Jethro's counsel to Moses. EXODUS. Before The people come to Sinai. Before 17 And Moses' father in law forth out of the land of Egypt, CHRIST said unto him, The thing that the same day a came they into CHRIST thou doest is not good. 1491. † Heb. Fading thou wilt fade. 17. Deut. 1. 9, 12. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is Num. 11. 14, too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and t God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: t ch. 3. 12. ch. 4. 16. & 20. 19. Deut. 5. 5. Num. 27. 5. Deut. 4. 1,5. & 5. 1. & 6. 1, 2. & 7. 11. 7 Ps. 143. 8. Deut. 1. 18. bver. 25. Deut. 1. 15, 2 Chr. 19. 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people bable men, 16. & 16. 18. Such as fear God, dmen of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 5-10. Acts 6. 3. © Gen. 42. 18. 5 ver. 26. 22 And let them judge the people fat all seasons: gand it shall be, that every great matter they 27.2 shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. & & h Num. 11. i ver. 18. k Gen. 18. 33. 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 24 So Moses hearkened to the 2 Sam. 19.39. Voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 1 Deut. 1. 15. Acts 6. 5. m ver. 22. the wilderness of Sinai. b 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now htherefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then iye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for kall the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a mholy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And "all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, Pthat the people may hear when I speak with thee, and a believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. 25 And Moses chose able men " Job 29. 16. ple at all seasons: the hard 27 T And Moses let his father in Num. 10. 29, law depart; and Deut. 29. 2. Is. 63.9. ↳ Deut. 5. 2. Deut. 4. 20. & 7.6. & 14. 2,21. & 26.18. & 32.8, 9. 1 Kings 8.53. Ps. 135. 4. Cant. 8. 12. Is. 41. 8. & 43.1. Jer. 10. 16. Mal. 3. 17. Tit. 2. 14. k ch. 9. 29. Deut. 10. 14. Job 41. 11. Ps. 24. 1. & 50. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 26, 28. 1 Deut. 33. 2, 3.4. 1 Pet. 2.5, 9. Rev. 1. 6. & 5. 10. & 20.6. m Lev. 20. 24. 26. Deut. 7.6. & 26. 19. & 28. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: "who-"Heb. 12. 20. soever toucheth the mount shall I'd the third month, when the be surely put to death: children of Israel were gone 13 There shall not a hand touch. God's fearful presence. EXODUS. The ten commandments. Before it, but he shall surely be stoned, | 25 So Moses went down unto Before or shot through; whether it be the people, and spake unto beast or man, it shall not live: them. when the trumpet soundeth CHRIST 1491. || Or, cornet. x ver. 16, 19. long, they shall come up to the mount. y ver. 10. z ver. 11. 5. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, CHAPTER XX. 1 The ten commandments. 18 The people are find y sanctified the people; and A words, saying, ND God spake all these they washed their clothes. 15 And he said unto the people, 2 Be ready against the third day: 1 Sam. 21.4, a come not at your wives. 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in dRev.1. 10.& the camp e trembled. Rev. 4. 5. & 8. 5. & 11. 19. c ver. 9. ch. 40. 34. 4.1. e Heb. 12. 21. f Deut. 4. 10. 17 And f Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it hin fire: i and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and 2 Chr. 7. 1,2, the whole mount quaked greatly. Deut. 4. 11. & 33. 2. Judg. 5. 5. Ps. 68. 7, 8. Is. 6 4. Hab. 3. 3. h ch. 3. 2. & 24. 17. 3. i Gen. 15. 17. Ps. 144. 5. k Ps. 68. 8. & 77.18. &114. 7. Jer. 4. 24. Heb. 12. 26. 1 ver. 13. m Heb. 12. 21. n Neh. 9. 13. Ps. 81. 7. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, m Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, † charge the people, lest they break through Seech. 3.5. unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. † Heb. contest. 1 Sam. 6. 19. P Lev. 10. 3. 42 Sam. 6. 7. 8. r ver. 12. Josh. 3. 4. 22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, Psanctify themselves, lest the LORD a break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, "Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of t bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. CHRIST 1491. a Deut. 5. 22. b Lev. 26. 1, 13. Deut. 5. 6. Ps. 81. 10. Hos. 13. 4. c ch. 13. 3. † Heb. servants. d Deut. 5. 7. & 6.14. 2 Kin. 17. 35. Jer. 25. 6. & 35. 