Exodus 21 Cross References - Thomson

¹ And these are the rules of rectitude which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom. ³ If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his wife came with him his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ And if his master hath given him a wife and she hath born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall belong to his master, and he shall go out alone. ⁵ And if the servant shall answer and say, I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go away free, ⁶ his master shall bring him to God's court of Justice and there lead him to the door; to the door post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷ When any man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid she shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. ⁸ If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her: ⁹ but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her according to the privilege of daughters. ¹⁰ And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and her marriage rites. ¹¹ And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free. ¹² If any one smite another and he die, he shall be put to death. ¹³ But if he was not a voluntary agent, but God delivered into his hands, I will appoint for thee a place to which he who hath killed shall flee. ¹⁴ But if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him insidiously, and flee, thou shalt drag him from my altar to put him to death. ¹⁵ He who smiteth his father or his mother shall be put to death. ¹⁶ He who stealeth any of the children of Israel, and having got him in his power selleth him, or if he be found with him, shall be put to death. ¹⁷ He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death. ¹⁸ If two men quarrel and one smite the other with a stone or his fist and he dieth not, but is confined to his bed; ¹⁹ if the man rise and walk abroad on his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted but shall pay for his loss of time and the expence of his cure. ²⁰ If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant with a staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance shall be taken by a judicial process; ²¹ but if the servant live a day or two, let no vengeance be taken, for he is his money. ²² If two men fight and strike a woman with child and she miscarry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. According as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial decision lay upon him, he shall pay: ²³ but if the child be compleatly organised he shall give, life for life; eye for eye; ²⁴ tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot; ²⁵ burning for burning; wound for wound; stripe for stripe. ²⁶ But if a man smite the eye of a man servant, or the eye of a maid servant; and it become blind, he shall set them free for their eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he beat out the tooth of a man servant, or the tooth of a maid servant, he shall set them free for their tooth's sake. ²⁸ If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: ²⁹ but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and his owner also may be put to death. ³⁰ But if a fine shall be laid upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him. ³¹ And if the bull shall gore a son or a daughter, they shall deal with him according to this law. ³² But if the bull shall gore a man servant or a maid servant he shall pay their master thirty didrachms of silver and the bull shall be stoned. ³³ If any man open a pit, or dig a pit and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, ³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall pay the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. ³⁵ If any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour and he die, they shall sell the live bull and divide the money and they shall divide the dead bull. ³⁶ But if the bull be noted for having been heretofore accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up he shall be fined bull for bull and the dead bull shall be his.

⁷ Upon this Moses came and called the elders of the people and laid before them all these words which God enjoined on them.

³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will perform and we will be obedient. ⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel;

⁵ therefore you shall keep all my commandments, and all my judgments, and execute them, which if a man do he shall live thereby. I the Lord am your God;

²⁶ You therefore shall keep all my institutions and all my ordinances; and none of you, neither the native, nor the proselyte who dwelleth among you,

³⁷ therefore you shall keep all my law and all my statutes and do them. I am the Lord your God.

²² You shall keep all my statutes and my judgments and do them, that the land to which I am leading you to dwell therein, may not become your mortal enemy.

²⁴ the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision;

¹³ These are the commands, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord gave in charge, by the ministry of Moses, on the west of Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you rules of rectitude, and judgments, as the Lord commanded me; that you may act agreeably thereto, in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it.

⁸ And how great must the nation be, which hath such rules of rectitude, and such righteous judgments, as are contained in the whole law, which I this day lay before you.

¹⁴ And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you rules of rectitude, and judgments, for you to practise in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it.

⁴⁵ these are the testimonies, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which Moses delivered in his speech to the Israelites, after they came out of the land of Egypt

¹ When Moses had convened all Israel, he said to them Hear, Israel, the rules of rectitude and the judgments, which I this day deliver in your hearing, that you may learn them, and may be careful to perform them.

³¹ But as for thee, Stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them; and let them act accordingly in the land which I give them for a possession.

¹ Now these are the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which the Lord our God commanded you to be taught, that you may act conformably thereto in the land to which you are going, there to take possession of it;

²⁰ And when thy son shall, in time to come, ask thee, saying, What is the meaning of these testimonies, and these rules of rectitude, and these judgments, which the Lord our God hath enjoined on us?

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¹⁰ You must all conjointly determine every cause of your brethren who dwell in their cities, which shall come before you for decision, between blood and blood, and between ordinance and command. And you shall explain to them the rules of rectitude and judgments, that they may not sin against the Lord, and that no wrath may come upon you, nor upon your brethren. Thus you shall do and not sin.

