these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before 24 me, I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you 25 seven fold for your sins-I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be de26 livered into the hands of your enemies. In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall 27 not be satisfied. And if for these things you will not hearken 28 to me, but walk adversely before me, I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your 29 sins. And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of 30 your daughters also you shall eat: and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your 31 idols, and my soul will abhor you. And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be 32 regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be 33 astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the nations, and 34 a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then 35 rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, which it did not 36 keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pur37 sueth. And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your 38 enemies. And you shall perish among the nations, and the land 39 of your enemies shall devour you. And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fa40 thers-In the land of their enemies they shall pine away, and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have 41 transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will 42 they bear their sins with humble submission; whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the cove43 nant with Abraham, and remember the land. When the land. shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my 44 judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, (as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for 45 breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God) then will I remember the covenant with them -that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of 46 Egypt-out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord; These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses. XXVII. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to 2 the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whoever shall vow a vow as the price of his life to the Lord, the price 3 shall be--of a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the 4 price shall be fifty didrachms of silver, sanctuary weight; and 5 of a female, the valuation shall be thirty didrachms. And if it be of one from five to twenty years of age, the price of a male 6 shall be twenty didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms. And if it be of one from a month to five years old, the price of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female three didrachms of silver. 7 And if it be of one from sixty years old and upwards; if a male the price shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten 8 didrachms. And if any be too poor for this valuation, he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall set a value on him-according to the ability of him who made the vow, the 9 priest shall value him. But if the gift to the Lord be from the cattle which may be offered, whoever shall give any of these to 10 the Lord, it shall be sacred. He shall not change it, a good for a bad; nor a bad for a good: and if he actually change this beast for another, both it and that given in exchange shall be sacred. 11 But if it be any kind of unclean beast of which a gift cannot be made to the Lord, he shall present the beast before the priest; 12 and the priest shall value it at a medium between a good and a bad one; and according as the priest shall value it, so it shall 13 stand; and if the person chuse to redeem it, he shall add a 14 fifth to the valuation. And if a man make a dedication of his house to the Lord, the priest shall value it at a medium between a good and a bad house. And according as the priest 15 shall value it so it shall stand; and if he who dedicated it chuse to redeem it, he shall add thereto a fifth of the money at 16 which it was rated, and it shall be his. And if it be a part of the land of his possession, which a man shall dedicate to the Lord, the valuation shall be according to the seed thereof, fifty di17 drachms of silver for a core of barley-If he dedicate it at the 18 jubilee; at this valuation it shall stand. But if he dedicate his field after the jubilee; the priest shall compute for him the money on the years which remain to the jubilee, and make a 19 deduction from the full valuation of it. And if the man who made the dedication chuse to redeem the field, he shall add one fifth of the money to the valuation of it, and it shall be his. 20 But if he decline to redeem the field, and selleth the field to 21 another man, he shall never afterwards redeem it; but at the going out of the jubilee the field shall be consecrated to the Lord, and he shall have possession of it as land set apart 22 for the priest. And if a man make a dedication to the Lord of a field which he hath purchased, and which is not a part of 23 his inheritance, though the priest settle with him the amount of the price from the year of the jubilee, and he pay the price at which it was rated on the day he made the dedication to the 24 Lord; yet in the year of the jubilee the field shall be restored to the man of whom he purchased it, and whose field of posses25 sion it was. Now every valuation shall be by holy weight, twenty 26 oboli making a didrachm. And with regard to every firstling, if it be among the cattle, it shall be for the Lord, and none shall dedicate it. Whether it be of the herds or flocks it is the 27 Lord's. And if it be of the four footed beasts which are unclean, he must redeem it according to the valuation, and add thereto a fifth, and it shall be his. And if he will not redeem it, it shall be sold for its value. 28 But with respect to every Anathema which a man may devote to the Lord from all that he hath, whether from man or beast, or from field of his possession, it shall not be sold nor redeemed. Every anathema shall be most sacredly devoted to 29 the Lord. And every thing which hath been devoted as an anathema from among men, shall not be redeemable, but by 30 death. The whole tenth of the land, both of the produce of the land, and of the fruit of the trees, is for the Lord. It is dedi31 cated to the Lord. And if any man chuse to redeem his tenth by purchase, he shall add to the valuation a fifth, and it shall be 32 his. Now the whole tenth of herds and flocks-even every one which in numbering shall come under the rod, that tenth 33 shall be dedicated to the Lord. Thou shalt not change a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good; and if thou shalt actually make an exchange, that given in exchange shall also be consecrated, and shall not be redeemed. 34 I. These are the commands which the Lord gave in charge to Moses for the children of Israel at mount Sina. NUMBERS. Again the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the first day of the second month, in the second year of their coming out of the land 2 of Egypt, and said, Take ye the sum of the whole congregation of Israel, according to peligrees, and according to the houses of their patriarchal families, and according to the num3 ber of their names, according to their poll, every male from twenty years old and upwards, every one who goeth out in the 4 army of Israel; review them with their army. Thou and Aaron shall review them, and with you there shall be of 5 the chiefs, one from each tribe. They shall be the chiefs of the patriarchal houses; and these are the names of the men 6 who shall attend you. Of the Reubenites, Elisur, son of Se7 dur; of the Symeonites, Salamiel, son of Surisadai; of the 8 children of Judas, Naasson, son of Aminadab; of the children of Issachar, Nathaniel, son of Sogar; of the Zabulonites, Eliab, 9 son of Chailon; of the children of Joseph-of the Ephraimites, 10 Elisama, son of Emiud; of the Manassites, Gamaliel, son of 11 Phadassur; of the Benjaminites, Abidon, son of Gadeoni; of 12 the Danites, Achiezer, son of Amisadai; of the Aserites, Pha13 giel, son of Echran; of the Gadites, Elisaph, son of Raguel; of 14 the Nephthaleimites, Achire, son of Ainan. These are renown ed men of the congregation, chiefs of the tribes according to 17 their patriarchal families, the chiliarchs of Israel. So Moses 18 and Aaron took these men, who were expressly named, and assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month, and marshalled them according to their pedigrees, according to their families, according to the number of their 19 names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male by their poll, as the Lord commanded Moses, and reviewed them in 20 the wilderness of Sina. And there were of the children of Reuben, Jacob's first born, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of names by their poll-all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out 21 in the army, on the review of those of the tribe of Reuben, were forty six thousand five hundred. 22 And of the Symeonites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, 23 every one who went out in the army, on the review of them, of the tribe of Symeon, were fifty nine thousand three hundred. 26 And of the children of Judas, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll; all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every 27 one who went out in the army, on the review of those of the tribe of Judas, were seventy four thousand six hundred. 28 And of the Issacharites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their fami lies, according to the number of their names by their poll, all 29 the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on a review of those of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty four thousand four hundred. 30 And of the Zabulonites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their |