Leviticus — Chapter 25

and the like , are partly moral , pertaining to the law of nature , partly ceremonial, or iudicial, which may be altered: to this law of feftiuities rs partly maral, for that al men are bound to keep fome feftiual dayes in honour of God , partly ceremonial, and times are ab:ogated by Chrift, whom they prehgured Info muchthat now it ts not lawful to keep chein , for it would fignifie that Chrift were not come , as S.Paul teacheth (Rem. 14. Calat 4. Codeff.2, and in other places } and it were plaine Iudaifime , and Herefie condemned by the Councel of Laodicia cap,:9. accurfing them that Imdaize abfayning that dav from works,S.Gregoric alfo refuteth this herefie, Ji.ir. Epift. 2. Ghewing that Antichrift wil embarce it fauouring the Lewes : In places wherof the next day which we cal funday ) is made a perpetual holie day , by authoritie of the Church and called dies Dominica, our Lords day (oApec.t.) And this change the Proreftants confcile to be lawful and necedflarie,, though we haue no other expreffe {criprure , when, or by whom it was done, but only that S.[ohn hadhis reuclatron im ome Lords day, but by perpetual tradi- tion al Chriftians know , thatthe day after the fabbath is our weeklic holie day, in memorie of Chrifts Refutr&ion the fame day ,and in figure of the general refurrection of al men, and ef litceuerlatting to the blefled. Sime. li, 12. 30, ciuis, or Epiff, 119.c.15, and S, Hicrome Epift, ad Hedib, The fame reafon and au- thoritie doe alfo warrant the change of other feafts , and inftitutron of new , in honour of Ged , our Sauiour Icfus Chriit, his Mother , and other Saints., and in memoric of benehits recciued , as here we fee in the old Teftament diuers were conmnanded by God , fome alfo inttitured long after Moyfes , as by Mardocheus and other Iewes , Efter 9. and the reftauracion with new dedication of the altar, t. Machab, 4, obferued by our Sauiour Ioan. 10, v. 22, Pp CHAP. and fo the Sabbath day was kept holie in the old Teftament,, the feuenthday of the wecke,and other feafts , the dayes here prefcribed. But thefe particular feafts. } tothe Iewes inj heir generations. thatis, neuer to be alrered by them, nor: during their face. S. edug. 9: 43. in Exod, Feftiual daies - pérteine to the ferutce afGod, Ic is hereffe to keepe the Sab- bath kolie day. Ia place therof] we keep Sun- day. Other feafts alfo changed,. and new intti- tuted by the fame authori- tie, 4) Two tenths of an‘ephi, thar is. tWo go~ mors, A go- socr of Manna, ‘which is the {tenth part of an ephi, {ufi- ced one man for aday. Exe, 16..v. 16.& 36, fo that one of thefe loaues “Was as much jas al the meate ~which two doe {ordinarily eate pin one day, ib) This Law efigning e- rqualitie , was to pura limi, not to enforce to reucnge, for the partie da~ maged , if he. would , might remit al or Part. 5. a 4me,l. 9, C. 25. cons, Faufum, 1 Ceremonial and 300 LEVITIGYS. CHAP, XXIIIL Pronifion of oie for lamps in the Tabernacle. 5. The making , and difpofing the loaues of propofition. to, The punishment of blafbbenue, ana manjlaughier. 18, and the paine of equal reuenge. 2 ND our Lord {pake to Moyfes, faying: 2. Command SZ. che children of Ifrael , that they bring vito thee oyle Zp of oliues moft pure, and cleare, to turnilh the lamps sy continually , 3. without the veile of the tef{tionie in - @ thc tabernacle of couenant. And Aaron fhal fet them ® from cuen vntil morning betore the Lord , by a per- petual feruice and rite in your generations. 4. Vpon the candle- fticke moft cleane thal they be put alwaies in the tight of the Lord.

