These are the statutes and judgements and 46 laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 1 27 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say 2 unto them, When a man shall 'accomplish a vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. And thy estimation shall be of 3 the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. And if it be a female, then thy estima- 4 tion shall be thirty shekels. And if it be from 5 five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. And 6 if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. And if it be from sixty years old and upward; 7 if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then 8 he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

And if it be a beast, whereof men offer an 9 oblation unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. He shall 10 not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. And if it be any 11 unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation unto the LORD, then he shall set the

12 beast before the priest: and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou the priest valuest it, so shall it be. But if he will indeed rèdeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

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14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the 15 priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

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if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof the sowing of a homer of barley shall 17 be valued at fifty shekels of silver. If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according 18 to thy estimation it shall stand. But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of jubile, and an abatement shall be made from thy 19 estimation. And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, 20 and it shall be assured to him. And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any 21 more: but the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the 22 priest's. And if he sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the 23 field of his possession; then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation unto the year of jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the

LORD. In the year of jubile the field shall 24 return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth. And all thy estimations shall be ac- 25 cording to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

Only the firstling among beasts, which is 26 made a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S. And if it be of an unclean beast, then 27 he shall ransom it according to thine estimation, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a 28 man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. None devoted, which shall be devoted 29 of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the 30 seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. And 31 if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof. And all 32 the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. He shall not search whether 33 it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

These are the commandments, which the 34 LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

NUMBERS.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their 3 polls; from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house. 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of Reuben; Elizur the son of Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of 7 Zurishaddai. Of Judah; Nahshon the son of 8 Amminadab. Of Issachar; Nethanel the son Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; II Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. Of Benjamin; 12 Abidan the son of Gideoni. Of Dan; Ahiezer 13 the son of Ammishaddai. Of Asher; Pagiel 14 the son of Ochran. Of Gad; Eliasaph the 15 son of 'Deuel. Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Reuel.

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Enan. These are they that were called of the 16 congregation, the princes of the tribes of their 1 Or, families fathers; they were the heads of the 'thousands of Israel. And Moses and Aaron took these 17 men which are expressed by name: and they 18 assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. As the LORD commanded 19 Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

And the children of Reuben, Israel's first- 20 born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; those that were numbered 21 of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Of the children of Simeon, their generations, 22 by their families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; those that were 23 numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

Of the children of Gad, their generations, by 24 their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; those that were numbered of 25 them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Of the children of Judah, their generations, 26 by their families, by their fathers' houses, ac