life

That thou mightest feare the LORD thy God, to keepe all his Statutes, and his Commandements which I command thee; thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, all the dayes of thy life: and that thy dayes may be prolonged.

Onely be sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the flesh.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bee strong.

Thou shalt eat no leauened bread with it: seuen dayes shalt thou eat vnleauened bread therewith, euen the bread of affliction, (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest foorth out of the land of Egypt, all the dayes of thy life.

1611 marginal noteExod. 12.15.

And it shall be with him, and hee shall reade therein all the dayes of his life, that hee may learne to feare the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these Statutes, to do them:

And thine eye shall not pitie, but life shall goe for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

1611 marginal noteExod. 21.23. leuit. 24.20. mat. 5.38.

¶ When thou shalt besiege a citie a long time, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eate of them, and thou shalt not cut them downe ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the siege.

1611 marginal noteOr, for, O man the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to goe from before thee.

¶ No man shall take the nether or the vpper milstone to pledge: for hee taketh a mans life to pledge.

And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shalt feare day and night, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life.

¶ See, I haue set before thee this day, life and good, and death, and euill:

I call heauen and earth to record this day against you, that I haue set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may liue:

1611 marginal noteChap. 4.26.