{
"book": "leviticus",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord called Moyses, and spake to him out of the tabernacle of testimony, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first part of this book. Of diverse sorts of Sacrifices."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, & thou shalt say to them: The man of you, that shall offer an host to our Lord, of beasts, that is of oxen & sheep, offering victims,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "if his oblation be an holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer (a) a male, without spot, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony, to propitiate our Lord unto him:",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The best and perfectest of every kind is to be offered to God, not the blind, lame, or weak. Gen. 4. Malach. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and he shall put his hands upon the head of the host, and it shall be acceptable, and profitable to his expiation."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he shall immolate the calf before our Lord, and the children of Aaron the Priests shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it in the circuit of the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the skin of the host being plucked off, the joints they shall cut into pieces,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and shall put fire underneath in the altar, having before laid a pile of wood in order:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and the joints that are cut out, laying in order thereupon, to wit, the head, & all things that cleave to the liver,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "the entrails and feet being washed with water, and the Priest shall burn them upon the altar for an holocaust, and sweet savour to our Lord.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And if the oblation be of flocks, an holocaust of sheep or of goats, a lamb of a year old without spot shall he offer:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and he shall immolate it at the side of the altar that looketh to the North, before our Lord: but the blood thereof the sons of Aaron shall pour upon the Altar round about:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And they shall divide the joints, the head, and all that cleave to the liver: and shall lay them upon the wood, under which the fire is to be put:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "but the entrails & the feet they shall wash with water. And the whole the Priest shall offer and burn upon the altar for an holocaust, and most sweet savour to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But if the oblation of holocaust to our Lord be of birds, of turtles and young pigeons,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the Priest shall offer it at the altar: and writhing the head to the neck, and breaking the place of the wound, he shall make the blood to run down upon the brim of the altar:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "but the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast nigh to the altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be poured out,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "& he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut nor divide it with a knife, and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is an holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to our Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Diverse rites in offering holocausts, as well of cattle, 14. as of birds."
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "When a soul shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to our Lord, (a) fine flour shall be his oblation, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These oblations were specially for the poorest sort. So God tempered his law to the ability of every one. Theod. q. 1. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and shall carry it to the sons of Aaron the Priests: of whom one shall take a handful of the flour, and the oil, and all the frankincense, and shall put it a memorial upon the Altar for a most sweet savour to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And that which shall be left of the sacrifice, shall be Aaron's, & his sons', Holy of holies among the oblations of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But when thou offerest a sacrifice baked in the oven: of flour, to wit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened laid over with oil."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If thine oblation be of the frying pan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and shalt pour oil upon it."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And if the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the flour shall be tempered with oil,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "which offering to our Lord, thou shalt deliver to the hands of the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Who having offered it shall take a memory of the sacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour to our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron's, and his sons, Holy of holies among the oblations of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Every oblation that is offered to our Lord, shall be made (b) without leaven, neither shall any leaven and",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "honey be burned in the sacrifice of our Lord."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The first fruits only of them and the gifts you shall offer: but upon the altar they shall not be put, for a savour of sweetness."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "What sacrifice soever thou offerest, thou shalt season it with salt, neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice. In every oblation thou shalt offer (c) salt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "That salt signifieth discretion, appeareth by S. Paul exhorting to season all our talk with salt. Collos. 4. v. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But if thou offer a gift of the first fruits of thy corn to our Lord, of the ears being yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and bruise it in manner of meal, and so shalt thou offer thy first fruits to our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "pouring oil upon it, and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Whereof the Priest shall burn for memory of the gift, part of the meal bruised, and of the oil, and all the frankincense."
}
],
"summary": "How to offer flour, 4. loaves, wafers, with oil and incense, without leaven or honey, 12. also first fruits. 13. And salt in every oblation."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And if his oblation be an host of pacifics, and he will offer of beeves, male or (a) female, without spot shall he offer them before our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In holocaust only the male was offered, chap. 1. in other sacrifices both sexes were acceptable."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall be immolated in the entire of the tabernacle of testimony, & the sons of Aaron the Priest shall pour the blood in the circuit of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And they shall offer of the host of pacifics, for an oblation to our Lord, the fat that covered the entrails, and whatsoever fat is within:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "the two kidneys with the fat wherewith the guts are covered, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they shall burn them upon the altar, for an (b) holocaust, putting fire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These parts and the fat were burned as an Holocaust, the rest of the oblation being pacific."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But if his oblation, and the host of pacifics be of flocks, whether he offer male, or female, they shall be without spot."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If he offer a lamb before our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "he shall put his hand upon the head of his victim; which shall be immolated in the entire of the tabernacle of testimony: and the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof in the circuit of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And they shall offer of the host of pacifics, a sacrifice to our Lord: the fat and the whole rump,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "with the kidneys, and the fat that covereth the belly and all the vital parts, and both little kidneys, with the fat that is about the guts, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the Priest shall burn them upon the altar, to the food of the fire, and of the oblation of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "If his oblation be a goat, and he offer it to our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and shall immolate it in the entire of the tabernacle of testimony. And the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof in the circuit of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And they shall take of it to the food of our Lord's fire, the fat that covereth the belly, and that covereth all the vital parts:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the two little kidneys with the caul, that is upon them about the guts, and the tallow of the liver with the little kidneys:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and the Priest shall burn them upon the altar, to the food of the fire, and of the most sweet savour. All the fat shall be our Lord's"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "by a perpetual right in your generations, and in all your habitations: you shall eat no blood nor fat at all."
}
],
"summary": "How the pacific hosts must be offered of beeves, 6. sheep, 7. lambs, 12. and goats."
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth by (a) ignorance, & doth any thing of all the commandments of our Lord, which he commanded not to be done:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Ignorance of that we are bond to know is sin: and more in Priests than in others."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "If the Priest that is anointed sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer for his sin a calf without spot to our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and he shall bring it to the door of testimony before our Lord, and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "He shall draw also of the blood of the calf, carrying it into the tabernacle of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And when he hath dipped his finger in the blood he shall sprinkle it (b) seven times before our Lord, against the veil of the Sanctuary.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "We see here and in many other places that numbers are mystical, not always superstitious."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and of the same blood he shall put upon the horns of the altar of incense most acceptable to our Lord, which is in the tabernacle of testimony. And all the rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the fat of the calf he shall take away for the sin, as well that which covereth the entrails, as all the parts that are within."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them beside the guts, & the fat of the liver with the two little kidneys,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "as is taken away from the calf which is an host of pacifics, and he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But the skin and all the flesh with the head and feet and bowels and dung,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and the rest of the body he shall carry forth without the camp into a clean place, where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he shall burn them upon a pile of wood, which shall be burnt in the place where the ashes are poured out."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And if all the multitude of Israel be ignorant, and through ignorance do that which is against the commandment of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and afterwards understand their sin, they shall offer for their sin (c) a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "A Priest, and the whole multitude offered the same sacrifice of a calf, for their sins: the Prince offered a male goat, a private person a female. See Theodoret q. 1. in Levit. versus finem."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before our Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the Priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "dipping his finger, & sprinkling seven times against the veil,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar, that is before our Lord, in the tabernacle of testimony: and the rest of the blood, he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And all the fat thereof he shall take up, & shall burn it upon the altar:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "doing so with this calf, as he did also before: & the Priest praying for them, our Lord will be propitious unto them."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn it like as the former calf: (d) because it is for the sin of the multitude.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Though in ordinary sacrifices for sin, one part was allotted to the Priests (by whose ministry God remitted sins) yet of the sacrifice for a Priest's sins, or for the sins of the multitude, the Priests had no part, lest they should save cost, or reap commodity by sacrifice for their own or the whole people's sins, but all was burned as in a holocaust. Theodoret q. 3. in Levit. S. Tho. 1. 2. q. 102. 2. 3. ad 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If a Prince sin, and by ignorance do of many things one, that by the law of our Lord is forbidden:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and afterwards understandeth his sin, he shall offer an host to our Lord, a buck of the goats without spot."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath immolated it in the place where holocaust is wont to be slain before our Lord, because it is for sin,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "the Priest shall dip his fingers in the blood of the host for sin, touching the horns of the altar of holocaust, and the rest pouring at the foot thereof."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done in the victims of pacifics: and the Priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And if a soul of the people of the land shall sin through ignorance, doing any of those things that by the law of our Lord are forbidden, and offending,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and knoweth his sin, he shall offer a she goat without spot."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the host that is for sin, and shall immolate it in the place of holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And the Priest shall take up of the blood with his finger: and touching the horns of the altar of holocaust, the rest he shall pour out at the foot thereof."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But taking away all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the victims of pacifics, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a sweet savour to our Lord; and he shall pray for him, and it shall be forgiven him."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe without spot,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "he shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the hosts of holocausts are wont to be slain."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And the Priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and touching the horns of the altar of holocaust, the rest he shall pour at the foot thereof."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "All the fat also he shall take away, as the fat of the ram, that is offered for pacifics, is wont to be taken away: and shall burn it upon the altar, a burnt sacrifice of our Lord: and he shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him."
