Various Laws

22 “^(A)You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and avoid them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman. ² And if your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him. ³ You shall also do this with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with any lost property of your countryman, which has been lost by him and you have found. You are not allowed to avoid them. ⁴ You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the road, and avoid them; you shall certainly help him raise them up.

⁵ “A woman shall not wear a man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

⁶ “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, ^(B)you shall not take the mother with the young; ⁷ you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, ^(C)in order that it may go well for you and that you may prolong your days.

⁸ “When you build a new house, you shall make a ^[a]parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring guilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it.

⁹ “^(D)You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, otherwise ^[b]all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard will be ^[c]forfeited to the sanctuary.

¹⁰ “^(E)You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

¹¹ “^(F)You shall not wear a material of wool and linen combined together.

¹² “^(G)You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Laws on Morality

¹³ “^(H)If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then ^[d]turns against her, ¹⁴ and he charges her with shameful behavior and ^[e]publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her to have evidence of virginity,’ ¹⁵ then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. ¹⁶ And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he ^[f]turned against her; ¹⁷ and behold, he has charged her with shameful behavior, saying, “I did not find your daughter to have evidence of virginity.” But ^[g]this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ Then ^(I)the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him, ¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he ^[h]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he is not allowed to ^[i]divorce her all his days.

²⁰ “But if this ^[j](J)charge is true, and they did not find the girl to have evidence of virginity, ²¹ then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her ^[k]to death, because she has ^(K)committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so ^(L)you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

²² “^(M)If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.

²³ “^(N)If there is a girl who is a virgin ^[l]betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her, ²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them ^[m]to death: the girl, because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

²⁵ “But if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in the field, and the man seizes her and ^[n]rapes her, then only the man who ^[o]raped her shall die. ²⁶ And you are not to do anything to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, ^[p]so is this case. ²⁷ When he found her in the field, the betrothed girl ^[q]cried out, but there was no one to save her.

²⁸ “^(O)If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and has sexual relations with her, and they are discovered, ²⁹ then the man who had sexual relations with her shall give the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her; he is not allowed to divorce her all his days.

³⁰ “^[r](P)A man shall not take ^[s]his father’s wife in marriage, so that he does not ^[t]uncover his father’s garment.

Persons Excluded from the Assembly

23 “^(Q)No one who is ^[u]emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the Lord. ² No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of the Lord. ^3 (R)No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the assembly of the Lord, ^4 (S)because they did not meet you with ^[v]food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you ^(T)Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^[w]Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless, the Lord your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God ^(U)turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God ^(V)loves you. ^6 (W)You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

⁷ “You shall not loathe an ^[x]Edomite, for ^(X)he is your brother; you shall not loathe an Egyptian, ^(Y)because you were a stranger in his land. ⁸ The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

⁹ “When you go out as ^[y]an army against your enemies, you shall be on guard against every evil thing.

¹⁰ “^(Z)If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not ^[z]reenter the camp. ¹¹ But when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may ^[aa]reenter the camp.

¹² “You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, so that you may go out there to relieve yourself, ¹³ and you shall have a ^[ab]spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn and cover up your excrement. ¹⁴ Since ^(AA)the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to save you and to ^[ac]defeat your enemies before you, your camp must be ^(AB)holy; so He must not see ^[ad]anything indecent among you ^[ae]or He will turn away from you.

¹⁵ “^(AC)You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has ^[af]escaped from his master to you. ¹⁶ He shall live with you in your midst, in the place that he chooses in one of your ^[ag]towns where it pleases him; ^(AD)you shall not mistreat him.

¹⁷ “^(AE)None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, ^(AF)nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute. ¹⁸ You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a ^[ah](AG)dog into the house of the Lord your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

¹⁹ “^(AH)You are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest. ^20 (AI)You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that ^(AJ)the Lord your God may bless you in all ^[ai]that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to ^[aj]possess.

²¹ “^(AK)When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly require it of you, and it will be a sin ^[ak]for you. ²² However, if you refrain from making vows, it will not be a sin ^[al]for you. ²³ You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a ^[am]voluntary offering to the Lord your God, whatever you have ^[an]promised.

