Leviticus 23-27
1599 Geneva Bible
23 2 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The Sabbath. 5 The Passover. 6 The feast of unleavened bread. 10 The feast of firstfruits. 16 Whitsuntide. 24 The feast of blowing trumpets. 34 The feast of Tabernacles.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which ye shall call the holy [a]assemblies, even these are my feasts.
3 (A)Six days [b]shall work be done, but in the seventh day shall be the Sabbath of rest, an holy [c]convocation: ye shall do no work therein, it is the Sabbath of the Lord, in all your dwellings.
4 ¶ These are the feasts of the Lord, and holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their [d]seasons.
5 In the first month and in the fourteenth day of the month at evening shall be the Passover of the Lord.
6 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be the feast (B)of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no [e]servile work therein.
8 Also ye shall offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord seven days, and in the [f]seventh day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring [g]a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the Priest,
11 And he shall shake the sheaf before the Lord, that it may be acceptable for you: the morrow after the [h]Sabbath, the Priest shall shake it.
12 And that day when ye shake the sheaf, shall ye prepare a lamb without blemish of a year old, for a burnt offering unto the Lord:
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two [i]tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, for a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord of sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof the fourth part [j]of an Hin of wine.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread nor parched corn, nor [k]green ears until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: this shall be a Law forever in your generations and in all your dwellings.
15 ¶ Ye shall count also to you from the morrow after the [l]Sabbath, even from the day that ye shall bring the sheaf of the shake offering, seven [m]Sabbaths, they shall be complete.
16 Unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days: then ye shall bring a new meat offering unto the Lord.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations bread for the shake offering: they shall be two loaves of two tenth deals of fine flour, which shall be baken with [n]leaven for firstfruits unto the Lord.
18 Also ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of one year old, and a young bullock and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, for a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.
19 Then ye shall prepare an he goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of one year old for peace offerings.
20 And the Priest shall shake them to and fro with the bread of the firstfruits before the Lord, and with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord, for the [o]Priest.
21 So ye shall proclaim the same day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be an ordinance forever in all your dwellings, throughout your generations.
22 ¶ (C)And when you reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not rid clean the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy harvest, but shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger, I am the Lord your God.
23 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, In the [p]seventh month, and in the first day of the month shall ye [q]have a Sabbath, for the remembrance of [r]blowing the trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein, but offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
26 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
27 The (D)tenth also of this seventh month, shall be a day of reconciliation: it shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall [s]humble your souls, and offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
28 And ye shall do no work that same day: for it is a day of reconciliation, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
29 For every person that humbleth not himself that same day, shall even be cut off from his people.
30 And every person that shall do any work that same day, the same person also will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner work therefore: this shall be a law forever in your generations, throughout all your dwellings.
32 This shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall humble your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from [t]even to even shall ye [u]celebrate your Sabbath.
33 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, (E)In the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be for seven days the feast of Tabernacles unto the Lord.
35 In the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer (F)sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and in the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall offer sacrifices made by fire unto the Lord: it is the [v]solemn assembly, ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the Lord (which ye shall call holy convocations) to offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, as burnt offering, and meat offering, [w]sacrifice, and drink offerings, every one upon his day,
38 Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your free offerings, which ye shall give unto the Lord.
39 But in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep an holy feast unto the Lord seven days: in the first day shall be a [x]Sabbath: likewise in the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you in the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of [y]thick trees, and willows of the brook, and shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
41 So ye shall keep this feast unto the Lord seven days in the year, by a perpetual ordinance through your generations: in the seventh month shall you keep it.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days: all that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths,
43 That your posterity may know that I have made the children of Israel to dwell in [z]booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
44 So Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
24 The oil for the lamps. 5 The showbread. 14 The blasphemer shall be stoned. 17 He that killeth shall be killed.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 [aa]Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the veil [ab]of the Testimony, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shall Aaron dress them, both even and morning before the Lord always: this shall be a law forever through your generations.
4 He shall dress the lamps upon the (G)pure Candlestick before the Lord perpetually.
5 ¶ Also thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve (H)cakes thereof: two [ac]tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row upon the pure table before the Lord.
7 Thou shalt also put pure incense upon the rows, that [ad]instead of the bread it may be for a remembrance, and an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the Lord evermore, receiving them of the children of Israel for an everlasting Covenant.