}
],
"summary": "How a Priest, 13. the multitude, 22. a Prince, 27. or any one of the people, sinning of ignorance, must offer hosts."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If a soul sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and be witness, because either he himself saw, or is privy to it: (a) unless he utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "When perjury doth prejudice another's cause, he that knoweth the truth is bound to reveal it to the Judges but with discretion to avoid scandal."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The soul that toucheth any unclean thing, either that which was killed of a beast, or died of itself, or any other thing that creepeth: and forgeteth his uncleanness, is guilty, and hath offended:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to any impurity wherewith he is wont to be polluted, & having forgotten, do know it afterward, he shall be guilty of an offence."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The soul that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips that he would do (b) either ill or well, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word, & having forgotten afterward understandeth his offence,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Swearing to do that is evil, or not doing that is lawfully sworn, is sin."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "let him do penance for his sin,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the Priest shall pray for him and for his sin:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "but if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles, or two young pigeons to our Lord, one for sin, and the other for an holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and he shall give them to the Priest: who offering the first for sin, shall writhe back the head thereof to the little pinions, so that it stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And of the blood thereof he shall sprinkle the wall of the altar, and whatsoever is left, he shall make it distill to the bottom thereof, because it is for sin."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the other he shall burn for an holocaust, as is wont to be done: and the Priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles, or two young pigeons, he shall offer for his sin of flour the tenth part of an ephi. He shall not put oil upon it, nor cast any frankincense thereon, because it is for sin,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and he shall deliver it to the Priest: who taking thereof a full handful, shall burn it upon the altar for a monument of him that did offer it,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "praying for him & making expiation: but the part that is left, himself shall have for a gift."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "If a soul transgressing the ceremonies, by error shall sin in those things that are sanctified to our Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without spot out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the Sanctuary:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and (c) the damage itself which he did, he shall restore, and the fifth part he shall add besides, delivering it to the Priest, who shall pray for him, (d) offering the ram, and it shall be forgiven him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "For remission of sin restitution is first required if injury was done."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Besides restitution satisfaction is also necessary for the offence to God. Theodoret. q. 2. in Levitic."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "If a soul sin by ignorance, and do one of those things which by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and being guilty of sin, understand his iniquity,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "he shall offer a ram without spot of the flocks to the Priest, according to the measure and estimation of the sin: who shall pray for him, because he did it unwitting: and it shall be forgiven him,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "because by error he offended against the Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Of hosts, for the sin of concealing another's perjury. 2. for uncleanness 4. for vain swearing, 14. for error in exercising holy rites, 17. & for any sin committed by ignorance."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The soul that shall sin, and contemning the Lord, shall deny unto his neighbour the thing delivered to his custody, which was committed to his credit, or shall by force extort any thing, or do oppression,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, be also forsworn, and shall do any other thing of many, wherein men are wont to sin,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "being convicted of the offence,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "he shall render all things which by fraud he would have obtained, whole, and the fifth part besides to the owner unto whom he did the damage."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But (a) for his sin he shall offer a ram without spot out of the flock, and shall give it to the Priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Such examples of penance or satisfaction for sin besides restitution of that was wrongfully taken, are frequently in Moyses' law."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "who shall pray for him before the Lord, and he shall have forgiveness for every thing that in doing he sinned."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Command Aaron and his sons: This is the Law of an holocaust: It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be upon the same altar."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The Priest shall be revested with the tunic and the linen femorals: and he shall take up the ashes, which the devouring fire burned, and putting them besides the altar,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "shall be unvested of his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth, without the camp, and in a most clean place shall cause them to be consumed unto dust."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the fire on the altar (b) shall always burn, which the Priest shall nourish, putting wood underneath, in the morning every day, and laying on the holocaust, thereupon shall burn the fat of the pacifics.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This fire was first sent miraculously from God (infra. c. 9. v. 24.) and according to this commandment, was perpetually conserved: from which all fire was to be taken that was used in the tabernacle. S. Aug. q. 31. & Theod. q. 9. in Leviticum. Mystically it signified, that the fire of charity being first kindled in man's"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "This fire is continual which shall never fail on the altar."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "This is the Law of the sacrifice and libaments, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The Priest shall take up a handful of the flour, that is tempered with oil, and all the frankincense, that is put upon the flour: and he shall burn it on the altar for a monument of most sweet odour to the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and the part of the flour that is left, shall Aaron eat with his sons, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the Holy place of the court of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most Holy, as that for sin, and for offence."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The males only of Aaron's stock shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance and everlasting in your generations of the sacrifices of the Lord. Every one that toucheth them, shall be sanctified."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must offer to the Lord, in the day of their unction. The tenth part of an ephi of flour shall they offer in a sacrifice for ever, half thereof in the morning, and half thereof at even:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "which being tempered with oil shall be fried in a frying pan."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And the Priest that by right succeedeth his father, shall offer it hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord, and it shall wholly be burnt on the altar."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "For every sacrifice of the Priest shall be consumed with fire, neither shall any man eat thereof."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Speak to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the host for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, shall it be immolated before our Lord. It is Holy of holies."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The Priest that doth offer it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Whatsoever shall touch (c) the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If of the blood thereof a garment be sprinkled, it shall be washed in a holy place.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By flesh of penance is understood, fasting, watching, haircloth, tears, prayers, alms, which whosoever duly toucheth shall be sanctified. Hesychius Hierosol. li. 2. in Levit. c. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken, but if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with water."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is Holy of holies."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "For the host that is slain for sin, whose blood is carried into the tabernacle of testimony to make expiation in the Sanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire."
}
],
"summary": "Oblation for sin wittingly committed. 8. The manner of offering holocaust. 12. Continual fire to be kept in the Altar. 14. The sacrifices which Priests shall offer at their Consecration. 24. In general of hosts for sin, and who shall eat of the same, and where."
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "This also is the law of an host for an offence, the most Holy:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for an offence shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about the altar."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the entrails:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "the two little kidneys, and the fat that is beside the guts, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the Priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of our Lord for an offence."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Every male of the Priest's stock, in a holy place shall eat this flesh, because it is most Holy."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "As the host for (a) sin is offered, so also that for an offence: the law of both hosts shall be one: to the Priest that offereth it, it shall pertain.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This text sheweth there is difference in the nature of a fault committed, commonly called sin, & of duty omitted here called offence, in Latin peccatum and delictum. Yet both are alike offensive to God, in matter of equal importance. As appeareth, for that the same sacrifice was offered for both. S. Aug. q. 20. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The Priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And every sacrifice of flour, that is baked in the oven, & whatsoever is prepared upon the gridiron, or in the frying pan, it shall be that Priest's by whom it is offered."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, to all the sons of Aaron equal measure shall be divided to ever one."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "This is the law of the host of pacifics that is offered to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "If the oblation be for thanks-giving, they shall offer loaves without leaven tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened laid over with oil, and fried flour, and manchets tempered with the mingling of oil:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Loaves also leavened with the host of thanks, which is offered for pacifics:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "whereof one for first fruits shall be (b) offered to our Lord, and shall be the Priest's that shall pour out the blood of the host.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Given or presented to our Lord, not offered upon the Altar, for no leaven could be offered in sacrifice. cap. 2. v. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the flesh whereof shall be eaten the same day, neither shall any of it remain until morning."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer an host, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day: but if ought remain until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "but whatsoever the third day shall find, fire shall consume it."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of pacifics the third day, the oblation shall be of none effect, neither shall it profit the offerer: yea rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of prevarication."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire: he that is clean, shall eat thereof."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Asoul being polluted that eateth of the flesh of the host of pacifics, which is offered to our Lord, shall perish from his people."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And that which hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can pollute, & eateth of such kind of flesh, shall perish from his people."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an oxe, and of a goat you shall not eat."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The fat of the carcass of carrion, & of the beast that was caught of another beast, you shall have for diverse uses."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of our Lord, he shall perish out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The blood also of whatsoever beast you shall not take in meat, as well of birds as of cattle."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Every soul that eateth blood, shall perish out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of pacifics to our Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libaments thereof."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "He shall hold in his hands the fat of the host, and the breast: & when he hath offered and consecrated both to our Lord, he shall deliver them to the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "who shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's, and his sons'."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The right shoulder also of the pacific hosts shall fall for first fruits of the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "He of the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat, himself shall have the right shoulder also for his portion."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "For the breast of elevation and the shoulder of separation I have taken of the children of Israel, from their pacific hosts, and have given them to Aaron the Priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, of all the people of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of our Lord, in the day when Moyses offered them, that they might do the function of priesthood,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and the things that our Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, by a perpetual religion in their generations."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice of sin, and for an offence, and for consecration, and the victims of pacifics:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Which our Lord appointed to Moyses in mount Sinai when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to our Lord in the desert of Sinai."
