Exodus 21 Cross References - YLT

¹ `And these are the judgments which thou dost set before them: <sup>2</sup> `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant—six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; ³ if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him; ⁴ if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters—the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself. ⁵ `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free; <sup>6</sup> then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him—to the age. <sup>7</sup> `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants; ⁸ if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her. ⁹ `And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her. <sup>10</sup> `If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw; ¹¹ and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.
¹² `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death; <sup>13</sup> as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee. <sup>14</sup> `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die. ¹⁵ `And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death. <sup>16</sup> `And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death. ¹⁷ `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death. <sup>18</sup> `And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed; ¹⁹ if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed. ²⁰ `And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand—he is certainly avenged; <sup>21</sup> only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he is his money.
<sup>22</sup> `And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; ²³ and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶ `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye; <sup>27</sup> and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth. <sup>28</sup> `And when an ox doth gore man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox is acquitted; ²⁹ and if the ox is one accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death. ³⁰ `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him; <sup>31</sup> whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him. <sup>32</sup> `If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned. ³³ `And when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, — <sup>34</sup> the owner of the pit doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his. <sup>35</sup> `And when a man's ox doth smite the ox of his neighbour, and it hath died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and also the dead one they do halve; ³⁶ or, it hath been known that the ox is one accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.

⁷ And Moses cometh, and calleth for the elders of the people, and setteth before them all these words which Jehovah hath commanded him;

³ And Moses cometh in, and recounteth to the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments, and all the people answer—one voice, and say, `All the words which Jehovah hath spoken we do.' ⁴ And Moses writeth all the words of Jehovah, and riseth early in the morning, and buildeth an altar under the hill, and twelve standing pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel;

⁵ and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.

²⁶ and ye—ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

³⁷ and ye have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I am Jehovah.'

²² `And ye have kept all My statutes, and all My judgments, and have done them, and the land vomiteth you not out whither I am bringing you in to dwell in it;

²⁴ then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

¹³ These are the commands and the judgments which Jehovah hath commanded, by the hand of Moses, concerning the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.

⁵ `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me—to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

⁸ and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

¹⁴ `And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

⁴⁵ these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel, in their coming out of Egypt,

¹ And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.

³¹ and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

¹ `And this is the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,

²⁰ `When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

¹² `This house that thou art building—if thou dost walk in My statutes, and My judgments dost do, yea, hast done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father,

¹⁰ and any strife that cometh in unto you of your brethren who are dwelling in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and command, statutes, and judgments, then ye have warned them and they become not guilty before Jehovah, and wrath hath not been on you and on your brethren; thus do ye do, and ye are not guilty.

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands. ¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

²⁹ are laying hold on their brethren, their honourable ones, and coming in to an execration, and in to an oath, to walk in the law of God, that was given by the hand of Moses, servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commands of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments, and His statutes;

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth—liveth by them.

²⁵ And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.

⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel—statutes and judgments.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'

¹ As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

²⁸ and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

³⁶ And he saith, `Is it because one called his name Jacob that he doth take me by the heel these two times? my birthright he hath taken; and lo, now, he hath taken my blessing;' he saith also, `Hast thou not kept back a blessing for me?'

⁴⁴ and any man's servant, the purchase of money, when thou hast circumcised him—then he doth eat of it;

³ if the sun hath risen upon him, blood is for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;

³⁹ `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service; <sup>40</sup> as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, — <sup>41</sup> then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back. <sup>42</sup> `For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold with the sale of a servant; ⁴³ thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God. ⁴⁴ `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast are of the nations who are round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid, ⁴⁵ and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

¹ `At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,

¹² `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years—then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee. ¹³ And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty; ¹⁴ thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him, ¹⁵ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

¹⁸ `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.

¹⁰ and Moses commandeth them, saying, `At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the feast of booths,

¹ And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'

¹ And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews, ² yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.' <sup>3</sup> And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.' ⁴ And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards; ⁵ and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.'

