stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox shall push a man servant, or a maid servant, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein: 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox hurt ano. ther's, that he die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own. CHAP. XXII. IF Of theft, &c. a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution. : 6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire, shall surely make restitution. 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. and ordinances 8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the Judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for rai. ment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the Judges, and whom the Judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it, 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods: and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good if it be a hired thing, it came for his hire. 16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money ac cording to the dowry of virgins. 18 live. 19 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stran ger, nor oppress him for ye were stran. gers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry. : 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Divers laws. CHAP. XXIII. Three solemn feasts, 25 If thou lend money to any of my | it rest, and lie still, that the poor of thy people that is poor by thee, thou shalt people may eat, and what they leave not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down. 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear: for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam, on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 31 And ye shall be holy men unto me neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field: ye shall cast it to the dogs. TH CHAP. XXIII. Of slander and false witness. HOU shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou speak in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee, lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 T And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy and, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let 7* the beasts of the field shall eat. In like 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said mention of the names of other gods, neiunto you, be circumspect: and make no ther let it be heard out of thy mouth. feast unto me in the year. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of un- fruits of thy labours, which thou hast 16 And the feast of harvest, the first sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God. sacrifice with leavened bread, neither 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. 19 The first of the first fruits of thy the LORD thy God: thou shalt not land thou shalt bring into the house of seethe a kid in his mother's milk. thee to keep thee in the way, and to provoke him not: for he will not pardon 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his will be an enemy unto thine enemies, voice, and do all that I speak, then I and an adversary unto thine adversaries. and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and God's promise. EXODUS. throw them, and quite break down their images. 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. The people promise. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the Altar. 7 And he took the book of the cove. nant, and read in the audience of the people and they said, All that the LORD hath said, will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood and sprin. kled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant which the LORD hath made with you, concerning all these words. 9 Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of a Sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 30 By little and little I will drive them 11 And upon the Nobles of the chil out from before thee, until thou be in-dren of Israel he laid not his hand also creased and inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. CHAP. XXIV. : they saw God, and did eat and drink. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua and Moses went up into the mount of God. : 14 And he said unto the Elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: If any man have any matters Moses is called up into the Mountain. | to do, let him come unto them. AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel: and worship ye afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said, will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an Altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the tweive tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt of ferings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen, unto the LORD. 15 And Moses went up into the Mount, and a cloud covered the Mount. 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire, on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days, and forty nights. CHAP. XXV. What the Israelites must offer for the making of the Tabernacle. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, A saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my offering. 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; Gold, and silver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair: 5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and Shittim wood: 6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense: 7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the breastplate. 8 And let them make me a Sanctuary, that I may dwell amongst them: 9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the Tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10 And they shall make an Ark of Shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof, and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of Shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings, by the sides of the Ark, that the Ark may be borne with them. 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the Ark they shall not be taken from it. 16 And thou shalt put into the Ark the Testimony which I shall give thee. 17 And thou shalt make a Mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two Cheru. bim of gold: of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the Mercy-seat. 19 And make one Cherub on the one end, and the other Cherub on the other end even of the Mercy-scat shall ye make the Cherubim, on the two ends thereof. 20 And the Cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the Mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another: toward and Candlestick. the Mercy-seat shall the faces of the Cherubim be. 21 And thou shalt put the Mercy-seat above upon the Ark, and in the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee. 22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee, from above the Mercy-seat, from between the two Cherubim which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 23 T Thou shalt also make a table of Shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. 25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of a hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of Shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them. 30 And thou shalt set upon the table Shew-bread before me alway. 31 And thou shalt make a Candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made; his shaft and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers shall be of the same. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side : 33 Three bowls made like unto al monds, with a knop and a flower in one branch: and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. 35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. 36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. 37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. 38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuff dishes thereof shall be of pure gold. 39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. 40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. 3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another: and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain, from the selvedge in the coupling, and like. wise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. 5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain, that is in the coupling of the second, that the loops may take hold one of another. 6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. 7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair, to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. 8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one cur. and appurtenances. tain four cubits: and the eleven shall be all of one measure. 9 And th shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by them. selves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. 11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth shall hang over the back side of the tabernacle. 13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side, and on that side to cover it. 14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins. 15 And thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board. 17 Two tenons shall there be in one board set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle, twenty boards on the southside southward. 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver, under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. 20 And for the second side of the Tabernacle on the northside there shall be twenty boards, 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the sides of the Tabernacle Westward thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coup.ed to |