Delphi Septuagint

by Lancelot C L Brenton (ed)

  [10] And there went forth a son of an Israelitish woman, and he was son of an Egyptian man among the sons of Israel; and they fought in the camp, the son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite. [11] And the son of the Israelitish woman named THE NAME and curse; and they brought him to Moses: and his mother’s name was Salomith, daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan. [12] And they put him in ward, to judge him by the command of the Lord. [13] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [14] Bring forth him that cursed outside the camp, and all who heard shall lay their hands upon his head, and all the congregation shall stone him. [15] And speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin. [16] And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord. [17] And whosoever shall smite a man and he die, let him die the death. [18] And whosoever shall smite a beast, and it shall die, let him render life for life. [19] And whosoever shall inflict a blemish on his neighbour, as he has done to him, so shall it be done to himself in return; [20] bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as any one may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him. [21] Whosoever shall smite a man, and he shall die, let him die the death. [22] There shall be one judgment for the stranger and the native, for I am the Lord your God. [23] And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

  Chapter 25

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses in the mount Sina, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths to the Lord. [3] Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vine, and gather in its fruit. [4] But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a sabbath to the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt not prune thy vine. [5] And thou shalt not gather the spontaneous produce of thy field, and thou shalt not gather fully the grapes of thy dedication: it shall be a year of rest to the land. [6] And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee. [7] And for thy cattle, and for the wild beats that are in thy land, shall every fruit of it be for food.

  [8] And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years. [9] In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall make a proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement ye shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land. [10] And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and ye shall go each to his family. [11] This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall ye gather its dedicated fruits. [12] For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields. [13] In the year of the release even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession. [14] And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour. [15] According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to thee. [16] According as there may be a greater number of years he shall increase the value of his possession, and according as there may be a less number of years he shall lessen the value of his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to thee. [17] Let not a man oppress his neighbour, and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord thy God.

  [18] And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land. [19] And the land shall yield her increase, and ye shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it. [20] And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits? [21] Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years. [22] And ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, ye shall eat old fruits of the old. [23] And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me. [24] And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the land. [25] And if thy brother who is with thee be poor, and should have sold part of his possession, and his kinsman who is nigh to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold. [26] And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, even his ransom; [27] then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession. [28] But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

  [29] And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until the time is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year. [30] And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release. [31] But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release. [32] And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites. [33] And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel. [34] And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

  [35] And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee. [36] Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee. [37] Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase. [38] I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your God.

  [39] And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave. [40] He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release: [41] and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony. [42] Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a common servant. [43] Thou shalt not oppress him with labour, and shalt fear the Lord thy God. [44] And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have, thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about thee. [45] And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession. [46] And ye shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.

  [47] And if a stranger or sojourn
er with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction; [48] after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him. [49] A brother of his father, or a son of his father’s brother shall redeem him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself, [50] then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year. [51] And if any have a greater number of years than enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money. [52] And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom [53] as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labour before thee. [54] And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him. [55] For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.

  Chapter 26

  [1] I am the Lord your God: ye shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven; neither shall ye rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall ye set up a stone for an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God. [2] Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord. [3] If ye will walk in my ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them, [4] then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. [5] And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land. [6] And I will give peace in your land, and ye shall sleep, and none shall make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land, [7] and ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter. [8] And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. [9] And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. [10] And ye shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new. [11] And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you; [12] and I will walk among you, and be your God, and ye shall be my people. [13] I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where ye were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.

  [14] But if ye will not hearken to me, nor obey these my ordinances, [15] but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant, [16] then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your life; and ye shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them. [17] And I will set my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and ye shall flee, no one pursuing you. [18] And if ye still refuse to hearken to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins. [19] And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass. [20] And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.

  [21] And if after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins. [22] And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate. [23] And if hereupon ye are not corrected, but walk perversely towards me, [24] I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins. [25] And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. [26] When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

  [27] And if hereupon ye will not obey me, but walk perversely towards me, [28] then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins. [29] And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. [30] And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you. [31] And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices. [32] And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it. [33] And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate. [34] Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation. [35] And ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it kept not among your sabbaths, when ye dwelt in it. [36] And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them. [37] And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand your enemies. [38] And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. [39] And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.

  [40] And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, [41] and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in the punishment of their sins. [42] And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraam will I remember. [43] And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances. [44] And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break my covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God. [45] And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, to be their God; I am the Lord. [46] These are my judgments and my ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in the mount Sina, by the hand of Moses.

  Chapter 27

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the Lord, [3] the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be — his valuation shall be fifty didrachms of silver by the standard of the sanctuary. [4] And the valuation of a female shall be thirty didrachms. [5] And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms. [6] And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female, three didrachms of silver. [7] And if from sixty year old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten didrachms. [8] And if the man be too poor for the valuation, he shall
stand before the priest; and the priest shall value him: according to what the man who has vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.

  [9] And if it be from the cattle that are offered as a gift to the Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the Lord, it shall be holy. [10] He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy. [11] And if it be any unclean beast, of which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before the priest. [12] And the priest shall make a valuation between the good and the bad, and accordingly as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. [13] And if the worshipper will at all redeem it, he shall add the fifth part to its value. [14] And whatsoever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the Lord, the priest shall make a valuation of it between the good and the bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. [15] And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.

  [16] And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachms of silver for a homer of barley. [17] And if he should sanctify his field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation. [18] And if he should sanctify his field in the latter time after the release, the priest shall reckon to him the money for the remaining years, until the next year of release, and it shall be deducted as an equivalent from his full valuation. [19] And if he that sanctified the field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his. [20] And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it. [21] But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it. [22] And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, [23] the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day as holy to the Lord. [24] And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was. [25] And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli. [26] And every first-born which shall be produced among thy cattle shall be the Lord’s, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord’s. [27] But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.