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24 1 Divorcement is permitted. 5 He that is newly married is exempted from war. 6 Of the pledge. 14 Wages must not be retained. 16 The good must not be punished for the bad. 17 The care of the stranger, fatherless, and widow.
1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath espied some filthiness in her, [a]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 is departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marry with another man,
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which took her to wife:
4 Then her first husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is [b]defiled: for that is abomination in the sight of the Lord, and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God doth give thee to inherit.
5 ¶ When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare, [c]neither shall be charged with any business, but shall be free at home one year, and rejoice with his wife, which he hath taken.
6 ¶ No man shall take the nether nor the upper [d]millstone to pledge: for this gage is his living.
7 ¶ If any man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him, that thief shall die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
8 ¶ Take heed of the (A)plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the Priests of the Levites shall teach you: take heed ye do as I commanded them.
9 Remember what the Lord thy God did unto (B)Miriam by the way after that ye were come out of Egypt.
10 When thou shalt ask again of thy neighbor anything lent, thou shalt not go [e]into his house to fet his pledge.
11 But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borrowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doors unto thee.
12 Furthermore if it be a poor body, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge,
13 But shalt restore him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee [f]before the Lord thy God.
14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is needy and poor, neither of thy brethren nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.
15 (C)Thou shalt give him his hire for his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it: for he is poor, and therewith sustaineth his life: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
16 ¶ (D)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 Thou shalt not pervert the right of the [g]stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge.
18 But remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt, and how the Lord thy God delivered thee thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 ¶ (E)When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fet it, but it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hands.
20 When thou [h]beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again, but it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When thou gatherest thy [i]vineyard, thou shalt not gather the grapes clean after thee, but they shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 And remember that thou wast [j]a servant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
25 3 The beating of the offenders. 5 To raise up seed to the kinsmen. 11 In what case a woman’s hand must be cut off. 13 Of just weights and measures. 19 To destroy the Amalekites.
1 When there shall be strife between men, and they shall come unto judgment, [k]and sentence shall be given upon them, and the righteous shall be justified, and the wicked condemned,
2 Then if so be the wicked be worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down, [l]and to be beaten before his face, according to his trespass unto a certain number.
3 [m]Forty stripes shall he cause him to have, and not past, lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear despised in thy sight.
4 ¶ (F)Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
5 ¶ (G)If brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry without, that is, unto a stranger, but his [n]kinsman shall go in unto her, and take her to wife, and do the kinsman’s office to her.
6 And the firstborn which she beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And if the man will not take his kinswoman, then let his kinswoman go up to the gate unto the Elders, and say, My kinsman refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel: he will not do the office of a kinsman unto me.
8 Then the Elders of the city shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I will not take her,
9 Then shall his kinswoman come unto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and answer, and say, So shall it be done unto that man that 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 ¶ [o]When men strive together, one with another, if the wife of the one come near, for to rid her husband out of the hands of him that smiteth him, and put forth her hand, and take him by his privities,
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand: thine eye shall not spare her.
13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner of [p]weights, a great and a small:
14 Neither shalt thou have in thine house divers [q]measures, a great and a small:
15 But thou shalt have a right and just weight: a perfect and a just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
17 (H)Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come out of Egypt:
18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast fainted and weary, and he feared not God.
19 Therefore, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, then thou shalt put out the [r]remembrance of Amalek from under heaven: forget not.
26 3 The offering of the firstfruits. 5 What they must protest when they offer them. 12 The [tithe] of the first year. 13 Their protestation in offering it. 19 To what honor God preferreth them which acknowledge him to be their Lord.
1 Also when thou shalt come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for inheritance, and shalt possess it, and dwell therein,
2 [s]Then shalt thou take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, and bring it out of the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and put it in a basket, and go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to [t]place his name there.
3 And thou shalt come unto the Priest, that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I acknowledge this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.
5 And thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy God, A [u]Syrian was my father, who being ready to perish for hunger, went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small company and grew there unto a nation great, mighty [v]and full of people.
6 And the Egyptians vexed us, and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage.
7 But when we [w]cried unto 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 stretched out arm, with great terribleness, both in signs and wonders.
9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 And now, lo, I have [x]brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me, and thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and to thine [y]household, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase, the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be satisfied,
13 Then thou shalt [z]say before the Lord thy God, I have brought the hallowed thing out of mine house, and also have given it to the Levites and to the strangers, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all thy (I)commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have [aa]transgressed none of the commandments, nor forgotten them,
14 I have not eaten thereof in my [ab]mourning, nor suffered ought to perish [ac]through uncleanness, nor given ought thereof for the dead, but have hearkened unto the voice of the Lord my God: I have done [ad]after all that thou hast commanded me.
15 Look down from thine holy habitation, even from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us (as thou swarest unto our fathers) the land that floweth with milk and honey.
16 ¶ This day the Lord thy God doth command thee to do these ordinances and laws: keep them therefore, and do them with [ae]all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast set up the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his ordinances, and his commandments, and his laws, and to hearken unto his voice.
18 [af]And the Lord hath set thee up this day, to be a (J)precious people unto him (as he hath promised thee) and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments.
19 And to make thee (K)high above all nations (which he hath made) in praise, and in name, and in glory, (L)and that thou shouldest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.
27 2 They are commanded to write the law upon stones for a remembrance. 5 Also to build an altar. 13 The cursings are given on mount Ebal.
1 Then Moses with the Elders of Israel [ag]commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments, which I command you this day.
2 And when ye shall pass (M)over Jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster,
3 [ah]And shalt write upon them all the words of this Law, when thou shalt come over, that thou mayest go into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Therefore when ye shall pass over Jordan, ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.
5 (N)And there shalt thou build unto the Lord thy God an altar, even an altar of stones: thou shalt lift none [ai]iron instrument upon them.
6 Thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones, and offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God.
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there and rejoice before the Lord thy God:
8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this Law, [aj]well and plainly.
9 ¶ And Moses and the Priests of the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed and hear, O Israel: this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.
10 Thou [ak]shalt hearken therefore unto the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his ordinances, which I command thee this day.
11 ¶ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim, to bless the people when ye shall pass over Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and [al]Joseph, and Benjamin.
13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal, to [am]curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 And the Levites shall answer and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
15 ¶ Cursed be the man that shall make any carved or molten [an]image, which is an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place: And all the people shall answer and say: So be it.
16 Cursed be he that [ao]curseth his father and his mother: And all the people shall say: So be it.
17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s [ap]mark: And all the people shall say: So be it.
18 Cursed be he that maketh the [aq]blind go out of the way: And all the people shall say: So be it.
19 Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow: And all the people shall say: So be it.
20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife: for he hath uncovered his father’s [ar]skirt: And all the people shall say: So be it.
21 Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: And all the people shall say: So be it.
22 Cursed be he that lieth 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 be he that lieth with his [as]mother-in-law: And all the people shall say: So be it.
24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor [at]secretly: And all the people shall say: So be it.
25 (O)Cursed be he that taketh a reward to put to death innocent blood: And all the people shall say: So be it.
26 (P)Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law, to do them: And all the people shall say: So be it.
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