^8:1You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. ^8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. ^8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. ^8:4Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. ^8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you. ^8:6You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. ^8:7For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; ^8:8a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; ^8:9a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. ^8:10You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you. ^8:11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; ^8:12lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them; ^8:13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ^8:14then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; ^8:15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; ^8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: ^8:17and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” ^8:18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today. ^8:19It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. ^8:20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

^9:1Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, ^9:2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?” ^9:3Know therefore today, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you. ^9:4Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. ^9:5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ^9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. ^9:7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. ^9:8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. ^9:9When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. ^9:10Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. ^9:11It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. ^9:12Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!” ^9:13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. ^9:14Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.” ^9:15So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. ^9:16I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you. ^9:17I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. ^9:18I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. ^9:19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. ^9:20Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ^9:21I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. ^9:22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. ^9:23When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice. ^9:24You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. ^9:25So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. ^9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ^9:27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, ^9:28lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ ^9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

^10:1At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. ^10:2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.” ^10:3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ^10:4He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me. ^10:5I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me. ^10:6(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place. ^10:7From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. ^10:8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. ^10:9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.) ^10:10I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you. ^10:11Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.” ^10:12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ^10:13to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good? ^10:14Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. ^10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today. ^10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. ^10:17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. ^10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. ^10:19Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. ^10:20You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. ^10:21He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. ^10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

^11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always. ^11:2Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, ^11:3his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; ^11:4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; ^11:5and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; ^11:6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel; ^11:7but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did. ^11:8Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; ^11:9and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. ^11:10For the land, where you go in to possess, isn’t like the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; ^11:11but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky, ^11:12a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. ^11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, ^11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. ^11:15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. ^11:16Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away, and serve other gods, and worship them; ^11:17and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. ^11:18Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. ^11:19You shall teach them to your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. ^11:20You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; ^11:21that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. ^11:22For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him; ^11:23then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. ^11:24Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border. ^11:25No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. ^11:26Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ^11:27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today; ^11:28and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known. ^11:29It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. ^11:30Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? ^11:31For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. ^11:32You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.

^12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth. ^12:2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. ^12:3You shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place. ^12:4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God. ^12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come. ^12:6There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ^12:7There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. ^12:8You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; ^12:9for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you. ^12:10But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety; ^12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. ^12:12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. ^12:13Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; ^12:14but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. ^12:15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer. ^12:16Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. ^12:17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; ^12:18but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. ^12:19Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. ^12:20When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul. ^12:21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. ^12:22Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. ^12:23Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat. ^12:24You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. ^12:25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes. ^12:26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose. ^12:27You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar; and you shall eat the meat. ^12:28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes. ^12:29When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; ^12:30be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” ^12:31You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. ^12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

^13:1If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ^13:2and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”; ^13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ^13:4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him. ^13:5That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you. ^13:6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; ^13:7of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; ^13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; ^13:9but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. ^13:10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ^13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you. ^13:12If you shall hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that ^13:13certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known; ^13:14then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you, ^13:15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. ^13:16You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. ^13:17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; ^13:18when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

^14:1You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ^14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. ^14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing. ^14:4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ^14:5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois. ^14:6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. ^14:7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you. ^14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses. ^14:9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat. ^14:10You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you. ^14:11Of all clean birds you may eat. ^14:12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, ^14:13the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind, ^14:14every raven after its kind, ^14:15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind, ^14:16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl, ^14:17the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant, ^14:18the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. ^14:19All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten. ^14:20Of all clean birds you may eat. ^14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. ^14:22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. ^14:23You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. ^14:24If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you; ^14:25then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose. ^14:26You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. ^14:27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. ^14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. ^14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

^15:1At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. ^15:2This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed. ^15:3Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release. ^15:4However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it) ^15:5if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today. ^15:6For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. ^15:7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; ^15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks. ^15:9Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. ^15:10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. ^15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. ^15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. ^15:13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. ^15:14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ^15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. ^15:16It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; ^15:17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. ^15:18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do. ^15:19You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. ^15:20You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household. ^15:21If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. ^15:22You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer. ^15:23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

^16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ^16:2You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. ^16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. ^16:4No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. ^16:5You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you; ^16:6but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt. ^16:7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents. ^16:8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work. ^16:9You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. ^16:10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you. ^16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. ^16:12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes. ^16:13You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. ^16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates. ^16:15You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. ^16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty. ^16:17Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. ^16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ^16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. ^16:20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you. ^16:21You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves. ^16:22Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

^17:1You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a defect, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God. ^17:2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, in transgressing his covenant, ^17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded; ^17:4and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, ^17:5then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. ^17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. ^17:7The 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 remove the evil from among you. ^17:8If there arises 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 you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses. ^17:9You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict. ^17:10You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: ^17:11according to the decisions 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 away from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. ^17:12The 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. You shall put away the evil from Israel. ^17:13All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. ^17:14When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”; ^17:15you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God chooses. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. ^17:16Only 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 not go back that way again.” ^17:17He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. ^17:18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. ^17:19It shall be with him, and he shall read from it 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; ^17:20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away 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 middle of Israel.