Thou fhalt take alfo floure,& fhalt bake therof twelue breads,which thal haue euerie one (4) two tenths: 6. which thou {halt fer fix one againft an other vpon the moft cleane table before the Lord,7. and thou fhalt put-vpon them the cleareft frankinecnfe., that the bread may be for a moniment ofthe oblation of the Lord. 8. Euerie fabbath they thal be changed before the Lord , receiued of the children of Iftael by an euerlafting couenamt ; g.and they {hal be Aarons and his fonnes, that they may eate them in a holie place: becaufe itis mott Holie of the {a- crifices of the Lord by a perpetual right. 10. Ard behold there wene forth the fonne of a woman at Ifrael , whom fhe had borne of an &gy- ptian among the'children of I{rael , and fel at words in the cape with aman of Ifrael. 11. And whcn he had blafphemed the name, and had curfed ic, he was brought to Moyfes : (And his nrother was called Sa- lumith , the daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan. ) 12. And they did caft him into prifon , til they might know what our Lord would com- mand. 13: Who fpake to Moyfes, 14. faying: Bring forth the blafphe- mer without thecame , and let althatheardhim put their hands vpon his head, and letal the people ftone him. 15. And tothe children ot If rac] thou shale {peake : The man that curfeth his God thal beare his finne: 16. and he that blafphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him dye: al the multitude of the people fhal ftone hin , whether he be a na- tural , or ftranger. He that blafphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him dye, 17. Hethatftriketh, and killetha man, dying lethim dye.

When thou fhalt fel anie thing to thy neighbour, or fhalt buy of him , prefle not. thy brother , but according to the number of the yeares of Pp 2 a) OF founding’ with trumpets, which is plea fane & ioyful,). commeth the name of Iubi- lie: the effe@ of it is remiids of al bonds, { reftauration of former liber- tie , andrecoe uerie of inhe- ritance. In the old Teftamentt of temporal things,in the new of fpiri- tual , pra figue red:therby : as remifiion of finne, dcliuerie: from bondage therof , rece=- ucrieof grace, and prepara. lubilic elorie, tion to eternal. (b)Tewes for their adwanta- e hold it law- ul totake - vfurie of ftran: >not obferaing that it is alfo com- manded often in fcripture, mos to afflict , bus to lone frangersr, Emd.ite3, Lenis, 19. 302 LEVITIGVS. Times of reft- Iubilee thouthale buy of him, 15. and according to the fupputation of the fruits he shal fel. cothee. 16. The moe yeares remaine atcer the Iu- bilee , fo much more (hal the price increafe : and the leffe time that ‘thou fhalt account , fo much the leffe fhal che purchafe be valued , for the timeof the fruits he fhal fel cothee. 17. Doe not afflict your coun- ‘trimen , but let euerie one feare his God, becaufe 1 the Lord your God, 18, Doe my precepts jand keep my iudgements , and fulfil them : that you may dwel inthe land without anie feare, 19. and the ground may yeald you her fruits , which you may ate vito your fil,fearing no mans ‘inuafion, 20. Butif you fay: What fhal we eate the feuenth yeare,if we fow not , nor gather our fruits > 2. I wil giue you my bencdictionthe, fixt yeare , and it (hal yeald the fruits of three yeares : 22, and the eight yeare you thal fow , and {hal eate of the old fruits, vail che ninth yeare: tilnew. be growne; you fhal eate the old, 23. The land alfo thal not be fold for ever : becaufe it is mine, and you are my ftrangers & {e- iourners. 14. Fot the which caufeal the countrie of your pofleffion ihal _be fold vnder the condition of redemption. 2;.1f thy brocher impoue- rifhed fel his litle pofleffion,& his kinfeman wil, he may redeeme that which he had fold. 26. But it he haue no Kinfeman, and himfelf can find ‘the price toredeeme it :27. the fruits fhal be accounted from that time when he foldit , and the refidue hie fal reftore to the buier , and fo he fhal receiuehis poffcflion againe. 28. but if his hand fiad not torepay the price, the buier fhal haue that he bought, vntil the yeare of Iubilee, For init al fale fhal returne to the owner, & to the old poffcflour.: 9.He that felleth a houfe within the walles of acitie, thal haue licence to re- deemedc, vntil one yeare be expired, 30. Ifhe redeeme it not, and the compafle af the yeare be fully out,the buicr shal poffeffe it,& his poite- ritie tor euer,& itcd not beredeemed jno not in the lubilee.31.Buc it the houfe bein a village that hath not walles, itihal be fold according to the law of fields , ifit be not redeemed before, in the lubilee it thal re- turne to the owner, 32. The houfcs of Leuites, which are in cities, ma alwaies be redeemed:33.if they be not redcemed,in the Iubilee they thal returne to the owners, becaufe the houfes of the cities of che Leuites are for poflefficns among the children of Ifrael.3 4 .Butlet nottieir fuburbs be fold, becaufe it isa perpetual poffeffion. 