to redeem, and his own hand hath attained, and found a suffici 27 ency, he shall have the right of redemption. And he shall compute the years of his sale, and pay back what is still due to the man to whom he sold it. So shall he return to his possession. 28 But if his hand cannot attain a sufficiency to repay him, the sale shall be good to him who purchased, until the last sixth year of the jubilee, and in the jubilee, he shall quit, and the 29 seller shall return to his possession. And if any person sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he shall have the right of re30 deeming it till the term expire. The term for redemption shall be a year. And if it be not redeemed till the whole year expire, the house which is in a walled city, shall be confirmed for ever to the purchaser. And he shall not go out in the ju31 bilee. But the houses which are in villages, unsurrounded with walls, shall be accounted as the fields in the country, and shall be always subject to redemption, and go out in the 32 jubilee. And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, shall always be redeemable by the Levites; and whoever among the Levites shall redeem, the intermediate purchase of the houses of the city of their possession shall 33 terminate in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the

Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34 And the fields set apart for their cities shall not be sold; for 35 this is their perpetual possession. 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 so36 journer, and thy brother shall live with thee. Thou shalt not

take from him usury or increase, but thou shalt fear thy God, 37 I the Lord; and thy brother shall live with thee. Thou shalt

not lend him thy money on usury, nor give him thy victuals 38 for an increase. I am the Lord your God who brought you

out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, and 39 to be your God. And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be

humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. 40 He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the 41 year of the release he shall work for thee, and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family-to his paternal possession he shall 42 haste away. Because they are my servants, whom I brought

43 out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. Thou

shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy 44 God. The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have,

must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may pur45 chase a male or a female slave; or of the children of strangers

who sojourn among you-of them you may purchase and of 46 their relations who may be born in your land. Let them be

your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with ri47 gour. And if a proselyte, or a sojourner who is with thee, prosper, and thy brother, being poor, be sold to the proselyte, or to the stranger who is with thee, or to the descendant of 48 the proselyte; after he is sold he shall have a right to be re49 deemed. One of his brethren may redeem him, his uncle, or

his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any of his blood relations, of the same tribe, may redeem him; and if he be able he may 50 redeem himself. In which case he shall settle with him who

purchased him, from the year he sold himself, to the year of the release, and the price of his purchase shall be as the yearly wages of a hired servant for the years he is to be with him. 51 And if any one hath many years to serve, for them he shall pay the rates of redemption, on account of the money paid for him; 52 and if but few years remain to the year of release, he shall set

tle with him according to those years, and pay the rates of his 53 redemption. As a servant hired from year to year, he shall be

with him; and thou shalt not suffer him to be oppressed with 54 labour in thy sight. If he be not redeemed in any of these ways, in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him; for the children of Israel are my domestics-they are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt.

XXVI. I am the Lord your God; you shall not make for your

selves carved or graven images, nor set up a pillar for your2 selves, nor place a watch stone in your land to worship it. I am the Lord your God, you shall keep my sabbaths, and rever3 ence my holy things. I am the Lord; if you walk in my sta4 tutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give

you rain in its season; and the land shall yield its productions; 5 and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; and the thresher

shall overtake the vintager; and the vintager shall overtake the sower; and you shall eat your bread in plenty; and dwell in your land securely, and war shall not pass through your land. 6 I will indeed give you peace in your land; and you shall lie 7 down to rest; and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will

destroy the wild beasts out of your land; and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with destruction. 8 Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before 9 you by the sword. And I will watch over you, and increase

you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat the last year's crops, and the crops of the year 11 before, and remove old stores out of the way of new. And I will fix my tabernacle among you, and my soul will not abhor 12 you. And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be my people.

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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, When you were slaves, I broke the bond of your 14 yoke, and led you out in confidence: Now if you will not heark15 en to me, nor perform these my commandments, but disobey

them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, I will 16 deal with you in this manner-I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your 17 enemies shall eat it: and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing 18 you. And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will pro

ceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, and break 19 the haughtiness of your pride.—I will make the heaven for

you as iron, and your land as brass; and your strength shall be 20 spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall 21 the trees of the field yield you their fruit. And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will 22 bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins-I

will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few 23 in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. And if by

these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before 24 me, I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you 25 seven fold for your sins-I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be de26 livered into the hands of your enemies. In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall 27 not be satisfied. And if for these things you will not hearken 28 to me, but walk adversely before me, I also will walk with you

in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your 29 sins. And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of 30 your daughters also you shall eat: and I will lay waste your

pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your 31 idols, and my soul will abhor you. And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be 32 regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be 33 astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the nations, and 34 a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then 35 rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, which it did not 36 keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. And upon

those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pur37 sueth. And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though

none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your 38 enemies. And you shall perish among the nations, and the land 39 of your enemies shall devour you. And those of you who are

left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fa40 thers-In the land of their enemies they shall pine away, and

confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have 41 transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, and I have walked with them in vengeful

ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will 42 they bear their sins with humble submission; whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the cove43 nant with Abraham, and remember the land. When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my 41 judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, (as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for 45 breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God) then will I remember the covenant with them -that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of 46 Egypt-out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord; These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses.

XXVII.

Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to 2 the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whoever

shall vow a vow as the price of his life to the Lord, the price 3 shall be--of a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the 4 price shall be fifty didrachms of silver, sanctuary weight; and 5 of a female, the valuation shall be thirty didrachms. And if it

be of one from five to twenty years of age, the price of a male 6 shall be twenty didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms. And if it be of one from a month to five years old, the price of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female three didrachms of silver. 7 And if it be of one from sixty years old and upwards; if a male the price shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten 8 didrachms. And if any be too poor for this valuation, he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall set a value on him-according to the ability of him who made the vow, the 9 priest shall value him. But if the gift to the Lord be from the cattle which may be offered, whoever shall give any of these to 10 the Lord, it shall be sacred. He shall not change it, a good for a bad; nor a bad for a good and if he actually change this beast