⁸ and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

⁸ The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after the making by the king Zedekiah of a covenant with all the people who are in Jerusalem, to proclaim to them liberty, ⁹ to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant—the Hebrew and the Hebrewess—free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother; ¹⁰ and hearken do all the heads, and all the people who have come in to the covenant to send forth each his man-servant and each his maid-servant free, so as not to lay service on them any more, yea, they hearken, and send them away; ¹¹ and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants. ¹² And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying: ¹³ `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I—I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying, <sup>14</sup> At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear. <sup>15</sup> `And ye turn back, ye to-day, and ye do that which is right in Mine eyes, to proclaim liberty each to his neighbour, and ye make a covenant before Me in the house over which My name is called. ¹⁶ And—ye turn back, and pollute My name, and ye cause each his man-servant and each his maid-servant, whom he had sent forth free, (at their pleasure,) to return, and ye subdue them to be to you for men-servants and for maid-servants. ¹⁷ `Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbour; lo, I am proclaiming to you liberty—an affirmation of Jehovah—unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.

²⁵ and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

¹² `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years—then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee. ¹³ And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty; ¹⁴ thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,

¹⁶ `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee—because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because it is good for him with thee— ¹⁷ then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put it through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

¹³ O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹² and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I am Jehovah.

²¹ `And thou—thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens, ²² and they have judged the people at all times; and it hath come to pass, every great matter they bring in unto thee, and every small matter they judge themselves; and lighten it from off thyself, and they have borne with thee. ²³ If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.' ²⁴ And Moses hearkeneth to the voice of his father-in-law, and doth all that he said, ²⁵ and Moses chooseth men of ability out of all Israel, and maketh them chiefs over the people, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens, ²⁶ and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.

²² `And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;

⁸ `If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour; ⁹ for every matter of transgression, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, for any lost thing of which it is said that it is his; unto God cometh the matter of them both; he whom God doth condemn, he repayeth double to his neighbour.

²⁸ `God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

²³ `And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

⁴⁰ as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, —

⁵ And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'
⁶ And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting; ⁷ and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, seeth, and riseth from the midst of the company, and taketh a javelin in his hand, ⁸ and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman—unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

¹⁶ And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren—then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

¹⁷ then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put it through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

¹⁸ `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people—a righteous judgment.

¹⁷ then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days, ¹⁸ and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness is a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:

²² And Hannah hath not gone up, for she said to her husband, `Till the youth is weaned—then I have brought him in, and he hath appeared before the face of Jehovah, and dwelt there—unto the age.'

¹ And it cometh to pass, when Samuel is aged, that he maketh his sons judges over Israel. ² And the name of his first-born son is Joel, and the name of his second Abiah, judges in Beer-Sheba:

¹² And Achish believeth in David, saying, `He hath made himself utterly abhorred among his people, in Israel, and hath been to me for a servant age-during.'

² And David saith unto Achish, `Therefore—thou dost know that which thy servant dost do.' And Achish saith unto David, `Therefore—keeper of my head I do appoint thee all the days.'

⁷ And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, thou art servant to this people, and hast served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.'

⁶ Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked. ⁷ Then said I, `Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me, ⁸ To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

²⁶ And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness—a faithful city.'

³ Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

² `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant—six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; ³ if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

⁵ and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.'

⁸ and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

²⁹ and Moses saith, `Lo, I am going out from thee, and have made supplication unto Jehovah, and the beetle hath turned aside from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people—to-morrow, only let not Pharaoh add to deceive—in not sending the people away to sacrifice to Jehovah.'

⁷ `And who is the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? —let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

¹¹ and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife, ¹² then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails, ¹³ and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife: ¹⁴ `And it hath been—if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

¹⁹ yea, if in truth and in sincerity ye have acted with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice ye in Abimelech, and he doth rejoice—even he—in you;

³ And his father saith to him—also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson saith unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.'

⁶ And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah.