35.1f thy brother be empo- uerithed, and weake of hand, & thou receiue him asa itranger and {e- iourner,and he liue with thee,36. take not vfuries (b) of him,nor more then thou gaueft : feare thy God , that thy brother may liue with thee, 37-Thou fhalt notgiuc him thy money to vfurie,and au ouerplus of the fruits thou fhalt not exact of him.38.1 the Lord your God, thar brought ; you out of the Land of Agypt, that J might giue you the Land of Cha- naan, & might be your God. 39. If thy brother conitrained by pouertie fel himfelf ro thee, thou ihait not oppreffe him with the feruicude of feruants, 40.but he ihalbeas an hireling anda feiourner,vatii the yeare of Iubilee he fhal worke with thee , 41, and afterward he ial goe out with and Lubilee. LEVITICVS. 303 with his chidren,& ihalrerurne to his kinred & tothe poffeffion of his of Agypt.letthem'not be fold by the condition of ferudts:43.atflict him not by might,but feare thy God. 4.4.Let your manferuar,& woman fer- uat,be of the nations that are round about you.45 .And of the {trangers, thar ferourne with you , or that were borne of them in your land , thefe you fhal haue for feruants : 46. and by right of inheritance {hal leaue them to your potteritie,& thal poffeffe them for euer, but your brethren the children of Ifrael doe ye not opprefle by might. 47. If the hand of pouerithed fel himfelf to him, or co any of his ftocke: 48. after the fale he may be redeemed. He that wil of his brethren fhal redeeme him, 49. boththe vncle by father,and the vneles fonne,and the kinfman, and the allied, But andit himfelt be able alfo , he fhal redeeme himfelfe, 50. ' accounting onlic the yeares from the time ot his felling vnto the yeare _ of Iubilee ; and accounting the money, that he was fold for, according coche number of the yeares and the reckning of an hizeliag, 5 1.1 they be more yeares that remaine vneil the Tubilee, according to thefe alfo fhal he repay the price. 52.if few, he thal make thereckning with him : according to the number of the yeares , and shal repay tothe buyer for thae which remaineth of the yeares 5 3. his wages being allcwed torthe which he ferued before:he:shal not at flict him violently in thy fight, 54. And if by thefe meanes he cannot be redeemed, in the ycare ot Iubilee he shal goe out with his children, 5 5. For the children of Ifrael are my feruants,whom I brought forth out of the Land of Aigypr. CHAP, XXXVI rewards are promifed toal that obferue Gods precepts. 14. And manie mife- rable punishments are threatned to al trangreffours. THE Lord your God : you shal not make to your fathers. 42.for they are my feruants, & I brought them out of the Land a ftranger or feiourner-grow ftrong among you, and thy brother em- /, With new probibitton of Idolatrie,and commandement to keepe the Sabbath 3, ( 4) Herctikes holding their corrupt courfe wil needs felues an idol aitd (4 ) thing grauen, neither shal you erect ticles, nor fet a notorious {tone in your land, for : to adore it, for 1 amthe Lord your God, 2. Keep my fabbaths , and dread my Sanctuarie. Ithe Lord, 3, If ' you walke inmy precepts, and keepe my command- ‘ments, anddoe them, I wilgiue youraine in their {eafons, 4, andthe earth shal bring forth her {pring, and the trees shai be replenished with ‘fruits. 5. The threshing of your harueit shal reach vnto vintage , and © the vintage shal reach vnto fowing time : and you shal eate your bread _toyour fil, and without teare shal youdwel in yourland, 6.1 wil giue ' peace in your coafts:you shal {leepe,and there shal benone to make you Pp 3 alraid, haue Image of Chrift, or Sainr, to be- the grauen thing, which is forbidden in holie Scripru- res: & therfore falfly traflate Pefel,a granen image, where indeed it figni- hethas image, ' (b0 This ex- {treme fainine fel vpon fome of them.in Sa- {matia, 4> Reg,

Hethat ftriketh abeait , thal render one for it, thatis to fay , foule for foule, 19. He that giueth anie of his neighbours a blemiil:, (+) as he. did, fo thal itbe done tohim: 20. fracture for fracvire, cye tor eye, tooth tor tooth he thal reftore. What blemih he gaue , the likeihai he be comn- --- PAGE 299 --- hudicial precepts. LEVITICYVS. {led to fuftaine, 21. He that ftriketh abeaft , thal render an be coe chat ftrikeeth a man, {hal be punilhed. 22. Let there be equal jor ; . ger, ora natural finne : be- 4 judgement among you, whether a ftranger, o caufel amthe Lord your God. 23. And Moyfes {pake to the children im f ithout } : 1: and they brought him forth that had blaft phemed , wit the Camp . and they ftoned him. And the children of Ifrael did as our Lord had commanded Moyfes.

