26 1 Idolatry forbidden. 3 A blessing to them that keep the commandments. 14 The curse to them that break them. 42 God promiseth to remember his covenant.

¹ Ye shall make you none idols nor graven image, neither rear you up any ^(A)pillar, neither shall ye set ^[a]any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the Lord your God.

² Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and ^(B)reverence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.

³ ¶ ^(C)If ye walk in mine ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them,

⁴ I will then send you ^[b]rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.

⁵ And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto sowing time, and you shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and dwell in your land safely.

⁶ And I will send peace in the land, and ye shall sleep, and none ^(D)shall make you afraid: also I ^[c]will rid evil beasts out of the land, and the ^[d]sword shall not go through your land.

⁷ Also ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword.

^8 (E)And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword.

⁹ For ^[e]I will have respect unto you, and make you increase, and multiply you, and ^[f]stablish my covenant with you.

¹⁰ Ye shall eat also old store, and carry out old because of the new.

^11 (F)And I will set my ^[g]Tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not loathe you.

¹² Also I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

¹³ I am the Lord your God which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I have broken the ^[h]bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright.

¹⁴ ¶ ^(G)But if ye will not obey me, nor do all these commandments,

¹⁵ And if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your soul abhor my laws, so that ye will not do all my Commandments, but break my ^[i]Covenant,

¹⁶ Then will I also do this unto you, I will appoint over you ^[j]fearfulness, a consumption, and the burning ague to consume the eyes, and make the heart heavy, and you shall sow your seed in vain: for your enemies shall eat it:

¹⁷ And I will set ^[k]my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you, shall reign over you, ^(H)and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

¹⁸ And if ye will not for these things obey me, then will I punish you ^[l]seven times more, according to your sins,

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as ^[m]iron, and your earth as brass:

²⁰ And your ^[n]strength shall be spent in vain: neither shall your land give her increase, neither shall the trees of the land give their fruit.

²¹ ¶ And if ye walk ^[o]stubbornly against me, and will not obey me, I will then bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.

²² I will also send wild beasts upon you, which shall ^[p]spoil you, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number: so your ^[q]highways shall be desolate.

²³ Yet if by these ye will not be reformed by me, but walk stubbornly against me,

²⁴ Then will I also walk ^(I)stubbornly against you, and I will smite you yet seven times for your sins:

²⁵ And I will send a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my Covenant: and when ye are gathered in your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶ When I shall break the ^[r]staff of your bread, then ten women shall bake your bread in one ^[s]oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, but not be satisfied.

²⁷ Yet if ye will not for this obey me, but walk against me stubbornly,

²⁸ Then will I walk stubbornly in mine anger against you, and I will also chastise you seven times more according to your sins.

^29 (J)And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye devour.

³⁰ I will also destroy your high places, and ^(K)cut away your images, and cast your carcasses upon the ^[t]bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

³¹ And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your Sanctuary unto naught, and ^[u]will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

³² I will also bring the land unto a wilderness, and your enemies which dwell therein, shall be astonished thereat.

³³ Also I will scatter you among the heathen, and ^[v]will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities shall be desolate.

³⁴ Then shall the land enjoy her ^(L)Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void, and ye shall be in your enemies’ land: then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths.

³⁵ All the days that it lieth void, it shall rest, because it did not rest in your ^[w]Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

³⁶ And upon them that are left of you, I will send even a ^[x]faintness into their hearts in the land of your enemies, and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them, and they shall ^[y]flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.

³⁷ They shall fall also one upon another, as before a sword, though none pursue them, and ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies:

³⁸ And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹ And they that are left of you, shall pine away for their iniquity, in your enemies’ lands, and for the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with ^[z]them also.

⁴⁰ Then they shall confess their iniquity, and the wickedness of their fathers for their trespass, which they have trespassed against me, and also because they have walked stubbornly against me.

⁴¹ Therefore I will walk stubbornly against them, and bring them into the land of their enemies: so then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and then they shall ^[aa]willingly bear the punishment of their iniquity.

⁴² Then I will remember my Covenant with Jacob, and my Covenant also with Isaac, and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember, and will remember the land.

^43 [ab]The land also in the mean season shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths while she lieth waste without them, but they shall willingly suffer the punishment of their iniquity, because they despised my Laws, and because their soul abhorred mine ordinances.

⁴⁴ Yet notwithstanding this, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, ^(M)I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, nor to break my Covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God:

⁴⁵ But I will remember for them the ^[ac]Covenant of old, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

⁴⁶ These are the Ordinances, and the Judgments, and the Laws, which the Lord made between him, and the children of Israel, in mount ^[ad]Sinai by the hand of Moses.

27 2 Of divers vows, and the redemption of the same. 28 A thing separate from the use of man, cannot be sold nor redeemed, but remained to the Lord.

¹ Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man shall make a vow of ^[a]a person unto the Lord, by ^[b]thy estimation,

³ Then thy estimation shall be thus: a male from twenty years old unto sixty years old shall be by thy estimation even fifty ^[c]shekels of silver, after the shekel of the Sanctuary.

⁴ But if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

⁵ And from five years old to twenty years old, thy valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

⁶ But from a ^[d]month old unto five years old, thy price of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and thy price of the female, three shekels of silver.

⁷ And from sixty years old and above, if he be a male, then thy price shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

⁸ But if he be poorer ^[e]than thou hast esteemed him, then shall he present himself before the Priest, and the Priest shall value him, according to the ability of him that vowed, so shall the Priest value him.

