Exodus 22 Cross References - Thomson

¹ If any man steal an ox or a sheep and kill, or sell it, he shall pay as a fine five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep. ² If a thief be found in the act of breaking in and be struck and die, he who struck him is not liable to death; 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. 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. ⁵ If any man cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten and shall send out his cattle to feed upon the field of another, with the produce of his own field he shall make restitution; and if he shall cause a whole field to be eaten up; with his choicest field or his choicest vineyard he shall make compensation. 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. ⁷ If any man deliver to his neighbour money or furniture to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house; the thief, if he be found, shall be fined double. 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. ¹⁰ And if a man deliver to his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep, and it be hurt or die, or be carried off by an enemy unknown to any one, ¹¹ there shall be an oath of God between the parties, that he hath not in any manner acted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour; and the owner shall thus be satisfied; and the other shall not make it good. ¹² But if it be stolen from him he shall make restitution to the owner; ¹³ and if it be torn by wild beasts he shall bring the owner to the prey and shall not 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; ¹⁵ but if the owner be with it he shall not make it good, and if it be hired he shall have it for the hire of it. ¹⁶ If any man delude an unmarried virgin and lie with her, he shall by paying a dowry purchase her for a wife: ¹⁷ but if her father absolutely refuse and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay the father in money to the amount of the dowry paid for virgins. ¹⁸ You shall not protect sorcerers. ¹⁹ Every act of bestiality you shall punish with death. ²⁰ He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death. ²¹ A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. ²⁵ If thou lend money to thy brother, who is near thee and in want; thou shalt not be rigorous with him, nor charge him interest. ²⁶ And if thou hast taken the mantle of thy neighbour as a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before the setting of the sun; ²⁷ for it is his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? If therefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful. ²⁸ Thou shalt not revile gods, nor speak evil of the ruler of thy people. ²⁹ The first fruits of thy threshing floor and of thy press thou shalt not withhold. The first born of thy sons thou shalt give to me. ³⁰ Thou shalt do the same with thy calf, thy sheep and thy ass. Seven days it shall be with the dam and on the eighth day thou shalt dedicate it to me. ³¹ You shall be men holy to me, and you shall not eat what is torn by wild beasts. You shall throw it to the dogs.

¹ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ² With regard to the person who shall sin, and who, utterly disregarding the commands of the Lord, shall lie to his neighbour touching a deposit, or touching any thing which he might use in common, or touching any thing made a prey of, whether he hath defrauded his neighbour in any respect, ³ or hath found what was lost, and shall lie concerning it; or hath sworn falsely in respect to any of the things which he may have done, so as thereby to commit sin; ⁴ when he who hath thus sinned and transgressed hath restored the thing wrongfully taken, or that which he hath got unjustly, or the deposit which was committed to his trust, or the thing lost which he hath found; ⁵ then for every thing about which he hath sworn falsely he shall pay as a fine to the same amount, and add thereto a fifth. To him whose it is he shall make restoration on the day he is convicted. ⁶ And when for his trespass he shall bring for the Lord a ram from the flock without blemish, thou must fine him to the amount of his trespass.

⁷ that person shall confess the sin which he or she hath committed, and make compensation for the trespass. Adding one fifth to the principal, he shall give it to the person against whom the trespass hath been committed.

⁶ and shall make sevenfold restitution for the lamb, because he hath done such a deed and had no compassion.

³¹ but if he be caught, he is to pay seven fold; and by giving all that he hath, he will deliver himself.

⁴ Where there are no cattle the stalls are clean; but where there is much provender, the ox's strength is manifest.

⁸ Whereupon Zaccheus, standing up, said to the Lord, Behold, Sir, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have wronged any man, I make him fourfold restitution:

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.

¹⁴ And hath he who knew their works delivered them up to darkness? And will he be as a thief in the night?

⁵ Against me thieves have risen up,

¹ When I have healed Israel, then shall be disclosed the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria. Because they have framed lies, therefore a thief shall come in to him, a sculking robber shall be in his way:

⁹ They will surprise the city and run upon the walls; they will climb up the houses and enter at windows like thieves.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth; and where thieves do not break through and steal.

⁴³ But this you know, that if the master of a family knew at what watch the thief would come, he would be upon guard and not suffer him to break into his house.

² for you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief at night.

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.