¹³ thou camest down also on mount Sina and didst speak to them from heaven, and give them right judgments and laws of truth and statutes and good commandments. ¹⁴ Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths and didst prescribe for them commandments and statutes and a law by the ministry of thy servant Moses.

²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes;

¹⁹ He is sending his word to Jacob; his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

¹¹ and made known to them my rules of rectitude, which if a man practise he shall live thereby;

²⁵ therefore I gave them statutes not morally good, and rules of conduct in which they could not entitle themselves to life by them,

⁴ [Placed at end 6] Remember the law of Moses my servant, as I gave him in charge at Choreb statutes and rules of rectitude for all Israel.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo! I am with you all the days to the conclusion of this age. Amen.

¹ Wherefore, as to what remaineth, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you, by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

²⁸ Therefore God give thee from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the land plenty of corn and wine.

³⁶ And Esau said, His name is rightly called Jacob; for lo! he hath now supplanted me a second time. He took from me my rights of primogeniture; and now he hath taken my blessing. Then Esau said to his father, Hast thou not, father, reserved a blessing for me?

⁴⁴ but every servant born at home or bought with money thou shalt circumcise and then he may eat of it.

³ but if the sun was risen upon him he is liable and may be put to death. If a thief hath no property, let him be sold for the theft.

³⁹ And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the year of the release he shall work for thee, ⁴¹ and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family; to his paternal possession he shall haste away. ⁴² Because they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. ⁴³ Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God. ⁴⁴ The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have, must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may purchase a male or a female slave; ⁴⁵ or of the children of strangers who sojourn among you; of them you may purchase and of their relations who may be born in your land.

¹ Every seven years thou shalt make a release.

¹² And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years; and on the seventh thou shalt send him away from thee, free. ¹³ And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. ¹⁴ Thou shalt furnish him liberally with provision for the journey, from thy flock and from thy corn, and thy wine. According as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, thou shalt give him; ¹⁵ and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that thence the Lord thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to thee that they are let go free from thee; for they have saved thee the wages of an hireling. He hath served thee six years. When the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all thou doest,

¹⁰ And Moses gave them a charge on that day saying, At the end of every seven years, at the Solemnity of the release, during the festival of tabernacles,

¹ When a woman, a widow, of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one who feared the Lord, and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves,

¹ Now there was a great cry of the people and their wives, against their brethren the Jews. ² There were some who said, We with our sons and our daughters are many, therefore we will take corn that we may eat and live. ³ There were others who said, As for our fields and our vineyards and our houses, let us mortgage them that we may get corn and eat. ⁴ There were others who said, We have borrowed money to pay the king's tribute, and pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses, ⁵ and now our flesh is the same as that of our brethren, our sons the same as theirs, yet behold we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, nay, some of our daughters are already subjected to bondage, and we have no means to redeem them, for our nobles have got our fields and our vineyards.

⁸ I said to them, We with our free will offerings have purchased' our brethren the Jews who were sold to the nations; and are you going to sell your brethren that they may be sold to us? And when they held their peace and found no answer,

⁸ The word which came to Jeremias from the Lord. After king Sedekias had made a covenant with the people to proclaim a release, ⁹ that every man should set free his man servant and his maid servant of Hebrew extraction so that no person of Juda should continue in slavery; ¹⁰ when all the nobles and all the people who had entered into covenant, to set free every one his man servant, and his maid servant, ¹¹ altered their minds and compelled them to become their servants; ¹² thereupon a word of the Lord came to Jeremias saying, ¹³ Thus said the Lord, I made a covenant with your fathers, at the time I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, ¹⁴ When six years are accomplished thou shalt set at liberty thy brother, a Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee. When he hath Worked for thee six years, thou shalt let him go free. But they have not hearkened to me, nor inclined their ear. ¹⁵ And now when they turned to do what is right in my sight, by proclaiming a general release, every one to his neighbour; and had made a covenant in my presence in the house which is called by my name; ¹⁶ you have turned back and profaned my name, by causing every one his man servant, and every one his maid servant whom you had sent away free at their own disposal, to return and become your servants: ¹⁷ therefore thus said the Lord, You have not hearkened to me to proclaim a general release, every one to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim a dismission of you to the sword, and to pestilence and to famine; and I will deliver you up to dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁵ And as he had not wherewithal to pay; his lord ordered him and his wife and all that he had, to be sold and payment to be made.

