gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman,
who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God,
in transgressing his covenant,
017:003 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them,
or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky,
which I have not commanded;
017:004 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you
inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is done in Israel,
017:005 then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done
this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman;
and you shall stone them to death with stones.
017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is
to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall
not be put to death.
017:007 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put
him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment,
between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke
and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates;
then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose;
017:009 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge
who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire;
and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
017:010 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose;
and you shall observe to do according to all that they
shall teach you:
017:011 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell you,
you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence
which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
017:012 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest
who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God,
or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put
away the evil from Israel.
017:013 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
017:014 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say,
I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are
round about me;
017:015 you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your
God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you
set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you,
who is not your brother.
017:016 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses;
because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return
no more that way.
017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.
017:018 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book,
out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
017:019 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days
of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God,
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes,
to do them;
017:020 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not
turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left:
to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,
he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
018:001 The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi,
shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire,
and his inheritance.
018:002 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers:
Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
018:003 This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those
who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they
shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
and the maw.
018:004 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil,
and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
018:005 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes,
to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his
sons for ever.
018:006 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel,
where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire
of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
018:007 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all
his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes
of the sale of his patrimony.
018:009 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
018:010 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination,
one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
018:011 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
018:012 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh:
and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive
them out from before you.
018:013 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
018:014 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those
who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you,
Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
018:015 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst
of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;
018:016 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb
in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I not die.
018:017 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
018:018 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers,
like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall
speak to them all that I shall command him.
018:019 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
018:020 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak
in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
018:021 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh
has not spoken?
018:022 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing
doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh
has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously,
you shall not be afraid of him.
019:001 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell
in their cities, and in their houses;
019:002 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
019:003 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land,
which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts,
that every manslayer may flee there.
019:004 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live:
whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him
in time past;
019:005 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood,
and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor,
so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
019:006 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his
heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long,
and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death,
inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
019:007 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three
cities for you.
019:008 If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn
to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised
to give to your fathers;
019:009 if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command
you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever
in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you,
besides these three:
019:010 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance,
and so blood be on you.
019:011 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies,
and he flee into one of these cities;
019:012 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that he may die.
019:013 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent
blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
019:014 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old
time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit,
in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth
of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall a matter be established.
019:016 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify
against him of wrong-doing,
019:017 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall
be in those days;
019:018 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely
against his brother;
019:019 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
019:020 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
019:021 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
020:001 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses,
and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall
not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
020:002 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people,
020:003 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day
to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint;
don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
020:004 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
020:005 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let
him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man dedicate it.
020:006 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not
used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
020:007 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife,
and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
020:008 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say,
What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him
go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt
as his heart.
020:009 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking
to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies
at the head of the people.
020:010 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace to it.
020:011 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you,
then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein
shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
020:012 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you,
then you shall besiege it:
020:013 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall
strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
020:014 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock,
and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it,
shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
020:015 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off
from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
020:016 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
020:017 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite,
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
020:018 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations,
which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against
Yahweh your God.
020:019 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it
by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them,
and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man,
that it should be besieged of you?
020:020 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees
for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall
build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you,
until it fall.
021:001 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known
who has struck him;
021:002 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
021:003 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn
in the yoke;
021:004 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown,
and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
021:005 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name
of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy
and every stroke be.
021:006 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken
in the valley;
021:007 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it.
021:008 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst
of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
021:009 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
021:010 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry
them away captive,
021:011 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have
a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
021:012 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
021:013 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her,
and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
021:014 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall
let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at
all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave,
because you have humbled her.
021:015 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 who was hated;
021:016 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons
to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son
of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated,
who is the firstborn:
021:017 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is
the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and,
though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
021:019 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,
and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate
of his place;
021:020 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son
is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice;
he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
021:021 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you;
and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
021:022 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
021:023 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed
of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance.
022:001 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them
again to your brother.
022:002 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall
be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall
restore it to him.
022:003 So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with
his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing
of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found:
you may not hide yourself.
022:004 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox
fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them:
you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
022:005 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man
put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is
an abomination to Yahweh your God.
022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way,
in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs,
and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall
not take the hen with the young:
022:007 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take
to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days.
022:008 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house,
if any man fall from there.
022:009 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed,
lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown,
and the increase of the vineyard.
022:010 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
022:011 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
022:012 You shall make yourselves fringes{or, tassles} on the four
borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
022:013 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
022:014 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her,
I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
022:015 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother,
take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity
to the elders of the city in the gate;
022:016 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave
my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
022:017 and behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying,
I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.
They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
022:018 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
022:019 and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver,
and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has
brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
022:020 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
022:021 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door
of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone
her to death with stones, because she has done folly
in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.
022:023 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
022:024 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and you shall stone them to death with stones;
the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city;
and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
022:025 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married
in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her;
then the man only who lay with her shall die:
022:026 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin
worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and kills him, even so is this matter;
022:027 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married
lady cried, and there was none to save her.
022:028 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged
to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her,
and they be found;
022:029 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife,
because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
023:001 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off,
shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
023:002 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh;
even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into
the assembly of Yahweh.
023:003 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly
of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging
to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
023:004 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way,
when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia,
to curse you.
023:005 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam;
but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you,
because Yahweh your God loved you.
023:006 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all
your days forever.
023:007 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother:
you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner
in his land.
023:008 The children of the third generation who are born to them
shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
023:009 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep you from every evil thing.
023:010 If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason
of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad
out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
023:011 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe
himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come
within the camp.
023:012 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
023:013 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be,
when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall
turn back and cover that which comes from you:
023:014 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp,
to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you;
therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see
an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
023:015 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
023:016 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which
he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best:
you shall not oppress him.
023:017 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
023:018 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages
of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow:
for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
023:019 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money,
interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: