[LEVITICUS]
1 A Ritual of burnt-offerings,
2 Meat-off'rings, ordinance;
3 Off'rings of peace, and sacrifice,
4 For sins of ignorance.
5 Burnt-offerings for sins unknown,
6 For sins premeditated;
7 Off'rings of peace, and trespasses,
8 Aaron is consecrated.
9 Confirm'd is Aaron by God's flame,
10 Strange fire his wrath excites;
11 What sorts of meat may not be eat,
12 For child-birth the due rites.
13 Directions leprosy to know,
14 To cleanse it in what case;
15 Off'rings for less uncleannesses,
16 High priest in holy place.
17 Eating of blood prohibited,
18 Unlawful marriage blam'd;
19 Laws manifold again are told,
20 And shameful sins are nam'd.
21 Forbidden priests to mourn are,
22 Uncleannesses disowned;
23 Sabbaths of rest, and yearly feasts,
24 Blasphemers to be stoned.
25 Great seventh-year-sabbath: jubilee,
26 Blessings and curses given;
27 Vows how esteemed, and how redeem'd.
Here chapters twenty-seven.
[NUMBERS]
1 All Israel number'd by their tribes,
2 To each their place assign'd;
3 Levites succeed in first-born stead,
4 Their services defin'd.
5 By what rules jealousy was try'd,
6 The Naz'rites law is stated
7 Princes oblation at Dedication [[2]].
8 The Levites consecrated.
9 Cloud guides them: passover renew'd,
10 Two silver trumpets sound;
11 The people lust; quails fall like dust,
12 Miriam is leprous found.
13 Deceitful spies spread false reports,
14 Great murmurings which raise;
15 Breaker of sabbath ston'd to death,
16 Korah's rebellious ways.
17 End strife doth Aaron's budding rod,
18 Priest's charge and salary; [[3]]
19 Water with ashes the unclean washes,
20 Miriam and Aaron die.
21 Fierce fiery serpents bite the Jews,
22 Balaam's ass reproves him;
23 In vain his skill to curse Israel,
24 To bless the spirit moves him.
25 Good Phinehas' zeal God's wrath atones,
26 Old race all dead but two;
27 In Moses room must Joshua come,
28 Continual offerings due.
29 High offerings for set holy-days,
30 What vows do bind, what not;
31 Revenge on Midian: Balaam slain
32 Both Gad's and Reuben's lot.
33 Israelites journeys forty-two,
34 How Canaan was divided;
35 Six refuge-towns and Levites bounds,
36 Zelophehad's case decided.
[[2]] Of the Tabernacle.
[[3]] Their part or portion of all offerings, their wages, or dues.
[DEUTERONOMY]
1 Acts of the Hebrews Moses writes;
2 How Sihon's kingdom fell;
3 How Og was slain: Manasseh's gain.
4 Exhorts them to do well.
5 Bids them the Ten Commandments keep,
6 And God to fear and love;
7 Shun foreign leagues, for fear of plagues,
8 And not ungrateful prove.
9 Confutes their vain self-righteousness,
10 God's mercies represents;
11 And that they should be therefore good,
12 Burn idol-monuments.
13 Deceitful prophets must be ston'd;
14 Clean fishes, birds, and beasts.
15 Each seventh year releases were.
16 All males must keep three feasts.
17 Election of their kings directs.
18 The priest's and Levites dues.
19 Witnesses, land-bounds, refuge-towns,
20 What laws of war to use.
21 First-born is heir, stone stubborn son,
22 Cloths must the sex descry.
23 Of filthiness, vows, trespasses,
24 Divorce, pledge, leprosy.
25 Good weights, just stripes, unmuzzel'd ox,
26 Of first fruits with contrition.
27 Twelve curses count on Ebal-mount,
28 Blessings in opposition.
29 Here Moses calls to covenant.
30 He life and death propounds.
31 To Joshua charge he gives at large;
32 His dying song rebounds.
33 In blessing all the tribes concludes,
34 And dies in Nebo mount.
Thus chapters four and thirty more.
In Deuteronomy count.