}
],
"summary": "The manner of offering hosts for offences, 11. and of pacific victims, for thanks-giving. 22. No fat, 26. nor blood is to be eaten."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The second part. Of consecrating Priests, & their vestments: with punishment of some that transgressed."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction, a calf for sin, two Rams, a basket with azymes,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and thou shalt gather all the assembly to the door of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses did as our Lord had commanded. And all the multitude being gathered before the door of the tabernacle,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "he said: This is the word, that our Lord hath commanded to be done."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And immediately he offered Aaron & his sons: and when he had (a) washed them,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Washing signified purity required in Priests."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "he (b) revested the high-Priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with a bawdrike, & revesting him with the tunic of hyacinth, and over it he put the Ephod,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Precious vestments their dignity: and holy oil their authority."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "which he straitening with the girdle, fitted it to the Rationale, wherein was (c) Doctrine and Verity.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "When the high-Priest at any time put the Ephod to the Rationale, God gave answers to his demands, in matters of doctrine & verity: which King David willed Abiathar to do 1. Reg. 23. v. 9. Never could any woman weave doctrine & verity, but divine wisdom did make such garments. S. Cyril. lib. 6. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "with the mitre also he covered his head: and upon it, against the forehead, he put the plate of gold consecrated in sanctification, as our Lord had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "He took also the oil of unction, wherewith he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And sanctifying them, and having sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof, and the laver with the foot thereof he sanctified with the oil."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The which pouring upon Aaron's head, he anointed, & consecrated him:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "his sons also after he had offered them, he revested with linen tunics and girded them with bawdrikes, and put mitres on them, as our Lord had commanded.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon the head thereof,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "he did immolate it: drawing the blood, & dipping his finger, touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the liver, & the two little kidneys, with their little tallow he burnt upon the altar:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the calf with the skin, and the flesh, and the dung, he burnt without the camp, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He offered also a ram for an holocaust: upon the head whereof when Aaron and his sons had put their hands,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "he did immolate it, and poured the blood thereof in the circuit of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And cutting the ram itself into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt with fire,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "having first washed the entrails, & the feet, & the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar, because it was an holocaust of most sweet odour to our Lord, as he had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He offered also the second ram, for the consecration of Priests: and Aaron and his sons did put their hands upon the head thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "which when (d) Moyses had immolated, taking of the blood thereof, he touched the tip of Aaron's right ear, and the thumb of his right hand, in like manner also of his foot.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "As well by the function of consecrating Priests, as of offering Sacrifice, it appeareth that Moyses was a Priest. Yea the chief and highest Priest (saith S. Aug.) for his more excellent ministry and extraordinary calling: Aaron was high-Priest for his Pontifical investure, & ordinary vocation, which should continue in his successors. q. 23. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when of the blood of the ram, being immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one, and the thumbs of the right hand and foot, the rest he poured on the altar, round about:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "but the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and with the right shoulder, he separated."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And taking out of the basket of azymes, which was before our Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a manchet tempered with oil, and a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons, Who having lifted them up before our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "he took them again of their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust, because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odour, of the sacrifice to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before our Lord, as our Lord had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar, he sprinkled it upon Aaron, and his vestments, & upon his sons and their vestments."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded them, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in the basket, as our Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat them:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and whatsoever shall be left of the flesh, and the loaves, fire shall consume."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Out of the door also of the tabernacle you shall not go forth seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired, for in seven days the consecration is finished:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "as at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Day & night shall you tarry in the tabernacle observing the watches of our Lord, lest you die: for so it hath been commanded me."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And Aaron, and his sons did all things which our Lord spake by the hand of Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses consecrateth Aaron high-Priest, 13. and his sons Priests, 33. continuing in the tabernacle seven days and nights."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And when the eighth day was come, Moyses called Aaron and his sons, and the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Take of the herd (a) a calf for sin, and a ram for an holocaust, both without spot, and offer them before our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The people before worshipped a calf for God. Exod. 12. Now therefore they offer a calf in sacrifice to God, for their sin, and to keep them from idolatry. S. Hierom. in Hierem. 7."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak: Take ye a buck goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, of a year old, & without spot for an holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "an ox and a ram for pacifics: and immolate them before our Lord, offering in the sacrifice of every one flour tempered with oil; for today our Lord will appear to you."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "They took therefore all things that Moyses had commanded before the door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moyses said: This is the word, which our Lord hath commanded: do it, (b) and his glory will appear to you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God appeared in his work by sending fire to burn the sacrifice, without man's industry. v. 24."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, & immolate for thy sin: offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the people, and when thou hast slain the people's host, pray for them, as our Lord hath commanded."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And forthwith Aaron approaching to the altar, immolated the calf for his sin:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "the blood whereof his sons brought to him: wherein dipping his finger, he touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the foot thereof."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as our Lord had commanded Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "but the flesh and skin thereof he burnt with fire without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought him the blood thereof, which he poured in the circuit of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "The host also it-self being cut into pieces, they brought with the head and every member. All which he burnt with fire upon the altar,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "having first washed the entrails and the feet with water."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And offering for the sin of the people, he slew the buck goat: and expiating the altar:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "he made the holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "adding in the sacrifice the libaments, which are offered withal, and burning them upon the altar, beside the ceremonies of the morning holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He immolated also the ox, and the ram, the pacific hosts of the people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon the altar round about."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The fat also of the ox, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "they put upon the breasts, & after the fat was burnt upon the altar,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "their breasts, & the right shoulders, Aaron did separate, elevating them before our Lord, as Moyses had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And (c) stretching forth his hand to the people, he blessed them. And so the hosts for sin, and the holocausts, and the pacifics being finished, he descended.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This did signify that Christ, in whom all nations are blessed, should be stretched on the Cross where he redeemed us, in memory whereof we now make the sign of the Cross."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron going into the tabernacle of testimony, & afterward coming forth, blessed the people. And the glory of our Lord appeared to all the multitude:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "& behold (d) a fire coming forth from our Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: Which thing, when the multitude had seen, they praised our Lord, falling on their faces.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The Priests were commanded to nourish and keep this fire perpetually that it should not be extinguished. cha. 6. v. 12."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Sacrifices for sin, 12. and of holocaust, 18. and pacifics are offered: 22. and Aaron stretching forth his hand blesseth the people."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Nadab and Abiu the sons of Aaron catching censers, did put in fire, and incense thereupon, offering before our Lord strange fire, which was not commanded them."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And fire coming forth from our Lord, (a) devoured them, & they died before our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Such as received more at God's hand, are more severely punished if they transgress. S. Aug. q. 21. in Levit. By this also all are warned to be content with the doctrine of the Holy Ghost, to abhor heresies, the fautors whereof add falsehood to God's word, & prefer their own wicked inventions before the true sense of holy Scripture. Theod. q. 9. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Moyses said to Aaron: This is it which our Lord hath spoken: I will be sanctified in them, that approach to me, and in the sight of all the people I will be glorified. Which Aaron hearing held his peace."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses calling Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, said to them: Go and take away your brethren from the sight of the Sanctuary, and carry them without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And going forthwith they took them as they lay, revested with linen tunics, and did cast them forth, as it had been commanded them."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Moyses spake to Aaron, & to Eleazar, and Ithamar his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rent not your vestments, lest perhaps you die, & indignation come upon all the assembly. Let your brethren, & all the house of Israel, lament the burning that our Lord hath raised,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and yourselves shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle, otherwise you shall perish: for the oil of holy unction is upon you. Who did all things according to the precept of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Aaron:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Wine, and any thing that may make drunk, you shall not drink, thou and thy sons, (b) when you enter into the tabernacle of testimony, lest you die: because it is an everlasting precept through your generations.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Abstinence from wine commanded to Priests when they served in the tabernacle, not at other times: for they served at certain times by turns. Theod. q. 10. in Levit. As for drunkenness it is forbid to all men, and at all times."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And that you may have knowledge to discern between the holy and profane, between the polluted and clean:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances, which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Moyses spake to Aaron and to Eleazar, and Ithamar his sons, that were left: Take the sacrifice, that is remaining of the oblation of our Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is Holy of holies."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of our Lord, as it hath been commanded me."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are laid apart for thee and thy children, of the healthful hosts of the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "because the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar, they have elevated before our Lord, and they pertain to thee, and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as our Lord hath commanded."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Among these things, when Moyses sought for the buck goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt: and being angry against Eleazar, and Ithamar the sons of Aaron that remained, he said:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Why did you not eat the host for sin, in a holy place, which is most Holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the multitude, and may pray for it in the sight of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "especially whereas of the blood thereof, there hath not been carried within the holy places, and you ought to have eaten it in the Sanctuary, as it was commanded me?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before our Lord: and to me that is chanced which thou seest, how could I eat it, or please our Lord in ceremonies having (c) a sorrowful heart?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Natural grief of mind made Aaron both unwilling to eat & less apt to complete all the ceremonies: so without sin he omitted that pertained to his commodity, offering it to God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Which when Moyses had heard, he was satisfied with his answer."
}
],
"summary": "Nadab and Abiu the sons of Aaron, for offering strange fire, are burnt to death, and cast out of the camp: 6. for whom the people mourn, but not the Priests. 8. Priests are forbid to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle, 12. and are commanded to eat the residue of oblations in the holy place, 16. which this time in part they omitted, and are excused, being sorrowful for that which happened to Nadab and Abiu."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord spake to Moyses & (a) Aaron, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Hitherto God revealed his Law to Moyses only, and by him to the people. Now also to Aaron after he was consecrated high-Priest: yet not always, for Moyses was still superior, chap. 12. 14. 16. 17. &c."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third part. Of things clean and unclean, with the manner of purifying: & other precepts moral and judicial."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Say to the children of Israel: these are the beasts which you ought to eat of all the living things of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Every one that hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the cattle, you shall eat."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But whatsoever indeed cheweth the cud, and hath an hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others, that you shall not eat, and among the unclean you shall repute it.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Cherogril which cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, is unclean."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The hare also: for that also cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the swine: which though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those that move and live in the waters, shall be unto you abominable,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and execrable, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall avoid."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "All that have not fins and scales in the waters, shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and are to be avoided of you: The Eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and the kite, and the vulture according to his kind,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and every one of the raven's kind, according to their similitude,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the ostrich, and the owl, and the stern, and the hawk according to his kind,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the screech-owl, & the diver, and the stork,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and the swan, and the onocratal, and the porphirion,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "the herodian, & the charadrion according to his kind, the lapwing also, and the bat."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Of fowls every one that goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith he hoppeth upon the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "that you shall eat, as is the bruke in his kind, the attake, and the ophiomach, and the locust, every one according to their kind."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But of fowl whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be execrable to you:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and whatsoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be polluted, and shall be unclean (b) until even:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "If indeed this uncleanness were a sin, it should be cleansed by contrition, & neither necessarily remain till night, nor them be taken away without other means."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and if it be necessary that he carry any of these that be dead, he shall wash his cloths, and shall be unclean until sun set."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, neither cheweth the cud, shall be unclean: and whatsoever toucheth it, shall be defiled."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "That which walketh upon hands of all beasts, which go on four feet, shall be unclean: he that toucheth their carcases shall be polluted until even."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And he that carrieth such carcasses, shall wash his cloths, and shall be unclean until even: because all these things are unclean to you."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "These also shall be reputed among polluted things, of all that move upon the earth, the weasel and the mouse and the crocodile, every one according to their kind,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "the mygale, and the chameleon, and the stellion, and the lizard, and the mole:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "all these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses, shall be unclean until even:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and that whereupon any thing of their carcasses falleth, shall be polluted, as well vessel of wood and raiment, as skins and hair cloths: and in whatsoever vessel any work is done, they shall be dipped in water, and shall be polluted until even, and so afterward shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "But the earthen vessel, whereinto any of these falleth within it, shall be polluted, and therefore is to be broken."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "All meat, which you shall eat, if the water be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and all liquor that is drunk of all vessel, shall be unclean."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And upon whatsoever ought of such carcasses falleth, it shall be unclean: whether ovens, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "But the fountains and the cisterns, and all collection of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcass, shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "If it fall upon seed corn it shall not pollute it."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterward it be touched with the carcasses, it shall be forthwith polluted."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "If a beast be dead, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until even:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "and he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof shall wash his cloths, & shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "All that creepeth upon the earth, shall be abominable, neither shall it be taken for meat."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, & hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Do not contaminate your souls, nor touch ought thereof, lest you be unclean."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "For I am the Lord your God: be holy, because I am holy. Pollute not your souls in any creeping beast, that moveth upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "For I am the Lord, that brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, that I might be your God. You shall be holy because I am holy."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living soul, that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "that you may know the differences of the clean, and the unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse."