ia fo much that I wil bring your cities. into a wilderneffe, and I wil. make your Sanduaries defert ,neigher wil. receiue any morc the molt. {weet --- PAGE 303 --- threatned. LEVITICYVS.. 305 (weet odour. 32. And I wil diftroy your land i and your enemies thal be altonithed vpon it,when they thal be inhabitants therot.33.And you I wil difperfe into the Gentiles , and wil draw out the {word after you, and your land fhal be defert , and your cities deftroied. 34, Then ihal the land take pleafure in her fabbaths al the daies of her defolation : wihien you inal be 35. in the enemies land, fhe thal fabbatize, and re‘t in : che fabbaths of her defolation, becaufe the did not reft in your fabbaths when you dwelt in it. 36. And they that fhal remaine of you, I wil puc ‘fearein their harts in the countries of their enemies , the found of a ' flying leafe thal cerrifie them , and they fhal flie it as it were a (word: they thal fal when no man purfueth, 37. and they thal cuerie one tal vpon their brethren, as flying from warres , none of you fhal be fo har- die as to refiftyour enemies, 38. You thal perifh among the Gentiles, and the enemies land shal confume you, 39. And it of them aifo fome temaine , they thal pine away in their iniquities in the land of their enemies , and tor the fianes of theirfarhers and their owne they thal be afflicted : 40. vntil chey contefle their owne & their anccftours iniquities, wherby they haue preuaricated again{t me, and. walked contrarie vnto me. 41.1 alfo therfore wil walke againit them, & ashained: then thal they pray for their impieties.42,And I wil remem- ber my couenant, that I made with(c) Iacob,and Iaac,and Abraham, Of the land alfo 1 wil be mindful : 43. which when it thal be left of them , fhal take pleafure ia her fabbaths, being defolate for them. But they ihal pray tor their tinnes,tor that they reiectcd my iudgements,and difpifed my lawes, 44, Howbeit euen wien they were inthe land of their enemies(a) I did not cait them otf a.cogether, neither did I fo dif pifethem, that they thould be comumed , and I iould make my coue- member mine old couenant , when I brought them out of the Land of gypr,in the fight ot the Gentiles ,torto be their God.I the Lord. Thefe are the tudgemerts, and precepts, and lawes, which our Lord gauc be- cween himfelf and the clutldren of Ufrael in Monnt Sinai by che hand of Moyfes. CHA P. XXVIII How fume vores of diwers perfones may Le redeemed, but (ome may not be chan- Sed. 28. Al, one way er other , snujt be aifcharged. 30, Tithes alfo mujt ve payed,esther the fame that are due or more, ND our Lord fpake to Moyfes , faying : 2. Speake ARco the children of Iftael , and thou thalt fay to chem: The man that thal haue made a vow , and («) bound his fourc to God, by eftimation he thal giue the price. 3. If itbea man from bring them into their enemies land, vntil their vincircumciftd mind be nant with them fruftrate.For 1 am the Lord their God, 45, and I wilre—4 '¢) Lacob ts frit here nained, becaufehe had ‘na other chil- dren bucrhis ‘people, for I- faac wasalfo father of the Idummeans, and Abrahain mo- reouer of the Ifmaelites and Madianites, and becaufe the great pro- mifes made to Abraham and Ifaac per= tained enly to the Ifraelites, T heedores, 4.16. in Lewic, 4) The Church neuer wholly decayeth, The fifth part. Of vowes and Tithes, (a) Bécaufe na other but the tribe of Leui could ferue a-. bout the ta~ bernacle , anc yet others might defire --- PAGE 304 --- fe ferue there, {they might in -fhtead thereof’ = (4) The thing that is vowed, if it may be pe formed, . pleaferh Gad tter then a change, («)A ficle was about i¢. d. obelus three farthings, jC6. able to pay the eftimation; Aelf that was.changed , and that for the Prieft.a2, Who.iadgeing whether it be good or euil had vowed wilrcdeemte it , he shal befides, and shal haue the houfe. ' feffion, and confecrate it to the Lord , ding to the meafure of the feed. If the ground be fowed with thirtie 24. but ia the lubilce, it thal returne to the former owner that fold ir LEVITICVS.. from the twentieth yeare vatil three {core, he shal giue fittre ficles of filuer , after che meafure of the San@uarie: 4.tf-a- woman, thirties. Bue from the fift yeare vntil the twentieth, a man fhal giue twentie ficles; a. woman ten, 6. From one month vntil the figt yeare, for a man thal be giuen flue ficles : for a woman three. 