¹⁴ the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, who spoiled them, and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

⁷ Whereupon the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon,

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Of what sort was the bill of your mother's divorce with which I divorced her? Or to what creditor have I sold you? Behold you were sold for your transgressions; and for your iniquities I divorced your mother.

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.

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.

¹ If any man steal an ox or a sheep and kill, or sell it, he shall pay as a fine five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

⁷ If any man deliver to his neighbour money or furniture to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house; the thief, if he be found, shall be fined double.

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.

² priests, speak to the understanding of Jerusalem; comfort her; for her humiliation is accomplished; her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the hand of the Lord [blessings] double to the punishment of her sins.

¹⁸ therefore I will doubly requite them for their wickedness and their sins-for their having defiled My land with the carcasses of their abominations, and for their acts of iniquity with which they have caused My heritage to transgress.

⁶ render to her as she hath rendered to you and requite her double according to her works. In the cup in which she mingled, mingle for her a double portion.

³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall pay the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his.

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.

¹² But if it be stolen from him he shall make restitution to the owner;

¹⁸ He hath wearied himself for emptiness and vanity; for riches, of which he shall not have a taste, which are like a bur, neither to be chewed nor drunk.

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.

⁴ Then Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and he took torches; and when he had turned tail to tail, he put a torch between every two tails, and tied them, ⁵ and set fire to the torches, and let them go through the standing corn of the Philistines. And they burned both what was on the threshing floors, and the standing corn, and also the vineyards, and the olive trees.

³⁰ Abessalom said to his servants, See, the portion of land in the field adjoining mine is Joab's, and he hath barley there. Go and set it on fire. And when Abessalom's servants set the field on fire, the servants of Joab came to him with their clothes rent, and said, Abessalom's servants have burned the field with fire. ³¹ Thereupon Joab arose, and went to Abessalom, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my field on fire?

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.

³⁰ It exciteth no wonder, if one be caught stealing; for a hungry man stealeth to satisfy his soul; ³¹ but if he be caught, he is to pay seven fold; and by giving all that he hath, he will deliver himself.

²⁶ As a thief when taken, is ashamed; so shall the children of Israel be put to shame. They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets,

⁶ Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the purse and carried off what was put into it.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor such as indulge inordinate desires, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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.

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

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.

⁸ And if any cause which requireth judicial decision; an action of murder, an action of appeal, a case of leprosy, an action of plaint and denial; any causes which require decision in any of your cities, be too difficult for thee, thou shalt arise, and go up to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, ⁹ and there come to the priests, the Levites, or to the judge, who 10 ever he may be in those days, and they shall inquire, and declare to thee the sentence of judgment,

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;

⁴ Of these, twenty four thousand were for the works for the house of the Lord; and six thousand were scribes and judges;

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods.

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.

⁷ If any man deliver to his neighbour money or furniture to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house; the thief, if he be found, shall be fined double. 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.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the trial of his cause. ⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes. ⁸ Bribes thou shalt not receive, for they blind the eyes of them who see, and pervert judgment.

⁶ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin incident to man; or by inadvertency overlook or commit a trespass, ⁷ that person shall confess the sin which he or she hath committed, and make compensation for the trespass. Adding one fifth to the principal, he shall give it to the person against whom the trespass hath been committed.

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. 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.

¹ When a controversy happeneth between men, and they have come to a trial, and the trial is over, and the righteous is acquitted, and the criminal known;

³¹ Whatever trespass any one may commit against his neighbour, when he shall take upon him a curse to curse him, and come and plead before this altar of thine in this house;

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.

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men their offences, neither will your father forgive your offences.

¹⁵ Wherefore if thy brother trespass against thee, go and expostulate with him when thou and he are alone. If he hearken to thee thou hast gained thy brother.

³⁵ Thus also will my heavenly father deal with you, if you do not from your hearts forgive, everyone the trespasses of his brother.

³ Take heed to yourselves. And if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him: and if he repent, forgive him. ⁴ And if he trespass against thee seven times a day, and seven times a day return to thee, saying, I repent; thou shall forgive him.

⁸ but he refused and said to his master's wife, Seeing my lord, on account of his confidence in me, knoweth not any thing in his house, and hath committed to my charge all that he hath

⁴⁸ but he who did not know it, and did things deserving chastisement, shall be beaten with few. For to whom much is given, of him much will be required. And the more a man is entrusted with, the more will be demanded from him.

