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Redemption o yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her they begat in your land: and they sh fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. possession.

23 The land shall not be sold for ever; for 46 And ye shall take them as an inhe the land is mine, for ye are strangers and so- your children after you, to inherit them journers with me. session, they shall be your bond-mer 24 And in all the land of your possession ye but over your brethren the children of shall grant a redemption for the land. shall not rule one over another with 25 1 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath 47 1 And if a sojourner or a strange sold away some of his possession, and if any of by thee, and thy brother that dwelle his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem wax poor, and sell himself unto the s that which his brother sold. sojourner by thee, or to the stock of

26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and ger's family:

48 After that he is sold he may be again; one of his brethren may redee 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's se deem him, or any that is nigh of kin u his family may redeem him; or if he b may redeem himself.

50 And he shall reckon with him th him, from the year that he was sold to the year of jubilee: and the price of his be according unto the number of year

51 If there be yet many years behind, unto them he shall give again the price demption out of the money that he was b 52 And if there remain but few years year of jubilee, then he shall count v and according unto his years shall he again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired servant sh with him and the other shall not r rigour over him in thy sight.

54 And if he be not redeemed in the

32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, then he shall go out in the year of jubi and the houses of the cities of their possession, he, and his children with him.

Blessings promised on obedience E shall make you no idols nor graven neither rear you up a standing image shall ye set up any image of stone in yo to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD YO 21 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and re my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

31 If ye walk in my statutes and k commandments, and do them;

4 Then I will give you rain in due seas the land shall yield her increase, and the the field shall yield their fruit:

5 And your threshing shall reach unto t tage, and the vintage shall reach unto th ing-time; and ye shall eat your bread full, and dwell in your land safely.

shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, an
shall fall before you by the sword.

8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, hundred of you shall put ten thousand to and your enemies shall fall before you sword.

9 For I will have respect unto you, and you fruitful, and multiply you, and establi covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring the old because of the new.

11 And I will set my tabernacle anmong and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 And I will walk among you, and will be God, and ye shall be my people.

13 I am the LORD your God, which brough

and of their families that are with you, which forth out of the land of Egypt that we shou

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for disobedience. en the bands were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye ght. shall have no power to stand before your enemies. to me, and 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

es, or if your 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away will not do in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and e break my also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they

ill even ap- 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and nd the burn- the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass 5, and cause which they trespassed against me, and that also Four seed in they have walked contrary unto me;

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto you, and ye them, and have brought them into the land of their ey that hate enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be Il flee when humbled, and they then accept of the punish

his hearken 42 Then will I remember my covenant with times more Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remem

our power; ber; and I will remember the land. n, and your 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate withIn vain: for out them and they shall accept of the punishase, neither ment of their iniquity; because, even because fruits. they despised my judgments, and because their ne, and will soul abhorred my statutes.

seven times 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land your sins. of their enemies, I will not cast them away, mong you, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utteren, and de-ly, and to break my covenant with them: for I in number, am the LORD their God.

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45 But I will for their sakes remember the covby me by enant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth unto me; out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heato you, and then, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. your sins. 46 These are the statutes, and judgments, and u, that shall laws, which the LORD made between him and and when the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand ur cities, I of Moses.

and ye shall

emy.

aff of your ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, read in one 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say bread again unto them, When a man shall make a singular be satisfied. vow, the persons shall be for the LORD, by thy earken unto estimation.

31 And thy estimation shall be, of the male you also in from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, you seven even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silADIO! Over, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ir sons, and 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation eat. shall be thirty shekels.

ces, and cut 5 And if it be from five years old even unto casses upon twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be y soul shall of the male twenty shekels, and for the female

waste, and 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five ation, and I years old, then thy estimation shall be of the veet odours. male five shekels of silver, and for the female desolation: thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. rein shall be 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fif

the heathen, teen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. u: and your 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then es waste. he shall present himself before the priest, and the sabbaths, as priest shall value him: according to his ability in your ene- that vowed shall the priest value him. nd rest, and 9 And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth

mall rest; be- of such unto the LORD shall be holy. ths, when ye 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good and if he shall of you, I will at all change beast for beast, then it and the ex the lands of change thereof shall be holy. kenleafshall 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which

Hooing from a thou do not offer gegrifi unto the LORD then

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Tithes not to be

good or bad: as thou valuest it who art the the jubilee: and he shall give thine e priest, so shall it be.

