(CHAP. 26.) The redemption cf servants. poor, and sell i himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family : 48 After that he is soul he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him ; or, if he be able, he may redeem himself. 60 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the rear of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years ; according to the time A of an hired servant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redempturn out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and ac- ] , Am „ n cording unto his years shall he J give him again the price of his re- S P047.14. demptioa. 53 And as a yearly hired servant ■hall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed 14 in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they tare my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the 1-ord your God. CHAPTER XXVL 1 Qf idolatry. 3 A blessing promised. U A curse threatened. YE a shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a ' standing image, neither sliall ye set up 2 any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. '*}<!) shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. 3 ^ If c ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain d in due season, and the land e shall I* Ne.9.36,37. yield her increase, and the trees of I y Jer. 19.7. the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing/shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage . nnall reach unto the sowing time: | * ".vsi.u «wi ye shall eat your bread to the i * or. at ail full, and dwell in your land safely. I advtntu 6 And 1 will give peace g in the untlt TM* land, and ve shall lie down, and Blessings promised. none shall make you afraid: and I will a rid evil beasts h out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. . 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 6 And * five of yon shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto h you, and make I you fruitful, and multiply m you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old n store, and bring forth the old because of the new. 11 And 1 will set my tabernacle o among you : and my soul shall not abhor p you. 12 And I will walk q among you, and r will be your God, anil ye shall be my people. 13 I 5 am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen ; and I have broken / the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 "IT But u if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these h 2Ki. 17.23. commandments; Eze.5.17." 15 And if ye shall despise my - ru i <*> in statutes, or if your soul abhor my ' "*"' """"■ 'judgments, so that ye will not do all my command meuts, but that ye break v my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you, I will even appoint * over you terror, consumption, and a burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sowtc your seed in vain, for your enemies .r shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain y before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee z when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride a of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain : 6 for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. „ . 21 IT And if ye walk * contrary unto me, and wilt not hearken unto me; 1 will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. LEVITICUS, XXVII. chase them for disobedience and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword ; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall w one upon another, as it were before a sword. when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand x 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 y away in their iniquity in your enemies lands; and also rel of my covenant: and when ye l Eze.6.3-13. in the iniquities of their fathers are gathered together within your mch.20 23, 26 And when I have broken ft the 27 And if ye will not for all this 15, hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me: 28 Then I will walk contrary un- j to you also in fury ; and 1, even I, | ~vv^w will chastise you seven times for: w is. 10.4, your sins. I „ ,„ , ., 29 And ye shall eat* the flesh of Z *L your sons, and the flesh of.your "t?1"'?,^ daughters shall ye eat. i-./^.i,. 30 And I will destroy I your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor m you. 31 And I will make your cities n waste, and bring your sanctuaries 0 unto desolation, and I will not smell p the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land q into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein ■ shall be astonished r at it. 33 And I will scatter* you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword afler you : and your land Khali be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land/ enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintuess u into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound v of a fl shaken leaf shall shall they pine away with them. 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised a hearts be b humbled, and they then accept c of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember d my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember ; and I will remember the land.e 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths/ while she lieth dcsolat* without them: and they shall accept g of the punishment of their iniquity : because, even because they despised ft my judgments. and because their soul abound niv statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when tber be in the land of their enemies,! will i not cast them away, neither will 1 abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break k my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sakes / remember the covenant of their n ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God : 1 am the Lord. 46 These are the statutes, and k P*.89.33,34. judgments, and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. * CHAPTER XXVTL AND the f Ord spake unto Mo- Lavs rt■specting rows. man shall make a singular & vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation c shall be of the male from twenty years old »-ven onto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after d the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall'be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him: according to his ability e that vowed shall the priest value him. 9 And if U be a beast, whereof men bring an offering- unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of .•such onto the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall mot alter it, nor chance it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest: 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: i as thou vainest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. 13 But/ if he will at all redeem ■t, then he shall add a fifth part thereof auto thy estimation. 14 "f And when a man shall sanctify his house o to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as h the priest shall estimate it, ho shall it stand. ;". And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth i part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be hm. 16 And if a man shall sanctify onto the Lord some part of a field at" bis possession, then thy estima Of things dedicated. t on shall be according to the seed thereof: 3 an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according; to thy estimation it shall stand. 18 Butif he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall k reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 19 And if I he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 21 But the field, when it m goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holv unto the Lord, as a field devoted : n the possession thereof shall be the priest's.o 23 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord afield which he hath bought, which is not of the fields ofp his 23 Then a the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year ofthe jubilee : and he shall give thine estimation in that day as a holy tiling unto the LORD. 24 In r the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 26 IT Only the » firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord's S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep : it is the Lord's. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth t part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thine that a man shall devote unto the LORDofall that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed : every u devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord. 29 None v devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall l>e re |