15. Lev. 26, 1. Deut.4.16, & 5. 8. & 27. 15. Ps. 97. 7. 4 e Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the fch. 23. 24. earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Josh. 23. 7. 2 Kin. 17. 35. Is. 44. 15, 19. g ch. 34. 14. Deut. 4. 24. & 6. 15. Josh. 24. 19. Nah. 1. 2. 5 f Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am sa jeal- heh. 34. 7. ous God, hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Lev. 20. 5. & 26, 39, 40. Num. 14. 18, 33. 1 Kin. 21. 29. Job 5. 4. & 21. 19. Ps. 79. 8. & 109. 14. Is. 14. 20, 21. & 65, 6, 7. Jer. 2. 9. & 32. 18 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love commandme, and keep my ments. 7 Thou shalt not take the ich. 34.7. name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh keh. 23. 1. his name in vain. 8 m Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 n Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, pnor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. The ten commandments. Before 1491. W ch. 23. 1. Deut. 5. 20. & 19. 16. Matt. 19. 18. Deut. 5. 21. Mic. 2. 2. Hab. 2.9. EXODUS. Divers laws and ordinances. in the seventh he shall go out Before free for nothing. CARIST 1491. his body. 16 Thou shalt not bear false CHRIST witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, y thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, 4 If his master have given him nor any thing that is thy neigh- a wife, and she have borne him bour's. sons or daughters; the wife and 18 And all the people a saw her children shall be her masthe thunderings, and the light-ter's, and he shall go out by himnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they Heb. 12. 18. removed, and stood afar off. 3 If he came in †by himself, he shall go out by himself: if het Heb. with were married, then his wife shall go out with him. Luke 12. 15. Eph. 5. 3, 5. Y Job 31.9. a Rev. 1. 10, 12. b ch. 19. 18. c Deut. 5. 27. & 18. 16. Gal. 3. 19, 20. Heb. 12. 19. d Deut. 5. 25. e1 Sam. 12, 20 Is. 41. 10, 13. f Gen. 22. 1. Deut. 13. 3. 8 Deut. 4. 10. & 6.2. & 10. 12. & 17. 13, 19. & 19. 20. Prov. 3.7. & & 28. 58. 16. 6. Is. 8. 13. h ch. 19. 16. Deut. 5. 5. 1 Kings 8.12. i Deut. 4. 36. Neb. 9. 13. * ch.32. 1, 2, 4. 1 Sam. 5.4.5. Ez. 20. 39. & 2 Kin. 17. 33. 43. 8. 1 Lev. 1. 2. 22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you i from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make k with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy m Deut. 12.5, sheep, and thine oxen: in all m places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will n bless thee. 11, 21. & 14. 23. & 16. 6, 11. & 26, 2. 1 Kings 8. 43. & 9. 3. 2 Chr. 6. 6. &7 16. & 12. 13. Ezra 6. 12. Neh. 1. 9. Ps. 74. 7. Jer. 7. 10, 12. n Gen. 12. 2. Deut. 7. 13. ° Deut. 27. 5. Josh. 8. 31. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not t build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy Heb. build nakedness be not discovered thereon. them with hewing. a ch. 24. 3, 4. Deut. 4. 14. & 6. 1. CHAPTER XXI. 1 Laws for menservants. 5 For the servant NOW these are the judgments b Lev. 25. 39, them. 40, 41. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve and self. 17. 5 And if the servant shall Deut. 15. 16, plainly say, I love my master, † Heb. saying my wife, and my children; I will shall say. not go out free: 22. 8, 28. 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall deh. 12. 12. & also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall ebore his ear through Ps. 40. 6. with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 7 And if a man fsell his fNeh. 5. 5. daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she † please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. & ver. 2, 3. Heb. be evil in the eyes of, &c. Divers laws Before EXODUS. 17 And he that curseth his CHRIST father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 1491. 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: $ Lev. 20. 9. Prov. 20. 20. Matt. 15.4. Mark 7. 10. [Or, revileth. Or, his neighbour. 19 If he rise again, and walk 12 Sam. 3. 29. abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his his ceasing. time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. ↑ Heb. † Heb. avenged, Gen. 4. 15, 24. Rom. 13. 4. 46. 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely + punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be u Lev. 25. 45, punished: for "he is his money. 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as Deut. 22. 