of thy harvest thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.

5. Ye shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

6. Ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God. 7. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him.

8. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind.

9. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

10. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

11. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart.

12. Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

13. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people.

14. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 15. Neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

16. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.

17. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards.

18. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God.

19. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him: thou shalt love him as thyself.

20. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure. 21. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, ye shall have.

What a holy and merciful law! How sublime, how just, how benevolent its enactments! Who but God could have been its author!

An ephah was a dry measure containing a little less than a bushel.

A hin was a measure of liquids, rather more than a gallon.

THE SCAPE-GOAT.

Once a year two goats were brought before the door of the tabernacle-one of them was slain for a sin-offering; on the head of the other, the high-priest laid his hands, and confessed all the iniquities of the children of Israel.

He was then sent into the wilderness, far away from the habitations of men, and set free. This was called the Scape-goat, or the sent-away goat. So must sin be expelled from the heart.

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS.

All Israelites were commanded to appear three times in the year before the Lord. This was at the three great annual festivals, or sea

sons of public worship, namely, the Passover, Pentecost, and the feast of Tabernacles.

Besides these established feasts, congregations assembled for public worship every Sabbath, at every new moon, and at the beginning of every year. The latter was called the feast of Trumpets.

THE PASSOVER.

This included the feast of Unleavened Bread, and was kept on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the first month of the year. It commemorated the deliverance of the Israelites when the first-born of Egypt were slain, and was a type of the sacrifice of Christ, "our passover."

This festival was observed as long as the Jews continued to be a nation, and is still kept up by those who in their dispersion cling to the Mosaic laws.

The first month of the religious year, by which the Jews regulated their feasts, was called Nisan, or Abib. It began with the time of their departure from Egypt.

The first month of the civil year was Tisri. By this they reckoned the reigns of their kings, and all historical and ordinary events.

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PENTECOST.

This was observed fifty days after the Passover. It was identical with some other festivals, namely, feast of Weeks, feast of Wheatharvest, and feast of First-fruits.

FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

On what day was the feast of Tabernacles kept? How long did it continue?

LEVITICUS 23:4.

At this time the people went out of their houses, and dwelt for seven days in booths made of the boughs of trees; this was a memorial of the booths, or temporary habitations in which they dwelt during their wanderings in the wilderness.

After the Israelites had settled abodes in the land of Canaan, these booths were sometimes erected on the flat roofs of their houses.

GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT.

This was on the tenth day of the month Tisri. This was the first month of the civil year, and the seventh month of the festival year. The feast of Trumpets, the great day of Atone