²⁴ “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes ^[ao]until you are satisfied; but you are not to put any in your ^[ap]basket.

²⁵ “^(AL)When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to ^[aq]use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.

Law of Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some ^(AM)indecency in her, that ^(AN)he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and ^[ar]sends her away from his house, ² and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, ³ and the latter husband ^[as]turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and ^[at]sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies, ⁴ then her ^(AO)former husband who ^[au]sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after ^[av]she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

⁵ “^(AP)When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army, nor be assigned any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall ^(AQ)make his wife whom he has taken happy.

Various Laws

⁶ “No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor’s ^[aw]means of life as a pledge.

⁷ “^(AR)If someone is ^[ax]caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he treats him as merchandise and sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

⁸ “^(AS)Be careful about an infestation of leprosy, that you are very attentive and act in accordance with everything that the Levitical priests teach you; just as I have commanded them, you shall be careful to act. ⁹ Remember what the Lord your God did ^(AT)to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

¹⁰ “^(AU)When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge. ¹¹ You shall stand outside, and the person to whom you are making the loan shall bring the pledge outside to you. ¹² And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. ^13 (AV)When the sun goes down you shall certainly return the pledge to him, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and ^(AW)it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

¹⁴ “^(AX)You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your strangers who are in your land in your ^[ay]towns. ^15 (AY)You shall give him his wages on his day ^[az]before the sun sets—for he is poor and sets his ^[ba]heart on it—so that ^(AZ)he does not cry out against you to the Lord, and it becomes a sin in you.

¹⁶ “^(BA)Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.

¹⁷ “^(BB)You shall not pervert the justice ^[bb]due a stranger or ^[bc]an orphan, nor ^(BC)seize a widow’s garment as a ^[bd]pledge. ¹⁸ But you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “^(BD)When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back to get it; it shall belong ^(BE)to the stranger, the ^[be]orphan, and to the widow, in order that the Lord your God ^(BF)may bless you in all the work of your hands. ^20 (BG)When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches ^[bf]again; that shall be left ^(BH)for the stranger, the ^[bg]orphan, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to ^[bh]go over it again; that shall be left for the stranger, the ^[bi]orphan, and the widow. ²² And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Death Plot and Anointing

14 ^(A)Now ^(B)the Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes ^(C)were seeking how to arrest Him covertly and kill Him; ² for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there will be a riot of the people.”

^3 (D)While He was in ^(E)Bethany at the home of Simon ^[a]the Leper, He was reclining at the table, and a woman came with an alabaster vial of very ^(F)expensive perfume of pure ^[b]nard. She broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head. ⁴ But there were some indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted? ⁵ For this perfume could have been sold for over three hundred ^[c]denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her. ⁶ But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a good deed for Me. ⁷ For you always have ^(G)the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. ⁸ She has done what she could; ^(H)she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial. ⁹ Truly I say to you, ^(I)wherever the gospel is preached in the entire world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”

^10 (J)Then Judas Iscariot, ^(K)who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to ^[d]betray Him to them. ¹¹ They were delighted when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

The Last Passover

^12 (L)On the first day of ^[e](M)Unleavened Bread, when ^[f]the Passover lamb was being ^(N)sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?” ¹³ And He *sent two of His disciples and *said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him; ¹⁴ and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My ^(O)guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’ ¹⁵ And he himself will show you a large upstairs room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.” ¹⁶ The disciples left and came to the city, and found everything just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

^17 (P)When it was evening He *came with the twelve. ¹⁸ And as they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will ^[g]betray Me—^[h]one who is eating with Me.” ¹⁹ They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?” ²⁰ But He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, the one who dips bread with Me in the bowl. ²¹ For the Son of Man is going away just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man ^[i]by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good ^[j]for that man if he had not been born.”

The Lord’s Supper

^22 (Q)While they were eating, He took some bread, and ^[k]after a ^(R)blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.” ²³ And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. ²⁴ And He said to them, “This is My ^(S)blood of the ^(T)covenant, which is being poured out for many. ²⁵ Truly I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine again, until that day when I drink it, new, in the kingdom of God.”

^26 (U)And after singing a ^[l]hymn, they went out to ^(V)the Mount of Olives.