¹¹ If you then were not faithful with this unjust worldly prudence who will entrust to you the true?

¹² For which cause also I suffer these things, but am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have trusted, and am persuaded, that he is able to keep that which I have deposited with him till that day.

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.

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness.

¹ And when any person shall sin inadvertently; now should one be adjured and being a witness hath either seen or known, if he do not tell, he will contract that sin;

³ or hath found what was lost, and shall lie concerning it; or hath sworn falsely in respect to any of the things which he may have done, so as thereby to commit sin;

⁴² Upon which the king sent for Semei, and said to him, Did I not adjure thee by the Lord, and protest to thee saying, Be assured that on the day thou goest out of Jerusalem to any place whatever thou shalt surely die? ⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the command which I enjoined thee?

⁹ that when I am filled I may not become false and say, Who seeth me? Or being in want, steal and swear by the name of God.

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation being to them an end of strife,

³⁹ What was torn by wild beasts I brought not to thee. I made up at my own expence the loss of what was stolen by day or by night.

¹⁴ Upon this I said, Not so: Lord God of Israel, seeing my soul hath not been polluted with impurity. Even from my birth to this day I have not eaten what died of itself, or was torn by wild beasts, nor hath any tainted flesh ever entered my mouth.

¹² Thus saith the Lord, "As when a shepherd snatcheth from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be snatched, who dwell in Samaria over against that tribe and in Damascus."

⁸ the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among beasts of the forest, and like a young lion among flocks of sheep; so that when he passeth through and hath made a choice, he may tear and there shall be none to deliver.

¹² The old lion had seized enough for his whelps, and had strangled for his lionesses, and had filled his hole with prey, and his den with ravin:

¹¹ there shall be an oath of God between the parties, that he hath not in any manner acted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour; and the owner shall thus be satisfied; and the other shall not make it good.

¹⁸ And whosoever shall smite a beast, so that it die, let him make compensation, beast for beast.

² And this is the ordinance touching this release. Thou shalt remit every private debt which thy neighbour oweth thee, and shalt not demand it of thy brother; for the release for the Lord thy God is proclaimed.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not take interest of thy brother, for money, nor for victuals, nor for any thing which thou mayst lend him. ²⁰ To a stranger thou mayst lend on interest; but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works, in the land to which thou art going to take possession of it.

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,

²¹ The sinner borroweth and will not repay; but the righteous sheweth mercy and giveth.

⁴² Give to him who asketh thee. And from him who would borrow of thee, turn not thou away.

³⁵ But love your enemies; and do good; and lend without any mistrust, and your reward will be great. And you will be the children of the Most High Because he is kind, even to the ungrateful and malignant;

¹⁰ For before those days, the earnings of the men could be of no avail, and the earnings of the cattle could not be lasting; nor could there be any security from affliction to him who went out or to him who came in. For I set all the men every one against his neighbour.

² And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, who was the prince of the country, saw her and took her and lay with her and humbled her. ³ And having applied himself to gain the affections of Deina the daughter of Jacob, for he loved the virgin, and having spoken to her according to the wishes of the virgin, ⁴ Sychem said to his father Emmor, Get me this young woman for a wife.

²⁸ If any man find a young woman, who is not betrothed, and by force lie with her, and be found, ²⁹ the man who hath lain with her shall pay the father of the young woman fifty didrachms of silver, and she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away, all the days of his life.

¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham paid down to Ephron the money which he mentioned in the hearing of the children of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver current among merchants.

¹² Make the dower ever so great I will give whatever you tell me, so you give me this damsel for a wife.

³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son. ⁴ For she will cause thy son to apostatise from me, and to serve other gods, and the Lord will be provoked to wrath against you, and speedily destroy thee.

²⁹ the man who hath lain with her shall pay the father of the young woman fifty didrachms of silver, and she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away, all the days of his life.

²⁵ Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desireth no other dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to throw him into the hands of the Philistines.

²⁶ you must not eat on the mountains, nor practise divination, nor augury by birds.

³¹ you shall not go after belly speakers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them. I am the Lord your God:

⁶ And with respect to the person who shall follow belly speakers and sorcerers, so as to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and destroy him from among his people.