}
],
"summary": "The distinction of clean and unclean in beasts, fish, birds, and other things, 43. with commandment to be holy and impolluted."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: A woman if (a) receiving seed she bear a man child, shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of the separation of her flowers.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The most pure VIRGIN MOTHER, was not subject to this law. For she conceived not by the seed of man, yet observed the custom of other women Luc. 2. as Christ also would be baptized by S. John Baptist Mat. 3. to give example of humility S. Cyril. li. 8. in Levit. S. Bernard. Ser. 3. de Purific."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the eighth day the little infant shall be circumcised:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but herself shall remain three & thirty days in the blood of her purification: No holy thing shall she touch, neither shall she enter into the Sanctuary, until the days of her purification be expired."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But if she bear a woman child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of the flux of her flowers, and sixty six days she shall remain in the blood of her purification."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of a year old for an holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin, to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and shall deliver them to the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "who shall offer them before our Lord, and shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed from the flux of her blood, this is the law for her that beareth a man child or a woman child."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And if her hand find not, neither is able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for an holocaust, & another for sin, and the Priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed."
}
],
"summary": "The law of women's purification that bear children. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The second & third Lessons on Candlemass day."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The man, in whose skin and flesh shall arise a diverse colour or a blister, or any thing as it were shining, that is to say the plague of the leprosy, shall be brought (a) to Aaron the Priest, or any one of his sons.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "It pertained to the Priests to discern of leprosy, in figure of Priests' authority to bind and loose sins in the new Testament. S. Chrysost. li. 3. de Sacerdotio."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Who seeing the leprosy in his skin, & the hair turned into a white colour, and the form it-self of the leprosy lower than the skin, and the other flesh: it is the plague of the leprosy, and at his arbitrement he shall be separated."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the hair of the old colour, the Priest shall shut him up seven days,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and the seventh day he shall view him: and if the leprosy be grown no farther, nor hath passed the former limits in the skin, again he shall shut him up other seven days."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the seventh day he shall behold: if the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and not grown in the skin, he shall cleanse him, because it is a scab: and the man shall wash his cloths, and shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And if the leprosy grow again, after that he was seen of the Priest and restored to cleanness, he shall be brought unto him,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and shall be condemned of uncleanness."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "If the plague of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and he shall view him. And when there is (b) a white colour in the skin, and hath changed the look of the hair, and the flesh also it-self appear quick:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Leprosy making spots in the skin of another colour, signifieth heresy, that mixeth falsehood with truth. S. Aug. li. 2. question. Evangel. c. 40."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "it shall be judged a very old leprosy, and grown into the skin. The Priest therefore shall contaminate him, and shall not shut him up, because he is unclean evidently."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But if the leprosy spring forth running about in the skin, and cover all the flesh from the head to the feet, whatsoever falleth under the sight of the eyes,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "the Priest shall view him, and shall judge that he is taken with a (c) most clean leprosy: for that it is all turned into whiteness, and therefore the man shall be clean.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Sometimes that seemeth leprosy, or heresy, which is not: whereof the Priests is to judge. Deut. 17."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But when there shall appear in him quick flesh,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "then by the judgment of the Priest he shall be polluted, and shall be reputed among the unclean, for quick flesh if it be spotted with leprosy, is unclean."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And if again it be turned into whiteness, and cover all the man,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the Priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the flesh and the skin wherein a boil is risen, an healed,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and in the place of the boil there appear a white scar, or somewhat red, the man shall be brought to the Priest:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and when he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the other flesh; and the hair turned into whiteness, he shall contaminate him: for the plague of leprosy is risen in the boil."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But if the hair be of the old colour, and the scar somewhat obscure, & be not lower than next flesh, he shall shut him up seven days."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And if it be grown farther; he shall judge him to have the leprosy:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "but if it stay in his place, it is the scar of a boil, and the man shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the flesh and skin, that fire hath burnt, and being healed hath a white or a red scar,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "the Priest shall consider it, and lo it is turned into whiteness, and the place thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall contaminate him, because the plague of leprosy is risen in the scar."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But if the colour of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish lower than the other flesh, and the form it-self of the leprosy be somewhat obscure, he shall shut him up seven days,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "& the seventh day he shall behold him: if the leprosy be grown farther in the skin, he shall contaminate him,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "but if the whiteness stay in his place, not very clear, it is the plague of a burning, and therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is the scar of a burning."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Man, or woman, in whose head or beard the leprosy riseth, the Priest shall see them."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than it was wont; he shall contaminate them, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But if he perceive the place of the spot equal with the flesh near unto it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and in the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair be of his own colour, and the place of the plague even with the other flesh:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "the man shall be shaven saving the place of the spot, and shall be shut up other seven days."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "If the seventh day the plague seem to have stayed in his place, & not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him, and his cloths being washed he shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "But if after his cleansing the spot be grown again in the skin,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "he shall no more seek whether the hair be changed into a yellow colour, because he is evidently unclean."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Moreover if the spot be stayed, & the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed, and let him boldly pronounce him clean."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Man, or woman, in whose skin appeareth whiteness,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "the Priest shall view them. If he find that whiteness somewhat obscure shineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a spot of white colour and that the man is clean."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "The man whose hair falleth off from his head, is bald and clean:"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "and if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "But if in the baldness or in the baldness before there be risen a white or reddish colour,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "and the Priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy, which is risen in the baldness."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Whosoever therefore shall be defiled with leprosy & is separated at the arbitrement of the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "shall have his cloths hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth, he shall cry himself polluted and unclean."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "All the time that he is a leper & unclean, he shall dwell alone without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "Awoollen or linen garment, that shall have the leprosy"
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "in the warp, and the woof, or else a skin, or whatsoever is made of a skin,"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "if it be a white or reddish spot, it shall be reputed infected with leprosy, and shall be shewed to the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "Who having considered it shall shut it up seven days:"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "and the seventh day again beholding it, if he find that it is grown, it is a leprosy that continueth: he shall judge the garment polluted, and every thing wherein it shall be found,"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "and therefore it shall be burnt with fire."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "But if he see that it is not grown,"
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "he shall command, and they shall wash that, wherein the leprosy is, and he shall shut it up other seven days."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "And when he shall see that the old shape is not returned, neither yet that the leprosy is grown farther, he shall judge it unclean, and burn it with fire, for that the leprosy is spread in the outside of the garment or through the whole."
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat obscure, after that the garment is washed, he shall break it off, and divide it from that which is found."
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "And if besides in those places, that before were without spot, there appear a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire:"
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "if it be ceased, he shall wash with water the parts that be pure, the second time, and they shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "This is the law of the leprosy of a woollen and linen garment, of the warp and the woof, and of all stuff of skins, how it ought to be cleansed or contaminated."
}
],
"summary": "The law concerning leprosy in men, 47. and in garments."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "He shall be brought to the Priest: who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "he shall command him that is purified, that he (a) offer for himself two live sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar-wood, and scarlet & hyssop,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This gift & sacrifice were commanded (saith S. Augustin) because the Sacrifice of Christ's body was not yet ordained, which now serveth for all other sacrifices. li. 1. ca. 19. et. 20. cont. adversar. leg. et. Prophet."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and he shall command that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over [1] living water:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* of well or river, not of a cistern, pool, or marish."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "but the other being alive, with the cedar-wood, and scarlet and the hyssop, he shall dip in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "wherewith he shall sprinkle him, that is to be cleansed, seven times, that he may be rightly purged: and he shall let go the live sparrow, that it fly into the field."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when the man hath washed his cloths, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: & being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so for all that, that he tarry without his own tent seven days,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "& the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, & his beard & eye-brows, and the hair of his whole body. And having washed again his cloths, and his body,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the eighth day he shall take two lambs without spot, and an ewe of a year old without spot, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when the Priest that purifieth the man, hath set him and all these things before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "he shall take a lamb, and offer it for offence, & the sextary of oil, and having offered all before the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "he shall immolate the lamb, where the host for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in a holy place. For as for sin, so also the host for offence pertaineth to the Priest: it is Holy of holies."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the Priest taking of the blood of the host, that was immolated for offence, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and of the sextary of oil he shall pour into his own left hand,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and shall dip his right finger in it and shall sprinkle before the Lord seven times."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and the residue of oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot, and upon the blood that was shed for offence,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and upon his head."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall make the sacrifice for sin, then shall he immolate the holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and put it on the altar with the libaments thereof, and the man shall orderly be cleansed."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid, for offence he shall take a lamb for an oblation, that the Priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and of oil a sextary,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and two turtles or two young pigeons, of the which let one be for sin, & the other for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "& he shall offer them the eighth day of his purification to the Priest, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony before the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "who receiving the lamb for offence, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and the lamb being immolated, of the blood thereof he shall put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "but part of the oil he shall pour into his own left hand,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "wherein dipping the finger of his right hand, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumbs of his right hand & foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for offence:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "& the other part of the oil, that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may propitiate the Lord for him,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "& a turtle, or young pigeon he shall offer,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "one for offence, & the other for an holocaust, with their libaments."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things for the cleansing of himself."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "When you shall be entered into the Land of Chanaan, which I will give you in possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "he whose house it is, shall go and tell the Priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is as it were the plague of leprosy in my house,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "But he shall command that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, lest all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterward he shall go in to consider the leprosy of the house:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "& if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all the rest,"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "he shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it seven days."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And returning the seventh day, he shall consider it. If he find that the leprosy is grown,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "he shall command the stones wherein the leprosy is to be plucked out, and to be thrown without the city into an unclean place:"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "and the house it-self to be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scraping to be dispersed without the city into an unclean place,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "and other stones to be laid in their places, that were taken away, and the house to be plastered with other mortar."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "But if after the stones be plucked out, and the dust scraped off, & it be plastered with other earth,"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house unclean:"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "the which forthwith they shall destroy, and the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust they shall cast without the town into an unclean place."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until even:"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "and he that sleepeth in it, & eateth any thing, shall wash his cloths."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "But if the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not grown farther in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it being made whole again:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "and for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "and when one sparrow is immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters,"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times,"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "and shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water and with the live sparrow, and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, & it shall be rightly cleansed."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "This is the law of all leprosy and percussion,"
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "of the leprosy of garments and houses,"
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "of a scar and of blisters breaking forth, of a shining spot, and when the colours are changed into diverse kinds,"
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "that it may be known at what time any thing is clean or unclean."