⁸ And it is displeasing to Saul exceedingly, and this thing is evil in his eyes, and he saith, `They have given to David myriads, and to me they have given the thousands, and more to him is only the kingdom;'

¹⁵ My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

¹¹ Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. ¹² Cut off doth Jehovah the man who doth it, Tempter and tempted—from the tents of Jacob, Even he who is bringing nigh a present to Jehovah of Hosts. ¹³ And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. ¹⁴ And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. ¹⁵ And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman, ² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; ³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; ⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife. ⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence; ⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence—not of command,

⁶ whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

¹³ `Thou dost not murder.

¹⁷ `And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

¹⁶ `And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. <sup>17</sup> `And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. ¹⁸ `Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. <sup>19</sup> `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death. ²⁰ `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth; <sup>21</sup> or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him. <sup>22</sup> `And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait; ²³ or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth it to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he is not his enemy, nor seeking his evil; ²⁴ then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

³⁰ whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person—to die. ³¹ `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned—to die, for he is certainly put to death;

¹¹ `And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him—the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died; ¹³ thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

¹³ And David saith unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Jehovah.' And Nathan saith unto David, `Also—Jehovah hath caused thy sin to pass away; thou dost not die;

⁵² Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish;

¹⁰ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan, <sup>11</sup> and have prepared to yourselves cities—cities of refuge they are to you—then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares, <sup>12</sup> and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment. <sup>13</sup> `As to the cities which ye give—six are cities of refuge to you; ¹⁴ the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are. ¹⁵ To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares. ¹⁶ `And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. <sup>17</sup> `And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. ¹⁸ `Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. <sup>19</sup> `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death. ²⁰ `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth; <sup>21</sup> or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him. <sup>22</sup> `And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait; ²³ or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth it to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he is not his enemy, nor seeking his evil; ²⁴ then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments. ²⁵ `And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil. <sup>26</sup> `And if the man-slayer at all go out from the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth, ²⁷ and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him; ²⁸ for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession. ²⁹ `And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings: <sup>30</sup> whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person—to die. <sup>31</sup> `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned—to die, for he is certainly put to death; ³² and ye take no atonement for him to flee unto the city of his refuge, to turn back to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. ³³ `And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it; ³⁴ and ye defile not the land in which ye are dwelling, in the midst of which I do tabernacle, for I Jehovah do tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel.'

⁴¹ Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising, ⁴² for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived: ⁴³ Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.

¹ `When Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and thou hast succeeded them, and dwelt in their cities, and in their houses, <sup>2</sup> three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it. <sup>3</sup> Thou dost prepare for thee the way, and hast divided into three parts the border of thy land which Jehovah thy God doth cause thee to inherit, and it hath been for the fleeing thither of every man-slayer. <sup>4</sup> `And this is the matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore, ⁵ even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died—he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived, ⁶ lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him—the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore; ⁷ therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee. ⁸ `And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers— ⁹ when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days—then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three; ¹⁰ and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Give for you cities of refuge, as I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses, <sup>3</sup> for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood. <sup>4</sup> `When one hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood at the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them. ⁵ `And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto; ⁶ and he hath dwelt in that city till his standing before the company for judgment, till the death of the chief priest who is in those days—then doth the man-slayer turn back and hath come unto his city, and unto his house, unto the city whence he fled.'
⁷ And they sanctify Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba (it is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah; ⁸ and beyond the Jordan, at Jericho eastward, they have given Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.

⁴ And the men of David say unto him, `Lo, the day of which Jehovah said unto thee, Lo, I am giving thine enemy into thy hand, and thou hast done to him as it is good in thine eyes;' and David riseth and cutteth off the skirt of the upper robe which is on Saul—gently.

¹⁰ Lo, this day have thine eyes seen how that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and one said to slay thee, and mine eye hath pity on thee, and I say, I do not put forth my hand against my lord, for the anointed of Jehovah he is .

