Of justice and charity. B. C. 1451. 1 Job 29. 11, 13. & 31. 20. 2 Cor. 9. 13. 2 Tim. 1. 18. m ch. 6. 25. DEUTERONOMY. own raiment, and bless thee and mit shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether Ps. 106. 31. & he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 112. 9. Dan. 4. 27. n Mal. 3. 5. o Lev. 19. 13. Jer. 22. 13. James 5, 4. 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and + Heb. lifteth setteth his heart upon it: Plest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. his soul unto it, Ps. 25. 1. & p James 5. 4. 16 The fathers shall not be put to q2Kings 14.16. death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 2 Chr. 25. 4. Jer. 31. 29, 30. Ez. 18. 20. r Ex. 22. 21, 22. Prov. 22. 22. Is. 1. 23. Jer. 5. 28. & Ez. 22. 29. Zech. 7. 10. s Ex. 22. 26. ch. 16. 12. u Lev. 19. 9. 10. & 23. 22. x ch. 15. 10. Ps. 41. 1. Prov. 19. 17. † Heb, thou shalt not bough it after thee. † Heb. after thee. y ver. 18. a ch. 19. 17. Ez. 44. 24. r 17 ¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge : 18 Butt thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 ¶ "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow that the LORD thy God may * bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, † thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it t afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. CHAPTER XXV. Stripes not to exceed forty. 4 The ox not to be muzzled. 5 Of raising seed unto a brother. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of unjust weights. 17 The memory of Amalek is to be blotted out. F there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; b See Prov. 17. then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 15. b Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he † treadeth out the corn. 5 ¶ hIf brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her hus- || Or, next band's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's 1 Ruth 4. 1, 2. brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, "I like not to m Ruth 4. 6. take her; 9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, n Ruth 4. 7. and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 ¶ When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets; 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, P thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small : 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thyr Ex. 20. 12. days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 1 Thess. 4. 6. 16 For all that do such things, Prov. 11. 1. and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. p Lev. 26. 4. ch. 11. 14. q ch. 14. 29. r ch. 15. 6. s Is. 9. 14, 15. t ch. 5. 32. & 11. 16. u Lev. 26. 14. Lam. 2. 17. Dan. 9. 11, 13. Mal. 2. 2. x ver. 2. y ver. 3, &c. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy † body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers to give thee. r 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven P to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee s the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: S 14 t And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 ¶ But it shall come to pass, "if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee a Curses for disobedience. cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in B. C. 1451. all that thou settest thine hand unto thou wouldest do. z Mal. 2. 2. a 1 Sam. 14. 20. Zech. 14. 13. + for to do, until thou be destroyed, Heb. which and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pesti- b Ps. 80. 16. lence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. d с Is. 30. 17. & 51. 20. & 66. 15. c Lev. 26. 25. Jer. 24. 10. d Lev. 26. 16. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,||| Or, drought. and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. e Am. 4. 9. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the k ver. 35. Ex. emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and mastonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt "grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. DEUTERONOMY. and there shall be no might in thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: t 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD shall "smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. a 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. b 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. C 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 e He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: fhe shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: Curses for disobedience. and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 m The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, "as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not † understand; B. C. 1451. 1 Jer. 28. 14. m Jer. 5. 15. Heb. strong o 2 Chr. 36.17. Is. 47. 6. 50 A nation of fierce countenance, ° which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall Peat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also P ver. 33. shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. Is. 1. 7. & 62. 8. 1, 2, 4. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all q2 Kings 25. thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. r r Lev. 26. 29. 2 Kings 6. 28, 29. Jer. 19.9. Lam. 2. 20. & 4. 10. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy Heb. belly. sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, "her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that Heb. aftercometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear y this glorious and fearful name, THE y Ex. 6. 3. LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues z Dan. 9. 12. |