}
],
"summary": "Sacrifices for cleansing leprosy in men, 33. the manner of viewing whether leprosy be in a house or no, 40. and of cleansing it."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath a flux of seed, shall be (a) unclean.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If natural infirmities brought uncleanness, much more Lasciviousness of the mind. Theod. q. 11. & 20. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, when the filthy humour at every moment cleaveth to his flesh, and is congealed."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Every bed whereon he sleepeth shall be unclean, and wheresoever he sitteth."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his cloths: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If he sit where that man had sitten, he also shall wash his cloths: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his cloths: and himself being washed with water shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall wash his cloths: and being washed with water he shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The pad whereupon he sitteth shall be unclean:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and whatsoever hath been under him, that hath the flux of seed, shall be polluted until even. He that carrieth any of these things, shall wash his cloths: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Every one, whom he toucheth that is such an one, having not washed his hands before, shall wash his cloths, and being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The earthen vessel that he toucheth shall be broken: but the wooden vessel shall be washed with water."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If he be healed that hath such a disease, he shall number seven days after his cleansing, and having washed his cloths and all his body in living water, he shall be clean."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come into the sight of our Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, & shall give them to the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "who shall (b) make one for sin, and the other for an holocaust, & he shall pray for him before our Lord, that he may be cleansed of the flux of his seed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "To make, offer, and sacrifice an host, is all one."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The man from whom issueth the seed of copulation, shall wash with water all his body: and he shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The garment & skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The woman with whom he companieth shall be washed with water and shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The woman that monthly hath the flux of blood, shall be separated seven days."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until even:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and that whereon she sleepeth or sitteth in the days of her separation shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He that toucheth her bed shall wash his cloths: & himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Whosoever shall touch any vessel whereupon she sitteth, he shall wash his cloths: and himself being washed with water shall be polluted until even."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "If a man company with her in the time of her menstrual blood, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed whereon he sleepeth shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The woman that hath a flux of blood many days not in her menstrual time, or that ceaseth not to have a flux after the menstrual blood, as long as she is subject to this disease, she shall be unclean, as if she were in her menstrual time."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Every bed, whereupon she sleepeth, and vessel whereupon she sitteth, shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his cloths: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "If the blood stay and cease to run, she shall count the seven days of her purification:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the Priest, two turtles, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "who shall make one for sin, and the other for an holocaust, and he shall pray for her before our Lord, and for the flux of her uncleanness."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "You shall teach therefore the children of Israel, that they take heed of (c) uncleanness, and die not in their filthiness, when they shall pollute my tabernacle that is among them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "S. Hierome (in cap. 5. ad Galat.) understandeth this place of the abominableness that may not be named."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "This is the law of him that hath the flux of seed and that is polluted by copulation,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and the woman that is separated in her menstrual times, or that hath a continual flux of blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her."
}
],
"summary": "The law of unclean issues in men, 19. and in women."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they were slain offering strange fire:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he (a) enter not at all times into the Sanctuary, that is within the veil before the propitiatory, wherewith the ark is covered, lest he die (for in a cloud will I appear over the oracle)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Only once in the year the high-Priest, and no other, entered into Sancta Sanctorum, v. 34. signifying that heaven was not open to any Saint, before Christ's passion. Heb. 9. v. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "unless he do these things before: He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for an holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "He shall be revested with a linen tunic, he shall hide his privities with linen femorals: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, a linen mitre shall he put upon his head: for these are holy vestments: with all which, when he is washed, he shall be revested."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he shall receive of the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for an holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And when he hath offered the calf, and prayed for himself, and for his own house,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "he shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of testimony:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and casting lots upon both, one for the Lord, & another for the goat of dismission:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "that, whose lot fell to the Lord, he shall offer for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "but that, whose lot was to be the goat of dismission, he shall set alive before the Lord that he may (b) pour out prayers upon him, and dismiss him into the wilderness.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Praying that all their sins may be remitted."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "After that these things be duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, & praying for himself and for his house, he shall immolate it:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and taking the thurible, which he hath filled of the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hand of the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in beyond the veil into the Holy place:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "that when the incense is put upon the fire, the cloud thereof and the vapour may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he die not."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times against the propitiatory to the east."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as hath been commanded of the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it against the oracle,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and (c) expiate the Sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their prevarications, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Sins do so defile the soul that the very holiest of all places is accounted as contaminate thereby Theod. q. 22. in Levit. in fine."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Let not man be in the tabernacle when the high-Priest goeth into the Sanctuary, to pray for himself and for his house, & for the whole assembly of Israel, until he come forth."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And when he is come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for himself, and taking the blood of the calf, and the buck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "After he hath cleansed the Sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the live goat:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins: which praying to light on his head, he shall send him forth by a man ready thereto, into the desert."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And (d) when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into the solitary ground, and shall be let go into the desert,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God so remitteth sins to those that are truly penitent, as that which is carried into a wilderness and never returneth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of testimony, and putting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the Sanctuary, and leaving them there,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "he shall wash his flesh in a holy place, and shall be clothed with his own garments. And after that he hath gone forth & offered his own holocaust, and the people's, he shall pray as well for himself, as for the people:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and the fat, that is offered for sins, he shall burn upon the altar,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "but he that hath let go the goat of dismission, shall wash his cloths and body with water, and so shall enter into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But the calf & the buck goat, that were immolated for sin, and whose blood was carried into the Sanctuary, to accomplish the expiation, they shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn with fire as well the skins as their flesh, and the dung:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and whosoever burneth them, shall wash his cloths and his flesh with water, & so shall enter into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The (e) seventh month, the tenth day of the month you shall afflict your souls, and no work shall you do, whether he be of the same country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Besides particular sacrifices for every one's sins, once in the year was instituted a general expiation of all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Upon this day shall be the expiation of you, and cleansing from all your sins: before the Lord you shall be cleansed,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "for it is a sabbath of rest, & you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And the Priest shall expiate, that is anointed, & whose hands are consecrated to do the function of priesthood for his father: & he shall be revested with the linen stole & the holy vestments,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "& he shall expiate the Sanctuary & the tabernacle of testimony & the altar, the Priests also & all the people."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once in a year. He did therefore as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "When and how the high-Priest must enter into the Sanctuary. 14. How he shall expiate (or reconcile) the same, 16. and the Tabernacle, 18. and the Altar. 20. How he shall offer a live goat, and send him into the wilderness. 29. And all must celebrate the feast of expiation or cleansing from sins."
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, saying to them: This is the word which our Lord hath commanded, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if he (a) kill an ox or a sheep, or a goat in the camp or without the camp,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If any killed for sacrifice, he must offer it at the door of the tabernacle, that a Priest might offer it on the Altar, for no other man, nor place was allowed, without special dispensation of God. And so Samuel offered sacrifice in another place, 1. Reg. 7. Elias 1. Reg. 18. and David also being no Priest. 2. Reg. 24. So S. Aug. explicateth this text. q. 56. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood: as if he had shed blood, so shall he perish out of the midst of his people."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Therefore shall the children of Israel bring to the Priest their hosts, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to our Lord before the door of the tabernacle of testimony, & they may immolate them pacific hosts to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the Priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of our Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and shall burn the fat for a sweet odour to our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and they shall no more immolate their hosts to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And to them thou shalt say: The man of the house of Israel, and the strangers, which sojourn with you, that offereth an holocaust or victim,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, that it may be offered to our Lord, shall perish out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers, that sojourn among them, if he eat blood, I will set my face against his life, and will destroy it out of his people,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that upon the altar you may make expiation with it for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Therefore have I said to the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, nor of the strangers, that sojourn with you."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn with you, if by hunting or fowling he take wild beast or fowl, which it is lawful to eat, let him pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with earth."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "For the life of all flesh is in the blood: whereupon I said to the children of Israel: The blood of no flesh shall you eat, because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and whosoever eateth it shall die."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The soul that eateth carrion, or that which is taken of a beast, as well of them of the same country as of strangers, shall wash his cloths, and himself with water, and shall be contaminated until even: and in this order he shall be made clean."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And if he do not wash his cloths, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity."
