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24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if so be she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some filthiness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.

² “And when she has departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marries another man —

³ “if the latter husband hates her and writes her a letter of divorcement and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man who took her for his wife dies —

⁴ “her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.

⁵ “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go to war. Nor shall he be charged with any business, but shall be free at home for one year and rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.

⁶ “No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge. For this gage is his living.

⁷ “If any man is found stealing any of his brothers from the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him, that thief shall die. So shall you put evil away from among you.

⁸ “Be careful of the plague of leprosy, so that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests of the Levites shall teach you. Be careful you do as I commanded them.

⁹ “Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way, after you had come out of Egypt.

¹⁰ “When you shall lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

¹¹ “But you shall stand outside. And the man who borrowed it from you shall bring the pledge out of the doors to you.

¹² “Furthermore, if it is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge,

¹³ “but you shall restore to him the pledge when the Sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his clothes and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

¹⁴ “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is needy and poor, from your brothers or from the stranger who is in your land within your gates.

¹⁵ “You shall give him his wages for his day and the Sun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and with such sustains his life), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it is sin to you.

¹⁶ “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers. But every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷ “You shall not pervert the right of the stranger or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s clothes to pledge.

¹⁸ “But remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD your God delivered you from there. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to fetch it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.

²⁰ “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. They shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²² “And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.”

25 “When there shall be strife between men, and they shall come to judgment, and sentence shall be given upon them, and the righteous shall be justified, and the wicked condemned,

² “then, if the wicked is worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his trespass, to a certain number.

³ “Forty shall he cause him to have, and not past, lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, your brother should be dishonored.

⁴ “You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.

⁵ “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside, to a stranger. But, his kinsman shall go in to her, and take her to wife, and do the kinsman’s office to her.

⁶ “And the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not put out of Israel.

⁷ “And if the man will not take his kinswoman, then let his kinswoman go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, ‘My kinsman refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not do the office of a kinsman to me.’

⁸ “Then the elders of the city shall call him and commune with him. If he stands and says, ‘I will not take her’,

⁹ “then his kinswoman shall come to him in the presence of the elders and loosen his shoe from his foot and spit in his face and answer, and say, ‘So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

¹⁰ “And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him whose shoe is put off.’

¹¹ “When men strive together, one with another, if the wife of one tries to save her husband from the hand of him who strikes him by putting forth her hand and taking him by his privates,

¹² “then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not spare her.

¹³ “You shall not have two kinds of weights in your bag, a great and a small.

¹⁴ “Nor shall you have diverse measures, a great and a small, in your house.

¹⁵ “You shall have a right and just weight. A perfect and a just measure shall you have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

¹⁶ “For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are abomination to the LORD your God.

¹⁷ “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you had come out of Egypt —

¹⁸ “how he met you on the way and struck the last of you, all who were feeble behind you—when you were faint and weary. And he did not fear God.

¹⁹ “Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven. Do not forget.”

26 “Also, when you shall come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for inheritance, and shall possess it, and dwell in it,

² “then you shall take from the first of all the fruit of the earth and bring it out of the land that the LORD your God gives you and put it in a basket and go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to place his Name there.

³ “And you shall come to the Priest appointed in those days and say to him, ‘This day, I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴ “Then the Priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

⁵ “And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ‘A Syrian, my father, being ready to perish, went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a small company, and there grew to a great nation, mighty and full of people.

⁶ ‘And the Egyptians troubled us, and afflicted us, and laid cruel bondage upon us.

⁷ ‘But when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, and on our labor, and on our oppression.

⁸ ‘And the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, with great terribleness, both in signs and wonders.

⁹ ‘And He has brought us into this place and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.

¹⁰ ‘And now, lo, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

¹¹ “And you shall rejoice in all the good things which the LORD your God has given to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

¹² “When you have ended tithing all the tithes of your increase in the third year (the year of tithing) —and have given it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied—

¹³ “then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have brought the hallowed thing out of my house and have also given it to the Levites, to the strangers, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your Commandments which You have commanded me. I have transgressed none of the Commandments, nor forgotten.

¹⁴ ‘I have not eaten from it in my mourning, nor allowed anything to perish through uncleanness, nor given anything from it for the dead. I have obeyed the Voice of the LORD my God. I have followed all that You have Commanded me.

¹⁵ ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the land which You have given us (as You swore to our fathers) the land that flows with milk and honey.’

¹⁶ “This day, the LORD your God Commands you to do these Ordinances and Laws. Keep them, therefore, and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁷ “You have set up the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His Ordinances and His Commandments and His Laws, and to obey His Voice.

¹⁸ “And the LORD has set you up this day to be a precious people to Him (as He has promised you), so that you should keep all His Commandments

¹⁹ “And He makes you high above all nations which He has made—in praise and in name and in glory—so that you should be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has said.”

27 Then Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the Commandments which I command you this day.

² “And when you shall pass over Jordan, to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set yourself up great stones and plaster them with plaster.

³ “And when you come over, write all the words of this Law upon them, so that you may go into the land which the LORD your God gives you (a land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you).

⁴ “Therefore, when you shall pass over Jordan, you shall set up these stones which I command you this day on Mount Ebal. And you shall plaster them with plaster.

⁵ “And there you shall build an Altar to the LORD your God, an Altar of stones. You shall lift no iron to them.

⁶ “You shall make the Altar of the LORD your God out of whole stones, and offer upon it Burnt Offerings to the LORD your God.

⁷ “And you shall offer Peace Offerings, and shalt eat there and rejoice before the LORD your God.

⁸ “And you shall write all the words of this Law upon the stones, well and plainly.”

⁹ And Moses and the priests of the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and hear, O Israel. This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

¹⁰ “You shall therefore obey the Voice of the LORD your God, and do His Commandments and His Ordinances which I command you this day.”

¹¹ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

¹² “These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, to bless the people when you shall pass over Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

¹³ “And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal, to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

¹⁴ “And the Levites shall answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

¹⁵ ‘Cursed is the man who shall make any carved or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman—and puts it in a secret place.’ And all the people shall answer and say: ‘So be it’.

¹⁶ ‘Cursed is he who curses his father and his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁷ ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s boundary.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁸ ‘Cursed is he who makes the blind misstep.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁹ ‘Cursed is he who hinders the right of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁰ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, for he has uncovered his father’s extremity.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²¹ ‘Cursed is he who lies with any beast.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²² ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²³ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁴ ‘Cursed is he who slanders his neighbor.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁵ ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁶ ‘Cursed is he who does not establish all the words of this Law, to do them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.