Bible in a Year.

On the thirty-ninth day, we explore the practical application of divine law. Exodus 21 establishes laws regarding Hebrew slavery, compensation for injuries, and the principle of an eye for an eye, demonstrating proportional justice and protection of the vulnerable in Israelite society. Leviticus 14 describes the elaborate purification ritual for those cured of leprosy, allowing their reintegration into the community. Psalm 75 proclaims that God is the supreme judge who humbles some and exalts others, reminding us that final judgment belongs to Him alone.

1. These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3. With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

4. But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters: the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

5. And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

6. His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

9. But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10. And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

11. If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

12. He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

13. But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

14. If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.

15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

16. He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.

17. He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.

18. If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19. If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

20. He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

21. But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

22. If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

23. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life.

24. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26. If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

27. Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

28. If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29. But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, an his owner also shall be put to death.

30. And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31. If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

32. If he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33. If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

34. The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

35. If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

36. But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in: he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed: he shall be brought to the priest:

3. Who going out of the camp when he shall And that the leprosy is cleansed,

4. Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

5. And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters:

6. But the other that is alive he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

7. Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified: and he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.

8. And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified, he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days:

9. And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,

10. On the eighth day he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

11. And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,

12. He shall take a. lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil: and having offered all before the Lord,

13. He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place: for as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.

14. And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot:

15. And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left. hand,

16. And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.

17. And the rest of the oil in his left band, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass,

18. And upon his head.

19. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin: then shall he immolate the holocaust,

20. And put it on the altar with the libations thereof, and the man shall be rightly cleansed.

21. But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of hour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil,

22. And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust:

23. And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.

24. And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.

25. And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot:

26. But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,

27. And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord:

28. And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.

29. And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord for him.

30. And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon,

31. One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.

32. This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things that appertain to his cleansing.

33. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

34. When you shall be come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house,

35. He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,

36. And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, lest all things become unclean that are in the house. And after- wards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house.

37. And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all the rest,

38. He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

39. And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,

40. He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

41. And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scraping be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

42. And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.

43. But if, after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth,

44. The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean:

45. And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.

46. He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

47. And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his clothes.

48. But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured,

49. And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

50. And having immolated one sparrow In an earthen vessel over living waters,

51. He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times:

52. And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.

53. And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be rightly cleansed.

54. This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.

55. Of the leprosy of garments and houses,

56. Of a scar and of blisters breaking out, of a shining spot, and when the colours are diversely changed:

57. That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.

1. Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.

2. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:

3. when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

4. The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

5. I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

6. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

7. For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

8. for God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

9. for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

10. But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

11. And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.