Chapter 15

Certain precepts concerning Sacrifices ℣.17 and first fruits, are repeated, ℣.22 also touching different punishment of sin committed by ignorance and by set wilfulness: ℣.32 and accordingly one is stoned to death for gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ℣.37 All are commanded to carry a sign in their garments, thereby to remember the commandments of God.

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   And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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   thou shalt say to them: When you shall be Speak to the children of Israel, and entered into the Land of your habitation, which I will give you,

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   and shall make oblation to the Lord for an holocaust, or victim, paying vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:

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   whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of flour, the tenth part of an ephi tempered with oil, which shall have in measure the fourth part of an hin:

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   and wine of the same measure to pour the libaments shall he give for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb

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   and ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with oil the third part of an hin:

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   and wine for the libament, the third part of the same measure, shall he offer for a sweet savour to the Lord.

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   But when thou makest an holocaust or host of oxen, to fulfill thy vow, or for pacific victims,

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   thou shalt give for every oxe three tenths of flour tempered with oil, which shall have half the measure of a hin:

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    and wine to pour libaments of the same measure for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.

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    So shalt thou do

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    for every oxe and ram and lamb & buck goat.

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    As well they that are born in the country as the strangers

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    after one rite shall offer sacrifices.

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    There shall be all one precept & judgment as well to your selves as to the strangers of the land.

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    Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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    Speak to the children of Israel, & thou shalt say to them:

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    When you are come into the land, which I will give you,

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    and shall eat of the breads of that country, you shall separate first fruits to the Lord

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    of your meats. As of your barn floors you separate first fruits,

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    so of your pasts shall you give first fruits to the Lord

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    And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moyses,

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    and by him hath commanded you, from the day that he began to command and so forward,

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    and the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, an holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libaments, thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:

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    and the Priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned not wittingly, offering notwithstanding burnt sacrifice to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and error:

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    and it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel, and the strangers, that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance.

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    But if one soul shall sin unwitting, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin:

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    and the Priest shall pray for him, because he sinned unwitting before the Lord: and he shall obtain him pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.

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    As well to them that are born in the country as to the strangers one law shall be for all, that sin by ignorance.

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    But the soul, that through pride committeth any thing, whether he be born in the country, or a stranger, (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall perish out of his people:

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    for he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made his precept of no effect: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

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    And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day,

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    they presented him to Moyses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

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    Who shut him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

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    And our Lord said to Moyses, dying let this man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

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    And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as our Lord had commanded.

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    Our Lord also said to Moyses:

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    Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, that they make themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of hyacinth:

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    which when they shall see, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own cogitations and eyes, fornicating after diverse things,

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    but rather mindful of the precepts of the Lord may do them, and be holy to their God.

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    I, the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Ægypt, that I might be your God.