9 (I)And the bread shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual ordinance.
10 ¶ And there went [ae]out among the children of Israel the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian: and this son of the Israelitish woman, and a man of Israel strove together in the host.
11 So the Israelitish woman’s son [af]blasphemed the Name of the Lord, and cursed, and they brought him unto Moses (his mother’s name also was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan)
12 And they (J)put him in ward, till he told them the mind of the Lord.
13 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring the blasphemer without the host, and let all that heard him, (K)put their hands upon his head, and let all the Congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God, shall [ag]bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord, shall be put to death: all the Congregation shall stone him to death: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land: when he blasphemeth the Name of the Lord, let him be slain.
17 ¶ (L)He also that [ah]killeth any man, he shall be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it, [ai]beast for beast.
19 Also if a man cause any blemish in his neighbor: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
20 (M)Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: such a blemish as he hath made in any, such shall be repaid to him.
21 And he that killeth a beast, shall restore it: but he that killeth a man, shall be slain.
22 Ye shall have one (N)law: it shall be as well for the stranger as for one born in the country, for I am the Lord your God.
23 ¶ Then [aj]Moses told the children of Israel, and they brought the blasphemer out of the host, and stoned him with stones: so the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
25 2 The Sabbath of the seventh year. 8 The Jubilee in the fiftieth year. 14 Not to oppress their brethren. 23 The sale and redeeming of lands, houses and persons.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye shall come into the land which I give you, the (O)land shall [ak]keep Sabbath unto the Lord.
3 [al]Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof.
4 But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land: it shall be the Lord’s Sabbath: thou shalt neither sow thy field nor cut thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its [am]own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that thou hast left [an]unlabored: for it shall be a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the [ao]rest of the land shall be meat for you, even for thee and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for the stranger that sojourneth with thee:
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 ¶ Also thou shalt number seven [ap]Sabbaths of years unto thee, even seven times seven years: and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years will be unto thee nine and forty years.
9 [aq]Then thou shalt cause to blow the trumpet of the Jubilee in the tenth day of the seventh month: even in the day of the reconciliation shall ye make the trumpet blow throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow that year, even the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all the [ar]inhabitants thereof: it shall be the Jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his [as]possession, and every man shall return unto his family.
11 This fiftieth year shall be a year of Jubilee unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself, neither gather the grapes thereof that are left unlabored.
12 For it is the Jubilee, it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat of the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this Jubilee, ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And when thou sellest ought to thy neighbor, or buyest at thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall [at]not oppress one another.
15 But according to the number of [au]years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor: also according to the number of the years of the revenues, he shall sell unto thee.
16 According to the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt abate the price of it: for the number of [av]fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Oppress not ye therefore any man his neighbor, but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keep my laws, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land [aw]in safety.
19 And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year, for we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase?
21 I will [ax]send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the old fruit until the ninth year: until the fruit thereof come ye shall eat the old.
23 ¶ Also the land shall not be sold to be [ay]cut off from the family: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Therefore in all the land of your possession ye shall [az]grant a redemption of the land.
25 ¶ If thy brother be impoverished, and sell his possession, then his redeemer shall come, even his near kinsman, and buy out that, which his [ba]brother sold.
26 And if he have no redeemer, but [bb]hath gotten and found to buy it out,
27 Then shall he [bc]count the years of his sale, and restore the overplus to the man, to whom he sold it: so shall he return to his possession.
28 But if he cannot get sufficient to restore to him, then that which is sold, shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the year of the Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall come [bd]out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 Likewise if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it out again within a whole year after it is sold: within a year may he buy it out.
30 But if it be not bought out within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city, shall be stablished, [be]as cut off from the family, to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of villages which have no walls round about them, shall be esteemed as the field of the country: they may be bought out again, and shall [bf]go out in the Jubilee.
32 Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem [bg]at all seasons.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, the house that was sold, and the city of their possession shall go out in the Jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the [bh]suburbs of their cities shall not be sold: for it is their perpetual possession.
35 ¶ Moreover, if thy brother be impoverished, and [bi]fallen in decay with thee, thou shalt relieve him, and as a stranger and sojourner, so shall he live with thee.
36 (P)Thou shalt take no usury of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money to usury, nor lend him thy vittles for increase.