²⁰ for you have been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and with your spirit which are his.

¹² And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years; and on the seventh thou shalt send him away from thee, free. ¹³ And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. ¹⁴ Thou shalt furnish him liberally with provision for the journey, from thy flock and from thy corn, and thy wine. According as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, thou shalt give him;

¹⁶ And if he shall say to thee, I will not go away from thee, because he hath loved thee, and thy family, and is well with thee; ¹⁷ then thou shalt take an awl, and bore his ear against the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And in the same manner thou shalt treat thy maid servant.

¹³ Lord, our God, take possession of us! Besides thee, Lord, we know none other. We celebrate thy name.

¹⁴ For the love of the Christ urgeth us on, judging this, that if one died for all then indeed were they all dying, ¹⁵ and that he died for all to the end that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised up for them.

¹² For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord.

²¹ but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens; ²² and let them administer justice to the people on all occasions: and the matter which is too high for them, they shall lay before thee; but causes easily determined they themselves shall decide. Thus they will remove a burden from thee and help thee. ²³ If thou do this God will strengthen thee so that thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall go to their place with peace. ²⁴ So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he said. ²⁵ And when Moses had chosen able men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, ²⁶ with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions, and that they should lay before him the matter which was too high for them; but the causes easily determined they themselves should decide;

²² If two men fight and strike a woman with child and she miscarry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. According as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial decision lay upon him, he shall pay:

⁸ But if the thief cannot be found, the owner of the house shall go before God and be examined on oath whether he may not in some manner have acted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour. ⁹ On every supposed act of injustice touching an ox or an ass or a sheep or raiment or any kind of deposit which is lost, whatever it may be, the cause of both parties shall come before God, and he whom God pointeth out shall pay his neighbour two fold.

²⁸ Thou shalt not revile gods, nor speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

²³ Now the land must not be sold forever; for the land is mine. Because you are strangers, and sojourners before me,

⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the year of the release he shall work for thee,

⁵ Then Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor. ⁶ And behold there came a man of the children of Israel, who conducted his brother to a Madianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁷ Upon seeing this, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, started up from among the congregation, and taking a javelin in his hand, ⁸ went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel.

¹⁶ And I gave a charge to your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.

¹⁷ then thou shalt take an awl, and bore his ear against the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And in the same manner thou shalt treat thy maid servant.

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people.

¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And when the judges have made a strict examination, if the false witness hath testified falsehoods, and risen up against his brother;

²² Anna did not go up with him; for she said to her husband, Not till the boy can go up after I have weaned him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide there continually.

¹ Now when Samuel grew old he appointed his sons judges over Israel. ² And these were the names of his sons. His first born was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abia. They were judges in Bersabee.

¹² And David was in high confidence with Angchus, who said, He is surely in great disgrace with his people in Israel, therefore he must be my servant forever.

² Whereupon David said to Angchus, Thus thou shalt now know what thy servant can do. And Angchus said to David, Thus will I make thee captain of my body guard during thy life.

⁷ And they spoke to him saying, If thou wilt this day be a servant to the people and serve them and speak good words to them, they will then be thy servants, all thy days.

⁶ Sacrifice and offerings thou didst not desire, but preparedst for me a body; whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin thou didst not require. ⁷ Then I said, Behold I come; [in the volume of a book it is written respecting me] ⁸ to perform, my God, thy will, I was determined, even that law of thine, within my heart.

²⁶ and establish thy judges as at the first: and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and after these things thou shalt be called The city of Righteousness, the faithful metropolis, Sion.

³ her chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the Wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning:

² If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom. ³ If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his wife came with him his wife shall go out with him.

⁵ and now our flesh is the same as that of our brethren, our sons the same as theirs, yet behold we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, nay, some of our daughters are already subjected to bondage, and we have no means to redeem them, for our nobles have got our fields and our vineyards.

⁸ Esau seeing that the daughters of the Chananites were displeasing in the sight of his father Isaak,

²⁹ And Moses said I will go out from thee and pray to God; and the dog flies shall depart from thy servants and from thy people to-morrow. But let not Pharao deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

⁷ Or is there any man who hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her home; let him go, and return to his family, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

¹¹ and hast seen, among the captives, a woman of a comely appearance, and hast loved her, and hast taken her to thyself for a wife, ¹² and brought her home to thy house, thou shalt shave her head, and pare her nails,

¹⁴ and take from her the garments of her captivity, and she shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father, and her mother, a full month, and after that thou mayst go in unto her, and cohabit with her, and she shall be thy wife. And in case thou dislike her, thou shalt send her away free. She shall not be sold for money. Thou shalt not deal falsely with her, because thou hast humbled her.

