19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto 20 the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a 'riot21) ous liver', and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put away the evil from 'the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 23) his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt 'surely bury him 'the same day; for he that is hanged is 1accursed of God; that Ithou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

221 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox

or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother. (2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it 'home to thine house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou 3) shalt restore it to him again.

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so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment'; and Iso shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found thou mayest not hide thyself.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox 'fallen' down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young. or upon the eggs, thou shalt not (7) take the dam with the young: thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest' take unto thyself; that it may be well with

Thou shalt not plow with an ox 11 and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool' and linen together.

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Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

If any man take a wife, and go in 14) unto her, and hate her, and lay shameful things to her 'charge', and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not lin 15 her the tokens of virginity': then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth 17 her; and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment! 18 before the elders of the city. And

the elders of that city shall take 'the' 19 man and chastise him; and they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not 20 put her away all his days. But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the 21) damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of theel.

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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away 'the' evil from Israel.

(23) If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto lan husband, and a man find her in the city, and 24 lie with her; then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee'.

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But if the man find 'the' damsel Ithat is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her 26 shall die: "but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so (27 is this matter: for he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a

virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they 29 be found; then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

30 1Á man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

231 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly' of the LORD.

when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of

Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 °Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the 6 LORD thy God loved thee. "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou 8) wast a stranger in his land. The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.

9 When thou goest forth in campl against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every levill 10 thing. If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the (11 camp but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe' himself lin' water and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without

the camp, whither thou shalt go forth 13 abroad: and thou shalt have a paddle

among thy weapons'; and it shall be, when thou 'sittest down' abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh 14 from thee: for the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no 1unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

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thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that 20 is lent upon usury: unto a 'foreigner' thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou 'puttest thine hand unto', in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not 'be' slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; 22 and it would be sin in thee. But

if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be 23) no sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, a freewill offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

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When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

(25) When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. 241

When a man taketh a wife, and 'marrieth her, 'then it shall be, if' she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some 'unseemly thing! in her, 'that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 °And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another 3 man's wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and 'send' her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which 4 took her to be his wife; her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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When a man taketh' a new wife, he shall not go out in the host', neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife 6 which he hath taken. No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

7) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave', or sell him; then that thief shall die: Iso shalt thou put away the evil from 'the midst of thee!. 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to 9 do. Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam, by the way las ye 'came forth out of Egypt.

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When thou dost lend thy neighbouri any Imanner of loan', thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his 11 pledge. "Thou shalt stand 'without", and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge 'without! 12) unto thee. And if he be la' poor

man, thou shalt not sleep with his 13 pledge: thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his Igarment', and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

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Thou shalt not oppress 'an' hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy 15 gates in 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 sin unto thee.

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redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

When thou 'reapest thine 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 thine hands.

20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 °When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it lafter thee: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the 22 widow. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

251 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgement, land' the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and (2 condemn the wicked; and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wicked3 ness', by number. Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed : lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son', the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto 6 her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not 'blotted' 1 out of Israel. And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife 'shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of lan (8 husband's brother unto me. Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, 9 and say, I like not to take her; then

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. (15) A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be 'long upon the land which the LORD thy 16 God giveth thee. For all that do such things, 'even' all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way 'asꞌ ye 'came forth (18 out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and (19 he feared not God. "Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

261 And it shall be, when thou art come

in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest there2 in; that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground', which thou shalt bring in from thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause 3 his name to dwell there. And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land1 which the LORD Sware unto our fathers

4 for to give us. And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of 5 the LORD thy God. And thou shalt

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answer and say before the LORD thy God, A 1Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few lin number'; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: * 6 and the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us 7 hard bondage: and we cried unto the LORD, the God of our fathers, land' the LORD heard our voice, and Isaw our affliction, and our 'toil', 8 and our oppression: and the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with (9 wonders: and he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk 10 and honey. "And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit! of the 'ground', which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy 11 God: and thou shalt rejoice in 'all the good which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is 'in the midst of thee'.

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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the stranger, 'to' the fatherless, and 'to' the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and 13 be filled; °land' thou shalt say before

the LORD thy God, I have 'put' away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment' which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: (14 °I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, 'being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, 'I have done according to all that thou hast

1 Heb. Aramean.

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15 commanded me. "Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the Iground which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land 'flowing' with milk and honey. 16 This day the LORD thy God 'commandeth thee to do these statutes and judgements: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and 'that thou shouldest1 walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgements, and hearken unto his voice: 18 and the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be 'a' peculiar people 'unto himself, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his 19 commandments; and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be 'an' holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

271 And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment' which I 2 command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and 3 plaister them with plaister: and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, 4 hath promised thee. And it shall be when ye are passed' over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister 5 them with plaister. And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of unhewn stones : and thou shalt offer burnt offerings 7 thereon unto the LORD thy God: and thou shalt 'sacrifice peace offerings, and shalt eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God.

4 Heb. whole.