25. The fifth family of negative precepts compriseth thirty-eight prohibitions about MEATS, or what may be eaten:—1. That no wn- clean beast be eaten, Lev. xi.4-8. 2. That no unclean fish be eaten, Ley. xi. 9-12. 38. That no unclean bird or fowl be eaten, Lev. xi. 13-23. 4. That no creeping thing that also flieth be eaten, Lev. xi. 23. 5. That no creeping thing of the earth be eaten, Lev. xi. 41. 6. That no creeping thing of the waters be eaten, Lev. xi. 43. 7. That no worms of the earth be eaten, Lev. xi. 44; 8. Nor the worms of fruit, Lev. xi. 42. 9. That what dieth of itself be not eaten, Deut. xiv. 21; 10. Nor that which is torn, Exod. xxii. 31. 11. That no blood be eaten, Lev. vii. 26. 12. That the fat be not eaten, Lev. vil. 23. 13. That no member taken from a living creature be eaten, Deut. xi. 23. 14, That the sinew which shrank be not eaten, Gen. xxxii. 32.. 15. That flesh be not boiled in the milk of the beast whose it is; 16. That the flesh be not eaten with milk, Exod. xxiii. 19. 17. That the flesh of an ox stoned for pushing or goring be not eaten, Exod. xxi. 28.
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18. That new bread be not eaten until after the offering of the omer; 19. That parched corn, 20. That green ears, be not eaten until an offering be first given, Lev. xxiii. 14, 21. That the fruit of a young tree be not eaten until it hath borne three years, Lev. xix. 23. 22. That a mizture of fruits from the vineyard be not eaten, Deut. xxii. 9. 23. That wine of drink offerings offered to idols be not drunk, Deut. xxxii. 38. 24. That none eat as a glutton, Deut. xxi. 20. 25. That none eat on the day of ewpiation, Lev. xxiii. 27, 28. 26. That no leaven be eaten on the passover, Exod. xii. 15; 27. Nor any thing mized with leaven, Exod. xii. 20. 28. That no leaven be eaten on the even of the passover, Deut. xvi. 3. 29. That no leaven be found in our houses after that time, Exod. xii. 19. 30. That no leaven be found in any place under our power, Exod. xiii. 7. 31. That the Nazarite drink no wine, nor any thing that comes of it; 32. That he eat no green grapes; 33. Nor pressed grapes; 34. Nor the kernels of the grapes; 35. Nor the husks of them, Num. vi. 2-4. 36. That he shave not his head; 37. That he defile not himself for the dead; 88. That he enter not an house where any is dead, Num. vi. 5-7. 26. The sixth family compriseth eighteen prohibitions about FIELDS AND HARVEST :—1. That the whole field be not mowed or reaped; 2. That the ears which fall in reaping be not gathered up; 3. That the grapes left by vine-gatherers be not sought after; 4. That the unripe grapes be not gathered, Lev. xix. 9,10. 5. That men re- turn not for a sheaf forgotten, Deut. xxiv.19. 6. That maxed seeds be not sown in the same field, Lev. xix. 19. 7. That plants of several kinds be not set in the same vineyard, Deut. xxii 9. 8. That there be no mixture of beasts of several sorts, Lev. xix. 19. 9. That we plough not with an ox and an ass, Deut. xxii. 10. 10. That the mouth of a beast labouring in that which may be eaten be not muzzled, Deut. xxv. 4. 11. That in the seventh year the land be not ploughed; 12. Nor the trees dressed; 13. Nor things moved that grow on their own ground; 14, Nor the fruits gathered as in other years, Lev. xxv. 1-7. 15. That the earth be not tilled in the year of jubilee; 16. Nor things cut down growing on their own field; 17. Nor the fruits of that year gathered, Lev. xxv. 11. 18. That no field in the Holy Land be sold for ever, Lev. xxv. 23. 27. The seventh family they call the HOUSE OF DOCTRINES, unto which head they refer things of sundry kinds which they know not well how to reduce unto one general sort, or head of one name, and it is branched into forty-six prohibitions:—1. That the Levites be not forsaken, Deut. xii. 19. 2. That the fields and suburbs of the Levites be not changed, Lev. xxv. 34. 3. That no debt be claimed after the year of release, Deut. xv.2. 4, That we forget not to give to the poor what they want, Deut. xv. 7, 8. 5. That we omit not to lend to the poor because the year of release draws nigh, Deut. xv:
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9,10. 6. That a Jewish servent be not set at liberty empty, Deut. xv. 13. 7. That debt be not exacted of the poor, Lev. xxv. 35. 8. That no money be lent unto an Israelite on usury, Lev. xxv. 35-37. 9. That what is lent be not received again with usury, Deut. xxiii. 19. 10. That we be not arbitrators between lenders and borrowers on usury, Exod. xxii. 25. 11. Not to delay pay- ment of wages, Lev. xix. 13. 12. That a pledge be not taken of a borrower with rigour or violence, Deut. xxiv. 10, 11. 13. That the pledge of a poor man that wants it be not detained, Deut. xxiv. 12,13. 14. That a pledge be not taken of a widow’s gar- ments, Deut. xxiv. 17. 15. That things necessary to sustain human life be not taken to pledge, Deut. xxiv. 6. 16. That none steal, Exod. xx. 15; 17. Nor take the goods of any by robbery, Lev. xix. 11. 18. That we oppress not our neighbour; 19. Nor take his goods by violence, Lev. xix. 13. 20. That no man deny his neighbour’s goods that are with him; 21. That none swear falsely concerning any thing deposited with him, Lev. xix. 12,13, 22. That we straiten mot the bounds of our neighbour, Deut. xix. 14. 23. That none deceive his neighbour in buying and selling, Lev. xxv. 14. 24 That the land mark be not removed, Deut. xix. 14. 25. That we deceive him not in words, Ley. xxv. 17. 26. That no stranger be deceived in words; 27. Nor in buying or selling, Exod. xxii, 21. 28. That the widow and orphan be not oppressed, Exod. xxii. 22-24. 29. That a servant fleeing from his master unto the Holy Land be not given up to him; 30. That he be not defrauded in any thing, Deut. xxii. 15,16. 31. That an Hebrew servant be not used asa bondman; 32. That he be not sold for a slave; 33. That service be not exacted of him with bitterness; 34. That no heathen be suffered to treat him hardly, Lev. xxv. 89-55. 35. That a Jewish maid-servant be not sold to another; 36. That the three things required in the law,be not denied to such a servant, Exod. xxi. 7-11. 37. That a fair woman taken in war be not sold; 38. That she be not used as a bond-woman, Deut. xxi. 10-14, 39. That we covet not, Exod. xx.17. 40. That nothing of other men’s be desired, Deut. v. 21. 41. That the hireling eat whilst he is in the field; 42. That he take no more out of the field than what he can eat, Deut. xxii. 24. 43. That what is lost be not hidden, Deut. xxii. 1-3. 44 That we leave not a beast under his burden, Deut. xxi. 4, 45. That there be no decevt in weights and measures, Lev. xix. 35. 46. That we keep no false weights or measures in our houses, Deut. xxv. 13-16. 28. The eighth family relates unto JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT, in forty-six prohibitions :—1. That justice be not violated, Lev. xix. 15. 2. That gifts be not received in judgment, Exod. xxiii. 8. 3. That none be respected in judgment, Lev. xix. 15, 4, That none fear a wicked man in judgment, Deut.i.17. 5. That we pity not a poor man in