²⁷ therefore the man, or the woman, among you, who hath become a belly speaker, or a sorcerer, shall be put to death. Stone them with stones. They are guilty.

¹⁰ Let there not be found among you any one who purifieth his son, or his daughter, with fire; or who practiseth divinations, or consulteth omens, or augury, ¹¹ or maketh use of drugs to practise incantation, or a belly speaker, or an astrologer, or a necromancer;

³ Now Samuel was dead and all Israel had bewailed him, and buried him at Armathaim in his city. And Saul had driven from the land the belly speakers, and the diviners;

⁹ And the woman said to him, Behold thou knowest what Saul hath done; how he hath rooted out all the belly speakers, and the diviners, out of the land; why then dost thou lay a trap for my life, to put me to death?

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers.

⁹ Now there was a certain man, named Simon, who had heretofore practised magical arts in that city and astonished the nation of Samaria, pretending that he was an extraordinary person, ¹⁰ to whom all paid regard, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 To him indeed they paid regard because for a long time he had astonished them with his magical arts

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as we were going to the oratory, we were met by a certain female slave who had a spirit of Python, and who brought her masters much gain by divining. ¹⁷ This girl, following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God. They are telling us the way of salvation. ¹⁸ And this she did for many days. At length Paul, being troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go out of her. And at that instant it went out. ¹⁹ When her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold of Paul and Silas and dragged them to the forum, before the magistrates.

¹⁹ And several of them having practised magical arts, brought their books and burned them publicly, the value of them by computation amounting to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

²⁰ idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects,

¹⁵ but without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the prostitutes and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loveth and practiseth falsehood.

²³ Nor shalt thou lie with any beast to pollute thyself with it; nor shall a woman be exposed to any beast to be pressed by it; for it is horrible.

²⁵ and the land hath been polluted, and for its sake I have retributed to them their iniquity, and the land is become a mortal enemy to them who dwell therein.

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.

²¹ Cursed he who lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

³ And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up these Chananites into their hands, and they anathematised them and their cities, and called the name of that place Anathema.

² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols, ³ and Israel consecrated himself to Belphegor. Whereupon the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel; ⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel.

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.

¹ If a prophet should start up among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder; ² and the sign or the wonder should come to pass, which he mentioned to thee saying, Let us go and worship other gods which you do not know; ³ you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or of that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord thy God trieth you, to know whether you love your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul. ⁴ You shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and hearken to his voice, and cleave to him. ⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken to lead thee astray from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage; to put thee out of the way in which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk. So thou shalt remove evil from among you. ⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you. ¹² And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, ¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; ¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it.

² If there be found in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a man, or a woman, who shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant, ³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee, ⁴ and information be given thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, ⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die.

²⁰ But the prophet who shall wickedly presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall be put to death.

¹⁵ Now as all the good things, which the Lord hath spoken respecting you, have come to you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he destroy you from this good land, which the Lord hath given you, ¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.

² I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage.

⁹ You shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

³³ if any stranger come among you in your land, you shall not afflict him.

³⁵ And if thy brother who is with thee become poor and distressed in his circumstances when near thee, thou shalt help him, as a proselyte or a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.

¹⁹ Love ye therefore the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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.

⁷ Thou shalt not abominate an Idumean; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not hold in abhorrence an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt:

³ Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the orphan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor shed innocent blood in this place.

¹⁰ and oppress not the widow, nor the orphan, nor the stranger, nor the poor; and let none treasure up in his heart for evil an injury done by his brother;

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹⁸ He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge,

¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁶ They have slain the widow and orphan: they have murdered the stranger, ⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern.

¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow:

²³ The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do not administer justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend.

² turning aside the cause of the distressed; robbing the poor of my people, of their right; that the widow

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and father is this, to take the oversight and care of orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

⁹ Take heed to thyself that there be not a lurking thought in thy heart; a wicked suggestion, saying, The seventh year, the year of remission is near at hand. When thou shalt look with an evil eye at thy brother who is in want, and not give him, he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a great sin in thee.

¹⁵ Thou shalt pay him his wages on the very day: let not the sun set upon it. For he is poor, and dependeth on it; and he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a sin in thee.

³⁸ if ever my ground hath cried out against me, and the furrows thereof joined in the complaint: ³⁹ if I have eaten alone the strength thereof without money, and by rapine caused the heart of the owner of the soil to grieve:

²⁸ when they cause the cry of the poor to ascend to him, he should hearken to the cry of the poor."