^18:1The priests the Levites, 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 portion. ^18:2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. ^18:3This 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, the two cheeks, and the inner parts. ^18:4The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. ^18:5For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons for ever. ^18:6If 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; ^18:7then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh. ^18:8They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions. ^18:9When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. ^18:10There 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, ^18:11or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. ^18:12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you. ^18:13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. ^18:14For 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. ^18:15Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. ^18:16This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.” ^18:17Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken. ^18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. ^18:19It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ^18:20But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.” ^18:21You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?” ^18:22When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, 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.

^19:1When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses; ^19:2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it. ^19:3You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there. ^19:4This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live. Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; ^19:5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live. ^19:6Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past. ^19:7Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves. ^19:8If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; ^19:9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three. ^19:10This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you. ^19:11But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; ^19:12then 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. ^19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you. ^19:14You 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. ^19:15One 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. ^19:16If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, ^19:17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; ^19:18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; ^19:19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you. ^19:20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you. ^19:21Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

^20:1When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, 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. ^20:2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, ^20:3and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; ^20:4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” ^20:5The 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. ^20:6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit. ^20:7What 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.” ^20:8The 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.” ^20:9It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people. ^20:10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. ^20:11It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you. ^20:12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. ^20:13When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; ^20:14but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. ^20:15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. ^20:16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; ^20:17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you; ^20:18that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God. ^20:19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? ^20:20Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

^21:1If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him; ^21:2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain. ^21:3It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke. ^21:4The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. ^21:5The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided. ^21:6All 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. ^21:7They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. ^21:8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them. ^21:9So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes. ^21:10When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, ^21:11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife; ^21:12then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails. ^21:13She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ^21:14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. ^21:15If a man has 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 is hers who was hated; ^21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn; ^21:17but 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. ^21:18If a man has 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; ^21:19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. ^21:20They 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.” ^21:21All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear. ^21:22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree; ^21:23his 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.

^22:1You 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. ^22:2If 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 comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. ^22:3So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found. You may not hide yourself. ^22:4You 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. ^22:5A 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. ^22:6If you come across a bird’s nest on 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. ^22:7You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. ^22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. ^22:9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. ^22:10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ^22:11You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. ^22:12You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. ^22:13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, ^22:14accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”; ^22:15then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. ^22:16The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. ^22:17Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, 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 cloth before the elders of the city. ^22:18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. ^22:19They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. ^22:20But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; ^22:21then 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 you shall remove the evil from among you. ^22:22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. ^22:23If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her; ^22:24then 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 remove the evil from among you. ^22:25But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then only the man who lay with her shall die; ^22:26but 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; ^22:27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her. ^22:28If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found; ^22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. ^22:30A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

^23:1He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. ^23:2A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly. ^23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever; ^23:4because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. ^23:5Nevertheless 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. ^23:6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. ^23:7You 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. ^23:8The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly. ^23:9When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. ^23:10If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp; ^23:11but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. ^23:12You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself. ^23:13You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement; ^23:14for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. ^23:15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you. ^23:16He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him. ^23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. ^23:18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God. ^23:19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. ^23:20You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. ^23:21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. ^23:22But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you. ^23:23You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do. ^23:24When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container. ^23:25When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

^24:1When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. ^24:2When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. ^24:3If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; ^24:4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. ^24:5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. ^24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge. ^24:7If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you. ^24:8Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. ^24:9Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt. ^24:10When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. ^24:11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. ^24:12If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. ^24:13You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God. ^24:14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. ^24:15In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you. ^24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. ^24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; ^24:18but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing. ^24:19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ^24:20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ^24:21When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ^24:22You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

^25:1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. ^25:2It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. ^25:3He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight. ^25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. ^25:5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. ^25:6It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. ^25:7If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.” ^25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”; ^25:9then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.” ^25:10His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.” ^25:11When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts, ^25:12then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity. ^25:13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. ^25:14You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. ^25:15You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. ^25:16For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God. ^25:17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt; ^25:18how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. ^25:19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

^26:1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, ^26:2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. ^26:3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.” ^26:4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar. ^26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. ^26:6The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. ^26:7Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. ^26:8Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; ^26:9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ^26:10Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God. ^26:11You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you. ^26:12When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. ^26:13You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. ^26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. ^26:15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.” ^26:16Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. ^26:17You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. ^26:18Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments. ^26:19He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

^27:1Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today. ^27:2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster. ^27:3You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. ^27:4It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster. ^27:5There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them. ^27:6You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God. ^27:7You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. ^27:8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.” ^27:9Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God. ^27:10You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.” ^27:11Moses commanded the people the same day, saying, ^27:12“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. ^27:13These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ^27:14With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel, ^27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:17‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:18‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:20‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:21‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:22‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:23‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:24‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:25‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ^27:26‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”