⁹ And if it be a ^[f]beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that one giveth of such unto the Lord, shall be holy.

¹⁰ He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good: and if he change beast for beast, then both this and that, which was changed for it, shall be ^[g]holy.

¹¹ And if it be any unclean beast, of which men do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, he shall then present the beast before the Priest.

¹² And the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: and as thou valuest it, which art the Priest, so shall it be.

¹³ But if he will buy it again, then he shall give the fifth part of it more above thy valuation.

¹⁴ ¶ Also when a man shall dedicate his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad, and as the Priest shall price it, ^[h]so shall the value be.

¹⁵ But if he that sanctified it, will redeem his house, then he shall give thereto the fifth part of money more than thy estimation, and it shall be his.

¹⁶ If also a man dedicate to the Lord any ground of his inheritance, then shalt thou esteem it according to the ^[i]seed thereof, an ^[j]Homer of barley seed shall be at fifty shekels of silver.

¹⁷ If he dedicate his field immediately from the year of Jubilee, it shall be worth as thou dost esteem it.

¹⁸ But if he dedicate his field after the Jubilee, then the Priest shall reckon him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of Jubilee, and it shall be abated by thy estimation.

¹⁹ And if he that dedicateth it, will redeem the field, then he shall put the fifth part of the price, that thou esteemedst it at, thereunto, and it shall remain his.

²⁰ And if he will not redeem the field, but the Priest ^[k]sell the field to another man, it shall be redeemed no more.

²¹ But the field shall be holy to the Lord, when it goeth out in the Jubilee, as a field ^[l]separate from common uses: the possession thereof shall be the Priest’s.

²² If a man also dedicate unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the ground of his inheritance,

²³ Then the Priest shall set the price to him, as ^(A)thou esteemest it, unto the year of Jubilee, and he shall give ^[m]thy price the same day, as a thing holy unto the Lord.

²⁴ But in the year of Jubilee, the field shall return unto him, of whom it was bought: to him I say, whose inheritance the land was.

²⁵ And all the valuation shall be according to the shekel of ^(B)the Sanctuary: a shekel containeth twenty gerahs.

²⁶ ¶ ^(C)Notwithstanding the firstborn of the beasts, because it is the Lord’s firstborn, none shall dedicate such, be it bullock, or sheep: For it is the ^[n]Lord’s.

²⁷ But if it be an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it by thy valuation, and give the fifth part more thereto: and if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold, according to thy estimation.

^28 (D)Notwithstanding, nothing separate from the common use that a man doth separate unto the Lord of all that he hath (whether it be man or beast, or land of his inheritance) may be sold nor redeemed: for everything separate from the common use is most holy unto the Lord.

²⁹ Nothing separate from the common use, which shall be separate from man, shall be redeemed, but ^[o]die the death.

³⁰ Also all the tithe of the land both of the seed of the ground, and of the fruit of the trees is the Lord’s: it is holy to the Lord.

³¹ But if a man will redeem any of his tithe, he shall add the ^[p]fifth part thereto.

³² And every tithe of bullock, and of sheep, and of all that goeth under the ^[q]rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.

³³ He shall not look if it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: else if he change it, both it, and that it was changed withal, shall be holy, and it shall not be redeemed.

³⁴ These are the Commandments which the Lord commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

15 The parable of the lost sheep. 8 Of the groat,  12 And of the prodigal son.

¹ Then ^[a]resorted unto ^[b]him ^[c]all the Publicans and sinners, to hear him.

² Therefore the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, He receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

³ Then spake he this parable to them, saying,

^4 (A)What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

⁵ And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders with joy.

⁶ And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my sheep which was lost.

⁷ I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven for one sinner that converteth, more than for ninety and nine just men, which need none amendment of life.

⁸ Either what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

⁹ And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends, and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me: for I have found the groat which I had lost.

¹⁰ Likewise I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God, for one sinner that converteth.

¹¹ ¶ ^[d]He said moreover, A certain man had two sons,

¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the goods that falleth to me. So he divided unto them his substance.

¹³ So not many days after, when the younger son had gathered all together, he took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

¹⁴ Now when he had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessity.

¹⁵ Then he went and clave to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his farm, to feed swine.

¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine ate: but no man gave them him.

^17 [e]Then he came to himself, and said, How many hired servants at my father’s have bread enough, and I die for hunger?

¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against ^[f]heaven, and before thee,

¹⁹ And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thine hired servants.

²⁰ So he arose and came to his father, and when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

^21 [g]And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

²² Then the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet,

²³ And bring the fat calf, and kill him, and let us eat, and be merry:

²⁴ For this my son was dead, and is alive again: and he was lost, but he is found. And they began to be merry.

^25 [h]Now the elder brother was in the field, and when he came and drew near to the house, he heard melody, and dancing,

²⁶ And called one of his servants, and asked what those things meant.

²⁷ And he said unto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fat calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

²⁸ Then he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him.

²⁹ But he answered, and said to his father, Lo, these many years have I done thee service, neither brake I at anytime thy commandment, and yet thou never gavest me a kid that I might make merry with my friends.

³⁰ But when this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy goods with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calf.

³¹ And he said unto him, Son thou art ever with me, and all that I have, is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again: and he was lost, but he is found.