38 I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 ¶ (Q)If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee be impoverished, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant,
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner he shall be with thee: he shall serve thee unto the year of Jubilee.
41 Then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return:
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not [bj]be sold as bondmen are sold.
43 (R)Thou shalt not rule over him cruelly, but shalt fear thy God.
44 Thy bond servant also, and thy bondmaid, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you: of them shall ye buy servants and maids.
45 And moreover, of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you which they begat in your land: these shall be your [bk]possession.
46 So ye shall take them, as inheritance for your children after you to possess them by inheritance, ye shall use their labors forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one over another with cruelty.
47 ¶ If a sojourner or a stranger dwelling by thee [bl]get riches, and thy brother by him be impoverished, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner dwelling by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family,
48 After that he is sold, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may buy him out.
49 Or his uncle, or his uncle’s son may buy him out, or any of the kindred of his flesh among his family, may redeem him: either if he can [bm]get so much, he may buy himself out.
50 Then he shall reckon with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, unto the year of Jubilee: and the money of his sale shall be according to the number of [bn]years: according to the time of an hired servant shall he be with him.
51 If there be many years behind, according to them shall he give again for his deliverance, of the money that he was bought for.
52 If there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years give again for his redemption.
53 He shall be with him year by year as an hired servant: he shall not rule cruelly over him in thy [bo]sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed thus, he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
26 1 Idolatry forbidden. 3 A blessing to them that keep the commandments. 14 The curse to them that break them. 42 God promiseth to remember his covenant.
1 Ye shall make you none idols nor graven image, neither rear you up any (S)pillar, neither shall ye set [bp]any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the Lord your God.
2 Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and (T)reverence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 ¶ (U)If ye walk in mine ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them,
4 I will then send you [bq]rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto sowing time, and you shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will send peace in the land, and ye shall sleep, and none (V)shall make you afraid: also I [br]will rid evil beasts out of the land, and the [bs]sword shall not go through your land.
7 Also ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword.
8 (W)And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword.
9 For [bt]I will have respect unto you, and make you increase, and multiply you, and [bu]stablish my covenant with you.
10 Ye shall eat also old store, and carry out old because of the new.
11 (X)And I will set my [bv]Tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not loathe you.
12 Also I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I have broken the [bw]bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 ¶ (Y)But if ye will not obey me, nor do all these commandments,
15 And if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your soul abhor my laws, so that ye will not do all my Commandments, but break my [bx]Covenant,
16 Then will I also do this unto you, I will appoint over you [by]fearfulness, a consumption, and the burning ague to consume the eyes, and make the heart heavy, and you shall sow your seed in vain: for your enemies shall eat it:
17 And I will set [bz]my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you, shall reign over you, (Z)and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not for these things obey me, then will I punish you [ca]seven times more, according to your sins,
19 And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as [cb]iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your [cc]strength shall be spent in vain: neither shall your land give her increase, neither shall the trees of the land give their fruit.
21 ¶ And if ye walk [cd]stubbornly against me, and will not obey me, I will then bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts upon you, which shall [ce]spoil you, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number: so your [cf]highways shall be desolate.
23 Yet if by these ye will not be reformed by me, but walk stubbornly against me,
24 Then will I also walk (AA)stubbornly against you, and I will smite you yet seven times for your sins:
25 And I will send a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my Covenant: and when ye are gathered in your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 When I shall break the [cg]staff of your bread, then ten women shall bake your bread in one [ch]oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, but not be satisfied.
27 Yet if ye will not for this obey me, but walk against me stubbornly,
28 Then will I walk stubbornly in mine anger against you, and I will also chastise you seven times more according to your sins.
29 (AB)And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye devour.
30 I will also destroy your high places, and (AC)cut away your images, and cast your carcasses upon the [ci]bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your Sanctuary unto naught, and [cj]will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
32 I will also bring the land unto a wilderness, and your enemies which dwell therein, shall be astonished thereat.
33 Also I will scatter you among the heathen, and [ck]will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities shall be desolate.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her (AD)Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void, and ye shall be in your enemies’ land: then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths.
35 All the days that it lieth void, it shall rest, because it did not rest in your [cl]Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left of you, I will send even a [cm]faintness into their hearts in the land of your enemies, and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them, and they shall [cn]flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.