}
],
"summary": "Marriage prohibited in certain degrees of consanguinity and affinity. 18. And diverse carnal and execrable sins committed in other nations, are strictly forbidden."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I the Lord your God,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "according to the custom of the Land of Aegypt, wherein you have dwelt, you shall not do: and according to the manner of the Country of Chanaan, into the which I will bring you, you shall not do, nor walk in their ordinances."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Keep my laws and judgments, which a man doing, shall live in them. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "No man shall approach to her that is next of his blood, to reveal her (a) turpitude. I the Lord.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "It is then turpitude when the act is unlawful. But honest in lawful Marriage. S. Aug. li. 3. Locutionum. & li. de bono coniugali."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The turpitude of thy father, and the turpitude of thy mother thou shalt not discover: she is thy mother, thou shalt not reveal her turpitude."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The turpitude of thy father's wife thou shalt not discover: for it is the turpitude of thy father:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The turpitude of thy sister by father, or by mother, which was born at home or abroad, thou shalt not reveal."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The turpitude of thy son's daughter or of thy niece by the daughter, thou shalt not reveal: because it is thy turpitude."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The turpitude of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, and is thy sister, thou shalt not reveal."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The turpitude of (b) thy father's sister thou shalt not discover: because she is the flesh of thy father.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "See chap. 20. the difference of punishments, for violating these laws in the first and second degree. Also between consanguinity & affinity, in the same collateral degree."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "The turpitude of thy mother's sister thou shalt not reveal, because she is of the flesh of thy mother."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The turpitude of thy father's brother thou shalt not reveal, neither shall thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The turpitude of thy daughter in law thou shalt not reveal, because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her ignominy."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The turpitude of thy brother's wife thou shalt not reveal: because it is the turpitude of thy brother."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The turpitude of thy wife, and her daughter thou shalt not reveal. Her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, thou shalt not take, to reveal her ignominy: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for an harlot, to vex her withal, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude, while she is yet living."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "To a woman, having her flowers, thou shalt not approach, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "With thy neighbour's wife thou shalt not company, nor be polluted with commixtion of seed."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Of thy seed thou shalt not give to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor pollute the name of thy God: I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Company not with mankind, as with womankind, because it is abomination."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "With no beast shalt thou company, neither shalt thou be polluted with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor company with it: because it is an heinous fact."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Neither be ye polluted in any of the things wherewith all the nations have been contaminated, which I will cast out before your sight,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and wherewith the land is polluted: whose abominations I will visit, that it vomit out the inhabitants thereof."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not any of these abominations, as well the same countryman as the stranger that sojourneth with you."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "For all these execrable things did the inhabitants of the land, that have been before you, and have polluted it."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Beware therefore lest in like manner it vomit out you also, when you shall do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Every soul, that shall do any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not polluted in them: I the Lord your God."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our [1] Lord spake to Moyses, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle on Wednesday in Passion Week."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to all the assembly of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Let every one fear his father, and mother. Keep my Sabbaths. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Turn not yourselves to idols, neither make you to yourselves molten gods. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If ye immolate an host of pacifics to the Lord, that it may be placable,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "that day wherein it is immolated, shall you eat it, and the next day: and whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane, and guilty of impiety:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and shall bear his iniquity, because he hath polluted the holy of the Lord, and that soul shall perish out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not shear the face of the earth to the very ground: neither shalt thou gather the ears that remain."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Neither in thy vineyard shalt thou gather the clusters and grapes that fall down, but shall leave them to the poor, and the strangers to take. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "You shall not commit theft. You shall not lie, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Thou shalt not forswear thyself in my name, nor pollute the name of thy God. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The work of thy hireling shall not abide with thee until morning."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf man, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Consider not the person of a poor man, neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mighty. Judge justly to thy neighbour."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Thou shalt not be a criminator, nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, but control him openly, lest thou incur sin through him."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with the beasts of another kind. Thy field thou shalt not sow with diverse seed. A garment (a) that is woven of two sorts, thou shalt not put on.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These diversities are not prohibited for themselves for the ornaments of the tabernacle and of Priests were made of diverse things; but schism, and all participation with heretics and other infidels is forbid. 2. Cor. 6. Draw not in yoke with infidels. Theodret q. 27. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If a man lie with a woman by carnal copulation, that is a bondwoman also marriable, & yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free, both shall be beaten, and they shall not die, because she was not free."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And for his offence he shall offer to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony a ram:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and the Priest shall pray for him, and for his sin before the Lord, and he shall become propitious to him again, and the sin shall be forgiven."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "When you shall be entered into the land, and have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the prepuces of them: the fruits that come forth shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat of them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, laudable to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And the fifth year you shall eat the fruits, gathering the offspring that they bring forth. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine, (b) nor observe dreams.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "See Gen. 40. v. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Neither shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And for the dead you shall not cut your flesh, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be contamined and filled with wickedness."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Keep ye my Sabbaths, & fear my Sanctuary. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Decline not to magicians, neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be polluted by them. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Before the hoar head rise up, and honour the person of an old man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "but let him be among you as the same country man: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you also have been strangers in the Land of Aegypt. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or measure."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Let the balance be just, and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Keep all my precepts, and all my judgements, and do them. I the Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Diverse Moral, Ceremonial, and Judicial precepts are briefly recited."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "These things thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of Israel, & of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die: the people of the land shall stone him."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And I will set my face against him: and will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath contaminated my Sanctuary, and polluted my holy name."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little esteeming my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "I will set my face upon that man, & his kindred, and will cut off both him, and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The soul that shall decline to Magicians and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against it, and destroy it out of the midst of his people."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Sanctify yourselves, and be holy, because I am the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Keep my precepts, & do them. I the Lord that sanctify you."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die: he hath cursed father, and mother, his blood be upon him."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If any man commit adultery with another man's wife, and commit adultery with his neighbour's wife, dying let them die, both the adulterer and the adultress."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "He that lieth with his stepmother, and revealeth the ignominy of his father, dying let both die: their blood be upon them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done an heinous fact: their blood be upon them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "He that lieth with man as if he should company with woman, both have committed abomination, dying let them die: their blood be upon them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He that besides his wife the daughter, (a) marrieth her mother, hath done wickedness: he shall burn alive with them, neither shall there so great abomination remain in the midst of you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Violating this law in any degree in the right line, either of consanguinity, or affinity, or in the first collateral degree of consanguinity was punished with death; but in the first collateral of affinity, and in the second collateral degree as well of consanguinity, as affinity, with less punishment. Which sheweth greater obligation, & greater sin, concerning the right line, than the collateral; also in the first degree of consanguinity than in the second; and more in consanguinity than in affinity."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "He that shall company with beast & cattle, dying let him die: the beast also do ye kill."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same: their blood be upon them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He that taketh his sister the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, & seeth her turpitude, & she beholdeth her brother's ignominy, they have committed a shameful thing: they shall be slain in the sight of their people, because they have revealed one another's turpitude, & they shall bear their iniquity."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He that companieth with a woman in her menstrual flux, & revealeth her turpitude, & she openeth the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The turpitude of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father, thou shalt not discover: he that doth this, hath disclosed the ignominy of his flesh, both shall bear their iniquity."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He that companieth with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, & revealeth the ignominy of his kindred, both shall bear their sin: without children they shall die."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath revealed his brother's turpitude: they shall be without children."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Keep my laws, and judgements, and do them: lest the land which you shall enter into and inhabit, vomit out you also."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Walk not in the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For (b) all these things have they done, and I have abhorred them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Not for every kind of sin (though every one is punishable) but for the more heinous, & for all together the Chananites were cast out of their land."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But to you I speak: Possess their land, which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I the Lord your God, that have separated you from other peoples."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Therefore do you also separate the clean beast, from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: pollute not your souls in beasts, and birds, and all things that move on the earth, and which I have shewed unto you to be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other peoples, that you should be mine."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Man, or woman, in whom is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them."
}
],
"summary": "Whosoever giveth of his seed to Moloch must be stoned to death. 6. All that decline to Magic, 9. curse their parents, 10. commit adultery, certain incest, or bestiality, shall die. 19. Other incest is deprived of children. 22. The Israelites also shall be cast out of the Land, if they commit such sins."
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our Lord said also to Moyses: Speak to the Priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest be contaminated in the deaths of his citizens,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "but only in his kin, and nigh of blood, that is to say, upon his father and mother, and son, and daughter, brother also,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and sister, being a virgin which hath not been married to a husband:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but neither in (a) the Prince of his people shall he be contaminated.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By the Prince S. Paul understood the high-Priest. Act. 23."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Neither shall they shave their head nor beard, nor make incisions in their flesh."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "They shall be holy to their God, and shall not pollute his name: for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, and breads of their God do they offer, and therefore they shall be holy."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Awhore and a vile strumpet he shall not take to wife, nor her, that is put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and offer the breads of proposition. Be they holy therefore, because I also am holy, the Lord, that sanctify them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The daughter of a Priest, if she be taken in whoredom, & dishonour the name of her father, shall be burnt with fire."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The Grand Bishop, that is to say the Priest that is greatest among his brethren, upon whose head hath been poured the oil of unction, and whose hands were consecrated in priesthood, and who was revested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall (b) not rent his garments:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Caiphas rent his garments (Mat. 26.) contrary to this law, malice making him neglect his own dignity."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and to no dead person shall he enter in at all. Upon his father also, and mother shall he not be contaminated."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Neither shall he go forth out of the holy places, lest he pollute the Sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "He shall take a virgin unto his wife:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "but a widow and her that is put away, and a filth, and a whore he shall not take, but a maid of his own people:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "that he mingle not the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: because I am the Lord that sanctify him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Speak to Aaron: the man of thy seed throughout their families, that hath (c) a blemish, shall not offer breads to his God,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "If such deformities and defects made men irregular, and unmeet to exercise Priestly function in the old testament, how much more in the Church of Christ."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "neither shall he approach to his ministry: If he be blind, if lame, if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "if his foot be broken, if his hand,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "if he be crook backed, or blear-eyed, or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or dry scurf in his body, or be burnt."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Every one that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the Priest, shall not approach to offer the hosts to the Lord, nor the breads to his God."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He shall eat notwithstanding of the breads that are offered in the Sanctuary,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "yet so that he enter not within the veil, or approach the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not contaminate my Sanctuary. I the Lord that sanctify them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Moyses therefore spake to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all Israel, all things that had been commanded him."
}
],
"summary": "At what funerals Priests may not be present. 7. What women they may not marry. 9. A Priest's daughter committing fornication must be burned. 10. The high-Priest shall not uncover his head, nor rent his garment, nor be present at any funeral, nor at all go forth of the holy place. 13. When he marrieth he must take a virgin. 16. None that hath a blemish in his body (though he be of Aaron's stock) shall minister in the Sanctuary, nor approach to the Altar."
