to be unclean:'''

20:26. You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

'''20:27. A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon them.'''

Leviticus Chapter 21
Ordinances relating to the priests.

21:1. The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and you shall say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

An uncleanness. . .Viz., such as was contracted in laying out the dead body, or touching it; or in going into the house, or assisting at the funeral, etc.

21:2. But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also:

21:3. and for a maiden sister, who has had no husband.

21:4. But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

21:5. Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

'''21:6. They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane His name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.'''

21:7. They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

'''21:8. and offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.'''

21:9. If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonor the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

'''21:10. The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction has been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who has been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.'''

21:11. Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

'''21:12. Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.'''

21:13. He shall take a virgin unto his wife.

21:14. But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

21:15. He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

21:16. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

21:17. Say to Aaron: Whoever of your seed throughout their families, has a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

21:18. Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

21:19. If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

21:20. If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

21:21. Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

21:22. He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

'''21:23. Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he has a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.'''

21:24. Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.

Leviticus Chapter 22
Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.

22:1. The Lord spoke to Moses saying:

'''22:2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.'''

'''22:3. Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.'''

Approacheth, etc. . .This is to give us to understand, with what purity of soul we are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which these meats that had been offered in sacrifice were a figure.

22:4. The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, ***''' shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that touches any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: ***'''

22:5. He that touches a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling:

'''22:6. Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified. But when he has washed his flesh with water,'''

22:7. and the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.

'''22:8. That which dies of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.'''

'''22:9. Let them keep My precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.'''

22:10. No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

22:11. But he whom the priest has bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

22:12. If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits.

'''22:13. But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger has leave to eat of them.'''

22:14. He that eats of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.

22:15. They shall not profane the sanctified things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:

'''22:16. Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.'''

22:17. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

22:18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offers his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatever it be which he presents for a holocaust of the Lord,

22:19. to be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.

22:20. If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

'''22:21. The man that offers a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.'''

22:22. If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's altar.

22:23. An ox or a sheep, that has the ear and the tail cut off, you may offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.

22:24. you shall not offer to the Lord any beast that has the masculine parts bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you do any such things in your land.

'''22:25. You shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.'''

22:26. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

22:27. When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, they shall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day, and thenceforth, they may be offered to the Lord.

22:28. Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed the same day with their young ones.

22:29. If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord, that he may be favorable,

'''22:30. You shall eat it the same day. There shall not any of it remain until the morning of the next day. I am the Lord.'''

'''22:31. Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.'''

'''22:32. Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctify you:'''

'''22:33. and who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.'''

Leviticus Chapter 23
Holy days to be kept.

23:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:



23:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

'''23:3. Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.'''

23:4. These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their seasons.

23:5. The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

'''23:6. The fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.'''

23:7. The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.



'''23:8. But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. The seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do no servile work therein.'''

23:9. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:



23:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

23:11. Who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, the next day after the sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.

23:12. On the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.

'''23:13. The libations shall be offered with it: two tenths of flour tempered with oil, for a burnt offering of the Lord, and a most sweet odor. Libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.'''

'''23:14. You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.'''

23:15. You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of firstfruits, seven full weeks.

23:16. Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.

23:17. Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord.

23:18. You shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one calf from the herd, and they shall be for a holocaust with their two rams: and they shall be for a holocaust with their libations for a most sweet odor to the Lord.

23:19. You shall offer also a buck goat for sin, and two lambs of the first year for sacrifices of peace offerings.

23:20. When the priest has lifted them up with the loaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.

'''23:21. You shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations.'''

'''23:22. When you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain. But you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God.'''

23:23. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

23:24. Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy.

23:25. You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.

23:26. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

'''23:27. Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall await your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.'''

23:28. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you.

23:29. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people.

23:30. Every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people.

23:31. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.

'''23:32. It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.'''

23:33. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

23:34. Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the Lord.

'''23:35. The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you shall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord.'''

'''23:36. The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.'''

23:37. These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord: holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.

23:38. Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those things that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily.

'''23:39. So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day and the eighth shall be a sabbath: that is a day of rest.'''

23:40. You shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

'''23:41. You shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast.'''

'''23:42. You shall dwell in bowers seven days. Every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:'''

'''23:43. That your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.'''

23:44. Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel.

Leviticus Chapter 24
The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of blasphemy.

24:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

24:2. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto you the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,

'''24:3. Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.'''

24:4. They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

24:5. You shall take also fine flour, and shall bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.

24:6. You shall set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.

24:7. You shall put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.

24:8. Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

24:9. They shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.

24:10. Behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel.

'''24:11. When he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)'''

24:12. They put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.

24:13. The Lord spoke to Moses,

24:14. Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the people stone him.

24:15. You shall speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:

'''24:16. and he that blasphemes the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemes the name of the Lord, dying let him die.'''

24:17. He that strikes and kills a man: dying let him die.

24:18. He that kills a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

24:19. He that gives a blemish to any of his neighbors: as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

'''24:20. Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.'''

