it', which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, 10 beside these three: that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so 11 blood be upon thee. But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die; and The flee into one of these cities: 12 then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, (13 that he may die. Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

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Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall 'a' 16 matter be established'. If 'an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of 'wrong 17 doing; then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those 18 days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his 19) brother; then shall ye do unto him,

as he had thought to 'do unto his brother so shalt thou put away the 20 evil from the midst of thee'. And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of (21 theel. "And thine eye shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

201) When thou goest 'forth to battle

against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God

1 Or, the blood of an innocent Iman

is with thee, which brought thee up 2 out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be, when ye 'draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach 3 and speak unto the people, and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, lye draw nigh' this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your heart' faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither 4 be ye laffrighted at them; °for the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your 5 enemies, to save you. And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and (6 another man dedicate it. And what

man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and 8 another man take her. And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart 9 melt as his heart. And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall appoint captains of 'hosts at! the head of the people.

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When thou drawest' nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim (11 peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall become tributary unto thee, 12 and shall serve thee. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt be13 siege it: and when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thine hand', thou shalt smite every male thereof 14 with the edge of the sword: but the women, and the little ones,, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies,

which the LORD thy God hath given 15 thee. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of 16 these nations. But of the cities of these peoples', which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that (17 breatheth but thou shalt utterly destroy them; the 'Hittite, and the Amorite', the Canaanite, and the 'Perizzite', the 'Hivite', and the 'Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath com18 manded thee: that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

19) When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field Iman, that it should be besieged of 20 thee? Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it 'fall'.

211 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath 'smitten' him: 2 °then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about 3 him that is slain : °and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take lan heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley Iwith running water', which is neither Iplowed' nor sown, and shall 'break' the heifer's neck there in the valley: (5 and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every 6 stroke be: and all the elders of that city, who are 'nearest' unto the slain 1 Heb. devote.

2 Or, as a chattell

man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the 1 valley: and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8) Forgive, O LORD, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and 'suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel'. And (9 the blood shall be forgiven them. So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of theel, when thou shalt do that which is right in the leyes' of the LORD.

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When thou goest forth to 'battle' against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thine hands, and thou carriest' them 'awayꞌ 11) captive, and seest among the cap

tives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest 12 take her to thee to wife; then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare 13 her nails; and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, 14 and she shall be thy wife. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not 'deal with her as a slave', because thou hast humbled her.

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If a man have two wives, 'the' one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne' him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated; (16 then it shall be, in the day that he Icauseth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, which is the (17) firstborn: but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn

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 'thou 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. And 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.

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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

1 Heb. the curse of God.

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 in 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 thee'.

3 Heb. consecrated.

4 Or, Itwisted threads

..

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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 an 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 theel.

25) 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.

when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor 'from Pethor of 2Mesopotamia, 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 camp! 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 Jamong 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.

5 Heb. kedeshah. See Gen. xxxviii. 21. Heb. kadesh.