Leviticus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 122

ever, you may buy from the nations that surround you; they shall be your slaves. And you may also buy the children of the foreign residents among you, and from their families who are with you who are born in your country, and they shall be your property. You may also bequeath them to your children after you, to hold them as property for ever, and they shall serve you. But your rela- tives of the children of Israel are men, and your brothers; you shall not reduce them to slavery. §2lu·2w §lalr2 mag Work §rmsc1f $r2z. ‘When, however, a foreigner or

settler among you obtains property in one of your poor brethren, and he is sold to the foreign resident, to be added to the family of the foreigner; he shall be redeemable after he has been sold to him; any one of his relatives may redeem him. His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any relation by blood of his family may redeem, or he may acquire property and redeem him- self, and pay to his purchaser accord- ing to the years he bought him for, up to the year of Jubilee. That shall be the price given to his pur- chaser--proportionate to the number of years by the scale of wages that might belong to him. If the years are many before them, he shall give back equivalent money to his pur- chaser; and if few of the years are remaining to the year of jusmsu, then he shall repay to him propor- tionate to the space of years, as the redemption fee; according to the wages year by year it shall be. You shall not add a profit for your eyes. But if he is redeemed by none of these, then he shall be freed at the year of jUB1LEE, both himself and his children with him. For .the chil- dren of Israel are MY SERVANTS, whom I brought up out of the land of the Mitzeraim. I am their EVER- Living God. ¥r¤l3ihitimt uf $h¤1·mukiug. You shall not make idols for yourselves; nor shall you set up columns for yourselves; nor shall you erect stone images in your country,

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for objects of worship,——~for I am your Ever·L1v1NG God. ‘You shall keep My Sabbaths, and 2 you shall reverence My Sanctuary. I am the EvER—L1v1NG. THE SONG OF BLESSINGS. Qlessixrgz zezurzh hg Qllrrhizure smh §1znisI3m2nl kg llzimlt. 'If you are guided by My Institu· 3 tions, And guard My Commandments, and do them, I will then give My rain upon you, 4 And the earth will give her pr0·· duce, And the trees of the field their, fruit. And your thrashing shall last till vintage, And vintage shall overtake seed- time, And you shall eat to fulness, And live securely in your land. And I will give the land peace; And drive savage beasts from the land ; And the sword shall not govern your country, And you shall subdue your foes, They shall fall before your sword. Five of you shall conquer a hun- dred, And a hundred defeat ten thou- sand, And your foes fall to your sword, And My Presence shall be with YQ¤» And your shall increase and grow, I will fix My covenant with you, And feed till your rest in quiet, And sleep and rise refreshed. I will fix My Home among you, And turn not away My soul, But march with you, and be your God, And My People you shall be: For I am your LIVING GOD, IO II I2

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eat the old (or sleeping) store; and bring out Butrthis renderindoes not carry the Oriental idea ot glleeas t e hihest blessinand to mvi is a violation to sleep,°’ although A.V. and R.V. adopt it —-F. F, I22