'''24:21. He that strikes a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.'''

24:22. Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.

'''24:23. Moses spoke to the children of Israel. They brought forth him that had blasphemed, without the camp: and they stoned him. The children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.'''

Leviticus Chapter 25
The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee.

25:1. The Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:

25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord.

25:3. Six years you shall sow your field and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and shall gather the fruits thereof.

'''25:4. But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. You shall not sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.'''

'''25:5. What the ground shall bring forth of itself, you shall not reap: neither shall you gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.'''

25:6. But they shall be unto you for meat, to you and to your manservant, to your maidservant and your hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with you.

25:7. All things that grow shall be meat to your beasts and to your cattle.

25:8. You shall also number to you seven weeks of years: that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years.

25:9. You shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.

'''25:10. You shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and shall proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of your land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:'''

Remission. . .That is, a general release and discharge from debts and bondage, and a reinstating of every man in his former possessions.

'''25:11. Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,'''

'''25:12. Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow you shall presently eat them.'''

25:13. In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.

'''25:14. When you shall sell any thing to your neighbor, or shall buy of him: grieve not your brother. But you shall buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.'''

25:15. He shall sell to you according to the computation of the fruits.

'''25:16. The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to you the time of the fruits.'''

'''25:17. Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.'''

25:18. Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear.

25:19. The ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no man's invasion.

25:20. But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

25:21. I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

25:22. The eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.

25:23. The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

25:24. For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

25:25. If your brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

25:26. But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

'''25:27. The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.'''

'''25:28. But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.'''

25:29. He that sells a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.

25:30. If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

'''25:31. But if the house be in a village, that has no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.'''

25:32. The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.

25:33. If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.

25:34. But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

25:35. If your brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and you receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with you:

'''25:36. Take not usury of him nor more than you gavest. Fear your God, that your brother may live with you.'''

25:37. You shall not give him your money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

25:38. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Canaan, and might be your God.

25:39. If your brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to you: you shall not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

25:40. But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with you until the year of the jubilee.

25:41. Afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

25:42. For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.

25:43. Afflict him not by might: but fear your God.

25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

'''25:45. and of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:'''

'''25:46. and by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.'''

25:47. If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and your brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:

'''25:48. After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:'''

'''25:49. Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:'''

25:50. Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.

25:51. If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.

25:52. If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.

25:53. His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in your sight.

25:54. If by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.

25:55. For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus Chapter 26
God's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors.

'''26:1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.'''

'''26:2. Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.'''

26:3. If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons.

26:4. The ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees shall be filled with fruit.

26:5. The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.

'''26:6. I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.'''

26:7. You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.

'''26:8. Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.'''

26:9. I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

26:10. You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.

26:11. I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off.

26:12. I will walk among you, and will be your God: and you shall be my people.

26:13. I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.

26:14. But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:

26:15. If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

'''26:16. I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.'''

'''26:17. I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursues you.'''

26:18. But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

26:19. I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.

26:20. Your labor shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.

26:21. If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.

26:22. I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate.

26:23. If even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

26:24. I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.

'''26:25. I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,'''

26:26. After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

26:27. But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me

26:28. I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,

26:29. So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

'''26:30. I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.'''

26:31. Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odors.

26:32. I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.

'''26:33. I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.'''

'''26:34. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be'''

26:35. In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein.

'''26:36. As to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.'''

26:37. They shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

26:38. You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you.

26:39. If of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

26:40. Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.

'''26:41. Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins.'''



'''26:42. I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:'''

'''26:43. Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.'''

'''26:44. Yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.'''

'''26:45. I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.'''

Leviticus Chapter 27
Of vows and tithes.

27:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

27:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation.

27:3. If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he shall give fifty sicles of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary:

27:4. If a woman, thirty.

27:5. But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten.

27:6. From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given five sicles: for a female three.

27:7. A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen sicles: a woman ten.

27:8. If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give.

27:9. But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy,

'''27:10. and cannot be changed: that is to say, neither a better for a worse, nor a worse for a better. If he shall change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord.'''

27:11. An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:

27:12. Who judging whether it be good or bad, shall set the price.

27:13. Which, if he that offers it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part.

27:14. If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint.

27:15. But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation over and above: and shall have the house.

'''27:16. If he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.'''

27:17. If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.

27:18. But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money according to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated.

27:19. If he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.

27:20. If he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.

27:21. For when the day of jubilee comes, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertains to the right of the priest.

27:22. If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanctified to the Lord:

'''27:23. The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of years, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord.'''

27:24. But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.

'''27:25. All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle has twenty obols.'''

27:26. The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord's.

'''27:27. If it be an unclean beast, he that offers it shall redeem it, according to your estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was estimated by you.'''

'''27:28. Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.'''

27:29. and any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die.

27:30. All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.

27:31. If any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth part of them.

27:32. Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that comes shall be sanctified to the Lord.

'''27:33. It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be changed for another. If any man change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.'''

27:34. These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.