¹⁹ if therefore you have this day acted with truth, and uprightness, in regard to Jerobaal, and his house, may you have joy in Abimelech, and he have joy in you:

³ And his father and his mother said to him, Are there not daughters of thy brethren, or a woman among my whole tribe, that thou shouldst go to take a wife from among the uncircumcised Philistines? But Sampson said to his father, Get this woman for me; for she is right in my eyes.

⁶ And the thing was evil in the sight of Samuel, that they should say, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

⁸ the thing appeared evil in the eyes of Saul, because of this expression; and he said, The ten thousands they have ascribed to David; and to me they have ascribed thousands.

¹⁵ my nearest friends did not regard me: like a failing brook, or like a wave of the sea, they passed me by.

¹¹ Juda was forsaken. There was indeed abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem, because Juda profaned the holy things of the Lord in which he delighted and studiously went after strange gods. ¹² The Lord will cut off the man who doth such things until he be humbled from the dwellings of Jacob and from among them who offer a sacrifice to the Lord Almighty. ¹³ Moreover you have done those things which I hate. You have covered the altar of the Lord with tears. And amidst lamentations and groans for oppression is it still proper to look upon a sacrifice, or receive it acceptably at your hands? ¹⁴ And do you say, Why not? Because God was a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth whom thou hast forsaken, though she was thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. ¹⁵ Now did not he who had the residue of spirit, do right? Yet you have said, "What else but a seed doth God require?" But keep this in your mind, "Thou must not forsake the wife of thy youth."

¹ Now with respect to those matters about which you wrote to me, it is well for a man not to marry: ² but to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife; and every woman her own husband. ³ Let the husband render due benevolence to the wife; and in like manner the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife hath not the power over her own body; but the husband: And in like manner the husband hath not the power over his own body; but the wife. ⁵ Withdraw not from each other, unless by mutual consent for a time, that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again that satan may not tempt you through your incontinence. ⁶ Now this I say by way of counsel, not of command;

⁶ He who sheddeth man's blood shall for it have his own blood poured out; for in an image of God I have made man.

¹³ Thou shalt not commit adultery.

¹⁷ And whosoever smiteth another so that he die, let him be put to death.

¹⁶ But if he hath smitten him with an instrument of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he hath smitten him with a stone out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁸ And if he hath smitten him with any instrument of wood out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. ²⁰ And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from ambush, any instrument whatever, and he die; ²¹ or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. ²² But if on a sudden, not through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, ²³ nor with any stone by which he might be killed, or not seeing him, and it light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor seeking to do him any injury, ²⁴ the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision;

³⁰ When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death. ³¹ And you shall take no ransom for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he must be put to death:

¹¹ But there must not be among you one guilty of blood. If therefore there be among you a man who hateth his neighbour, and who shall lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him so that he die, and flee to one of these cities; ¹² the senate of his city shall send and take him thence, and deliver him into the hands of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death. ¹³ Thine eye shall not spare him. So shalt thou purge away guiltless blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.

¹³ Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord hath put away thy sin. Thou shalt not die.

⁵² Thereupon Jesus saith to him, Return thy sword to its place. For are all who have taken a sword to perish by a sword?