¹⁸ and thou hast declared to-day how that thou hast done good with me, how that Jehovah shut me up into thy hand, and thou didst not slay me,

¹⁰ And the king saith, `What—to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah? for—let him revile; even because Jehovah hath said to him, Revile David; and who saith, Wherefore hast Thou done so?'

⁷ And he—he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For—to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

² Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men—there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

³⁰ `And the person who doth aught with a high hand—of the native or of the sojourner—Jehovah he is reviling, and that person hath been cut off from the midst of his people; ³¹ because the word of Jehovah he despised, and His command hath broken—that person is certainly cut off; his iniquity is on him.'

²⁰ `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth; ²¹ or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

⁴³ `And I speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and act proudly, and go up into the hill-country;

¹² And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there Jehovah thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel, ¹³ and all the people do hear and fear, and do not presume any more.

²² that which the prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, and the thing is not, and cometh not—it is the word which Jehovah hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; —thou art not afraid of him.

²⁴ `Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, —and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁷ And Abner turneth back to Hebron, and Joab turneth him aside unto the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smiteth him there in the fifth rib —and he dieth—for the blood of Asahel his brother.

⁹ And Joab saith to Amasa, `Art thou in peace, my brother?' and the right hand of Joab layeth hold on the beard of Amasa to give a kiss to him; ¹⁰ and Amasa hath not been watchful of the sword that is in the hand of Joab, and he smiteth him with it unto the fifth rib, and sheddeth out his bowels to the earth, and he hath not repeated it to him, and he dieth; and Joab and Abishai his brother have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.

⁵⁰ and Adonijah feareth because of Solomon, and riseth, and goeth, and layeth hold on the horns of the altar. ⁵¹ And it is declared to Solomon, saying, `Lo, Adonijah feareth king Solomon, and lo, he hath laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me as to-day—he doth not put to death his servant by the sword.'

²⁸ And the report hath come unto Joab—for Joab hath turned aside after Adonijah, though after Absalom he did not turn aside—and Joab fleeth unto the tent of Jehovah, and layeth hold on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And it is declared to king Solomon that Joab hath fled unto the tent of Jehovah, and lo, near the altar; and Solomon sendeth Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, `Go, fall upon him.' <sup>30</sup> And Benaiah cometh in unto the tent of Jehovah, and saith unto him, `Thus said the king, Come out;' and he saith, `Nay, but here I die.' And Benaiah bringeth back the king word, saying, `Thus spake Joab, yea, thus he answered me.' ³¹ And the king saith to him, `Do as he hath spoken, and fall upon him, and thou hast buried him, and turned aside the causeless blood which Joab shed, from off me, and from off the house of my father; ³² and Jehovah hath turned back his blood on his own head, who hath fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and slayeth them with the sword, —and my father David knew not—Abner son of Ner, head of the host of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, head of the host of Judah; ³³ yea, turned back hath their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed to the age; and for David, and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there is peace unto the age, from Jehovah.' ³⁴ And Benaiah son of Jehoiada goeth up and falleth upon him, and putteth him to death, and he is buried in his own house in the wilderness,

¹⁵ And Jehoiada the priest commandeth the heads of the hundreds, inspectors of the force, and saith unto them, `Bring her out unto the outside of the ranges, and him who is going after her, put to death by the sword:' for the priest had said, `Let her not be put to death in the house of Jehovah.'

¹³ Also—from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

²⁶ For we—wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth—no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

¹⁰ and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

¹⁸ `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious—he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them— ¹⁹ then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place, ²⁰ and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard; ²¹ and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

¹¹ A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

¹⁷ An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

⁹ having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

²⁸ And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.

¹⁵ for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they have put me in the pit.'

⁴ if the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether ox, or ass, or sheep—double he repayeth.

⁷ `When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

¹⁰ whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

¹² lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,

⁹ `For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.
<sup>10</sup> `And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife—who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour—the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

¹⁶ `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

³ And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition? ⁴ for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; ⁵ but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; — ⁶ and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

¹⁰ for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; ¹¹ and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,

¹³ And he goeth out on the second day, and lo, two men, Hebrews, striving! and he saith to the wrong-doer, `Why dost thou smite thy neighbour?'

