Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 188

THE SPEECHES OF MOSES.

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15-——5 IO II 16 the country which your EvE1z·Lxv1N<; GOD will give to you to possess. T hat is, if you listen to the voice of your EvEn—Lxv1NG GOD, and continue to practise the whole of His C0m· mandments, which I command you to-day; for your EvER·L1v1NG GOD will bless you, as He has promised, and you shall lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. Yet there will be poor among you

one brother with another in your villages, in the country which your EvER·L1v1NGGODgivesyou. Harden not your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; but open your hand to him, and lend, accord- ing to his necessity what is needful to him. Guard yourself from saying to ’1`he seventh year, —·and your eye is cruel to your poor brother, and you will not lend to him,-—when he will cry against you to the EvER~ LIVING, and it will be a sin to you. Lend freely to him! and let not your heart grudge against lending, but rely upon this fact that your It shall not be hard in your sight to send him from you into freedom, for you shall only purchase your servant by the year for six years ;———then your Evnu—L1v1No Gon will bless you in all your work. Every firstborn which your herd,

or your flock bears, remember you must dedicate to your EVER-LIVING GGD. You shall not work the tirst- born of your cow, nor shear the first- born of your ewe,—··~you shall eat them year by year before your EVER- L1v1NG Gon, in the place that the EvEa—L1v1NG chooses, you and your family. But if there be a defect or lameness in it, or bareness, or any disease,you shall not sacrifice it to your Evuumrvmo Gon; you must eat it in your villages, the clean and the unclean together, as you do the gazelle and stag ;—only you must not eat their blood. Pour it upon the earth like water. EVER-LIVING GOD will then bless ’l lice as the Passover to your EvER~ you in all you do, and in all sent from your hand! For the poor will never be wanting in the breast of the land ;-—therefore I have commanded Open your hand freely to your distressed brother,-——to your poor,—¤-in the land l When your relative is sold to you,

a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free from you. But when you set him free from you, you shall not send him away destitute. You shall reward him liberally from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine vat, which your EVER—LIv1NG GOD has blessed. You shall give to him;-and shall remember that you were slaves among the Mitzeraim, and your Evan-Livmo Gon freed you,——therefore I command this thing to—day. But if it occurs that he says to you,

‘ I will not go from you, for I like you and your house, for I have been then you shall take an awl, and fix him by his ear to your door, and he shall always be your servant_,—that is, until your death. That is how you shall do. LIVING GOD a lamb, and in the place chosen to fix His Name there. You shall not eat any ferment upon 1 Abib.——F. F. 18 20 2X 22

Regard the harvest month 1 and 16 offer the Passover to your EVER- LIVING GOD; for in the harvest month your EvBR—LIv1NG GOD brought you out of the land of the Mitzeraim at night ;——therefore sacri- which your Evan-Livmo Gon has it for seven days. You must eat unfermented bread only; for you came out from the Mitzeraim in haste, therefore you shall rememter the day you came out from the land of the Mitzerites, all the days of your life, and nothing fermenting shall be seen in all your boundaries for seven days,. and you shall not leave any of the nesh which you sacrifice at the beginning of the evening of that day until the morning. You will. not be permitted to sacrifice the Passover in any of the villages which your EVER- LIVING GOD gives to you ;-—·but only at the place which your EvER—LIvING GOD may choose to fix His Name there, may you sacrifice the Pass- over, at the afternoon as the sun declines, at the time you came jout from the Mitzeraim. So you shall roast and eat it in the place which your Evan-LIVING Gon has chosen for Himself,-—-as you turned on that morning and went to your tents. 1RR