⁹ On the account of a multitude, they who are falsely accused will scream: They will call aloud because of the arm of many,

¹⁷ The Lord hath hearkened to the desire of the oppressed: Thine ear hath attended to the preparation of their heart; ¹⁸ to administer justice to the fatherless and the weak: That man may no longer continue his insolence in the land.

⁶ In my distress I called on the Lord, and to my God I raised my cry. From his holy temple he heard my voice; and my cry before him reached his ears.

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the needy:

¹⁹ He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him: he will hear their prayer and save them.

⁷ who keepeth truth forever, executing judgment for the aggrieved, giving food to the hungry. ⁸ The Lord looseth them who were bound. The Lord causeth the blind to see clearly. The Lord raiseth up them who were broken down. The Lord loveth the righteous. ⁹ The Lord preserveth the strangers. He will support the orphan and the widow, and destroy the way of the wicked.

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.

¹⁰ Remove not ancient land marks, nor encroach upon the possession of the fatherless. ¹¹ For the Lord who is their redeemer is strong; and will plead their cause with thee.

⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause?

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

¹³ "This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord: and the possession of oppressors, which shall come to them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If their children be many they shall be for slaughter; and if they grow up to men, they shall be beggars. ¹⁵ Those who are about him shall die by pestilence: and their widows none shall compassionate.

²³ For the fear of the Lord restrained me, and the burden of that I could not endure.

²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful ire take hold of them.

⁷ Thou art terrible; who therefore can withstand thee, on the account of thine indignation.

⁶³ A fire consumed their young men, and their virgins made no lamentation. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows are not to bewail them.

¹¹ whoever knoweth the power of thine anger, be taught, on the account of the terror of thy wrath,

⁹ Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

⁸ Their widows are multiplied above the sand of the sea. Against a mother I have brought soldiers-misery at noon-day. Upon her I have cast suddenly terror and consternation.

²¹ For this cause deliver up their sons to famine and give them up in multitudes to the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows; and the husbands be cut off by pestilence and their young men fall by the sword in battle.

³ We are become orphans. Our father is no more. Our mothers are like widows.

⁶ At the presence of his wrath who can stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to pieces.

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.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who will render to every one according to his works ⁷ to them who by perseverance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour, and incorruption [he will grant] everlasting life; ⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³⁵ And if thy brother who is with thee become poor and distressed in his circumstances when near thee, thou shalt help him, as a proselyte or a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee. ³⁶ Thou shalt not take from him usury or increase, but thou shalt fear thy God, I the Lord; and thy brother shall live with thee. ³⁷ Thou shalt not lend him thy money on usury, nor give him thy victuals for an increase.

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,

⁷ Then she went and told the man of God, and Elisha said to her, Go and sell the oil and pay thy debts, and live thou and thy children on the oil which is left.

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.

⁷ And having consulted in my own mind, I chid the nobles and the chiefs, and said to them, would any man exact of his brother what you exact? Then having assembled a great meeting against them,

¹⁰ My brethren and my acquaintances, and I myself, have lent them money and provisions. Let us I pray you relinquish our demands for this. ¹¹ Restore to them, I beseech you, this very day their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses; and abate the price at which you have sold to each other corn and wine and oil.

⁵ who hath not lent his money on usury; nor taken bribes against the innocent. He whose practise is such, shall never be moved.

⁸ He who increaseth his wealth by usury and unjust gain; gathereth it for him who will pity the poor.

¹⁰ [p] Woe is me, O my mother, what sort of a person hast thou born in me! a man of strife and contending with all this land! I have neither lent on usury: nor hath any one lent to me; yet my strength is spent among them who curse me.

⁸ and not lend his money on interest, nor take usury, and shall turn away his hand from injustice, and execute righteous judgment between man and man,

¹³ lent on interest and taken usury. He shall not live. He bath committed all these iniquities. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

¹⁷ and turned away his hand from injustice; hath neither lent on interest nor taken usury; hath practised justice and walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father. He shall live.

¹² In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith the Lord.

²⁷ Thou shouldst therefore have lodged my money with the bankers, that at my return I might have received mine own with interest.