37 They shall fall also one upon another, as before a sword, though none pursue them, and ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies:
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you, shall pine away for their iniquity, in your enemies’ lands, and for the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with [co]them also.
40 Then they shall confess their iniquity, and the wickedness of their fathers for their trespass, which they have trespassed against me, and also because they have walked stubbornly against me.
41 Therefore I will walk stubbornly against them, and bring them into the land of their enemies: so then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and then they shall [cp]willingly bear the punishment of their iniquity.
42 Then I will remember my Covenant with Jacob, and my Covenant also with Isaac, and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember, and will remember the land.
43 [cq]The land also in the mean season shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths while she lieth waste without them, but they shall willingly suffer the punishment of their iniquity, because they despised my Laws, and because their soul abhorred mine ordinances.
44 Yet notwithstanding this, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, (AE)I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, nor to break my Covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God:
45 But I will remember for them the [cr]Covenant of old, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the Ordinances, and the Judgments, and the Laws, which the Lord made between him, and the children of Israel, in mount [cs]Sinai by the hand of Moses.
27 2 Of divers vows, and the redemption of the same. 28 A thing separate from the use of man, cannot be sold nor redeemed, but remained to the Lord.
1 Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man shall make a vow of [ct]a person unto the Lord, by [cu]thy estimation,
3 Then thy estimation shall be thus: a male from twenty years old unto sixty years old shall be by thy estimation even fifty [cv]shekels of silver, after the shekel of the Sanctuary.
4 But if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And from five years old to twenty years old, thy valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 But from a [cw]month old unto five years old, thy price of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and thy price of the female, three shekels of silver.
7 And from sixty years old and above, if he be a male, then thy price shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer [cx]than thou hast esteemed him, then shall he present himself before the Priest, and the Priest shall value him, according to the ability of him that vowed, so shall the Priest value him.
9 And if it be a [cy]beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that one giveth of such unto the Lord, shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good: and if he change beast for beast, then both this and that, which was changed for it, shall be [cz]holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which men do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, he shall then present the beast before the Priest.
12 And the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: and as thou valuest it, which art the Priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will buy it again, then he shall give the fifth part of it more above thy valuation.
14 ¶ Also when a man shall dedicate his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad, and as the Priest shall price it, [da]so shall the value be.
15 But if he that sanctified it, will redeem his house, then he shall give thereto the fifth part of money more than thy estimation, and it shall be his.
16 If also a man dedicate to the Lord any ground of his inheritance, then shalt thou esteem it according to the [db]seed thereof, an [dc]Homer of barley seed shall be at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he dedicate his field immediately from the year of Jubilee, it shall be worth as thou dost esteem it.
18 But if he dedicate his field after the Jubilee, then the Priest shall reckon him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of Jubilee, and it shall be abated by thy estimation.
19 And if he that dedicateth it, will redeem the field, then he shall put the fifth part of the price, that thou esteemedst it at, thereunto, and it shall remain his.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, but the Priest [dd]sell the field to another man, it shall be redeemed no more.
21 But the field shall be holy to the Lord, when it goeth out in the Jubilee, as a field [de]separate from common uses: the possession thereof shall be the Priest’s.
22 If a man also dedicate unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the ground of his inheritance,
23 Then the Priest shall set the price to him, as (AF)thou esteemest it, unto the year of Jubilee, and he shall give [df]thy price the same day, as a thing holy unto the Lord.
24 But in the year of Jubilee, the field shall return unto him, of whom it was bought: to him I say, whose inheritance the land was.
25 And all the valuation shall be according to the shekel of (AG)the Sanctuary: a shekel containeth twenty gerahs.
26 ¶ (AH)Notwithstanding the firstborn of the beasts, because it is the Lord’s firstborn, none shall dedicate such, be it bullock, or sheep: For it is the [dg]Lord’s.
27 But if it be an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it by thy valuation, and give the fifth part more thereto: and if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold, according to thy estimation.
28 (AI)Notwithstanding, nothing separate from the common use that a man doth separate unto the Lord of all that he hath (whether it be man or beast, or land of his inheritance) may be sold nor redeemed: for everything separate from the common use is most holy unto the Lord.
29 Nothing separate from the common use, which shall be separate from man, shall be redeemed, but [dh]die the death.
30 Also all the tithe of the land both of the seed of the ground, and of the fruit of the trees is the Lord’s: it is holy to the Lord.
