Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXII.
The punishment of theift, 5. and other trespa&esset;es, 7. if a thing committed
to custodie or lent doth perish, 16. of deflovvring a virgin, 18. of inchanting,
bestialitie, and idolatrie, 21. of hurting strangers, widovves, and
orphanes. 25. The lavv of lending vvithout vsurie, 26. of taking pleadge,
28. of reuerence to superiors, and of paying tithes.
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Iudicial lawes.
1 If any man steale an oxe or a sheepe, and kil or sel it: he
shal restore note fiue oxen for one oxe, and note foure sheepe
for one sheepe.
2 If the theefe be found breaking vp the
house or vndermining it, and taking a wound die: the striker
shal not be guiltie of bloud.
3 But if he doe this when the
sunne is risen, he hath c&obar;mitted manslaughter, and himself
shal die. If he haue not wherwith to make restitution
for the theft, himselfe shal be sold.
4 If that which he stole,
be found with him, aliue, either oxe, or asse, or sheepe:
he shal restore duble.
5 If anie man hurt a field or a vineyard,
and let goe his beast to feede vpon that which is other mens:
the best of whatsoeuer he hath in his owne field, or in his
vineyard, he shal restore according to the estimation of the
damage.
6 If fire breaking forth light vpon the thornes, and
catch stackes of corne, or corne standing in the fieldes, he
shal render the damage that kindled the fire.
7 If a man
committe money, or vessel vnto his frend to keepe, and they
be stolen away from him, that receaued them: if the theefe
be found, he shal restore duble:
8 if the theefe be not
knowen, the maister of the house shal be brought to note the
goddes, and shal sweare that he did not extend his hand vpon
his neighbours good,
9 to doe any fraud, as wel in oxe as in
asse, and sheepe and rayment, and whatsoeuer may bring
damage: the cause of both parties shal come to the goddes:
and if they geue iudgement, he shal restore duble to his
neighbour.
10 If a man committe asse, oxe, sheepe, or any
beast, to his neigbours custodie, and it die, or be hurt, or be
taken of enemies, and no man saw:
11 there shal be an oath
betwen them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbours
good: and the owner shal admitte the oath, and he
shal not be compelled to make restitution.
12 But if it were
taken away by stelth, he shal restore the damage to the owner.
13 If it were eaten of a beast, let him bring vnto him that
which was slaine, and he shal not make restitution.
14 He
that asketh of his neighbour to borow any of these thinges,
and it be hurt or dead the owner being not present, he shal
be compelled to make restitution.
15 But if the owner be
present, he shal not make restitution, especially if it were
hired and came for the hire of the same.
16 If a man seduce
a virgin being not yet despoused, and lie with her: he shal
endowe her, and haue her to wife.
17 If the virgins father
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Iudicial lawes.
wil not geue her, he shal geue money according to the maner
of the dowrie, which virgins are wont to receaue.
18 Inchanters
thou shalt not suffer to liue.
19 He that lieth with a
brute beast, dying let him die.
20 He that sacrificeth to goddes,
shal be put to death, but to the Lord only.
21 Thou shalt not
molest a stranger, nor afflict him: note for your selues also were
strangers in the Land of Ægypt.
22 A widow and an orphane
you shal not hurt.
23 If you hurt them, they wil crie out to
me, and I wil heare their crie:
24 and my furie shal take indignation,
and I wil strike you with the sword, and your
wiues shal be widowes, and your children orphanes.
25 If
thou lend money to my people being poore, that dwelleth
with thee, thou shalt not vrge them as an exactour, nor oppresse
them with vsuries.
26 If thou take of thy neighbour
a garment in pledge, thou shalt geue it him againe before
sunne sette.
27 For that same is the onlie thing, wherwith he
is couered, the clothing of his bodie, neither hath he other
to sleepe in: if he note crie to me, I wil heare him, because I am
merciful.
28 Thou shalt not detract from note the goddes, and
the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.
29 Thy tithes
and thy first fruites thou shalt not slacke to pay, the firstborne
of thy sonnes thou shalt geue me.
30 Of thy oxen also &
sheepe thou shalt doe in like maner: seuen dayes let it be with
the damme, the eight day thou shalt render it to me.
31 Holie
men you shal be to me: the flesh that beastes haue tasted
of before, you shal not eate, but shal cast it to the dogges.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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