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our Lord also spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those that are the consecrated things of the children of Israel, and contaminate not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Say to them, and to their posterity: Every man of your stock, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, & which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The man of the seed of Aaron that is a leper, or hath a flux of seed (a) shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me until he be healed. He that toucheth a thing unclean by occasion of that is dead, and he from whom issueth seed as it were of copulation,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By these accidental uncleanness was prefigured the censure of suspension in clergy men."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and he that toucheth a creeping beast, and whatsoever unclean thing, the touching whereof is filthy,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified: but when he hath washed his flesh with water,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and the sun is down, then being cleansed he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Carrion and that which was taken of a beast, they shall not eat, nor be polluted in them. I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Let them keep my precepts, that they be not subject to sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they shall have polluted it. I the Lord that sanctify them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things, the Priest's guest and hireling shall not eat of them."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But whom the Priest hath bought, and he that is his servant born in his house, these shall eat of them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "If the daughter of a Priest be married to any of the people: of those things that are sanctified, and of the first fruits she shall not eat."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But if she be a widow, or put away, and without children return to her father's house: as she was wont being a maid, she shall be fed with her father's meats. No stranger hath power to eat of them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He that eateth of the sanctified things by ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he did eat, and shall give it to the Priest into the Sanctuary."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Neither shall they contaminate the sanctified things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "lest perhaps they sustain the iniquity of their offence, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I the Lord that sanctify them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers which dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever that be which he presenteth for an holocaust of the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "to be offered by you, it shall be a male without spot, of beefs, & muttons, & of goats."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If it have a blemish, you shall not offer it, neither shall it be acceptable."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "The man that offereth a victim of pacifics to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, as well of beefs as of muttons, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable: there shall be no blemish in it."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If it be blind, if it be broken, if it have a scar, if blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn of them upon the Lord's altar."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "An ox and a sheep, having the ear and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily, but a vow cannot be payed of them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "No beast that hath the stones bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away, shall you offer to the Lord, & in your land make not this at all."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Of the hand of a stranger you shall not offer breads to your God, and what other thing soever he would give: because they are all corrupted & blemished: you shall not receive them."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "An ox, a sheep, and a goat, when they are brought forth, shall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day and so forward they may be offered to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Whether it be a beef, or a sheep, they shall not be immolated in one day with their young ones."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "If you immolate an host for thanks-giving to the Lord, that he may be placable,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "the same day you shall eat it, there shall not ought remain until the morning of the next day. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Keep my commandments, & do them. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Pollute not my holy name that I may be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I the Lord that sanctify you,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, that I might be your God. I the Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Who may eat of sanctified things. 17. And what things may be offered."
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the festivities of our Lord, which you shall call holy.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Six days ye shall do work: (a) the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. No work shall you do in it: it is [1] the Sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "There were eight several, feasts commanded by this law (besides the daily sacrifice) mentioned Num. 28. & 29. of which only seven are here expressed."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "These therefore are the holy festivities of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their times."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at even, is the [1] Phase of the Lord:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "2. (c) Pasch in memory of their delivery from Aegypt."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and the fifteenth day of this month is the solemnity of the Azymes of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat azymes."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The first day shall be most solemn unto you, & holy: no servile work shall you do in it:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "but you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days, but the seventh day shall be more solemn, & more holy: and you shall do no servile work in it."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them. When you shall be entered into the land, which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the first fruits of your harvest to the Priest:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "who shall elevate the bundle before the Lord, the next day after the Sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And in the self-same day that the sheaf is consecrated, shall be killed a lamb without spot of a year old for an holocaust of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the libaments shall be offered with it, two tenths of flour tempered with oil, for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord, and a most sweet odour: libaments also of wine, the fourth part of an hin."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Bread, and fried barley, & frumenty, you shall not eat of the corn, until the day that you offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever in your generations, and all your habitations."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "You shall number therefore from the morrow after the Sabbath, wherein you did offer the sheaf of the first fruits, seven full weeks,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say [1] fifty days, and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "3. (d) Pentecost in remembrance of receiving the law."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "out of all your habitations, two loaves of first fruits, of two tenths of flour (e) leavened, the which you shall bake for the first fruits of the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "See chap. 7. v. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And you shall offer with the breads seven lambs without spot of a year old, and one calf from the herd, & two rams, and they shall be for an holocaust with their libaments, for a most sweet odour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "You shall make a buck goat also for sin, and two lambs of a year old for hosts of pacifics."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And when the Priest hath elevated them with the breads of the first fruits before the Lord, they shall turn to his use."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy: no servile work shall you do in it. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your habitations, and generations."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And after you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain, but you shall let them alone for the poor & for strangers. I am the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on [1] the first day of the month, shall be a Sabbath, a memorial, by sounding of trumpets, and shall be called holy:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "4. (e) Feast of trumpets, in memory that a ram sticking by the horns was offered by Abraham instead of Isaac."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "no servile work shall you do in it, and you shall offer holocaust to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of [1] expiations most solemn, and it shall be called holy: and you shall afflict your souls in it, and shall offer holocaust to the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "5. (f) Feast of Expiation in memory of the sin in worshipping the calf, and for all sins forgotten, or unknown."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "No servile work shall you do the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may become propitious unto you."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Every soul, that is not afflicted this day, shall perish out of his people:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and which shall do any work, the same will I destroy out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "No work therefore shall you do in it: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and habitations."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "It is a Sabbath of resting, and you shall afflict your souls the ninth day of the month: from even until even you shall celebrate your sabbaths."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the festivity of [1] tabernacles seven days to the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "6. (g) Feast of Tabernacles, to remember God's protection in the wilderness, where they dwelled in tabernacles 40. years."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: no servile work shall you do in it. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy, and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord: for it is of [1] assembly and collection: no servile work shall you do in it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "7. (h) Feast of Assembly and collection, in memory of peace given in the land of promise."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "These are the festivities of the Lord, which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer in them oblations to the Lord, holocausts and libaments according to the rite of every day:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts and those that you shall offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Therefore from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the festivity of the Lord seven days, on the first day and the eighth shall be a sabbath, that is rest."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And you shall take to you the first day the fruits of a most fair tree, and the branches of palms, and boughs of the tree with thick leaves, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And you shall celebrate the solemnity thereof seven days in the year. It shall be an (i) everlasting ordinance in your generations. The seventh month shall you celebrate the festivity,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "i",
"text": "These feasts were everlasting to the Jews in their generations that is, never to be altered by them, nor during their state. S. Aug. q. 43. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "and shall dwell in bowers seven days, every one that is of the stock of Israel shall abide in tabernacles:"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "that your posterity may learn that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And Moyses spake concerning the solemnities of our Lord to the children of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "The solemnities of the Sabbath, 5. of Pasch and first fruits, 15. of Pentecost, 23. of Trumpets, 26. of Expiations, 33. of Tabernacles; and with what rites the same shall be celebrated. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fourth part. Of Feasts, times of rest, & Jubilee, with privileges, rewards & punishments."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee oil of olives most pure, and clear, to furnish the lamps continually,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of covenant. And Aaron shall set them from even until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Upon the candle stick most clean shall they be put always in the sight of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Thou shalt take also flour, & shalt bake thereof twelve breads, which shall have every one (a) two tenths:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Two tenths of an ephi, that is, two gomors. A gomor of Manna, which is the tenth part of an ephi, sufficed one man for a day. Exo. 16. v. 16. & 36. so that one of these loaves was as much as all the meat which two do ordinarily eat in one day."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "which thou shalt set six one against another upon the most clean table before the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a monument of the oblation of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord, received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in a holy place: because it is most Holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And behold there went forth the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had born of an Aegyptian among the children of Israel, and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moyses: (And his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan.)"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And they did cast him into prison, till they might know what our Lord would command."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Who spake to Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let all that heard him put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak: The man that curseth his God shall bear his sin:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multitude of the people shall stone him, whether he be a natural, or stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He that striketh, and killeth a man, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He that striketh a beast, shall render one for it, that is to say, soul for soul."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "He that giveth any of his neighbours a blemish, (b) as he did, so shall it be done to him:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This Law designing equality, was to put a limit, not to enforce to revenge, for the party damaged, if he would, might remit all or part. S. Aug. l. 19. c. 25. cont. Faustum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth he shall restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to sustain."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man, shall be punished."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Let there be equal judgment among you, whether a stranger, or a natural sin: because I am the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Moyses spake to the children of Israel: and they brought him forth that had blasphemed, without the camp, and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "Provision of oil for lamps in the Tabernacle. 5. The making, and disposing of loaves of proposition. 10. The punishment of blasphemy, and manslaughter. 18. And the pain of equal revenge."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses in the mount Sinai, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be entered to the land which I will give you, thou shalt sabbatize the sabbath to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but in the seventh year a sabbath shall be to the earth, of the resting of the Lord: the field thou shalt not sow, and the vineyard thou shalt not cut."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The things that the ground shall bring forth of it-self, thou shalt not reap: & the grapes of thy first fruits thou shalt not gather as a vintage: for it is a year of the resting of the earth:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "but they shall be unto you for meat, to thee & thy man-servant, to thy woman-servant and hireling, and to the stranger that sojourneth with thee:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "to thy beasts & cattle all things that grow shall give meat."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Thou shalt number thee also seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine, years:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "& thou (a) shalt sound with the trumpet the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of propitiation in all your land.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Of sounding with trumpets, which is pleasant & joyful, cometh the name of Jubily: the effect of it is remission of all bonds, restoration of former liberty, and recovery of inheritance. In the old Testament of temporal things, in the new of spiritual, prefigured thereby: as remission of sin, delivery from bondage thereof, recovery of grace, and preparation to eternal glory."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of Jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, & every one shall go back to his old family:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "because it is the Jubilee & the fiftieth year. You shall not sow nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, & the first fruits of vintage you shall not gather,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "because of the sanctification of the Jubilee, but forthwith as they grow you shall eat them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "In the year of Jubilee all shall return to their possessions."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him, press not thy brother, but according to the number of the years of Jubilee thou shalt buy of him,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and according to the supputation of the fruits he shall sell to thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The more years remain after the Jubilee, so much more shall the price increase: and the less time that thou shalt account, so much the less shall the purchase be valued, for the time of the fruits he shall sell to thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God, because I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfill them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and the ground may yield you her fruits, which you may eat unto your fill, fearing no man's invasion."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "I will give you my benediction the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new be grown; you shall eat the old."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are my strangers & sojourners."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "For the which cause all the country of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If thy brother impoverished sell his little possession, & his kinsman will, he may redeem that which he had sold."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But if he have no kinsman, and himself can find the price to redeem it:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "the fruits shall be accounted from that time when he sold it, and the residue he shall restore to the buyer, and so he shall receive his possession again."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "but if his hand find not to repay the price, the buyer shall have that he bought, until the year of Jubilee. For in it all sale shall return to the owner, & to the old possessor."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have licence to redeem it, until one year be expired."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "If he redeem it not, and the compass of the year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, & his posterity for ever, & it cannot be redeemed, no not in the Jubilee."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But if the house be in a village that hath not walls, it shall be sold according to the law of fields, if it be not redeemed before, in the Jubilee it shall return to the owner."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "if they be not redeemed, in the Jubilee they shall return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for possessions among the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, & thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner and he live with thee,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "take not usuries (b) of him, nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Jews for their advantage hold it lawful to take usury of strangers, not observing that it is also commanded often in scripture, not to afflict, but to love strangers. Exod. 22. 23. Levit. 19."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Thou shalt not give him thy money to usury, and an overplus of the fruits thou shalt not exact of him."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "I the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, that I might give you the Land of Chanaan, & might be your God."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "If thy brother constrained by poverty sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the servitude of servants,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "but he shall be as an hireling and a sojourner, until the year of Jubilee he shall work with thee,"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "and afterward he shall go out with his children, & shall return to his kindred & to the possession of his fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "for they are my servants, & I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt, let them not be sold by the condition of servants:"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "afflict him not by might, but fear thy God."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Let your manservant, & woman servant, be of the nations that are round about you."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And of the strangers, that sojourn with you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants:"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "and by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, & shall possess them for ever, but your brethren the children of Israel do ye not oppress by might."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "If the hand of a stranger or sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his stock:"
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "after the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him,"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "both the uncle by father, and the uncle's son, and the kinsman, and the allied. But and if himself be able also, he shall redeem himself,"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "accounting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of Jubilee: and accounting the money, that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of an hireling."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "If they be more years that remain until the Jubilee, according to these also shall he repay the price."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer for that which remaineth of the years,"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "his wages being allowed for the which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of Jubilee he shall go out with his children."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the Land of Aegypt."