²³ Why then didst thou not put my money in the bank, that at my return I might have received it with interest?

⁶ Thou shalt not take in pledge an upper, nor a lower milstone, for this is taking a man's life in pledge.

¹⁰ If a debt of any kind be due to thee from thy neighbour, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge. ¹¹ Thou shalt stand without, and the man who is thy debtor shall bring the pledge out to thee. ¹² And if the man be very poor, thou shalt not go to sleep with his pledge. ¹³ Thou shalt surely restore him his pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee, and there shall be mercy for thee in the sight of the Lord thy God.

⁶ Thou hast taken pledges of thy brethren for nought, and hast stripped the naked of their cloathing.

³ They have driven away the ass of the fatherless; and taken the widow's cow for a pledge.

⁹ They have torn the orphan from the breast: and him who had fallen they have pressed down.

¹⁶ [Omitted]

²⁷ For if thou hast not wherewithal to pay, thy bed will be taken from under thee.

⁷ who shall oppress no man; shall restore the pledge of a debtor and not be guilty of rapine; who shall deal out his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked,

¹⁶ nor oppressed any man, nor taken a pledge; nor been guilty of rapine; hath dealt out his bread to the hungry and clothed the naked,

¹⁵ if he turn from his sin and execute judgment and justice and restore a pledge and make compensation for acts of rapine and walk in the statutes of life without committing injustice, he shall live and not die. None of his sins which he committed shall be remembered.

⁸ having bound their garments with cords of rushes, they pitched their tents near the altar, and drank, in the house of their God, wine got by extortion.

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth,

⁹ For by your turning to the Lord, your brethren and your children will find compassion in the sight of all those who have captivated them; and he will bring them back to this land. For the Lord our God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from us, if we return to him.

⁶ This afflicted man cried; and the Lord heard him; and saved him out of all his afflictions.

¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper:

¹⁵ But thou, Lord God, who art merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth,

¹⁰ to him who smote Egypt with their first born; for his mercy endureth forever; ¹¹ and brought out Israel from among them; for his mercy endureth forever:

²⁰ and it shall be an everlasting sign for the Lord, in the country of Egypt. Because they will cry to the Lord on account of their oppressors, therefore he will send them a man who will save them: he will vindicate their cause and deliver them.

¹⁷ He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death.

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.

¹⁶ but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die.

⁶ And David said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the anointed of the Lord, to lift up my hand against him; for he is the Lord's anointed.

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.

⁹ But David said to Abessa, Thou must not humble him: for who can lift up his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?

⁶ For this every pious man should pray to thee in due time. Moreover in a flood of many waters, are they not to draw near to him?

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. ² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand. ⁵ They did not know; nor did they understand. They walked on in darkness. All the foundations of the land shall be shaken. ⁶ I said you are gods; and all sons of the Most High: ⁷ but you shall die like men; and fall like one of the chiefs,

¹ A Psalm by David, used by Aggaius and Zacharias. I Will adore thee, Lord, with my whole heart. And with instrumental musick sing to thee before angels: because thou hast heard all the words of my mouth.

²⁰ Therefore curse not a king in thy mind, and in the inmost recesses of thy bed chamber curse not a rich man: for a bird of the air will carry thy voice, and that which hath wings will tell thy saying.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law "I said you are Gods." ³⁵ If it stileth them gods to whom the word of God was addressed, [now the scripture cannot be set aside]

³ Whereupon Paul said to him, God is about to smite thee, thou whited wall! Dost thou sit to judge according to the law, and in defiance of the law order me to be smitten?

⁵ And Paul said. Brethren, I was not aware that he is chief priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

² so that he who setteth himself against the power resisteth the arrangement of God; and they who resist shall receive for themselves condemnation. ³ For the rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil. Dost thou then wish not to dread the power? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise from it. 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. ⁵ Therefore it is necessary to submit to government, not only on account of punishment, but also for conscience's sake. ⁶ Indeed on this account you pay taxes, because there are ministers of God continually employed for this very purpose. ⁷ Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute; custom to whom custom; reverence to whom reverence; honour to whom honour is due.

¹ Put them in mind to be subject to governments and authorities; to pay prompt obedience; to be ready for every good work; ² to revile no one; not to be quarrelsome; to be gentle, shewing all meekness to all men.