7.One that is three {core & aboue,. aman fhal giue fitteen ficles , a woman ten, 8. If he be poore, ard noe r he fhal {tand betore the Prieft : and as much: as he thal efteeme, and {ee him able to pay ,{o much {hal he giue. 9. But the beaft , that-may be immolated to the Lord , ifa man doe vow it, fhal be holie, ro. and can-not be changed , that is to fay, (b) neither 4 better for abad_, nor a worfe fora good, andif he change it , both ic which it was changed, thal be- confecrated.to the Lord. rr. The vncleane beait , Which can not beim-. molared to the Lord., ifanie man vow it thal be brought before the > hal fet the price: 13.which. #t-he that offercth wil giue, he shal adde aboue the eftimation f thefift part. 14. 1f a man vow his houfe ,and fanctifie it to the Lord,. the Prieft shal confider it, whether it be good or bad , and accordin te the price which he shal appoint, itshal be fold, 15. But if he thar giue the fitt part of the eftimation 16, And if he vow the field of his pof- the-price shal be eiteemed accor. Wowes; and bushels of barly , let ir be fold for fiftie ticles of Gluer. 17. 1f hevow his field immediately from the yeare ot Iubilee , thatis beginning, how much it can-be worth,atfo much it shal be efteemed:18.but if fome time after ,the Prieft shal account the money according to the number of yeares that remaine vntilthe Lubilee ,and there shal be diminished ot the price, 19. Andif he that had vowed wil redeeme his held, he shal adde the fift part of the efteemed money , and shal pofleffe it. 20. And if he-wit notredeeme it , but it be fold to any other man, he that had vowed it can redeeme it no more: 21. for when the day of Iubilee commeth, it fhal be fantified to the Lord, and the pofleffion confecra- ted pertaineth to the right of the Priefts.22. If the field be bought, and being not of his anceftors poffefsion be fandified to the Lord, 23, the Prieft fhal account the price according to the number of yeares, vnto the iubilee : and" he that hadjvowed {hal giue that to the Lord, ar.d had itin the lot of his poffeffion.25 Al eftimation thal be weighed by the(c) ficle of the fanctuarie. A ficle hath twentie oboles, 26. The “firftborne , which pertaine to the Lord , no man may fanctifie and vow : whether. it be oxe, or theep, they are the Lordes, 27. And if it be an vncleane beaft , he that offereth it thal redeeme it » according to thy eftimation and thal adde the fitt part of the price.1f he wil not redeeme it, itshal be fold to an other ter how much foeuer it was efteemed by thee. --- PAGE 305 --- Niweon, ‘6. 50. Dew. 23. ‘Pfa.rt,

Itihal not be chofen neither good nor bad, neither thal ic be chan ged for an other. If anie man change it, both that which was changed, _and that for the witich it was changed , thal be fanctitied co the Lord, and fhal not be redeemed. 54. Thefe are the precepts , which our Lord, commanded Moyfes vato the children of Ifrael in the mount Sinai. ANNOTATIONS,

7Se “Ifa flo Tithes LEVITICVS. 307 thee. 28. Ante thing that is (¢) confecrared to the Lord , whether it be man, or beaft , or field , fhal not be fold, neither can it be redeemed. Whatfoeuer is once cOfecrazed, ihal be holie of holies to theLord.29. Acd any confecration , that is offered of a man, thal not be redeemed, but dying fhal die. 30, Al tithes of the land , whether of corne, or of the fruits of trees , are che Lordes , and are fa.:Ctified to him, 31. And it ante man wil redeeme his tiths,he thal adde the fitt part of them. 32. Ofal the tithes of oxen,and fheep,and goars,that pafle vader the theep- hards rod , euerie tenth that commeth ihal be fan tified to the Lord.