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Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in dealing, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just epah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

(Leviticus Chapt. XIX.)

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LAWS OF EQUITY.

IF THOU lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Thou shalt not raise a false report; put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou speak in a cause to incline after many to wrest judgment. Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man is his cause on account of his poverty.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his beast going astray, thou shalt bring it back to him again.

If thou see the beast of him that hateth thee lying under his burden and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 8. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

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And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry unto me, I will surely hear their cry.

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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Six days shalt thou do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thy cattle may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in the land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be a sin unto thee.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondsman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

(Deut. Chapt. XXII.)

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LAWS OF CHARITY.

IF THERE be among you a poor man, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother. But thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

3. For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

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When thou cuttest down thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

When thou beatest thy olive tree, thou shalt not go over the bought again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thy own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

In like manner shalt thou do with all lost things of thy brother's, which thou hast found, thou mayest not hide thyself. Thou shalt not see thy brother's beast or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

If a bird's nest chance to before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the bird-mother sitting upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother with the young: but thou shalt in any wise let the mother go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thv days.

(Deut. Ch. XV, 7 and Ch. XXII.)

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THE LAW OF GOD.

HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.

(Deut. Ch. VI, 1-7.)

4. The LORD, The LORD, is a merciful and gracious God, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation.

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(Exod. Ch XXXIV, 6-7.)

Know therefore that the Eternal thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. (Deut. Ch. VII, 9.)

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

He is thy glory, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always. (Deut. Ch. X, 18-21; and Ch. XI, 1.)

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldst say, Who shall go up for us in heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldst say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply and the LORD thy God shall bless thee.

12. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I

have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy children may live: that thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. (Deut. Chapt. XXX 11-20.)

ETHICS OF THE PSALMS.

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THE GOOD LIFE.

1. THE HAPPINESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE
MISERY OF THE WICKED.

HAPPY the man who walketh not in the counsel of the
unrighteous.

Nor standeth in the way of sinners,

Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers;

2. But whose delight is in the law of the LORD,

And who meditateth on his precepts day and night.

3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water,

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That bringeth forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaves also do not wither:

All that he doeth shall prosper.

Not so the unrighteous;

They are like chaff, which the wind driveth away. 5. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the just.

6. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked leadeth to ruin.

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LORD, who shall abide at thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell upon thy holy hill?

He that walketh uprightly, and doeth righteousness, And speaketh the truth from his heart;

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(Ps. I.)