¹⁰ Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You are about to cross the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, ¹¹ and you will set apart for yourselves cities, which shall be your places of refuge, to which the manslayer may flee. When any person killeth another unwittingly, ¹² those cities will be places of refuge from the avenger of blood, that the manslayer may not die, until he stand before the congregation for trial. ¹³ Therefore, with regard to the cities which you shall give, six shall be your places of refuge; ¹⁴ three of these cities you shall give on this side of the Jordan, and three such cities you shall give in the land of Chanaan. ¹⁵ They shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the proselyte, and the sojourner among you. These cities are to be places of refuge, to which every one may flee who hath smitten a person unawares. ¹⁶ But if he hath smitten him with an instrument of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he hath smitten him with a stone out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁸ And if he hath smitten him with any instrument of wood out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. ²⁰ And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from ambush, any instrument whatever, and he die; ²¹ or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. ²² But if on a sudden, not through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, ²³ nor with any stone by which he might be killed, or not seeing him, and it light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor seeking to do him any injury, ²⁴ the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision; ²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he fled; and he shall dwell there, till the death of the high priest, whom they have anointed with holy oil. ²⁶ And if the manslayer go out of the bounds of the city of his refuge to which he fled, ²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him out of the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the slayer, he is not guilty of death. ²⁸ For he should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession. ²⁹ These shall be your rules of decision, for your generations, in all your dwellings. ³⁰ When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death. ³¹ And you shall take no ransom for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he must be put to death: ³² nor shall you take any ransom from him who hath fled to a city of refuge, that he may dwell again in his land, until the death of the high priest. ³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴ You must not defile the land in which you dwell; in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, towards the rising of the sun, ⁴² for the slayer to flee to. Whoever should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past, might flee to one of these cities, and live, ⁴³ namely, Bosor, in the wilderness, in the plain, for the Reubenites; and Bamoth, in Galaaditis, for the Gadites; and Gaulon, in Basan, for the Manassites.

¹ Now when the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land thy God giveth thee, and you have taken possession of it, and dwelt in their cities, and in their houses ² , thou shalt set apart for thyself three cities, in the midst of that thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ³ Make straight the way for thee, and divide into three districts, the bounds of thy land which the Lord thy God parcelleth out to thee: and in each district let there be a place of refuge for the slayer. ⁴ And this shall be the ordinance for every slayer who may flee thither, and live. Whosoever shall smite his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past, ⁵ for instance whosoever shall go with his neighbour into the forest to collect wood, and the hand of him who is cutting the wood with an axe being drawn back, the iron shall slip from the helve, and accidentally fall on his neighbour, and he die; such a one shall flee with speed to one of the cities, and live. ⁶ Lest the avenger of blood pursuing, because his heart is inflamed, should overtake him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though he is not guilty of death, because he hated him not in time past; ⁷ for this cause I give thee this charge, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thyself. ⁸ And when the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy borders, as he hath sworn to thy fathers, and the Lord hath given thee all the land which he promised to give thy fathers, ⁹ if thou wilt hearken to do all the commands which I this day give thee in charge, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually; thou shalt add three cities more for thyself, besides these three, ¹⁰ so that guiltless blood may not be shed in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession.

² Speak to the children of Israel and say, Give the cities of refuge which I ordered you by Moses, ³ a refuge for the manslayer who hath killed a person unawares. And these cities shall be for you a refuge, that the slayer may not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he stand before the congregation for trial; ⁴ [Omitted] ⁵ [Omitted] ⁶ [Omitted] ⁷ and he had set apart Kades, in Galilee, on mount Nephthaleim, and Sychem, on mount Ephraim, and the city Arbok, which is Chebron, on the mountain of Juda: ⁸ And on the bank of the Jordan they had given Bosor, in the wilderness, in the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, and Aremoth in Galaad, from the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basanitis from the tribe of Manasses. ⁹ These are the cities renowned among the children of Israel and the proselytes who dwell among them, for every one who smiteth a person unawares to flee thither, that he may not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stand before the congregation for trial.

⁴ So David's men said to him, Behold this is the day, which the Lord mentioned to thee, that he would deliver thine enemy into thy hands, that thou mayst do to him what seemeth good in thine eyes. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's cloak privily.

¹⁰ Behold this very day thine eyes have seen, how the Lord delivered thee to-day into my hands, in the cave, and I would not kill thee, but spared thee, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

¹⁸ Thou hast indeed proved to me this day the good thou hast done me; as the Lord delivered me this day into thy hands, and thou hast not slain me.

¹⁰ But the king said, What is it to me and you, sons of Saruia? Let him alone, and let him curse on; for the Lord hath told him to curse David, and who shall say Why hast thou done so?

⁷ But he did not harbour such thoughts; nor did he reason thus in his mind; but his mind will prompt him to destroy nations not a few.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour:

³⁰ But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he hath despised the statute of the Lord, and hath broken his commandments, that person shall be blotted out: his sin shall be upon him.

²⁰ And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from ambush, any instrument whatever, and he die; ²¹ or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him.

⁴³ Accordingly I spoke to you; but you hearkened not to me; but transgressed the command of the Lord, and presumptuously ascended the mountain.

¹² they tell thee, either to the right, or to the left. And if any man act presumptuously, so as not to hearken to the priest who hath stood to minister to the name of the Lord thy God; or to the judge who may be in those days; that man shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the evil person from among Israel, ¹³ and all the people, when they hear, will be struck with awe, and no more act presumptuously.