¹⁷ honour all men, love the brotherhood; fear God; honour the king.

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;

⁸ so likewise shall these dreamers. They indeed defile the flesh, and despise authority and revile glories,

² Consecrate to me every first born. Every first born among the children of Israel, whether man or beast, is mine.

¹² thou shalt set apart every first born; all the males for the Lord. Every firstling of the kine or among the cattle which thou mayst have, even all the males thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.

¹⁶ Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field.

¹⁹ The dedications of the first products of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam.

¹⁹ With regard to every firstling, the males are mine; every firstling of kine and sheep;

² thou shalt take some of the first fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and put them in a basket, and go to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for his name to be there invoked; ³ and thou shalt go to the priest, who shall be in those days, and say to him, I acknowledge this day to the Lord my God, that I am come to the land which the Lord solemnly promised our fathers to give us. ⁴ Thereupon the priest shall take the basket out of thy hands, and set it down over against the altar of the Lord thy God, ⁵ and in the presence of the Lord shall answer, and say, My father left Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, with a small number, and became there a great nation, and a vast multitude. ⁶ And when the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed upon us hard labours, ⁷ and we cried to the Lord our God, the Lord heard our voice. When he saw our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression, ⁸ the Lord himself brought us out of Egypt with his great power, and with his strong hand, and outstretched arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders, ⁹ and brought us to this place, and gave us this land; a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ Now therefore, behold, I have brought this offering of the products of the land, which thou, Lord, hast given me; a land flowing with milk and honey. Then thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God; and when thou hast worshipped before the Lord thy God,

⁴² After that there came a man from Baithariso and brought to the man of God, of the first fruits twenty loaves of barley bread and some fig cakes. And he said, Give these to the people and let them eat.

⁵ And soon as he published the order, Israel brought, in abundance, dedications of corn and wine, and oil and honey. Both the children of Israel and of Juda, brought abundantly the productions of the field, and all the tythes.

⁹ Honour the Lord with some of thy righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

⁴⁰ [for on my holy mountain, on my lofty mountain, saith the Lord, there all the house of Israel shall serve me at last; and there I will expect and there I will accept your offerings; even the offerings of your dedications at all your solemnities]

¹ [p] Woe is me! for I am like one picking up stalks in harvest, and like one gathering a gleaning at the vintage? Not a bunch of the first fruits is left for me to eat. Ah Woe is my life,

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

²³ Nay, even they who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for an adoption the redemption of this body of ours.

³ And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin,

²⁷ With respect to a young bull, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, it must be seven days under its dam, and on the eighth day, and thenceforward, it will be accepted as a gift for an homage offering to the Lord.

¹⁹ every firstling of thy herds, and thy flocks, even all the males, thou shalt dedicate to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not work a firstling bull, nor shear the firstlings of thy flock.

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel.

⁴⁴ Because I am the Lord your God, therefore you must hallow yourselves, and be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy. And you must not defile yourselves with any of the reptiles, which creep on the earth, ⁴⁵ because I am the Lord who brought you up out of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord am holy.

¹⁵ And every person who eateth that which hath died of itself, or been caught by wild beasts, whether he be one of yourselves, or of the proselytes, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean. ¹⁶ But if he do not wash his clothes, and if his body be not washed with water, he shall bear his iniquity.

² Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel; and thon shalt say unto them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

²⁵ you shall therefore keep yourselves separate by making a distinction between the clean beasts, and the beasts which are unclean; and between the clean birds, and the birds which are unclean; and you shall not pollute yourselves with the beasts, or the birds, or any of the reptiles of the earth which I have distinguished for you, by uncleanness,

⁸ What died of itself, or is torn by wild beasts, he shall not eat to pollute himself therewith. I am the Lord,

²¹ Every thing which dieth of itself you shall not eat. It may be given to the stranger, who is in thy cities, and he may eat it, or thou mayst sell it to the stranger. Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam.

³¹ But whatever hath died of itself and whatever hath been torn by wild beasts, whether it be of fowls or of cattle, the priests shall not eat.

¹⁴ Whereupon Peter said, By no means, Lord. For I have never eaten any thing common or unclean.

²⁰ but to enjoin them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and fornication, and what is strangled, and blood,

¹⁵ but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye also holy in the whole course of your life; ¹⁶ for it is written, "Be ye holy, because I am holy."