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You may take the babies for yourself, but you must let the mother go. If you obey these laws, things will go well for you, and you will live a long time.

“When you build a new house, you must build a wall around your roof.[a] Then you will not be guilty for the death of a person who falls from the house.

Things That Must Not Be Put Together

“You must not plant seeds of grain in the same fields as your grapevines. Why? Because then they become useless[b]—both the grapes and the grain produced by the seeds you planted.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:8 wall around your roof In ancient Israel, houses had flat roofs that were used as an extra room. This law made the roof a safer place.
  2. Deuteronomy 22:9 they become useless Literally, “they become holy.” This means these things belonged only to God, so they couldn’t be used by the people.

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