²² When the things which that prophet hath spoken in the name of the Lord shall not happen, nor come to pass, the Lord hath not spoken that word. The prophet hath spoken wickedly. You shall not spare him.

²⁴ Cursed he who smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

²⁷ And when Abenner returned to Chebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak to him, and watching an opportunity, smote him there in the groin, and he died, for the blood of Asael the brother of Joab.

⁹ But as it dropped out and fell, therefore when Joab said to Amessai, art thou well my brother? and with his right hand took hold of Amessai's beard to kiss it, ¹⁰ Amessai did not attend to the sword which was in Joab's hand. So Joab smote him with it into the belly, and his bowels gushed out on the ground, so that he did not repeat the blow. And while he was dying, Joab and Abessa, his brother, pursued after Sabee, son of Bochori,

⁵⁰ And Adonias, being afraid of Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the horns of the altar. ⁵¹ And when they told Solomon, saying, Behold Adonias is afraid of king Solomon, and hath hold of the horns of the altar, saying, Let Solomon this day swear to me that he will not slay his servant with the sword,

²⁸ Now when the news came to Joab, son of Saruia, because he had been of Adonias' party, and not a follower of Solomon, therefore Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold of the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And when they told Solomon, saying, Joab hath fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and behold he hath hold of the horns of the altar, king Solomon sent to Joab, saying, What is the matter with thee, that thou hast fled to the altar. Thereupon Joab said, Because I was afraid of thee, therefore I fled to the Lord. Then Solomon sent Banaias, son of Jodae, saying, Go, and kill him, and bury him. ³⁰ So Banaias, son of Jodae, went to Joab, to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus saith the king, Come out. And Joab said, I will not go out, for I will die here. Upon which Banaias, son of Jodae, returned and told the king, saying, Thus did Joab say, and thus he answered me; ³¹ and the king said to him, Go and do to him as he hath spoken. Kill him, and bury him, and take away this day, the blood which he shed without cause, from me and my father's house. ³² The Lord indeed hath turned the blood of his iniquity on his head. Because he fell upon two men more righteous, and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, namely Abenner, son of Ner, the captain general of Israel, and Amessai, son of Jether, the captain general of Juda; ³³ therefore their blood is returned on his own head, and on the head of his seed forever. But on David, and his seed, and on his house, and his throne, let there be peace from the Lord forever. ³⁴ So Banaias, son of Jodae, went up, and fell upon Joab; and when he had slain him, he buried him, at his house in the wilderness;

¹⁵ Then Jodae the priest gave orders to the centurions the officers of the army, and said to them. Lead her out from within the saderoth and let one go after her and put her to death with the sword. Because the priest said, Let her not be killed in the house of the Lord,

¹³ and for those of others, spare thy servant. If they gain not a dominion over me: then shall I be spotless, and clean from great transgression.

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins,

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories;

¹⁸ If any man hath a stubborn, and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, nor to the voice of his mother; and they have corrected him, and he will not hearken to them; ¹⁹ his father and his mother shall take him, and bring him out to the senate of his city, and to the gate of the place; ²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he hearkeneth not to our voice. He is devoted to revelling and drunkenness. ²¹ Thereupon the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the wicked from among you; and the rest, who hear, will be struck with awe.

¹¹ A wicked progeny curse their father and bless not their mother.

¹⁷ The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles devour it.

⁹ considering this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for the lawless and refractory; for the impious and sinful; for the immoral and profane; for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers; for homicides,

²⁸ And when the Madienite merchants came, they drew him up. They lifted Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they carried Joseph down to Egypt.

¹⁵ For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here I have done nothing, yet they have thrown me into this dungeon.

⁴ If the thing stolen, whatever it be from an ass to a sheep, be left alive and found in his hand, he shall be fined double.

⁷ If any man be found stealing any of his brethren, the children of Israel, or, having got him in his power, selleth him, the thief shall be put to death. So shalt thou remove evil from among you.

¹⁰ fornicators, sodomites, enslavers of men, liars, perjured persons, and whatever else is contrary to the wholesome doctrine

¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble,

⁹ Be the man who he may who curseth his father or his mother, let him be put to death. He hath cursed his father or his mother, he shall be held guilty. ¹⁰ Whosoever committeth adultery with the wife of a man who is head of a family, or who shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let both the adulterer and the adulteress be put to death.