13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

in that day, as a holy thing unto the D 24 In the year of the jubilee the field turn unto him of whom it was bough him to whom the possession of the land d 25 And all thy estimations shall be acc the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty ge be the shekel.

26 Only the firstling of the beasts, whi

15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the mo- be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sa ney of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the L 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD 27 And if it be of an unclean beast. some part of a field of his possession, then thy shall redeem it according to thine es estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: and shall add a fifth part of it thereto a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty be not redeemed, then it shall be sold a shekels of silver.

17 If he sanctify his field from the year of ju- 28 11 Notwithstanding, no devoted thin bilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand. man shall devote unto the LORD of all 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, hath, both of man and beast, and of the then the priest shall reckon unto him the money his possession, shall be sold or redeemed according to the years that remain, even unto devoted thing is most holy unto the Lor the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated

29 None devoted, which shall be devoted
shall be redeemed: but shall surely be put
30 And all the tithe of the land, wheth
seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tre
LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
31 And if a man will at all redeem aug
tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part
32 1 And concerning the tithe of the
of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth
the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the
33 He shall not search whether it be
bad, neither shall he change it: and if he
it at all, then both it and the change there

21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee,
shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted:
the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field
which he hath bought, which is not of the fields be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

34 These are the commandments whi 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the LORD Commanded Moses for the children worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of rael in mount Sinai.

The Fourth Book of Moses, called NUMBERS.

by the house of their fathers, according number of the names, from twenty yea

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wil and upward, by their poll

derness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, congregation, on the first day of the second month, numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year after they were come out of 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's the land of Egypt, saying,

son, by their generations, after their famili

2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the house of their fathers, according to the the children of Israel, after their families, by the ber of the names, by their polls, every male house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls:

3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

twenty years old and upward, all that were to go forth to war;

21 Those that were numbered of them, ev the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thou and five hundred.

4 And with you there shall be a man of every 22 Of the children of Simeon, by their ger tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. tions, after their families, by the house of 5 And these are the names of the men that fathers, those that were numbered of them

according to the number of the names, by polls, every male from twenty years old and ward, all that were able to go forth to wa 23 Those that were numbered of them, eve the tribe of Simeon were fifty and nine thous and three hundred.

10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Eli- 24 Of the children of Gad, by their generati

Ga-after their families, by the house of their fath according to the number of the names, f twenty years old and upward, all that were to go forth to war;

25 Those that were numbered of them, eve the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand hundred and fifty.

26 Of the children of Judah, by their gene tions, after their families, by the house of th fathers, according to the number of the nam from twenty years old and upward, all that w able to go forth to war; end

27 Those that were numbered of them, even the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourte

they declared theu pedigrees after their families thousand and six hundred

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The Levites serve the tabernacle, their genera- 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Duse of their Levi, neither take the sum of them among the the names, children of Israel:

all that were 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels them, even thereof, and over all things that belong to it: ty and four they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the ves sels thereof, and they shall minister unto it, and their genera- shall encamp round about the tabernacle. use of their 51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the names, the Levites shall take it down; and when the all that were tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be

hem, even of put to death. seven thou- 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp, and every mely, of the man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. ations, after 53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the fathers, ac- tabernacle of testimony; y; that there be no wrath from twenty upon the congregation of the children of Israel: re able to go and the Levites shall keep the charge of the

nem, even of 54 And the children of Israel did according to mousand and all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

7 their gene

Order of the tribes in their tents.

ouse of their! ND the LORD spake unto Moses and unto the names, Aaron, saying,

all that were 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of hem, even of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle ad two thou- of the congregation shall they pitch.

