Diuers precepts.

1   Ovr Lord spake to Moyses, saying: ^note

2   Speake to al the assemblie of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holie, because I the Lord your God am holie.

3   Let euerie one feare his father, and mother. Keepe my Sabbathes. I the Lord your God.

4   Turne not your selues to idols, neither make you to your selues molten goddes. I the Lord your God.

5   If ye immolate an hoste of pacifiques to the Lord, that it may be placable,

6   that day wherin it is immolated, shal you eate it, and the next day: and whatsoeuer shal be left vntil the third day, you shal burne with fire.

7   if after two daies anie man eate therof, he shal be profane, and guiltie of impietie:

8   and shal beare his iniquitie, because he hath polluted the holie of the Lord, and that soule shal perish out of his people.

9   And when thou reapest the corne of thy lande, thou shalt not sheare the face of the earth to the verie ground: neither shalt thou gather the eares that remaine.

10   Neither in thy vineyard shalt thou gather the clusters, and grapes that fal downe, but shalt leaue them to the poore, and the strangers to take. I the Lord your God.

11   You shal not committe theft. You shal not lie, neither shal anie man deceaue his neighbour.

12   Thou shalt not forsweare thy self in my name, nor pollute the name of thy God. I the Lord.

13   Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppresse him by violence. The worke of thy hireling shal not abide with thee vntil morning.

14   Thou shalt not speake euil of the deafe man, nor put a stumbling blocke before the blinde: but thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

15   Thou shalt not doe that which is vniust, nor iudge vniustly. Consider not the person of a poore man, neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mightie. Iudge iustly to thy neighbour.

16   Thou shalt not be a criminatour, nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the bloud of thy neighbour. I the Lord.

17   Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy hart, but controwle him openly, lest thou incurre sinne through him.

18   Seeke not reuenge, nor be mindeful of the iniurie of thy citizens. Thou shalt loue thy freind as thy self. I the Lord.

19   Keepe ye my lawes. Thou shalt not make thy cattel to gender with the beasts of an other kinde. Thy field thou shalt not sowe with diuers seede. A garment, ^note that is wouen of two sorres, thou shalt not put on.

20   If a man lie with a woman by carnal copulation,

Diuers precepts. that is a bondwoman also mariable, and yet not redemed with a price, nor made free, both shal be beaten, and they shal not die, because she was not free.

21   And for his offence he shal offer to the Lord, at the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie a ramme:

22   and the priest shal pray for him, and for his sinne before the Lord, and he shal become propitious to him againe, and the sinne shal be forgeuen.

23   When you shal be entred into the land, and haue planted in it fruite trees, you shal take away the prepuces of them: the fruite, that come forth shal be vncleane to you, neither shal you eate of them.

24   But in the fourth yeare, al their fruite shal be sanctified, laudable to the Lord.

25   And the fifth yeare you shal eate the fruites, gathering the ofspring, that they bring forth. I the Lord your God.

26   You shal not eate with bloud. You shal not diuine, ^note nor obserue dreames.

27   Neither shal you cut your heare roundwise: nor shaue your beard.

28   And for the dead you shal not cut your flesh, neither shal you make in your selues any figures or markes, I the Lord.

29   Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be contamined, and filled with wickednesse.

30   Keepe ye my Sabbathes, and feare my Sanctuarie. I the Lord.

31   Decline not to magicians, neither aske any thing of soothsayers, to be polluted by them. I the Lord your God.

32   Before the hoare head rise vp, and honour the person of an old man: and feare the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

33   If a stranger dwel in your land, and abide among you, doe not vpbraid him:

34   but let him be among you as the same counrrie man: and you shal loue him as your selues: for you also haue bene strangers in the Land of Ægypt. I the Lord your God.

35   Do not anie vniust thing in iudgement, in rule, in weight, or measure.

36   Let the balance be iust, and the weightes equal, the bushel iust, and the sextarie equal. I the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Ægypt.

37   Keepe al my preceptes, and al my iudgements, & doe them. I the Lord.

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