¹⁶ Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

²⁰ Whosoever curseth father or mother; let his lamp be extinguished and his eye balls involved in darkness.

³ In reply to which he said to them, Why do you transgress the commandment of God, from a regard to your doctrines? ⁴ For God commanded saying, "Honour thy father and thy mother, and whosoever revileth father or mother let him be put to death: ⁵ but you say, "Whoever shall say to his father or to his mother, Let that by which thou mightest be benefited by me, be dedicated, ⁶ must not honour either his father or his mother." Thus you have annulled the commandment of God from a regard to your doctrines.

¹⁰ For Moses said, "Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Let him who curseth father or mother be put to death." ¹¹ But you say, "If a man say to his father, or to his mother, Let that be Corban, [that is to say dedicated,] by which thou mightest be benefitted by me;"

¹³ And going out the next day he saw two Hebrew men quarrelling and said to him who was in the wrong, Why dost thou beat thy neighbour?

²⁰ If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant with a staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance shall be taken by a judicial process;

¹¹ When men fight together; a man with his brother, if the wife of one of them come to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who is beating him, and stretching forth her hand? take hold of his privities,

⁶ And thy servant had two sons, and they quarrelled in the field, and there was none to part them, and one of them smote the other; his brother, and killed him.

²⁹ Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house! And may there never be wanting of the house of Joab, a person afflicted with a gonorrhea, or a leprosy, or one leaning on a staff, or falling by the sword, or lacking bread!

⁴ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Again old men and matrons shall sit in the streets of Jerusalem, every one with his staff in his hand, for multitude of days;

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him.

²⁴ For seven fold vengeance was to be taken for Cain; "But for Lamech will be taken seventy times seven."

²⁶ But if a man smite the eye of a man servant, or the eye of a maid servant; and it become blind, he shall set them free for their eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he beat out the tooth of a man servant, or the tooth of a maid servant, he shall set them free for their tooth's sake.

¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him.

³⁰ When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death. ³¹ And you shall take no ransom for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he must be put to death: ³² nor shall you take any ransom from him who hath fled to a city of refuge, that he may dwell again in his land, until the death of the high priest. ³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

²¹ Thine eye shall not pity him; life for life; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot.

¹⁹ A stubborn servant will not be instructed bywords: for though he may understand he will not obey.

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul. ⁴ You fast for strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast ye for me as today that by a cry your voice may be heard?

⁴ For it is a minister of God for good to thee. But if thou dost evil, be in dread; for it wieldeth not the sword in vain. For it is a minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath on him who doth evil.

⁴⁴ The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have, must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may purchase a male or a female slave; ⁴⁵ or of the children of strangers who sojourn among you; of them you may purchase and of their relations who may be born in your land. ⁴⁶ Let them be your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with rigour.

³⁰ But if a fine shall be laid upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him.

¹⁸ Whereupon the senate of the city shall take the man, and chastise him, ¹⁹ and fine him a hundred shekels, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he brought an ill name on a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife. He shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.

¹⁹ And whosoever shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to him, so shall it be done to himself;

³¹ And you shall take no ransom for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he must be put to death:

¹⁹ And whosoever shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to him, so shall it be done to himself; ²⁰ bruise for bruise; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; according to the blemish he hath given the man, so shall it be returned to him.

⁶ And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ⁷ Whereupon Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, have been under my table, gathering up the offals thereof; therefore as I have done, so hath God requited me: And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

³³ Whereupon Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be made childless among women. So Samuel slew Agag before the Lord at Galgal.

³⁸ You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye: and a tooth for a tooth." ³⁹ But I say to you, Contend not with the injurious: but if one smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. ⁴⁰ And if any determine to sue thee at law for thy vest, give it up to him, nay were it even thy mantle.

² for as you judge, you shall be judged: and the measure which you mete, shall be measured to you again.

³⁸ Give; and to you will be given; into your lap there shall be given good measure, pressed down and shaken and running over. For with the same measure with which you mete to others, you shall have measure returned to you.

⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it.

¹⁹ They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly?

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

¹⁴ Thou seest [for thou observest mischief and wrath]; That they have delivered themselves into thy hands. To thee the poor hath committed himself; Thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁸ to administer justice to the fatherless and the weak: That man may no longer continue his insolence in the land.

¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper: ¹³ he will spare the afflicted and needy; and save the lives of those in distress; ¹⁴ from usury and injustice he will redeem their lives; and their name will be precious in his sight:

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak. ²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

⁹ And you, masters, observe the same conduct towards them, abating your threats, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven, and that with him there is no respect of persons.