3 And on the east side toward the rising of the heir genera- sun shall they of the standard of the camp of buse of their Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Na the names, shon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of all that were the children of Judah.

4 And his host, and those that were numbered nem, even of of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand nd five thou- and six hundred.

5 And those that do pitch next unto him, shall generations, be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son Their fathers, of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.. , from twen- 6 And his host, and those that were numbered re able to go thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

hem, even of nd two thou

7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun. 8 And his host, and those that were numbered heir genera- thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four Duse of their hundred.

the names, 9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah all that were were a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred throughout

hem, even of their armies: these shall first set forth. ne thousand 10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: ughout their and the captain of the children of Reuben shalt the house of be Elizur the son of Shedeur. mber of the 11 And his host, and those that were numbered upward, all thereof, were forty and six thousand and five

hem, even of 12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe 1 three thou- of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Sim eon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. pered, which 13 And his host, and those that were numbered he princes of of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three e was for the hundred.

abered of the

their fathers,

all that were

ered, were six

and and five

14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand end six hundred and fifty.

16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reu ben were a hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout

umion and they shall set forth in the se

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The Levites numbered by set forward with the camp of the Levites, in the before Aaron the priest, that they ma midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they unto him.

set forward, every man in his place by their 7 And they shall keep his charge, and t standards.

of the whole congregation before the t of the congregation, to do the service(

8 And they shall keep all the instrume tabernacle of the congregation, and tl

of the children of Israel, to do the serv

9 And thou shalt give the Levites ur and to his sons: they are wholly given out of the children of Israel.

10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and and they shall wait on their priest's o the stranger that cometh nigh shall be pu 11 1 And the LORD spake unto Mose 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Lev among the children of Israel, instead ( first-born that openeth the matrix among dren of Israel: therefore the Levites shall 13 Because all the first-born are mine the day that I smote all the first-born ir

in Israel, both man and beast: mine tl be: I am the LORD.

14 And the LORD spake unto Mos wilderness of Sinai, saying,

15 Number the children of Levi after 1 of their fathers, by their families: every n a month old and upward shalt thou numl 16 And Moses numbered them accordi word of the LORD, as he was command 17 And these were the sons of Levi, names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Mer 18 And these are the names of the son shon by their families; Libni, and Shin 19 And the sons of Kohath by their fa Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzzie 20 And the sons of Merari by their fa Mahli, and Mushi: these are the familie Levites, according to the house of their 21 Of Gershon was the family of the L and the family of the Shimites: these families of the Gershonites.

22 Those that were numbered of them, ac

31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty and seven to the nuinber of all the males, from a mo

thousand and six hundred: they shall go hindmost with their standards.

32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers. All those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD Commanded Moses. 34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

and upward, even those that were numb them, were seven thousand and five hunc 23 The families of the Gershonites shal behind the tabernacle westward.

24 And the chief of the house of the fa the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son o 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon tabernacle of the congregation shall be the nacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, a hanging for the door of the tabernacle of th gregation,

26 And the hangings of the court, and th tain for the door of the court, which is tabernacle, and by the altar round about, a cords of it, for all the service thereof. 271 And of Kohath was the family of th

THESE also are the generations of Aaron and ramites, and the family of the Izeharites, a

in the day LORD spoke with Mcses in mount Sinai.

2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. albaa

3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father. 51 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

of the Hebronites, and the family of th zielites: these are the families of the Kohat 28 In the number of all the males from a r old and upward, were eight thousand an hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctu 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall on the side of the tabernacle southward. 30 And the chief of the house of the fath the families of the Kohathites shall be Eliza the son of Uzziel.

31 And their charge shall be the ark, an table, and the candlestick, and the altars, am vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they min and the hanging, and all the service there

6. Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present then

39 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest

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