31 But if a man will redeem any of his tithe, he shall add the [di]fifth part thereto.
32 And every tithe of bullock, and of sheep, and of all that goeth under the [dj]rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
33 He shall not look if it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: else if he change it, both it, and that it was changed withal, shall be holy, and it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the Commandments which the Lord commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 23:2 Or, convocations.
- Leviticus 23:3 Or, ye may work.
- Leviticus 23:3 Or, assembly.
- Leviticus 23:4 For the Sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept but once every year.
- Leviticus 23:7 Or, bodily labor, save about that which one must eat, Exod. 22:16.
- Leviticus 23:8 The first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feast were intermeddled, as the feast of unleavened bread, the fifteenth day, and the feast of sheaves the sixteenth day.
- Leviticus 23:10 Or, an Omer, read Deut. 24:19; Ruth 2:15; Ps. 129:7.
- Leviticus 23:11 That is, the second Sabbath of the Passover.
- Leviticus 23:13 Which is, the fifth part of an Ephah, or two Omers: read Exod. 16:16.
- Leviticus 23:13 Read Exod. 29:40.
- Leviticus 23:14 Or, full ears.
- Leviticus 23:15 That is the seventh day after the first Sabbath of the Passover.
- Leviticus 23:15 Or, weeks.
- Leviticus 23:17 Because the Priest should eat them, as Lev. 7:13, and they should not be offered to the Lord upon the altar.
- Leviticus 23:20 That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the Priests.
- Leviticus 23:24 That is, about the end of September.
- Leviticus 23:24 Or, an holy day to the Lord.
- Leviticus 23:24 Which blowing was to put them in remembrance of the manifold feasts that were in that month, and of the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 23:27 By fasting and prayer.
- Leviticus 23:32 Which containeth a night and a day: yet they took it but for their natural day.
- Leviticus 23:32 Hebrew, rest your Sabbath.
- Leviticus 23:36 Or, a day wherein the people are stayed from all work.
- Leviticus 23:37 Or, peace offering.
- Leviticus 23:39 Or, a solemn feast.
- Leviticus 23:40 Or, of boughs thick with leaves.
- Leviticus 23:43 In the wilderness, forasmuch as they would not credit Joshua and Caleb, when they returned from spying the land of Canaan.
- Leviticus 24:2 Read Exod. 27:20.
- Leviticus 24:3 Which veil separated the holiest of all, where was the Ark of the Testimony from the Sanctuary.
- Leviticus 24:5 That is, two Omers, read Exod. 16:16.
- Leviticus 24:7 For it was burnt every Sabbath, when the bread was taken away.
- Leviticus 24:10 Meaning, out of his tent.
- Leviticus 24:11 By swearing or despiting God.
- Leviticus 24:15 Shall be punished.
- Leviticus 24:17 Hebrew, smiteth the soul of any man.
- Leviticus 24:18 Hebrew, soul for soul.
- Leviticus 24:23 Because the punishment was not yet appointed by the law for the blasphemer, Moses consulted with the Lord, and told the people what God commanded.
- Leviticus 25:2 Hebrew, shall rest a rest.
- Leviticus 25:3 The Jews began the count of this year in September: for then all the fruits were gathered.
- Leviticus 25:5 By reason of the corn that fell out of the ears the year past.
- Leviticus 25:5 Or, which thou hast separated from thyself, and consecrated to God for the poor.
- Leviticus 25:6 That which the land bringeth forth in her rest.
- Leviticus 25:8 Or, weeks.
- Leviticus 25:9 In the beginning of the 50th year was the Jubilee, so called, because the joyful tidings of liberty [were] publicly proclaimed by the sound of a cornet.
- Leviticus 25:10 Which were in bondage.
- Leviticus 25:10 Because the tribes should neither have their possessions or families diminished nor confounded.
- Leviticus 25:14 By deceit, or otherwise.
- Leviticus 25:15 If the Jubilee to come be near, thou shalt sell better cheap: if it be far off, dearer.
- Leviticus 25:16 And not the full possession of the land.
- Leviticus 25:18 Or, boldly without fear.
- Leviticus 25:21 Hebrew, I will command.
- Leviticus 25:23 It could not be sold forever, but must return to the family in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:24 Ye shall sell it on condition that it may be redeemed.