²⁰ `And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand—he is certainly avenged;

¹¹ `When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

⁶ and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;

²⁹ it doth stay on the head of Joab, and on all the house of his father, and there is not cut off from the house of Joab one having an issue, and leprous, and laying hold on a staff, and falling by a sword, and lacking bread.'

⁴ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days.

¹⁵ And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore—of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

²⁴ For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

²⁶ `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye; ²⁷ and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

¹⁹ `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

³⁰ whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person—to die. ³¹ `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned—to die, for he is certainly put to death; <sup>32</sup> and ye take no atonement for him to flee unto the city of his refuge, to turn back to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. <sup>33</sup> `And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

²¹ and thine eye doth not pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

¹⁹ By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.

³ `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact. ⁴ Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.

⁴ for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

⁴⁴ `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast are of the nations who are round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid, ⁴⁵ and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession; ⁴⁶ and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy for a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

³⁰ `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

¹⁸ `And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him, ¹⁹ and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

¹⁹ `And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him;

³¹ `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned—to die, for he is certainly put to death;

¹⁹ `And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him; ²⁰ breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he putteth a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

⁶ And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes, ⁷ and Adoni-Bezek saith, `Seventy kings—their thumbs and their great toes cut off—have been gathering under my table; as I have done so hath God repaid to me;' and they bring him in to Jerusalem, and he dieth there.

³³ And Samuel saith, `As thy sword bereaved women—so is thy mother bereaved above women;' and Samuel heweth Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

³⁸ `Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; ³⁹ but I—I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take—suffer to him also the cloak.

² for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

⁶ because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'

¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

¹² For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress—man of the earth!

¹² For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper, ¹³ He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth, ¹⁴ From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. ²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

⁹ And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

¹ The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

⁵ `And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man; ⁶ whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

³² `If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

¹⁵ `And a man who giveth his lying with a beast is certainly put to death, and the beast ye do slay. <sup>16</sup> `And a woman who draweth near unto any beast to lie with it—thou hast even slain the woman and the beast; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.

¹ `When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it—fallen in a field—it is not known who hath smitten him, <sup>2</sup> then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which are round about the slain one, <sup>3</sup> and it hath been, the city which is near unto the slain one, even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke, <sup>4</sup> and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley. <sup>5</sup> `And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh—for on them hath Jehovah thy God fixed to serve Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth is every strife, and every stroke— ⁶ and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley, ⁷ and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen— ⁸ receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them, ⁹ and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹² `When thou takest up the sum of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have given each an atonement for his soul to Jehovah in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.

⁸ The ransom of a man's life are his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.

²⁸ `And when an ox doth gore man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox is acquitted; ²⁹ and if the ox is one accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death.

¹² And I say unto them: `If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;' and they weigh out my hire—thirty silverlings. <sup>13</sup> And Jehovah saith unto me, `Cast it unto the potter;' the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them to the house of Jehovah, unto the potter.

¹⁵ `What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

³ Then Judas—he who delivered him up—having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying, ⁴ `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What—to us? thou shalt see!' ⁵ and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself. ⁶ And the chief priests having taken the silverlings, said, `It is not lawful to put them to the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood;' <sup>7</sup> and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers; <sup>8</sup> therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day. ⁹ Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `And I took the thirty silverlings, the price of him who hath been priced, whom they of the sons of Israel did price,

⁷ but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.

¹⁰ Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.

⁸ Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

²² A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

²⁹ and if the ox is one accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death. ³⁰ `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

⁶ `When fire goeth forth, and hath found thorns, and a stack, or the standing corn, or the field, hath been consumed, he who causeth the burning doth certainly repay.

¹⁴ `And when a man doth ask anything from his neighbour, and it hath been hurt or hath died—its owner not being with it—he doth certainly repay;