}
],
"summary": "The law of the seventh year, 8. and fiftieth year, which is the Jubilee, 13. when all inheritance sold returneth to the former owner (24. as also it may in the mean time be redeemed.) 35. Usury prohibited, 39. and servitude among the Israelites, only they may be hired till the Jubilee year, 47. and may be redeemed from servitude of strangers: 54. at least they shall be free in the year of Jubilee."
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "I The Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves an idol and (a) thing graven, neither shall you erect titles, nor set a notorious stone in your land, for to adore it, for I am the Lord your God.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Heretics holding their corrupt course will needs have image of Christ, or Saint, to be the graven thing, which is forbidden in holy Scriptures: & therefore falsely translate Pesel, a graven image, where indeed it signifieth an image,"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Keep my sabbaths, and dread my Sanctuary. I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in their seasons,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and the earth shall bring forth her spring, and the trees shall be replenished with fruits."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to your fill, and without fear shall you dwell in your land."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Five of yours shall pursue and hundred strangers, and an hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall by the sword in your sight."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "I will respect you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, & I will establish my covenant with you."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "You shall eat the eldest of the old store, & new coming upon it you shall cast forth the old."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "I will walk among you, & will be your God, & you shall be my people."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "I the Lord your God, that have brought you out of the Land of the Aegyptians, that you should not serve them, and that have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "if you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments that you do not those things which are appointed by me, and bring my covenant to nothing worth,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "I also will do these things to you: I shall quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, & consume your lives, you shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured of the enemies."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies, and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall fly, when no man pursueth you."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But if you will not obey me so neither, I will increase your chastisements seven-fold for your sins,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and will break the pride of your stubbornness. And I will make to you the heaven from above as iron, and the earth as brass."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Your labour shall be spent in vain, the earth shall not bring forth her spring, nor the trees yield their fruits."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "If you walk contrary to me, & will not hear me, I will increase your plagues until seven-fold for your sins:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "& I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, which may consume you, & your cattle, and may bring all things to a small number, and that your ways may be made desert."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And if you will neither so receive discipline, but walk rather contrary to me:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "I also will go opposite against you, and will strike you seven times for your sins,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and I will bring in upon you the sword a revenger of my covenant. And when you shall fly into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall be delivered in the hands of the enemies,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "after I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your breads in one oven, and shall render them by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But if you will neither by these means hear me, but walk against me,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "I also will go against you in contrary fury, and will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "so that you shall (b) eat the flesh of your sons & of your daughters.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This extreme famine fell upon some of them in Samaria, 4. Reg. 6. upon others in Hierusalem 4. Reg. 25. most specially when they were besieged by Titus Iosephus li. 7. c. 6. de bello Iudaico."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "I will destroy your excelses, & break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, & my soul shall abhor you,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "in so much that I will bring your cities into a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desert, neither will I receive any more the most sweet odour."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And I will destroy your land. And your enemies shall be astonished upon it, when they shall be inhabitants thereof."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And you I will disperse into the Gentiles, and will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Then shall the land take pleasure in her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall be"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "in the enemy's land, she shall sabbatize, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbaths when you dwelt in it."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And they that shall remain of you, I will put fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall fly it as it were a sword: they shall fall when no man pursueth,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "and they shall every one fall upon their brethren, as flying from wars, none of you shall be so hardy as to resist your enemies."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "You shall perish among the Gentiles, and the enemy's land shall consume you."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities in the land of their enemies, and for the sins of their fathers and their own they shall be afflicted:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "until they confess their own & their ancestors' iniquities, whereby they have prevaricated against me, and walked contrary unto me."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "I also therefore will walk against them, & bring them into their enemy's land, until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their impieties."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And I will remember my covenant, that I made with (c) Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. Of the land also I will be mindful:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Jacob is first here named, because he had no other children but this people, for Isaac was also father of the Idumeans, and Abraham moreover of the Ismaelites and Madianites, and because the great promises made to Abraham and Isaac pertained only to the Israelites. Theodoret. q. 16. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "which when it shall be left of them, shall take pleasure in her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, for that they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Howbeit even when they were in the land of their enemies (d) I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them, that they should be consumed, and I should make my covenant with them frustrate. For I am the Lord their God,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The Church never wholly decayeth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "and I will remember mine old covenant, when I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, for to be their God. I the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which our Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "With new prohibition of Idolatry, and commandment to keep the Sabbath 3. rewards are promised to all that observe God's precepts. 14. And many miserable punishments are threatened to all transgressors."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and (a) bound his soul to God, by estimation he shall give the price.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Because no other but the tribe of Levi could serve about the tabernacle, and yet other might desire to serve there, they might instead thereof give a price, & have the reward of their good will."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "If it be a man from the twentieth year until three score, he shall give fifty sicles of silver, after the measure of the Sanctuary:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "if a woman, thirty."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "From one month until the fifth year, for a man shall be given five sicles: for a woman three."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "One that is three score & above, a man shall give fifteen sicles, a woman ten."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the Priest: and as much as he shall esteem, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But the beast, that may be immolated to the Lord, if a man do vow it, shall be holy,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and cannot be changed, that is to say, (b) neither a better for a bad, nor a worse for a good, and if he change it, both itself that was changed, and that for the which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The thing that is vowed, if it may be performed, pleaseth God better than a change."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The unclean beast, which cannot be immolated to the Lord, if any man vow it shall be brought before the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Who judging whether it be good or evil, shall set the price:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "which if he that offereth will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "If a man vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the Priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad, and according to the price which he shall appoint, it shall be sold."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "but if he that had vowed will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation besides, and shall have the house."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be esteemed according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sowed with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "If he vow his field immediately from the year of Jubilee, that is beginning, how much it can be worth, at so much it shall be esteemed:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "but if some time after, the Priest shall account the money according to the number of years that remain until the Jubilee, and there shall be diminished of the price."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And if he that had vowed will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the esteemed money, and shall possess it."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that had vowed it can redeem it no more:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "for when the day of Jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and the possession consecrated pertaineth to the right of the Priests."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If the field be bought, and being not of his ancestors' possession be sanctified to the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "the Priest shall account the price according to the number of years, unto the jubilee: and he that had vowed shall give that to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But in the Jubilee, it shall return to the former owner that sold it and had it in the lot of his possession."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "All estimation shall be weighed by the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty oboles.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The first born, which pertain to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be ox, or sheep, they are the Lord's."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem it, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was esteemed by thee."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Any thing that is (d) consecrated to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold, neither can it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated, shall be holy of holies to the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Avow made approved and consecrated to God, cannot be changed by any man. Theodoret q. ult. in Levit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And any consecration, that is offered of a man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth part of them."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the sheep-herd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be changed for another. If any man change it, both that which was changed, and that for the which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "These are the precepts, which our Lord commanded Moyses unto the children of Israel in the mount Sinai."
}
],
"summary": "How some vows of diverse persons may be redeemed, but some may not be changed. 28. All, one way or other, must be discharged. 30. Tithes also must be payed, either the same that are due or more. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fifth part. Of vows and Tithes."
}
]
}
]
}