18, the judges determine. x ver. 30. 19. y Lev. 24. 20. Deut. 19. 21. Matt. 5. 38. * Gen. 9. 5. a ver. 22. Num. 35. 31. and ordinances. servant or a maidservant; he Before shall give unto their master CHRIST b thirty shekels of silver, and the cox shall be stoned. 33 ¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead or also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own. CHAPTER XXII. 1 Of theft. 5 Of damage. 7 Of trespasses. 14 Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestiality. 20 Of idolatry. 21 Of strangers, widows, and fatherless. 25 Of usury. 26 Of pledges. 28 Of reverence to magistrates. 29 Of the firstfruits. a man shall steal an ox, or a 1491. b See Zech. 11. 12, 13. Matt. 26, 15. Phil. 2. 7. ever. 28. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 y Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 ¶ And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for a the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox shall push a man 2¶ If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for Matt. 24. 43. him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. © Num. 35. 27. d ch. 21. 2. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, wheth-ch. 21. 16. er it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall frestore double. 5¶ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. f See ver. 1,7. Prov. 6, 31. 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief ver. 4. be found, let him pay double. 8 If the thief be not found, then CHRIST the master of the house shall be brought unto the hjudges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. iDeut. 25. 1. 2 Chr. 19. 10. k Heb. 6. 16. 1 Gen. 31. 39. m Deut. 22. n Gen. 34. 12. Deut. 22. 29. 1 Sam. 18. 25. Lev. 19. 26, 31. & 20.27. Deut. 18. 10. 11. 1 Sam.28.3,9. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 ¶ And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for his hire. 16 ¶ And mif a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse and ordinances. wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely "hear their cry; 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and y your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Before CHRIST 1491. Deut. 15. 9. & 24.15. Job 35. 9. Luke 18. 7. ver. 27. Job 34. 28. James 5.4, Ps. 69. 24. Lam. 5. 3. * Lev. 25. 35, 36, 37. 20. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, Deut. 24. 6, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he berieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer tethe first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 30 g Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: hseven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 31 ¶ And ye shall be iholy men unto me: kneither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 Of slander and false witness. 3, 6 Of justice. 4 Of charitableness. 10 Of the year of rest. 12 Of the sabbath. 13 Of idolatry. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice. 20 An Angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him. to give her unto him, he shall Tr P Lev. 18. 23. pay money according to the n dowry of virgins. & 20. 15. 9 Num. 25. 2, 7,8. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 TP Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 T He that sacrificeth unto 10. 19. any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Deut. 13.1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15. & 17, 2, 3, 5. Tch. 23. 9. Lev. 19. 33. & 25. 35. Jer. 7. 6. Zech. 7. 10. Mal. 3. 5. r 21 Thou shalt neither vex a Deut. 10. 18. stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. & 24. 17. & Is. 1. 17, 23. James 1. 27, 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any HOU a shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an bunrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judg ment: 3¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. a ver. 7. Lev. 19. 16. Ps. 15. 3. & 101. 5. Prov. 10. 18. See 2 Sam. 19. 27. with 16. 3. Or, receive. b ch. 20. 16. Deut. 19. 16, 17, 18. Ps. 35. 11. Prov.19.5,9, 28. & 24. 28. See 1 Kin.21. 10, 13. Matt. 26, 59, 60, 61. Acts 6. 11,13. © Gen. 7. 1. & 19.4, 7. ch. 32. 1, 2. Josh.24. 15. 1 Sam. 15. 9. 1 Kin. 19. 10. Job 31. 34. Prov. 1. 10, 11, 15. & 4. 14. Matt. 27. 24, 26. Mark 15. 15. Luke 23. 23. Acts 24, 27. & 25, 9. d ver. 6, 7. Lev. 19. 15. Deut. 1. 17. & 25. 21. Matt. 5. 44. Rom. 12. 20. 1 Thess. 5. 15. 17. Ps. 72. 2. † Heb. answer, Deut. 22. 1. Job 31. 29. Prov. 24. |