- Leviticus 25:25 Or, kinsman.
- Leviticus 25:26 Hebrew, his hand hath gotten.
- Leviticus 25:27 Abating the money of the years past, and paying for the rest of the years to come.
- Leviticus 25:28 From his hand that bought it.
- Leviticus 25:30 That is, forever, read verse 23.
- Leviticus 25:31 Or, return.
- Leviticus 25:32 Hebrew, forever.
- Leviticus 25:34 Where the Levites kept their cattle.
- Leviticus 25:35 In Hebrew it is, if his hand shake: meaning, if he stretch forth his hand for help as one in misery.
- Leviticus 25:42 Unto perpetual servitude.
- Leviticus 25:45 For they shall not be bought out at the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:47 Hebrew, his hand take hold.
- Leviticus 25:49 If he be able.
- Leviticus 25:50 Which remain yet to the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:53 Thou shalt not suffer him to entreat him rigorously, if thou know it.
- Leviticus 26:1 Or, stone having any imagery.
- Leviticus 26:4 By promising abundance of earthly things, he stirreth the mind to consider the rich treasures of the spiritual blessings.
- Leviticus 26:6 Hebrew, will cause the evil beast to cease.
- Leviticus 26:6 Ye shall have no war.
- Leviticus 26:9 Hebrew, I will turn unto you.
- Leviticus 26:9 Perform that which I have promised.
- Leviticus 26:11 I will be daily present with you.
- Leviticus 26:13 I have set you at full liberty, whereas before ye were as beasts tied in bands.
- Leviticus 26:15 Which I made with you in choosing you to be my people.
- Leviticus 26:16 Or, an hasty plague.
- Leviticus 26:17 Read Lev.17:10.
- Leviticus 26:18 That is, more extremely.
- Leviticus 26:19 Ye shall have drought and barrenness, Hag. 1:10.
- Leviticus 26:20 Or, labor.
- Leviticus 26:21 Or as some read, by fortune, imputing my plagues to chance and fortune.
- Leviticus 26:22 Of your children, 2 Kings 17:25.
- Leviticus 26:22 Because none dare pass thereby for fear of beasts.
- Leviticus 26:26 That is, the strength, whereby the life is sustained, Ezek. 4:16 and 5:16.
- Leviticus 26:26 One oven shall be sufficient for ten families.
- Leviticus 26:30 Or, carrions.
- Leviticus 26:31 I will not accept your sacrifices.
- Leviticus 26:33 Signifying that no enemy can come without God’s sending.
- Leviticus 26:35 Which I commanded you to keep.
- Leviticus 26:36 Or, cowardness.
- Leviticus 26:36 As if their enemies did chase them.
- Leviticus 26:39 Forasmuch as they are culpable of their fathers’ faults, they shall be punished as well as their fathers.
- Leviticus 26:41 Or, pray for their sin.
- Leviticus 26:43 While they are captives, and without repentance.
- Leviticus 26:45 Made to their forefathers.
- Leviticus 26:46 Fifty days after they came out of Egypt.
- Leviticus 27:2 As of his son or his daughter.
- Leviticus 27:2 Which art the Priest.
- Leviticus 27:3 Read the value of the Shekel, Exod. 30:13.
- Leviticus 27:6 He speaketh of those vows whereby the fathers dedicated their children to God which were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them.
- Leviticus 27:8 If he be not able to pay after thy valuation.
- Leviticus 27:9 Which is clean, Lev. 11:2.
- Leviticus 27:10 That is, consecrated to the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:14 Hebrew, so shall it stand.
- Leviticus 27:16 Valuing the price thereof according to the seed that is sown, or by the seed that it doth yield.
- Leviticus 27:16 Homer is a measure containing ten Ephahs, read of Ephah, Exod. 16:16, 36.
- Leviticus 27:20 For their own necessity or godly uses.
- Leviticus 27:21 That is, which dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that doth turn it to his private use, Num. 21:2; Deut. 13:15; Josh. 9:17.
- Leviticus 27:23 The Priest’s valuation.
- Leviticus 27:26 It was the Lord’s already.
- Leviticus 27:29 It shall remain without redemption.
- Leviticus 27:31 Besides the value of the thing itself.
- Leviticus 27:32 All that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falleth by tally without exception or respect.
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