¹ Masters, render to your servants what is just and equitable; knowing that you have a master in heaven.

⁵ For with regard to your blood of your lives, I will indeed make inquisition for it at the hand of the beasts. At the hand of a man's brother I will make inquisition for the life of man. ⁶ He who sheddeth man's blood shall for it have his own blood poured out; for in an image of God I have made man.

³² But if the bull shall gore a man servant or a maid servant he shall pay their master thirty didrachms of silver and the bull shall be stoned.

¹⁵ And whoever shall lie with a beast, he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the beast. ¹⁶ And if any woman approach to any beast to be pressed under it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. Let them be put to death. They are guilty.

¹ If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess; lying in the open field; and it is not known who smote him; ² thy senate, and thy judges, shall come and measure the distance to the cities around the slain; ³ and the senate of the city which is next to the slain, shall take a heifer from the herd, which hath never been worked, and which hath never drawn in a yoke; ⁴ and the senate of the city shall bring the heifer down to a rugged valley, which hath never been tilled, nor sowed, and they shall hamstring the heifer in the valley. ⁵ Then the priests, the Levites, shall come near: because the Lord God hath chosen them to wait upon him, and to bless in his name, therefore by their mouth every cause of plaint and denial, as well as all cases of leprosy, are to be decided; ⁶ and the whole senate of the city which is nearest the person dead, shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer, which was hamstringed in the valley, ⁷ and shall answer, and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it. ⁸ Be merciful to thy people whom thou, Lord, hast redeemed, that there may not be blood shed without cause among thy people Israel. So the blood shall be forgiven them, ⁹ and thou shalt remove from among you the blood which was shed without cause, if thou do what is good, and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

¹² When thou takest an account of the children of Israel, on being reviewed they shall give every man a ransom for his life to the Lord, so there shall be no destruction among them by the review made of them.

⁸ The ransom of a man's life is his wealth; but a poor man is not subject to threats.

²⁸ If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: ²⁹ but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and his owner also may be put to death.

¹² Then I will say to them, If it seemeth good in your sight, give me my wages; if not, forbear. And when they had weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver; ¹³ then the Lord said to me, Put them in the smelting furnace, and let me see whether it be proof: as I have been proved for them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them down in the house of the Lord, for the smelting furnace.

¹⁵ and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him up to you. And they weighed to him thirty shekels of silver:

³ Then Judas, who had delivered him up, finding that he was condemned, repented and carried back the thirty shekels of silver to the chief priests and the elders, ⁴ saying, I have sinned in having betrayed innocent blood To which they replied, What is that to us? Look thou to that. ⁵ Thereupon he threw down the money in the temple, and withdrew, and went and strangled himself. ⁶ And the chief priests, taking the money, said; It is not lawful to put it into the holy treasury, seeing it is the price of blood. ⁷ So, having consulted together, they bought with it the pottor's field for the burial of strangers. ⁸ Therefore that field is ever since called the field of blood. ⁹ Then was fulfilled that, which was spoken by the prophet Jeremias, saying, "So I took the thirty pieces of silver, as the Lord commanded me. These being the price of him who was valued, whom some of the Israelites valued;

⁷ but he emptied himself"having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men,

¹⁵ The nations were completely entrapped by the destruction which they contrived; in the gin which they hid, their foot is caught.

⁸⁵ Transgressors told me idle tales: but thy law O Lord, taught me otherwise.

¹⁰ He who causeth the righteous to wander in an evil way shall himself fall into destruction. The upright shall have good things in possession: but the unrighteous shall pass by good things and shall not enter into them.

⁸ He who diggeth a pit may fall into it; and him, who is clearing away a hedge, a serpent may bite.

²⁰ Shall evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived designs against my life and concealed the punishment they intended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede for them; to turn away thy wrath from them.

²² Let a scream be heard in their houses. Thou wilt bring robbers suddenly on them because they contrived a speech to entrap me and concealed the snares they had set for me.

²⁹ but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and his owner also may be put to death. ³⁰ But if a fine shall be laid upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him.

⁶ If a fire break out and catch in thorns and consume corn on the threshing floors or on the stalk, or in the field, he who kindled the fire shall make compensation.

¹⁴ But if any one borrow of his neighbour and that which was borrowed be hurt or die or be carried off by an enemy and the owner be not with it, he shall make compensation;